Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery

by Bilal DardaiA RoadmapHow the story will be toldGoodnight, Mt. Absalom.Content Advisories for this episode can be found here.A Transcript for this episode can be found here.Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts!Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/storeThis episode features: Clarisa Cherie Rios as Lily, Marsha Harman as Dot, Amelia Bethel as Marisol, Kat Hoil as Abbie, Pat King as Chester, Corrbette Pasko as Maureen, Clint Worthington as Russel, and Michael Turrentine as Wes.Written by Bilal Dardai, sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, directed by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, assistant director Lauren Grace Thompson, recording engineer Mel Ruder, associate producer Ani Enghdahl, “Goodnight Mt. Absalom” written and sung by Jessica Best, with piano by Eli Hamada McIlveen, Unwell theme written by Stephen Poon, produced by haydée r. souffrant, Unwell lead sound designer Eli Hamada McIlveen, Executive Producers Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Nils Gardner, by HartLife NFP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

by Jessica Wright BuhaWhat do you remember?Practicalities.Love remains.Content Advisories for this episode can be found here.A Transcript for this episode can be found here.Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts!Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/storeThis episode features: Clarisa Cherie Rios as Lily, Kat Hoil as Abbie, Patrick King as Chester, Corrbette Pasko as Maureen, Kim Fukawa as Joanne, Amelia Bethel as Marisol, Marsha Harman as Dot, Kristen DiMercurio as Lulu, Miles Buha as Jamie, Clint Worthington as Russell, Emma Sherr-Ziarko as Mrs. Lonergan, Tara Schile as Sophia, José Angel Donado as Mayor Lopez, Ben Aldred as Mr. Flannery, and Bob Raymonda, Shayne Steliga, Damian Szydlo, Aquta, Ryan Bond, Adam Qutaishat, and Jackey Boelkow as the townsfolk of Mt. Absalom.Written by Jessica Wright Buha, sound design by Alexander Danner, directed by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, assistant director Lauren Grace Thompson, theme music composed by Stephen Poon, recording engineer Mel Ruder, associate producer Ani Enghdahl, Theme performed by Stephen Poon, Lauren Kelly, Gunnar Jebsen, Travis Elfers, Mel Ruder, and Betsey Palmer, produced by haydée r. souffrant, Unwell lead sound designer Eli Hamada McIlveen, Executive Producers Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Nils Gardner, by HartLife NFP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

