ISTORIA

About ISTORIA

The Department of Theatre and Dance at the College of Charleston presents a brand new audiodrama, created by its students. Season One: The Ark follows a group of people on a spaceship who have been taken out of cryo-sleep over 100 years from their destination. They will have to navigate hunger, paranoia, and power struggles to figure out what's happened, and to survive. Story by Michael Smallwood, Madelein Hanson, and Jacob Rye Writers KB Briggs Cheyenne Comitz Emery Crow Kaycee Dial Caroline Drinnon Ben Hudd Perrin Keene Jaelin LaVanway Olivia Maness Jacob Rye Riley Taylor Kate Yarbray Editors Michael Smallwood Ky Daisey Cast Susan Kattwinkel as CHEL Ella Charette as Skylar Chris Warzynski as Benoit Paeton Patterson as Rudy Lauren Evans as Marcelle Ky Daisey as Petra Aidan Wunderley as Caris Jonathan Hoofnagel as Terry Ariana Fayyazi as Avery Benji Gray-Miller as Arthur Morgan Kelly as Dante Nick Savenok as Ewan Presented by the College of Charleston Department of Theatre and Dance

Publisher

Michael Smallwood

Category

fiction

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Feb 2025

Latest episode

6 Apr 2025

Latest episodes

5 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Apr 2025

   The Cafeteria

   The passengers need to find food.

2. 

   9 Mar 2025

   The Vents

   There are more people on the ship.

3. 

   23 Feb 2025

   The MedBay

   The Commander needs help.

4. 

   16 Feb 2025

   The Ship

   There's something wrong with the ship. Written by Michael Smallwood.

5. 

   11 Feb 2025

   Series Teaser

   The College of Charleston Department of Theatre and Dance is launching an exciting new project: an original podcast! Adapting the theatrical canon into modern stories, students have worked as writers, actors, audio engineers, sound designers, graphic designers, and more to produce an original narrative series based on a new pilot by award-winning writer and CofC professor Michael Smallwood. Season One: The Ark, drawing inspiration from La Bohéme and Lord of the Flies, follows a group of survivors on a malfunctioning starship. The series will be released publicly on all podcasting platforms in spring 2025, with the first episode on Sunday, Feb. 16.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

1,805

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 31 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

15

Social presence

0

YouTube

82

Engagement

32

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.