Cast and Crew
Julia Schifini as Dr. Winifred Eurus
Julia Schifini is a writer, historian, voice actor, and lover of all fancy foods. She is the co-host and producer of Spirits, a drunken dive into myths and legends. She loves world-building, professional wrestling, fancy cheese, and all things creepy and cool.
You can Follow her on Twitter at @JuliaSchifini
Jesse Schuschu, Writer/Director
Jesse is a lifelong lover of stories and science fiction, who can cook fairly well, swim adequately, and knows just enough biology to get by. He spends his free time thinking of puns and taking too many pictures of his cats.
You can follow him on Twitter at @jschubox4
Ayla Taylor, Producer/Director
Ayla is computational linguist and the reason this podcast actually happened. She likes science fiction, food, brightly colored make up and talking too much.
You can follow her on Twitter at @AylaLTaylor
Bridge Geene, sound designer, Season 1
Bridge listens to podcasts. She hears all. Also she's a linguistics major with a passion for teaching and historical langauge. Plus she runs a podcast called Misc. Weekly and is also an editor for the podcast Arden. She gets the sounds in the spaces in the audio drama on time.
You can follow her on Twitter at @AudioGremlin
Mikayla Elias, sound designer, Season 2
Bio: Founder and engineer of Crybaby Audio, Mikayla is the audio friend for Tides, editing and mixing the podcasts. In addition to podcasts, she loves working with rock music. In her downtime, Mikayla volunteers with local activist groups and watches hockey.
Supporting Cast
James Oliva as Dr. Robert Montague
James is the creator/writer/director of the audio drama podcast What’s The Frequency? He’s also the voice of Michael Tate on audio podcast drama Greater Boston, Scott on 1994, Willard on Oakpodcast. James has also had guest appearances on ars Paradoxica, The Strange Case of Starship Iris, Seminar, Big Data, Jim Robbie and the Wanderers, The Haven Chronicles, and Radiation World. He was a finalist for a 2016 and 2017 Audio Verse Award in the acting category.
You can follow him on twitter at @JamesOliva76
Jordan Higgs as Dr. Victor Stevens
Jordan has been entertaining audiences from desk chairs since he weaseled his way into his first Dungeons & Dragons game at age twelve, the audience is just a little bigger now. He also voices Archie in What’s The Frequency and Ethan in Greater Boston.
You can follow him on Twitter at @EreJordan
Emily Wang as Dr. Melissa Wang
Emily is a student, singer and voice actor who adores all mediums of storytelling. Weirdest hobbies include obsessing over the ancient Roman lawyer, Cicero and getting herself lost in London on purpose to see if she can navigate herself back home again. She voices Dr Miranda Quan in Station to Station.
You can follow her on Twitter at @EmilyWK99
Zach Libresco as Captain Ed Ricketts
Zach is an actor, producer, and development associate with The Humanist Project. Off Broadway: Julio in Double Falsehood (Letter of Marque). Recent New York: Malcolm/Porter/Witch in Macbeth; Lucius/Chiron in Titus Andronicus (The Humanist Project); Ba/Crow in The Snow Queen (Blessed Unrest); Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice (The Shakespeare Forum). Film/Voiceover: Colonel Kepler on Wolf 359; Fredricksen on Station to Station; Himself, with his dad, on History, My Dad, and Me (upcoming); Little Disappointment (YoFiFest).
You can follow him on twitter at @zachlibresco
Pheobe Joy as Dr. Desdemona “Dee” Erickson
Phoebe is a student of art history at a wonderful school on top of a very large hill. They have a passion for ghosts, puns, and their absurdly fluffy cat Pippa. They also voice Beverly Keets in What's the Frequency?.
You can follow them on twitter at @phoebexjoy
Nadine Amami as Dr. Marian Braunstein
Caleb del Rio as Dr. Ricardo Martinez
Additional Voices by Chad Ellis, and Bridge Geene
Special Thanks
We want to thank Sarah Durst for all the beautiful art. You can find more of her work here. Special thanks to Dayna Patel for providing excellent script consulting. We also want to thank Melissa Diamond for help with the space stuff. as well as all of our family and friends who supported us. Thank you also to everyone who has listened and shared the show with their friends. We couldn’t do this without you.
We also want to acknowledge that season 1 of Tides is written and produced on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish People. We want to honor with gratitude the land itself and Duwamish Tribe past and present. Season 2 is produced on the land of the Massachusetts and Wampanoag peoples. Tides was recorded on stolen Native and Indigenous land across the United States and Australia.