A Blind Play

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Created and written by Michael Mau and recorded at Studio South Atlanta in Sharpsburg, GA as part of the Adult Voiceover Class.

STARRING

• Jake Williams
• Lilla Wise
• Tony Noel
• Meghan Coyle
• Jayson Goldman

Original Music by Jake Williams

Sound Effects Courtesy of Pixabay. 

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One year before he disappeared, Brian gives Jake a rare artifact. 

Encouraged by his therapist, Jake decides he has to take action.

And Jayson... has a Cousin Eddie special? 

Created and written by Michael Mau and recorded at Studio South Atlanta in Sharpsburg, GA as part of the Adult Voiceover Class.

STARRING

• Jake Williams
• Lilla Wise
• Tony Noel
• Meghan Coyle
• Jayson Goldman

Original Music by Jake Williams

Sound Effects Courtesy of Pixabay. 

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As Jake is tempted to go searching for his father, we learn more about Brian's disappearance in Blue Ridge.

Created and written by Michael Mau and recorded at Studio South Atlanta in Sharpsburg, GA as part of the Adult Voiceover Class.

STARRING

• Jake Williams
• Lilla Wise
• Tony Noel
• Meghan Coyle
• Jayson Goldman

Original Music by Jake Williams

Sound Effects Courtesy of Pixabay. 

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One year after amateur Bigfoot hunter Brian Bradshaw goes missing and is presumed dead, his son Jake begins to get strange messages from his walkie talkie. Is it his father? Or a trap?

And is it a coincidence that his father's twin brother Jayson shows up on the family doorstep the next day? 

Jake's twin sister Lilla is skeptical. His mother Meghan is beyond frustrated. And Jayson is acting more than a little suspicious.

Created and written by Michael Mau and recorded at Studio South Atlanta in Sharpsburg, GA as part of the Adult Voiceover Class.

STARRING

• Jake Williams
• Lilla Wise
• Tony Noel
• Meghan Coyle
• Jayson Goldman

Original Music by Jake Williams

Sound Effects Courtesy of Pixabay. 

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This is Michael Mau. Creator of the low-fi DIY podcast A Blind Play. While that show ran for three seasons – AND YOU CAN STILL catch it on all of your podcatchers – I’ve got something new for you.

A few months ago, I began teaching at Studio South Atlanta in Sharpsburg, GA. When five people signed up for my first voiceover class, I decided to teach by doing. So in addition to working on audiobook narration skills and commercials and film voiceover, I did what I love to do. I wrote. A scripted podcast A family friendly one. So everyone in class could voice characters, practice their skills, work as a team, and have clips for their reels. 

Creating characters based on my students’ input, I produced FOUR episodes of the show The Bradshaws Versus Bigfoot in which a teenage boy goes looking for his presumed-dead father, a amateur Bigfoot hunter.

And now the show, and my VO students, are ready for an audience. That’s you. 

Music for this trailer provided by Nikita Kondrashev, Courtesy of Pixabay.

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A man with a severe sleep disorder becomes the star of his own reality TV show, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend.

Sleepwalker X was written and directed by Michael Mau

And stars 

• Michael Mau as Wesley
• Elizabeth Pan as Joe
• Rich Greene as Derek Nikitas
• Elliott Dixon as Chris, the director
• Hannah Dorph as Rita

Additional voices for the ART Network commercials provided by
Juan Pablo Suarez
Christa Burton
Matt Hudgens
Evan Judway

The theme music was composed by Trevor Tremaine. 

Additional music for this episode by MusicLFiles, Caffeine Creek Band, QubeSounds, Edvard Grieg, Mykola Sosin, Toma Mutiu, Zakhar Valaha, Nick Valerson, and DayFox

Geneva Hicks created the podcast cover art

Additional sound effects courtesy of Pixabay

Writer, comedian, and actor Nina Dicker helped produce this episode. Look for her memoir Tangerine Vagina where finer books are sold.

Special thanks to assistant casting director Annie Weaver.

You can find out more about our cast and crew at ablindplaypodcast.com or on Instagram @mauhausproductions 

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When triggered by a challenge from her peers, the daughter of a former military interrogator puts her father's inhumane lessons to the test, endangering her friends in order to protect herself.