by Jim McDonielGather ‘roundThis is all I can do for youI can’t do this anymoreContent Advisories for this episode can be found here.A Transcript for this episode can be found here.Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts!Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/storeThis episode features: Clarisa Cherie Rios as Lily, Michael Turrentine as Wes, Marsha Harman as Dot, Kat Hoil as Abbie, Symphony Sanders as Young Lily, Hilary Williams as Joey, Eli Barraza as Lina, Michael Turrentine as Wes, Nate DuFort as Calvin Lyle, David Rheinstrom as Colin, Dallis Seeker as Grant, Michael Turrentine as Wes, Matt Young as Tim.Written by Jim McDoniel, sound design by Alexander Danner, directed by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, assistant director Lauren Grace Thompson, theme music composed by Stephen Poon, recording engineer Mel Ruder, associate producer Ani Enghdahl, Theme performed by Stephen Poon, Lauren Kelly, Gunnar Jebsen, Travis Elfers, Mel Ruder, and Betsey Palmer, produced by haydée r. souffrant, Unwell lead sound designer Eli Hamada McIlveen, Executive Producers Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Nils Gardner, by HartLife NFP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We're back with the second episode of Welcomed by Design's interview with the Unwell team at the University of Pittsburgh! We hope you enjoy, and we're looking forward to bringing back more of Unwell Season Five in two weeks.======On this episode of Welcomed by Design, we listen back to Fall 2022’s Queer Horror Week, coordinated by Pitt’s Horror Studies Working Group. Members of our team got to panel with many cool creatives, including the wonderful, BBC award-winning team of Unwell, to talk about accessibility and identity in the world of audio dramas! With a topic like that, there’s obviously going to be far too much good conversation to have a mere hour of footage. So we’re releasing a two-part special (which, given its patchwork of event audio clips, a lá Frankenstein’s monster, is thematically spooky in structure).In this part 2, we discuss inclusive world-building, from challenging what gets capital-O Othered and what is normalized, to some of the team’s favorite aspects of the world they’ve created.Be sure to check out part 1 for even more conversation, which focuses on real-life accessibility and inclusion in their production.Open episode transcript (which we’ve annotated this episode, in honor of Unwell!)(An unembedded link to the resource library, which includes transcripts, will be at the bottom of this description for anyone needing to copy and paste the link in a web browser.)Go to our resource library (for terms and recommended readings)Check out Unwell, a fictional Midwestern Gothic Mystery podcast, about conspiracies, ghosts, and unusual families of blood and choice…Host and producer: Lynn Priestley Executive producer: Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick Sound designer: Chloe Dahan Producer: Emily Kuntz Transcriber: Shivangi “Teddy” TiwariSound credits:Turning to You” from Landmans Duet, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue), “Valantis” from Cauldron, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue), Some sound effects were sourced from Freesound.org., Julesv4 - Door Creaking, Nettimato - Chain, Keweldog - Crunching Scraping, Mincedbeats - Gel Squelches, TRP - Foot Squish Wet Mud Puddle Stratford, Garzul - Analog Lazer fx, Florianreichelt - Soft Wind, The remaining sound clips used (except for the door opening sound clip), outside of spoken audio, were free sound effects from https://www.fesliyanstudios.comIf you have questions, guest suggestions, or comments about the accessibility of this podcast, please don’t hesitate to email us at welcomedbydesign@gmail.com.Unembedded link to above-mentioned resource library: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1unKUUqD_SH2Qi0C94s2j7WEuXdtP0k0e?usp=sharing===Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts!Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

For this week's midseason break, we're sharing an episode from the delightful podcast Welcomed By Design, a show produced by students and faculty at the University of Pittsburgh! We'll have the second part of this conversation later in our break!======On this episode of Welcomed by Design, we listen back to Fall 2022’s Queer Horror Week, coordinated by Pitt’s Horror Studies Working Group. Members of our team got to panel with many cool creatives, including the wonderful, BBC award-winning team of Unwell, to talk about accessibility and identity in the world of audio dramas! With a topic like that, there’s obviously going to be far too much good conversation to have a mere hour of footage. So we’re releasing a two-part special (which, given its patchwork of event audio clips, a lá Frankenstein’s monster, is also thematically spooky in structure). In this part 1, we discuss accessible and inclusive production practices, on the “real life” side of things. We talked about everything from fun/snarky transcript comments to balancing the nature of scaring in horror with care in content warnings.Be sure to check out part 2 for even more conversation, this time on inclusive fictional practices.Open episode transcript (which we’ve annotated this episode, in honor of Unwell!) (An unembedded link to the resource library, which includes transcripts, will be at the bottom of this description for anyone needing to copy and paste the link in a web browser.)Go to our resource library (for terms and recommended readings) Check out Unwell, a fictional Midwestern Gothic Mystery podcast, about conspiracies, ghosts, and unusual families of blood and choice…Host and producer: Lynn Priestley Executive producer: Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick Sound designer: Ashton McCool Producer: Emily Kuntz Transcriber: Shivangi “Teddy” TiwariSound credits:"Turning to You” from Landmans Duet, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue), “Valantis” from Cauldron, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue), Some sound effects were sourced from Freesound.org., Julesv4 - Door Creaking, Nettimato - Chain, Keweldog - Crunching Scraping, Mincedbeats - Gel Squelches, TRP - Foot Squish Wet Mud Puddle Stratford, Garzul - Analog Lazer fx, Florianreichelt - Soft Wind, Sound effects not listed above were sourced from https://www.fesliyanstudios.comIf you have questions, guest suggestions, or comments about the accessibility of this podcast, please don’t hesitate to email us at welcomedbydesign@gmail.com.Unembedded link to above-mentioned resource library: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1unKUUqD_SH2Qi0C94s2j7WEuXdtP0k0e?usp=sharing=====Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts!Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

