Dead North

Day 5 of Blight Christmas 2021

Host: Sean Dillon

855-FOR-TRUTH

Written and performed by Tom S. Tea

Tom is a Trans nonbinary actor, writer, and music-maker. Queer Lovecraftian eroticist extraordinaire. Saint Paul's favorite Gay® space alien. Currently a member of shOUT: Minnesota's Trans and Gender Diverse Voices. They/them/theirs. Follow their work at: 

https://www.facebook.com/TomSTea42/

The rights to this piece are retained by its creator, all rights reserved.

Our intro/outro/interstitial music samples “Ice Breaking 01” by dheming, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. https://freesound.org/people/dheming/sounds/268023/

Support the artists of Dead North at: 

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Tune in the next 7 days, for more holiday horror. Please subscribe and rate Dead North wherever you get your podcasts, to help us spread the word.

Thank you for listening.

Day 4 of Blight Christmas 2021

Host: Sean Dillon

**CONTENT WARNING: This piece contains vivid descriptions of not-safe-for-work body horror.**

HOW BIG RICHIE WHACKED CHRIS MAST BY PAULIE THE POET

Written and performed by Rob Ward

Rob Ward is an actor, choreographer, and most recently, a writer, living and working in the Twin Cities. Rob serves as a board member/resident psychopath for Oncoming Productions. Be on the lookout for Rob’s first novel “Click”. In the meantime, you can check him out at robwardcreative.com 

The rights to this piece are retained by its creator, all rights reserved.

Our intro/outro/interstitial music samples “Ice Breaking 01” by dheming, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. https://freesound.org/people/dheming/sounds/268023/

Support the artists of Dead North at: 

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Tune in the next 8 days, for more holiday horror. Please subscribe and rate Dead North wherever you get your podcasts, to help us spread the word.

Thank you for listening.

Host: Sean Dillon

PHILISTINE GROAN

Written and performed by Sam Landman, for LandmanLand

Sam Landman is a Twin Cities-based writer, performer, and all-round performance maker. Keep up with the latest on his work at:

https://www.facebook.com/WelcomeToLandmanLand/

The rights to this piece are retained by its creator, all rights reserved.

Our intro/outro/interstitial music samples “Ice Breaking 01” by dheming, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. https://freesound.org/people/dheming/sounds/268023/

Support the artists of Dead North at: 

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Tune in the next 9 days, for more holiday horror. Please subscribe and rate Dead North wherever you get your podcasts, to help us spread the word.

Thank you for listening.

Day 2 of Blight Christmas 2021

Host: Sean Dillon

CABINET OF CURSED OBJECTS - 2021 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

Written and performed by Destiny Davison

Destiny A. Davison (she/her/they/them) is a writer, illustrator, cartoonist and multi-media maker from the Midwest. Her work explores the real, the unreal, and the in-between. Current wares include zines The Droll (2018), The Lot (2019) and The Gist (2019) and McSpooky’s Holiday Horror Show (2020). You can find her at www.destinydavison.com. 

The rights to the are retained by its creator, all rights reserved.

Our intro/outro/interstitial music samples “Ice Breaking 01” by dheming, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. https://freesound.org/people/dheming/sounds/268023/

Support the artists of Dead North at: 

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Tune in the next 10 days, for more holiday horror. Please subscribe and rate Dead North wherever you get your podcasts, to help us spread the word.

Thank you for listening.

Day 1 of Blight Christmas 2021

Host: Sean Dillon

PERCHTA

Written and performed by The Champagne Drops

The Champagne Drops are Emily Dussault and Leslie Vincent. They can be seen performing throughout the Twin Cities, and they can be contacted at [email protected] for bookings. The song “Perchta” can be found on their debut album, Side By Side, available at Bandcamp: https://thechampagnedrops.bandcamp.com/album/side-by-side

The rights to this song are retained by their creators, all rights reserved.

Our intro/outro/interstitial music samples “Ice Breaking 01” by dheming, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. https://freesound.org/people/dheming/sounds/268023/

Support the artists of Dead North at: 

https://www.patreon.com/deadnorth

Tune in the next 11 days, for more holiday horror. Please subscribe and rate Dead North wherever you get your podcasts, to help us spread the word.

Thank you for listening.