“Little Bird” is adapted from the short story of the same name which won the Black Warrior Review Fiction Contest in 2014. I wrote the first draft of the story in grad school in a class titled The Literature of War. The title comes from an Army cadence call in which the speaker lures a beautiful bird to the window sill and kills it. I was inspired by the grotesque and inhumane images from Abu Ghraib prison. I couldn’t help imagining those guards who treated others in such a despicable manner going home to their own families. 

The story has been adapted into a staged reading as well as a screenplay. This episode contains profanity and adult situations as well as suggestions of abuse. It is intended for listeners over the age of 13. 

A little bird with a yellow bill
Was sittin' on my window sill
I lured her in with a piece of bread
And then I smashed her little head
—Army cadence call

Narrator: Lily Sanders
Soldier: Kai McAlvin
Sir: Tim Knudson
Sam: Ryan Goffman
Eddie: Eddie Philpot 
Marco: Marco Marx 

Sound effects courtesy of Pixabay. 
Special thanks to Annie Weaver, Shenandoah Evans, and Travis Maguire. 

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Earlier this year, I recorded the audiobook for Wes Blake’s debut novel, Pineville Trace. I’ve narrated several audiobooks, but this one was special for me. Wes and I met in grad school at the Bluegrass Writers Studio in 2014. We taught in the same school district in Jessamine County Kentucky. And we shared a few drinks and some adventures  in Lisbon. 

So when he asked me to narrate his novel, I immediately asked, "How much will you pay me?"

Critics have praised Pineville Trace; readers adore it:

--This was an utterly compelling read. 

--Pineville Trace is a quiet odyssey, an unexpectedly meditative journey of a minor outlaw. 

--Good first book

--The cat is my favorite, and not just because I am a super-fulfilled old cat lady.

--... an achingly beautiful story with a complex character at it center.

--... beautifully read by Michael Mau.

And I sure loved recording it. To hear the whole novel, you’ll have to buy it yourself, but I wanted to share a couple of chapters just to tease you. 

So here, for your listening enjoyment, is Pineville Trace by Wes Blake.

If you want to hear more, or even read the book yourself, you can go to https://wesblake.com/ . There you can read interviews with Wes, find out where he’ll be speaking, and look at his face, which doctors say is too small for his head. 

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I promised some bonus episodes, and I'm bringing them to you. 

WELM, how do I begin to tell you about Daniel Wescott? I met Dan the way I have met many writers recently; he hired me to produce (and perform) an audiobook: The Alien, the first novel in a sci-fi trilogy that is at once a satire, an espionage thriller, and a bildungsroman for a man-child astronaut aptly named Michael. 

Dan himself is an adventurer and world traveler who makes his home in Maine, where all of his novels also make their homes (or on an alien planet; or a pub in Ireland). 

You can get any of Dan's novels at DanielWescott.com--paperback, Kindle, or audiobook, and there are plenty to choose from.

I released a chapter from The Alien during Season Two, so for a treat between seasons, I will bring you a couple of chapters from each of Dan's other books. For example, you will also hear chapters from two novels in his Love and Torment series, Inhabited and Captive with performances by Jennifer Keane @citizenkeane and Anastasia Wilson @anastasia.wil

For now though, Chapter One of Inhabited: Love and Torment Book One. Yeah, I'm doing it out of order because the first book in the series is on a hard drive that I left at my mom's house. And I'll get it later. It's a topsy turvy world, so deal with it. 

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From MauHaus Productions, A Blind Play. Bonus Episode. 

As promised, we have a few post-season episodes to delight and intrigue. Today’s episode is an excerpt from the novel A Wish & A Pear, the first in her Magical Layers series, by Mary B. Reinfeld. 

Performed by Irene Santiago.

Inspired by true events, A Wish and a Pear tells the story of two women, Angela and Soledad, whose lives are intertwined by pure fate.

From metropolitan Manhattan to the picturesque jungles of rural Guatemala, Angela experiences a profound journey of the mind, heart, and soul, enhanced by the charming characters who become her family and help her heal her past trauma. It’s Eat, Pray, Love meets Tuesdays with Morrie set in the jungle of South America.

Keep tuning in to A Blind Play for more bonus episodes, including an upcoming reading of Kentucky author Wes Blake’s debut novel, Pineville Trace.

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