Houses on the Moon

For this special episode of the Houses on the Moon Podcast, Amy Gottlieb (U.S. Migration Director for the American Friends Service Committee, and HOTM board member) interviews New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer about his book "Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis." Amy and Jonathan discuss the complex history of US-Central American rela...

Now for your listening pleasure, Houses on the Moon would like to share this episode from one of our podcast friends and partners Play on Podcasts: Julius Caesar, Episode 1: Beware the Ides of March. Marcus Gardley’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s roiling political drama takes us into the heart of the Civil Rights movement. This is the first of seven episodes. Listen to full play by searching for Pla...

The arts serve as both an escape from and a reflection of our reality. And since its inception in 2001, the Houses on The Moon Theater company has focused on creating productions that shed light on and elevate the stories of these harsh realities of marginalized communities. In this powerful episode of The Ask, Jasmine Burton sits down with Jeffrey Solomon and Kim Baker Medina to discuss their mos...

Now for your listening pleasure, Houses on the Moon would like to share this episode from one of our podcast friends and partners If You Were In Charge. The show is a new series tackling the big issues of our times but with extraordinary people sharing their solutions and ideas.  If You Were In Charge is brought to by the Robert Bosch Academy and ICAN (International Civil Society Action Network) T...

On the streets of Guatemala City, gang members became Edgar’s family.  But he dreamed of a different future.  To leave the gang was a death sentence.  Coming to the USA was his last hope. De Novo is a limited series adapted from Houses on the Moon Theater Company’s acclaimed documentary play of the same name and tells the true story of Edgar Chocoy, a Guatemalan teenager who faces deportation afte...

On the streets of Guatemala City, gang members became Edgar’s family.  But he dreamed of a different future.  To leave the gang was a death sentence.  Coming to the USA was his last hope. De Novo is a limited series adapted from Houses on the Moon Theater Company’s acclaimed documentary play of the same name and tells the true story of Edgar Chocoy, a Guatemalan teenager who faces deportation afte...

On the streets of Guatemala City, gang members became Edgar’s family.  But he dreamed of a different future.  To leave the gang was a death sentence.  Coming to the USA was his last hope. De Novo is a limited series adapted from Houses on the Moon Theater Company’s acclaimed documentary play of the same name and tells the true story of Edgar Chocoy, a Guatemalan teenager who faces deportation afte...

Episode 8 of the Houses on the Moon Podcast spotlights another true tale from gUN COUNTRY, our storytelling workshops with people whose lives have been touched by guns. In “Luck of the Draw” Antonius Wiriadjaja recounts how art and storytelling helped him survive a shooting and how he was forever changed by the love and violence he encountered that day. We'll also speak with Carolyn Dixon of Where...

On this episode, we share true tales from Houses on the Moon’s international LGBTQ+ story-sharing project The “Q Story Stream.” We have 2 stories about teachers learning very different lessons.  When our own Jeffrey Solomon tries to help a bullied student in the drama class he teaches on Staten Island, the adult discovers you never really leave junior high school behind.  And across the globe in M...

On Episode 6 of the Houses on the Moon Podcast, we share Zudaydah Rivera's true tale from Houses on the Moon’s SHARED SENTENCES, a storytelling project with people who have incarcerated loved ones. Zudaydah was just 4 years old when she first visited her father in a maximum security prison. In her story, “Zudaydah with a Backwards Z”, she struggles to help her young son deal with the imprisonment...

On this episode of the Houses on the Moon Podcast, we spotlight another true tale from our cross-cultural LGBTQ story-sharing project, “Q Story Stream.” In "Certificate of Fluency," Cori Bratby-Rudd describes the realization of her lifelong dream to study in a foreign exchange program, and the fear of judgement from her host family over her two moms. Her story explores the tension between the desi...

In Episode 4 of the Houses on the Moon Podcast, we share a true tale from our cross-cultural LGBTQ+ story-sharing project “Q Story Stream:" Jesús Daniel Cruz discovers first love in a country where he is doubly closeted, as a young gay man to his immigrant Mexican family, and as an undocumented young person in Trump's America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Highlighting America’s fraught relationship with guns, this episode features true stories from Houses on the Moon’s gUN COUNTRY, based on the accounts of those whose lives have been impacted by guns. In “I Did Not Kill Brian,” Brenda Currin shares how a late night home intrusion and her decision whether or not to pick up the loaded shotgun in the dresser drawer ties into her own dark family histor...

When their son wants to dress up as Princess Elsa, of course, these two gay dads from New York City are cool with it, right? In “Luca’s Journey,” Carlos Encinias tells the true story of parenting a gender-expansive child with his husband, and the resistance they encounter from surprising places. Jeffrey Solomon chats with Carlos about his family’s journey and the process of developing this story w...

Our pilot episode highlights Houses on the Moon Theater Company’s 2014 storytelling piece gUN COUNTRY. HOTM artist Ian Eaton performs “STEVE”​: ​​​Having lost his teenage brother to the violence of the street, Ian reckons with the proper remedy to deal with his own fifth grade tormentor in 1980's Harlem.​ ​Host Jeffrey Solomon facilitates a discussion with Ian and Elaine Lane, the founder of David...

Houses on the Moon Podcast is an original eight episode storytelling series dedicated to amplifying the unheard voice. Each episode features a remarkable true story (or two) curated from over twenty years of Houses on the Moon Theater Company’s unique development process of storytelling workshops and interviews with real people. The first season spotlights tales from individuals whose lives have b...