• Queer Drama in Northern Minnesota

  • By: Ris
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Queer Drama in Northern Minnesota

By: Ris
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  • Summary

  • Home for the annual-ish, holiday-ish, queer, sardonic, meta plays by Ris, podcaster and author.

    Beginning in 2018, Ris, along with fellow podcasters, friends, comedians, actors, and many others, began writing a yearly play around the holidays. Usually focusing on queer relationships and representation, aired across her several podcasts, this is the home for them separately.
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Episodes
  • Do You Know the Way to Midmarais? Audioplay Outtakes

    Do You Know the Way to Midmarais? Audioplay Outtakes
    Jan 3 2025
    Here are the extensive outtakes and a hint to the fun of recording and editing this year's audioplay.
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    33 mins
  • Do You Know the Way to Midmarais? - An Audioplay

    Do You Know the Way to Midmarais? - An Audioplay
    Dec 20 2024
    DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO MIDMARAIS?
    An Audioplay

    In 1994, a young student named Morgan takes over as a lighthouse keeper on Elk Island, far out in the Boundary Waters of Northern Minnesota. Their partner Elsinore is supportive of their decision to leave school and take this job, but Elsinore is hopeful they can convince their introverted other half to return to Midmarais High School just one more time for the Prom. However, strange things are happening in the north. Ominous warnings of a storm, a sudden interest in ghost towns, and even sightings of Ambrose, the seemingly-vaudevillian ghost keeper have been reported. And, of course, why is it so important that the lighthouse must be lit every single night, despite there being nothing bigger than a fishing boat most of the time on the waters surrounding Elk Island? Travel beyond boundaries in this vaporwave journey, with the sardonic citizenry we meet along the way.

    CAST
    Morgan - Marissa McCool
    Elsinore - Bernard Naasz
    Principal Keeper - Eric Hanna
    Devi - Melissa MacDonald
    Mr. Bixler - Gem Newman
    Lance - Don Ford, Jr.
    Jeremy - Tony Opelt
    Donnie - Eli Dadabhoy
    Mikey - Steve Shives
    Dora - Laura Creek Newman
    Ambrose - Don Ford, Jr.
    Assistant Principal - L.E. Bailey
    Mystery Character - Ari Stillman

    WRITTEN BY
    Marissa McCool, Jules

    EDITED BY
    Marissa McCool, Eric Hanna

    ARTWORK BY
    Murphy Lennex-McCool

    SOUNDTRACK
    https://youtu.be/_dxdewd75W4?si=UU4xho92IYQgaynz
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    2 hrs and 20 mins
  • Midnight in the Backrooms - An Audioplay - 2023

    Midnight in the Backrooms - An Audioplay - 2023
    Dec 22 2023
    MIDNIGHT IN THE BACKROOMS

    What if a dead mall was literally a *dead* mall? Chris and Victoria find themselves in the mall they worked in as teenagers, stuck in the same snowed-in day in 1998 that never ends. The Evergreen Glen Mall, or as it’s known on the other side, it’s the EverMall!

    Their old friends are back, as are stores they thought long gone. Mall information is vague and cryptic. Their coworkers seem content to stay there forever. Their case manager is too busy swiping right on straight guys who manage to not have a dead fish in their profile. And there’s something ominous and creepy about that Things Recalled store. No one’s ever in there, but no one ever was when it was open and alive either. There has to be more to life… or whatever… than this, right? Is anyone else out there?

    WRITTEN BY
    Marissa McCool, Don Ford, Jr., Eric Hanna

    EDITED AND CAST BY
    Marissa McCool

    CAST
    VICTORIA - Marissa McCool
    CHRIS - Don Ford, Jr.
    CLAIRE - Amy Withawhy
    ELLE - Bernard Naasz
    WASHBURN - Asdis Karsbarn
    MANDY - Ari Stillman
    DON - Tony Opelt
    EMERSON - Eric Hanna
    DEAD MALL URBEXER - Eric Hanna
    CONDUCTOR - Gem Newman
    HAROLD - Tony Opelt
    BARBARA - Tony Opelt
    TICKET TAKER - Laura Creek Newman
    THERESA - Jodi Rehlander
    JULIAN - Jonathon Rehlander
    AD READ NARRATORS - Don Ford, Jr., Tony Opelt

    MUSIC
    Playlist of all music here: https://youtu.be/VA8Jbs6_GqA?si=_LZnHYz1crHeFe6y
    All credit for music belongs to the artists.
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    1 hr and 28 mins

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