Chicago Fire’s Daniel Kyri joins Chicago cast of audio series Lake Song

Make-Believe Association, the award-winning, nationally acclaimed audio storytelling company, has unveiled its latest and most ambitious project: Lake Song, an epic audio-drama series set in the dystopian future of Chicago.

Lake Song is an official selection of the Tribeca Festival’s Audio Premieres showcase. Episode 1 will be released on Tribeca’s podcast feed on Wednesday October 12. The next day, Episodes 1 and 2 will be released on the Lake Song podcast feed. Both feeds are freely available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and the other major podcast platforms.

It’s 2098 and the Republic of Chicago has what the world needs: fresh water. But with new opportunities come new threats, especially for a pair of siblings on the South Side. Can the people come together to save their city — and each other?

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Lake Song is the joint creation of seven multidisciplinary Chicagoans. Combining sci-fi and music, politics and poetry, it’s a collective response to our times, and a shared dream of our future.

The series was co-created by artists from different backgrounds who are highly accomplished in different fields (poet, musician, journalist, filmmaker, composer, and more): Laura Alcalá Baker, Sydney Charles, Mikhail Fiksel, Nate Marshall, Jeremy McCarter, Natalie Moore, and Kristina Valada-Viars.

The series features sound design and original music composition by Mikhail Fiksel, who won a Tony Award for sound design this year. The score features the Chicago blues harmonica legend Billy Branch, a recent inductee to the Blues Hall of Fame.

“From the start, Make-Believe has been an experiment in collaboration,” said McCarter, the company’s founder and the executive producer of the series. “When the pandemic almost shut us down in 2020, we decided that the only reason to continue was to double down on our values—to create something big enough to hold the grief and hope that the seven of us were feeling, a new story we all wanted to tell. I can’t wait for the world to hear the results.”

“Lake Song will run 12 episodes, totaling four hours of performance time. Episodes will be released weekly.

The script was written by Sydney Charles, Nate Marshall, Jeremy McCarter, Natalie Moore, and Kristina Valada-Viars. It features additional story by Eduardo Curley-Carrillo, Lorena Diaz, and Marcus D. Moore.

Daniel Kyri, who plays firefighter, Darren Ritter on Chicago Fire, joins a cast of 23 Chicago actors led by Sydney Charles (Dee) and Marcus D. Moore (Wade), with Ayanna Bria Bakari, Brenda Barrie, Billy Branch, Rammel Chan, Lillian Charles, Robert Cornelius, Eduardo Curley-Carrillo, Ian Paul Custer, Lorena Diaz, Delia Kropp, Eddie Martinez, Al’Jaleel McGhee, James Vincent Meredith, Mia Park, Esme Perez, Justin Reed, Deanna Reed-Foster, A.C. Smith, Kristina Valada-Viars, and AnJi White.

Kyri sounded excited to post the news on Twitter:

The production staff includes Jeremy McCarter (executive producer); Laura Alcalá Baker (line producer/casting); and Kateri Halbleib and Alexandra Oparka (script supervisors).

The sound team includes Mikhail Fiksel (audio production, mixing, and mastering); Giselle Castro and Jessi DiBartolomeo (editing); Max Fabian and Ricardo Tolbert (recording engineers); Robert Hornbostel (additional sound design and editing); and Joe Palermo (additional mastering and audio repair).

Studio services were provided by Tightrope Recording and remote audio services by TechMagic Designs.

Graphics by GoodMany/Carly Pearlman. Legal services by Carolyn Casselman of Davis Wright Tremaine.

WEBSITES: makebelieve.fm + lakesong.fm
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/makebelieveassociation/
TWITTER: @MakeBelieveFM
INSTAGRAM: @MakeBelieveFM


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