Category Archives: Audio Drama

Mother’s Milk

hwms.coverartWhat holds friends together?

Common background?

Common history?

A common vision of what they are?

Three friends explore the different roles they have with each other.  They are moving into adulthood.  They are shaping their lives and their identities.  They also suddenly realize how delicate their common bonds may be.

A New Audio Drama From Tehya Merrit.

Cast, in order of appearance:

  • Michelle Thomas-Hanson – Stage Manager, Marta Green
  • Margaux Amie – Rosa
  • Sahara Ale  – Kat
  • Anastasia DeLoret – Macy
  • Ron Bianchi – Waiter

Written by Tehya Merrit

Music Direction: Mel O’Dea Studios

Music: Alibi Music, STKA, Atomic Music (used with permission)

Dramaturgy: Steve Harper, Theatre503

Graphic Artist: Ava N Garda

Produced and Directed: David Alan Grier

 

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A Bustle, A Corset, & The London Necropolis Express

hwms.coverartWe know the story.

Three women.

A London Office.

A missing colleague.

And a pandemic.

Three women wake one morning to discover that a colleague has vanished in the night. Gone. Poof. Not a bit of a trace.

The clue to the story lies in a play that has just opened in a London Theatre. The missing colleague has vanished into the world of that play and has become engaged in a grand debate about the roles of women in modern society.

But the three women in the office are not part of the debate. They are earning a living. They are caring for family. They trying to decide what they need to do today in order to be ready for tomorrow, while worrying about their friend.

A play about the world of George Bernard Shaw and Karl Pearson that takes no guff from either.

Cast: (22470, in order of appearance)

  • Michelle Thomas-Hanson – Stage Manager, Marta Green
  • Debbon Ayer – Honoria Fawcett
  • Anastasia DeLoret – Daphne Duvet
  • Tehya Merrit – Inis Abbo
  • Ron Bianchi – Jock Hodgy, Messengers
  • Kit Kuksenok – Messengers
  • Josh LaForce – Asa Pinchbeck
  • Kota Fudauchi – Eldon Shannon-Marsh
  • Skippy – Vivian Warren

Cast: (22471 in order of appearance)

  • Michelle Thomas-Hanson – Stage Manager, Marta Green
  • Zoe Anastasiou – Honoria Fawcett
  • Margaux Amie – Daphne Duvet
  • Sahara Ale – Inis Abbo
  • Ron Bianchi – Messengers
  • Kit Kuksenok – Messengers
  • Ethan Madds – Jock Hodgy
  • Josh Wilson – Asa Pinchbeck
  • Geoffrey Grier –   Eldon Shannon Marsh
  • Skippy – Vivian Warren

Sound Design: Hilbert Space

Music Direction: Mel O’Dea Studios

Music: Alibi Music, Atomic Music (used with permission)

Dramaturgy: Steve Harper, Theatre503

Graphic Artist: Ava N Garda

Written and Directed: David Alan Grier

 

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Preview: Add Subtract

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New Drama. 

New Story. 

And it’s about arithmetic. 

And work relief.  And Organizations.  And Power.  And National Security. 

Plus it’s a Love Story. 

A short preview of what is going to come. 

Told as only the HWMS Audio Theatre can do it. 

We’re Theatre Like You’ve Never Seen. 

Cast:

  • Zoe Anastasiou  – Computer
  • Ron Bianchi – Computer
  • Ethan Madds – Computer 
  • Tehya Merrit – Computer
  • Michelle Thomas-Hanson -Stage Manager
  • Josh Wilson – Chief Whip 

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Big Tech: a Cup of Coffee

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Are you coming? 

Are you going? 

Do you have a place in this world?

Or do you not? 

Roger.  Yasmin.  Existential questions.  And the power of warm drinks.

The nineteenth  episode of the Audio Drama “What Big Tech Doesn’t Know.”  

Cast:

  • Sahara Ale – Yasmin
  • Zoe Anastassiou – Faith
  • Ron Bianchi  – Roger
  • Geoffrey Grier – Customer #1
  • Josh LaForce – Customer #2
  • Noah Masur – Barista & Andre
  • Skippy – Himself

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Big Tech: Famous Person

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Are you famous?

Fame we court.  

Fame we try to wield (before it weilds us.

But are you famous?

Not the best question to hear when you are trying to understand what is happening. 

Even if you’re not famous. 

Not famous at all.  

The eighteenth episode of the Audio Drama “What Big Tech Doesn’t Know.”  

Cast:

  • Zoe Anastassiou – Wee Sister #1
  • Debbon Ayer – Abby Alton
  • Anastasia Deloret – Wee Sister #2
  • Geoffrey Grier – Vinny 
  • Kit Kuksenok – Kowalski 
  • Skippy – Himself

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Disrupting the Schumpethon

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Skill or Habit? What belongs to the first category and what belongs to the second? And how can technology better promote skill? That is the primary question of this week’s podcast and we take a long time to answer it. Our trip takes us through the writings of Adam Smith, an app that can calculate net wealth from a business card and an eight year old disruptive innovator who will never move to Brooklyn “because everyone knows that the best startups aren’t in Brooklyn.”

Cast:  

  • Maddie Insullie – Zoe Anastassiou
  • Vinny LeGoff- Geoffrey Grier
  • Penelope Othmar – Debbon Ayer

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UnknownThe Schumpethon is business pitch contest of the Lillian Moller Gilbreth School for Disruptive Innovation, the fictional school that is next to our fictional office in Silicon Valley. It is, of course, named for Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1960) the Austrian economist who studied business cycles and argued that recessions helped move capital from less efficient industries to more efficient industries. This episode introduces Maddie, one of the competitors in this year’s contest. This is not her first Schumpethon but as she is only eight, she will have many more opportunities to disrupt.

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Holiday Special – Songs of Comfort and Joy

errant.coverart Every community should have tradition for the December Holidays.  Our tradition comes the predecessor to this drama, the podcast “Errant Hashtag.”  This is an adaptation the essay “Songs of Comfort and Joy.” Two notes, while this is dramatic, it is not technically drama.  The event actually occurred at the Computing Center of Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas.  It was documented in the Dallas newspapers.  Second, the Producer’s father is in the center of the back row. [15310]Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedinmail

The Dramatic Turn

errant.coverart HWMS did not long remain a conventional podcast, if it ever was conventional.  In the summer of 2015, we interrupted an interview by parading a French Army band through the studio. By the fall of 2015, we knew that we wanted to move another direction.  We went looking for dramatic talent, hired actor Sarah Corbyn Woolf, and put her on stage as Anna-the-Intern. Anna believed that technical information was transient, that it could be easily purchased on the open market and that the real guarantors of success were the ability to read a room and to express yourself with confidence. Sadly, she is probably right on all points. The HWMS Drama begins. [15260]Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedinmail