EP 336: Podcast Comedy Duo Share their Story

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Blurb about Retreat Podcast
KNOCKNAHAY, IRELAND— SEASON ONE
Shannon, an Irish-American textile artist of dubious talent, arrives in Ireland,  trapped in a fruitless mindset for self-improvement and positive thinking.  She arrives at an Irish arts residency to meet her cousin Brigit, a Druidic healer and unpublished poet for an artistic collaboration. Their poetry quilt project starts at the fairy fort. It is meant to celebrate their shared DNA and rekindle any of Shannon's latent Celtic fire. Their arts residency, a creative paradise, is buzzing with egocentric and renown artists, writers, poets, celebrities, and staff from Ireland, Germany, Russia, England, and France.  The big house is in dire need of repairs and the director is desperate for funding. When a thwarted heiress arrives with offers of corporate sponsorship and a world-class exhibition-- in exchange for the residents' recorded audio diaries detailing artistic creative processes, Shannon makes some unwise choices. 

Andi Watson Ipaktchi
Co-Creator, Actor, Producer
Andi is a multi-disciplinary American artist who lives in Paris. She holds a fine arts degree from the Parsons School of Design. In December 2022,  a staged, spin-off of Retreat Comedy was shortlisted for the 2023 Hammond House Publishing Prize for Comedy (UK). In 2015, her illustration work made the Undiscovered Voices (UK) anthology shortlist. Her artwork has been shown  in the US and France. In 2019 and 2020, she was a Tyrone Guthrie Artist Arts Center resident in the printmaking studio where she and met her writing met. She continues working in the printmaking studio and writes.

Aoibheann McCann
Co-Creator, Actor, Producer
Aoibheann is originally from Donegal. She now lives in Galway where she writes fiction, non-fiction and the occasional poem. Her work has been published in literary journals in Ireland, UK, Italy and USA. Her work has been anthologised by Pankhurst Press (UK), New Binary Press, Arlen House, Doire and Prospero (Italy). Her short stories have been longlisted for Colm Toibin 2019, shortlisted for Words on Waves 2015, Sunday Business Post/ Penguin Ireland 2018, Cúirt New Writing 2019 and second in the Maria Edgeworth and Dalkey Creates 2019. She was awarded the Tyrone Guthrie Residency by Galway City Council for 2018. In December 2022, she learned that a staged, spin-off of Retreat was shortlisted for the 2023 Hammond House Publishing Prize for comedy in the (UK). Aoibheann is currently working on her first collection of short fiction and a comedy series.

Andi Ipaktchi (France)