Wildlife Lookout

By Dewou Gloria Minza & Nicole Marie Gervasio

In their one and only podcast episode, Nicole and Gloria test their voice acting skills as a menagerie of disgruntled beasts (and their keepers) in an unnamed zoo.

Process

During Gloria’s first Girls Write Now Live reading this spring, she discovered a creative strength that had never been tapped into before: her penchant for hilarious voice acting. In a subsequent pair session, Nicole introduced Gloria to persona poetry because they both love standing in other people’s shoes to rethink the world around us. This session evolved into a fun idea for a multimedia pair project: to meld Gloria’s newfound talent for voice acting with writing from the perspective of animals in a zoo for an audible story. The “podcast” element wasn’t necessarily intentional; it was just the only platform we knew for easily editing and mounting a lot of audio takes together!