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THE GRAY AREA SEASON ONE EPISODE 0: Prologue
Virginia Gaskell, an underappreciated 66-year-old cult writer forced into a rest home, contends with mysterious voices summoned from her typewriter and an obscure literary interviewer named Ed Champion. (9 minutes)
Written, directed and edited by Edward Champion
CAST:
Virginia Gaskell: Chris Smith
Ed Champion: Edward Champion
Orderly: Zachary Michael
Demon #1: Greta Christie
Demon #2: Pete Lutz
GRAY AREA PRODUCTIONS present Libromendel
During an unspecified “government transition” in the near future, the young scholar Alejandra Cortez (no relation to AOC) returns home from Rhinebeck on an extremely rainy night and stumbles into a West Village café where she was once a regular during the Second Trump Administration. But aside from the rowdy RPG players, what happened to all the colorful eccentrics? Why does nobody remember the history of Café Gluck aside from an overworked barista named Sporschill? Who is the strange new owner claiming to be a “crypto king”? And why doesn’t anybody remember the charming and eccentric old bookseller Jaime Abrego Mendel who set up shop in the adjacent card room every day? This full-cast 332 track standalone epic examines the true human cost of removing vital figures from American life. (Running time: 54 minutes)
Written, produced, and directed by Edward Champion
Adapted from the short story “Buchmendel” by Stefan Zweig
Original music soundtrack by Edward Champion
CAST:
Alejandra: Belgys Felix
Mendel: Wolf Reigns
Florian: Zack Glassman
Standhartner: Sally Maitland
Sporschill: Julie Chapin
Ramirez: Melissa Medina
Dirks: Luvelle Pierre
Tallis: Jack Ward
Becky: Emily Carding
ICE Officer: Will Billingsley
ICE Officer #2: Frank Romeo
Felicia/The Radio: Samantha Jo
Clueless Customer: Glenn Kenny
The New Yorkers: Heath Martin and Pauly Sinatra
Boris: Pete Lutz
DM: Dr. Implausible
The Staffers: Ella Gans and Jay Silver
Victim: Zoraya Christian
Exuberant Customer: Lokia Rockwell
Café Patron: Laura Spear
and Edward Champion as The Assassin.
This is a co-production of The Sonic Society and The Gray Area.
EPISODE 1 - Meltdown
Welcome. Welcome to Mutant County! Lady Finger is a small town like any other. Nestled in the heart of a small county, the denizens are, for the most part, just like you and me. In fact, they could be you and me except for one important detail… or two.
Lady Finger and the surrounding hamlets that make up Clover County will – in the not too distant future – suffer massive nuclear fallout from a sudden reactor leak. Soon they will be quietly wondering if the radioactivity created the abominations that besiege their little community or indeed merely attracted them – perhaps from some unspeakable interdimensional rift.
By the time the Cultists take over the local graveyard and mysterious government agents impose an invisible barrier around the entire county “for their safety”, Clover County will be no more, and Mutant County will stand, festering, in its place. And yet the good people of the county remain, and they’d like to welcome you to their little village… be it ever so humble.
Episode 1, “Meltdown” was written and performed by Michael P. Thiessen & Peter Church.
GOOD THINGS COME (DARK COMEDY) Some say having an open window while you sleep at night is a guarantee of good health. For young Ellen it was an open invitation to allow all manner of scary things to enter her cozy little bedroom. But as she grew older, Ellen discovered an open window wasn’t so scary after all. As a child she shivered from fear. But now she shivers with anticipation... Official Listening Selection at the HEAR NOW: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival 2015.
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CAT WHACKERS – (DARK COMEDY) LANGUAGE A story of two twenty-something idiots who go into business whacking cats for cold hard cash, with predictably disastrous results. No cats were harmed in the making of this production. Washington Audio Theatre
BRAD’S BOOK OF LIES - (DARK COMEDY) Following a nervous breakdown, the world’s greatest marketing guru realizes the only truth he has ever known is how best to tell lies. From the Audio Gothic series produced by Crazy Dog Audio Theatre
DEMONS OF THE DEEP (DARK COMEDY) “A Saga of Seductive Serpents In The Salty Sea” A tempestuous dark comedy of entangled relationships set against the hunt for a mysterious sea creature. Crazy Dog Audio Theatre – Diabolic Playhouse
PRESS THREE – (DARK COMEDY) A story of a woman who attempts to escape from a totalitarian society riddled with paranoia, colour coded alerts and constant consumerist propaganda. Crazy Dog Audio Theatre