Horror audio theater for the spooky season

Host: Sean Dillon

Support the artists of Dead North at: 

https://www.patreon.com/deadnorth

POTENTIAL TRIGGERS TOPICS: Implied harm to animals, Cannibalism

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POSSIBLE BURGER (from part one - description accidentally excluded)
Produced by: Special When Lit

Written by: Nissa Nordland Morgan

Features: 

Zach Morgan as Henry Martin

Lauren Anderson as Possible Burger Vendor, Teen Cook, and Barn Intercom

Nissa Nordland Morgan as Narrator and 4-H Kid

Sam Landman as Slicker Man

Kayla Dvorak Feld as The Sacred Pig and Little Girl

and the voices of pigs from the MN State Fair.

Sound Design, Mixing and Music by Nissa Nordland Morgan

Special When Lit unapologetically pushes the boundaries of storytelling, finding a universal humanity in the weird, the extraordinary and the supernatural. We particularly enjoy using spectacle, blood and emboldened sexuality to create a visceral experience for the audience. Founder, Nissa Nordland Morgan, wrote plays The Fae and Incarnate, both performed at the Twin Cities Horror Festival. Nordland also wrote the audio horror Nisse-Natten, which was a part of Blight Christmas and received praise from the judges of the Atlanta Fringe Audio Festival. She was awarded the TC Arts Reader Critic’s Choice Award and won the Theatre in the Round Venue Pick for her play Xena and Gabrielle Smash the Patriarchy. Nordland is an alum of the Brave New Workshop Comedy Theatre, a member of the Playwright Cabal, company member of Theatre Pro Rata, and the Artistic Director of the Twin Cities Horror Festival. 

This presentation explores gluttony, and the revenge of the consumed. Special When Lit asks- Do you know what (or who) you are eating? Possible Burger features the voices of pigs and sounds of the swine barn from the 2021 MN State Fair, recorded by Nordland herself.

Follow Special When Lit Theatre on Facebook for updates on future projects

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WALKIES

by Paper Soul

written by J. Merrill Motz

performed by Logan Rodgers

outro music by Cherly KaCherly from the Free Music Archive

Walkies was inspired by many many many summer afternoons spent taking two particular dogs around a particular neighborhood and noticing their particular various quirks and...warning signs.

Paper Soul was founded by Motz (rhymes with boats, he/him/his) for the 2013 MN Fringe and has created several experiments in the solo performance style ever since. Motz tours these shows both in person and digitally to Fringe Festivals locally and (hopefully) across the country.

If you're listening to this episode in October 2021, you have until midnight on the 31st to catch Paper Soul's latest production BRIG, a Ghost Story for Film, available as a Video-On-Demand performance, only at www.papersoul.org 

Special thanks to Katie Shay & Mike Heckman for letting me spend so much time with their awesome pups, Helen & Freyja.

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BEAR SAUSAGE
By Oncoming Productions
Written and produced by Sean Dillon
Performed by Jay Kistler and Justin Betancourt

Oncoming Productions was founded by Sean Dillon, and has produced original dark and horror theater in the Twin Cities since 2013. Past projects have included The Deep Dark, The Last Bombardment, Geminae, holiday anthology shows Oncoming Productions Ruins Christmas, Dread the Halls, Blight Christmas, and this podcast!

Keep an eye on OncomingProductions.com and/or our Facebook page for future projects.

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CALLIMAR

Written and performed by Alice Paige

Audio production by Sean Dillon

Alice Paige is a trans woman, poet, and storyteller living in St. Paul, Mn. Her writing focuses on topics like mythology and the transformative power of queer love. Her work can be found at FreezeRay Poetry, Crabfat Magazine, Coffin Bell, VASTARIEN, Button Poetry, Write About Now, Luna Station Quarterly and Take A Stand, Art Against Hate: A Raven Chronicles Anthology. She is a Digital Pedagogical Lab Fellow and has her MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. 

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Dead North is a production of Oncoming Productions and Hot Chocolate Media.

www.oncomingproductions.com

https://www.hotchocolatemedia.net

Producers: Sean and Mallory Dillon for Oncoming Productions, Kyle Dekker and Jacob Gulliver for Hot Chocolate Media 

Intro/Outro/Interstitial Music: Erik Ostrom

The rights to individual pieces are retained by their creators, all rights reserved.

Our intro/outro/interstitial music samples “Ice Breaking 01” by dheming, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. https://freesound.org/people/dheming/sounds/268023/

Dead North is supported by listener donations, and the donations we receive are shared with our artist contributors. Please consider donating at oncomingproductions.com.

