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
  • Superiors vs Millers Outtakes - 2022

    Superiors vs Millers Outtakes - 2022
    Feb 2 2023
    17 mins
  • Superiors vs Millers, Sounds About Cleveland - An Audioplay - 2022

    Superiors vs Millers, Sounds About Cleveland - An Audioplay - 2022
    Dec 31 2022
    SYNOPSIS: The Duluth Superiors, a women's football team out of Minnesota, are groggily heading toward Michigan City, Indiana. Half the team has quit, half the coaches have gone with them, and what's left of the squad still has a chance to play in the WFCA championships in Fargo if they can defeat the Millers. Lake effect weather is a thing though, and traveling through the Great Lakes region at any time of year can bring unexpected consequences, like an ice storm. With their season already in dire straits, the driver nopeing off to look for help, and the coach trying to fix the bus in frigid conditions, how will the team pass the time before their big showdown? A women's football comedy, Superiors vs. Millers, Sounds About Cleveland, tells the story of the ups, downs, and realities of the sport of women's football with likely every kind of teammate you've ever had and then some.CASTTen - Marissa McCoolNia - Jessica Osborne RiddleCJ - Ashlyn NobleSequoia - Erin TruexPhonebook - Asdis KarsbarnTJ - Melissa MacDonaldBearcat - Ari StillmanJay - Tony OpeltWoodstock - Jodi RehlanderTikTok - Amy WithawhySemi - Jacqueline Taylor CookKiki - Natalie NewellCommentator 1 - Eric HannaCommentator 2 - Don Ford Jr.Previous holidayish audioplays by Marissa McCool: Bitter Tea the Way the Volcano Gods of Rainier Intended, Dinner with the Binaries, Have a Very Meta Christmas, and Fall of Frosty: Modern Warfare are all available on Marissa's podcast network, as well as the podcast home of all the audioplays, Queer Drama in Northern Minnesota.Written, Directed, Cast, and Edited by: Marissa McCool With contributions from: Jodi Rehlander, Erin Truex, Stacey Davis, Eric Hanna, Don Ford, Jr.Theme: "The Comeback Kid" by The Midnight
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Bitter Tea Outtakes - 2021

    Bitter Tea Outtakes - 2021
    Jan 21 2022
    The outtakes from the play of the same name.
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    23 mins
  • Bitter Tea, the Way the Volcano Gods of Rainier Intended: An Audioplay - 2021

    Bitter Tea, the Way the Volcano Gods of Rainier Intended: An Audioplay - 2021
    Jan 21 2022
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    The fourth annual-ish holiday-ish play by Marissa McCool
    Bitter Tea, the Way the Volcano Gods of Rainier Intended: An Audioplay

    SUMMARY
    Eleanor and Rain, two non-binary recluses, live off the grid and gender binary in Northern Minnesota. Living with them is a younger college student named Alex. One day, Alex comes home and drops a bomb on them: they met a girl named Jenny at school and was invited to thanksgiving dinner with her family. The problem? Alex RSVP’d… for all of them. Alex signed up Rain and Eleanor to come… as their cisgender heterosexual parents. Now, not only do Eleanor and Rain have to figure out how to pretend to be something they’ve never been, but they have to learn how to interact with people they’ve avoided for over a decade. They have, like, a family. That comes together on holidays. And they’re all still married. And they’re straight. And cisgender. What kind of twisted world is this?

    CAST
    Eleanor - Ari Stillman
    Rain - Tom S Tea
    Alex - Murphy Lennex-McCool
    Jenny - Jen Aldrich
    Gloria - "Dr. Mac" Melissa MacDonald
    Aunt D - Giovannie Espiritu
    Grandma Ruth - Jodi "Moose" Rehlander
    Grandma Emma - Erin "Redwood" Truex
    Aunt Kathy - Amy Withawhy
    Vi - Marissa Lennex-McCool
    Jack - Tim Wick
    Uncle Frank - Don Ford, Jr. "Voice of Fantasy and Adventure"
    Uncle Dave - Eli Dadabhoy
    Grandpa Roger - Tony Opelt

    WRITTEN, DIRECTED, CAST, AND EDITED BY
    Marissa McCool

    Music by The Midnight
    Sound effects and scene music from creative commons and sound effects libraries
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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • Dinner With the Binaries - Outtakes - 2020

    Dinner With the Binaries - Outtakes - 2020
    Jan 21 2022
    The outtakes and adorable failures to complement the play.
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    18 mins