by Jessica BestIsn't there anyone on the air?Big questionsWHO AM IContent Advisories for this episode can be found here.A Transcript for this episode can be found here.Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts!Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/storeThis episode features: Anuja Vaidya as Norah, Kat Hoil as Abbie, and Amelia Bethel as Marisol. The chorus of Echoes in this episode is played by: James Ferrero, Lauren Grace Thompson, Nicole Knudsen, Jeffrey Nils Gardner, Tina Muñoz Pandya, Eric Eilersen, Adam Raymonda, Daniel Millhouse, Mark Soloff, Newt Schottelkotte, and Rob Kauzlaric.The War of the Worlds radio broadcast was adapted by Howard Koch from the novel by H.G. Wells, and directed by Orson Welles. You can find complete credits here.Written by Jessica Best, sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, directed by Lauren Grace Thompson, theme music composed by Stephen Poon, recording engineer Mel Ruder, associate producer Ani Enghdahl, Theme performed by Stephen Poon, Lauren Kelly, Gunnar Jebsen, Travis Elfers, Mel Ruder, and Betsey Palmer, produced by haydée r. souffrant, Unwell lead sound designer Eli Hamada McIlveen, Executive Producers Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Nils Gardner, by HartLife NFP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

by Jessica BestA little footwork (for two)Things get shaken up47,000 Aspen trees.Content Advisories for this episode can be found here.A Transcript for this episode can be found here.Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts!Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/storeThis episode features: Clarisa Cherie Rios as Lily, Marsha Harman as Dot, Clint Worthington as Russel, and Ella Watts as the Documentary Narrator.Written by Jessica Best, sound design by Ryan Schile, directed by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, theme music composed by Stephen Poon, assistant director Lauren Grace Thompson, recording engineer Mel Ruder, associate producer Ani Enghdahl, Theme performed by Stephen Poon, Lauren Kelly, Gunnar Jebsen, Travis Elfers, Mel Ruder, and Betsey Palmer, produced by haydée r. souffrant, Unwell lead sound designer Eli Hamada McIlveen, Executive Producers Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Nils Gardner, by HartLife NFP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

by Jim McDonielHe's hereHe's not hereNone of us really knowContent Advisories for this episode can be found here.A Transcript for this episode can be found here.Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts!Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/storeThis episode features: Clarisa Cherie Rios as Lily, Marsha Harman as Dot, Mark Soloff as Silas, Pat King as Chester, Kat Hoil as Abbie, Anuja Vaidya as Norah, Sebastian Orr as *7Djdf8, Ele Matelan as 7^&82heh2, and Michael Turrentine as Wes.Written by Jim McDoniel, sound design by Eli Hamada McIlveen, directed by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, theme music composed by Stephen Poon, assistant director Lauren Grace Thompson, recording engineer Mel Ruder, associate producer Ani Enghdahl, Theme performed by Stephen Poon, Lauren Kelly, Gunnar Jebsen, Travis Elfers, Mel Ruder, and Betsey Palmer, produced by haydée r. souffrant, Unwell lead sound designer Eli Hamada McIlveen, Executive Producers Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Nils Gardner, by HartLife NFP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Coming March 1, 2023: the final season of Unwell.Find content warnings here, and a transcript here.===Trailer featuring Marsha Harman, Michael Turrentine, Anuja Vaidya, Clarissa Cherie Rios, Joshua K. Harris, Pat King, and Kat Hoil.Written by Jessica Best, Bilal Dardai, Jim McDoniel, and Jessica Wright Buha. Sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner. Produced by Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Nils Gardner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hello- Jeffrey here! Over here in Chicago, we’ve just kicked off recording for Season Five of unwell- it is so wonderful to be back in the studio with these actors, and I am SO excited for you to hear what we’re working on.In the meantime- we’re thrilled to bring you the first episode of Gideon Media’s “Give Me Away.” It’s a sci-fi thriller from Mac Rogers, who wrote some of my very favorite pieces of audio in the genre- including The Message, LifeAfter, and Steal The Stars. You can hear the rest of the series, and find credits, transcripts, and more at gideon-media. org.===The screaming spaceship lands just as Graham Shapiro's life is falling apart. The world reels, and Graham makes some big decisions.Featuring Hanna Cheek, Sean Williams, Kevin R. Free, Nat Cassidy, Diana Oh, Dani Martineck, Rebecca Comtois, Alba Ponce de León, Jorge Cordova, Lori Elizabeth Parquet, and Stephanie Willing.Written by Mac Rogers, directed by Jordana Williams, sound designed by Bart Fasbender, music composed by Adam Blau, assistant directed by Marty McGuire, and produced by Cara Ehlenfeldt.Transcripts are available at www.gideon-media.com/transcripts.Gideon Media crafts gripping productions that explore human grace and darkness through popular genre forms. Learn more at www.gideon-media.com and follow us on Twitter @mediagideon, Instagram @gideonaudio, and Facebook @gideonaudio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