Please subscribe and rate Dead North wherever you get your podcasts, to help us spread the word.

We’ve got something special coming up for the holidays, so be sure to subscribe! Our next episodes are scheduled for release in early/mid-December. 

Thank you for listening.

Horror audio theater for the spooky season

Host: Sean Dillon

Support the artists of Dead North at: 

https://www.patreon.com/deadnorth

POTENTIAL TRIGGERS TOPICS: Implied harm to animals

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THE YIP OF CTHULHU

By Maximum Verbosity

Written and performed by phillip andrew bennett low

phillip andrew bennett low is a Chinese-American playwright and poet, storyteller and mime, theatre critic and libertarian activist. His solo performances have won acclaim from Minneapolis to Atlanta, New York to LA -- even as far as Melbourne, Australia. He was the co-founder of the Rockstar Storytellers (a supergroup of bestselling Twin Cities spoken-word artists), founder and producer of the touring theatre troupe Maximum Verbosity, and founder and host of the country's only recurring open-mic dedicated to speculative fiction, The Not-So-Silent Planet, and its associated podcast. He has published three collections, Indecision Now!, Get Thee Behind Me, Santa, and Monsters in a Mirror. Further work can be found at: maximumverbosityonline.org

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THE CABINET OF CURSED OBJECTS

Written and performed by Destiny A. Davison

Music: Migfus20: https://freesound.org/people/Migfus20/sounds/559850/

Destiny A. Davison (she/her/they/them) is a writer, illustrator, cartoonist and multi-media maker from the Midwest. Her work explores the real, the unreal, and the in-between. Current wares include zines The Droll (2018), The Lot (2019) and The Gist (2019) and McSpooky’s Holiday Horror Show (2020).

You can find her at www.destinydavison.com

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WALKIES

by Paper Soul

written by J. Merrill Motz

performed by Logan Rodgers

outro music by Cherly KaCherly from the Free Music Archive

special thanks to Katie Shay & Mike Heckman for letting me spend so much time with their awesome pups, Helen & Freyja.

Walkies was inspired by many many many summer afternoons spent taking two particular dogs around a particular neighborhood and noticing their particular various quirks and...warning signs.

Paper Soul was founded by Motz (rhymes with boats, he/him/his) for the 2013 MN Fringe and has created several experiments in the solo performance style ever since. Motz tours these shows both in person and digitally to Fringe Festivals locally and (hopefully) across the country.

If you're listening to this episode in October 2021, you have until midnight on the 31st to catch Paper Soul's latest production BRIG, a Ghost Story for Film, available as a Video-On-Demand performance, only at www.papersoul.org 

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Dead North is a production of Oncoming Productions and Hot Chocolate Media.

www.oncomingproductions.com

https://www.hotchocolatemedia.net

Producers: Sean and Mallory Dillon for Oncoming Productions, Kyle Dekker and Jacob Gulliver for Hot Chocolate Media 

Intro/Outro/Interstitial Music: Erik Ostrom

The rights to individual pieces are retained by their creators, all rights reserved.

Our intro/outro/interstitial music samples “Ice Breaking 01” by dheming, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. https://freesound.org/people/dheming/sounds/268023/

Dead North is supported by listener donations, and the donations we receive are shared with our artist contributors. Please consider donating at oncomingproductions.com.

Please subscribe and rate Dead North wherever you get your podcasts, to help us spread the word.

Watch for our 2nd October episode very soon! Our next episodes are scheduled for release . 

Thank you for listening.

Horror audio theater on the theme of “Summer.”

Host: Sean Dillon

Support the artists of Dead North at: 

https://www.patreon.com/deadnorth

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BLUE HARVEST

By Hot Chocolate Media

Written by Kyle Dekker & Jacob Gullver

Performed by Kyle Dekker

Audio editing by Jacob Gulliver

Additional sound provided courtesy of freesound.org.

Inspired by creepypastas and the legends of all the different bootleg cuts of Star Wars that existed for decades as rumors only. We love horror, but we also really love dorky jokes, and hopefully we’ve found an enjoyable bridge between the two.

Hot Chocolate Media is a MN media company focused on bringing original, geeky content to their fans. We adore genre content across many forms, and try to do something fiercely unique with each new project. Be sure to follow us on social media or check out hotchocolatemedia.net for updates! Our most popular shows are The Movie Machine Podcast, Super Academy, and Fang & Talon.

