1.

ASKING FOR IT

FEBRUARY 2020

A queer, contemporary take on the Goldilocks tale: about love, music, intimate partner violence and breaking the cycle of abuse. Writer/Lead Producer: Drew Denny. Executive Producer/Editor: Kaitlin Prest. In partnership with CBC Podcasts. 

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APPEARANCES

MAY 2020

A drama about one Iranian American family doing their best to hide their true selves from each other. Creator: Sharon Mashihi. Executive Producer/Editor: Kaitlin Prest. In partnership with Radiotopia.

3.

CAN'T TELL [yet] 

JANUARY 2020

Working with Phoebe Unter and Nicole Kelly on something badass. Find out as soon as we can tell here. In partnership with Radiotopia.

KAITLIN PREST
Founder & Queen of Mermaid Palace

You might know Kaitlin Prest as the creator of two critically acclaimed podcasts The Heart, and The Shadows. You might know her from the uncritically acclaimed fuck-you-in-the-face radio show and podcast Audio Smut. You might know her from falling asleep to a dreamscape in an opera house in Amsterdam, or a shadow puppet play at the AGO in Toronto, or a bath you took in Copenhagen. You might not know Kaitlin at all. Kaitlin is an artist who decided to start a company.

Mermaid Palace gets its namesake from Kaitlin Prest’s bedroom in the 4 story hippie house where she and Sharon Mashihi lived from 2012 to 2018. Where Audio Smut and The Heart were predominantly produced. It is where dreams of this company were born, and where a creative practice amongst friends was developed.

︎ ︎ @kaitlinprest

SHA / KA
Collaborators & Best Friends

The framework of the company was inspired by a framework for artmaking invented by Sha and Ka.

SHARON MASHIHI
Artist & Vice Queen of Mermaid Palace

We call her the director of people and culture. Sharon Mashihi is known for being an editor on The Heart (Radiotopia) and Bodies (KCRW), for being a founding member of an artist residency in upstate New York called SMT, and many wonderful artistic interventions. Sharon is creating a new fictional show called APPEARANCES, based on her award-winning documentary: Man Choubam (I am Good).

PHOEBE UNTER / NICOLE KELLY
Propagandists & Collaborators

After meeting at a clothing optional house party in Mexico City, Phoebe Unter & Nicole Kelly became creatively entangled future ex-art wives. Their collaboration began as co-hosts of bitchface, an audio zine. NK & Phoebe have also collaborated on other happenings and projects, like: CUNT POWER: Dyke Ranch, a temporary lesbian separatist retreat during the rage-filled summer of 2016; TRIAGE, a publication & pop-up clinic in response to late stage capitalism; and zines including Solidarity Is Still For White Women and You Are Not An Intersectional Feminist. PU/NK are working on a new secret project with Mermaid Palace. Launching in 2020.

︎ @bitchfacepodcast
︎ @soft__disaster
︎ @no_such_thing_as_a_good_guy

DREW DENNY
Queer Femme Traumedienne

Drew Denny is a writer/director, musician and performance artist whose works range from queer action movies to singing through a giant pink Pegasus in an effort to feminize the microphone. Her film Momster premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival 2019, and she's currently adapting her drag queen nun documentary Queer Habits for narrative TV.

At Mermaid Palace Drew is working with Kaitlin Prest writing and producing her first foray into podcasting: ASKING FOR IT. Drew's band HIPS, a collaboration with Christina Gaillard, performs in and scores the series.

︎ @dangitdrewdenny