by Jessica Wright BuhaLet's give it a tryAre you a liar?Without you, my world isPLEASE BE ADVISED: this will be one of the more intense episodes of Unwell. Content advisories are included for every episode of Unwell- you can find them linked below. The nature of content/trigger warnings also mean that the below list may contain spoilers for the episode. We've worked to keep the content warnings as vague as possible while still being useful.Content Advisories for this episode can be found here.A Transcript for this episode can be found here.Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts!Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/storeThis episode features: Clarisa Cherie Rios as Lily, Pat King as Chester, Joshua K. Harris as Rudy, Mark Soloff as Silas Lodge.Written by Jessica Wright Buha, sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, directed by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, theme music composed by Stephen Poon, recording engineer Mel Ruder, associate producer Ani Enghdahl, Theme performed by Stephen Poon, Lauren Kelly, Gunnar Jebsen, Travis Elfers, Mel Ruder, and Betsey Palmer, produced by haydée r. souffrant, Unwell lead sound designer Eli Hamada McIlveen, Executive Producers Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Nils Gardner, by HartLife NFP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

by Jessica Wright BuhaI scream You scream We all screamUnimaginable fearSomething must be done===Content Advisories for this episode can be found here.A Transcript for this episode can be found here.Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts!Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/storeThis episode features: Clarisa Cherie Rios as Lily, Pat King as Chester, Miles Buha as Jamie, Joshua K. Harris as Rudy, Corrbette Pasko as Maureen, Mark Soloff as Silas Lodge, Sebastian H Orr as **$&#*$, Ele Matelan as &&@)@*&, Hilary Williams as Joey, D'Souza's employees and patrons: Tina Daniels, Newt Schottelkotte, Bob Raymonda, Jeffrey Nils Gardner, Kris Kaiyala.Written by Jessica Wright Buha, sound design by Alexander Danner, directed by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, theme music composed by Stephen Poon, recording engineer Mel Ruder, associate producer Ani Enghdahl, Theme performed by Stephen Poon, Lauren Kelly, Gunnar Jebsen, Travis Elfers, Mel Ruder, and Betsey Palmer, produced by haydée r. souffrant, Unwell lead sound designer Eli Hamada McIlveen, Executive Producers Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Nils Gardner, by HartLife NFP.Extra Credits: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A quest for snacksWho do you reach out to?I are/We am/I was/We will always be===Content Advisories for this episode can be found here.A Transcript for this episode can be found here.Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts!Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/storeThis episode features: Clarissa Cherie Rios as Lily, Amelia Bethel as Marisol, Marsha Harman as Dot, Joshua K. Harris as Rudy, Michael Turrentine as Wes, Pat King as Chester, Isa Ramos as Spikes, Krista D'Agostino as Hazel, Katelyn Tinius as the lady on the intercom.Written by Jessica Wright Buha, sound design by Laurence Owen, directed by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, theme music composed by Stephen Poon, recording engineer Mel Ruder, associate producer Ani Enghdahl, Theme performed by Stephen Poon, Lauren Kelly, Gunnar Jebsen, Travis Elfers, Mel Ruder, and Betsey Palmer, produced by haydée r. souffrant, Unwell lead sound designer Eli Hamada McIlveen, Executive Producers Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Nils Gardner, by HartLife NFP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.