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THE REAL ME

By Paradox Productions

Written by Catherine Hansen

Performed by Catherine Hansen and Sam Ahern

Outro music: Game Boy Horror by The Zombie Dandies from the Free Music Archive

Special thanks to Kara Greshwalk and Matt Pruss

This was inspired by the music video for Thriller and many bad blind dates.

Paradox is both an entity and a company, enthralled by horror tinged performances that play with expectations. Paradox Productions has been creating shows since 2014 including Hennepin Avenue Nightmares (with Ghoulish Delights) and Saucer Con: Us And Them For A Better Future (with Experimental Theater Lab). In 2019 they solo produced the award winning Chocolate Covered Chicken Wings for the Minnesota Fringe Festival.

Up next, Paradox Productions will be doing Outer Contact: Cast of Pod for Wordslingers Way at Convergence.

Catherine Hansen is an actress, writer, and producer and can be found here: Catherine Hansen - IMDb

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SHARKS TAKING THING PERSONALLY

By Reverend Matt's Monster Science

Written, performed, and recorded by Matthew Kessen

An episode of Reverend Matt's Monster science - "Part science. Part comedy. All monsters" - that examines the Jaws movie series, with its dizzying heights and abysmal lows.

Matt Kessen is the creator, writer, and performer of Reverend Matt's Monster Science, a multimedia series of comedy lectures on the subject of monsters, and is an actor around town as well. He has appeared, one way or the other, in all three episodes of Dead North thus far. For more Monster Science - and there are normally a few shows every month - please see revmattsmonsterscience.com, or look him up on the various social media.

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S’MORES

by Big Fun Radio Funtime

Written, Directed, and produced by Tim Wick

Cast:

Judith - Dawn Krosnowski

Becky - Bridget Foy

Harry - Duck Washington

Old Man McGillicutty - Charles Hubbell

Inspired by spending many summers in the north woods. Dinner was just the prelude to sitting around the campfire, toasting marshmallows, and perhaps telling a scary story or two. 

Big Fun Radio Funtime was created by Tim Wick to produce original radio plays inspired by the golden age of radio and has presented both live and pre-recorded work since 2013. We are currently working on an audio production of the original radio play "Peggy Star Jockey and the Subjugation of Herculon Five."

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Dead North is a production of Oncoming Productions and Hot Chocolate Media.

www.oncomingproductions.com

https://www.hotchocolatemedia.net

Producers: Sean and Mallory Dillon for Oncoming Productions, Kyle Dekker and Jacob Gulliver for Hot Chocolate Media 

Intro/Outro/Interstitial Music: Erik Ostrom

The rights to individual pieces are retained by their creators, all rights reserved.

Our intro/outro/interstitial music samples “Ice Breaking 01” by dheming, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. https://freesound.org/people/dheming/sounds/268023/

Dead North is supported by listener donations, and the donations we receive are shared with our artist contributors. Please consider donating at oncomingproductions.com.

Please subscribe and rate Dead North wherever you get your podcasts, to help us spread the word.

Our next episode is scheduled for release October 2021. 

Thank you for listening.

Horror audio theater on the theme of “Spring.”

Host: Sean Dillon

Support the artists of Dead North at: 

https://www.patreon.com/deadnorth

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SHANTY

By Paper Soul

Written by J. Merrill Motz

Performed by Suzie Juul

Intro music by GabrielDouglas from Pixabay

Outro music by Cherly KaCherly from the Free Music Archive

SHANTY was originally produced in April 2019 as part of Freshwater Theatre's "Blood Runs Cold", performed by Ariel Pinkerton.

Special thanks to Samantha Star of Mermaid Music, and to Ariel Pinkerton.

SHANTY was inspired by the old traditional song (sometimes called a murder ballad) The Twa Sisters, but with a slight Minnesota slant. If you know the song you know the story, and if you don't, well...that would give it away. SHANTY was originally produced in April 2019 as part of Freshwater Theatre's "Blood Runs Cold", performed by Ariel Pinkerton.

Paper Soul was founded by Motz (rhymes with boats) for the 2013 MN Fringe and has created several experiments in the solo performance style ever since. Motz's plays have been produced locally through Freshwater Theatre, Swandive Theatre's Veggie Stock, Fearless Comedy Presents, and the University of Wisconsin at Fon du Lac. Motz serves on the board of directors for Theatre Pro Rata, the artist committee for the Minnesota Fringe, and as co-host of Workplace Drama, a storytelling show based in both Minneapolis & Los Angeles, alongside Les Kurkendaal-Barrett.

Paper Soul may or may not be participating in various digital fringe festivals in the coming year, hopefully, but updates can be found at www.papersoul.org

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THE CURE FOR SLEEP

Presented by Dangerous Productions

Written by Jay Kistler/Tyler Olsen

Produced and Sound Designed by Søren Olsen

Voice Cast: Liz Carey-Linskey, Garrett Vollmer, Megan Nichols, Sadie Plendl, Laura Baller Mauler, Chris Rowe

Directed by Jay Kistler

What’s your relationship to sleep? Do you get 8 hours or do you find the whole need for rest annoying? Tune into The Zone w/ Wendy and Travis to help you focus on yourself and ease into the next day. This week’s episode is sponsored by SOMNICIENT - More Done with Less!

Dangerous Productions has produced over a dozen horror works since 2012. A regular at the Twin Cities Horror Festival, their bloody and mind-bending productions are created collaboratively, utilizing horror to explore the terrifying realities of today’s world. In addition to horror, they create outrageous comedies and community-inspired theater.

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SPRING CLEANING

By Big Fun Radio Funtime

Written and Produced by Tim Wick

Vocal performances by Charles Hubbell, Lolly Foy, Tim Wick, and Jena Young

Spring Cleaning was inspired by a little bit of Charles Dickens, a little bit of Irish folklore, and by a wish that dust bunnies were just a little bit more interesting.

Big Fun Radio Funtime has been producing live comedy radio performances since 2013. We have also produced horror with the Twin Cities Horror Festival. We recently had a work featured in Blight Christmas.

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BLOOM

Written by Rob Ward

Performed by Natalie Rae Wass

Special thanks to Sean Dillon

Rob says: “My grandmother told me a story about a friend of hers who had these diet pills. One day in the 1960s, this friend was over at my grandmother’s house and left her diet pills on the windowsill. It was summer. The sun melted the pills and revealed to her what made them so effective. Those pills my grandmother’s friend had contained eggs. The hot sun caused those eggs to hatch...into tapeworms. Now tapeworms are disgusting little things. I wanted to explore the idea of a beautiful parasite.”

Rob Ward is an actor, choreographer, and most recently, a writer, living and working in the Twin Cities. His most recent piece “A Visit From St. Christopher” was featured on the Blight Christmas podcast. Rob serves as a board member/resident psychopath for Oncoming Productions.

Natalie has been working as an actor, mascot, emcee, and storyteller in the Twin Cities for the past 20 years. She is best known for writing and starring in the autobiographical 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival hit ‘Fashion Risk or the Accidental Nudist’. Natalie is a board member for Green T Productions.

Be on the lookout for Rob’s first novel “Click”. In the meantime, you can check him out at robwardcreative.com You can also see what Natalie is up to at natalieraewass.com.

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THE MONKEY’S PAW

Presented by Rogues Gallery Arts

Original story by W.W. Jacobs

Adapted, directed and audio designed by Duck Washington

Featuring the voice talents of:

Angela Fox - Narrator

Kari Elizabeth Godfrey - Mrs. White

Andrew S. Troth - Mr. White

David Elwyn - Herbert

Matthew Kessen - Sergeant Major Morris

Chris Rodriguez - The Visitor

An audio adaptation of the classic story by W.W. Jacobs in which a family tempts with their fates, and also with their sorrows.

Rogues Gallery Arts has been producing theater in the Twin Cities area since 2010 including three productions in the Twin Cities Horror Festival.

Find them online at: https://www.facebook.com/roguesgalleryarts

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Dead North is a production of Oncoming Productions and Hot Chocolate Media.

www.oncomingproductions.com

https://www.hotchocolatemedia.net

Producers: Sean and Mallory Dillon for Oncoming Productions, Kyle Dekker and Jacob Gulliver for Hot Chocolate Media 

Intro/Outro/Interstitial Music: Erik Ostrom

Publicity: Rob Ward

The rights to individual pieces are retained by their creators, all rights reserved.

Our intro/outro/interstitial music samples “Ice Breaking 01” by dheming, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. https://freesound.org/people/dheming/sounds/268023/

Dead North is supported by listener donations, and the donations we receive are shared with our artist contributors. Please consider donating at https://paypal.me/pools/c/8xIL7PIg12 or becoming an ongoing patron at www.patreon.com/deadnorth .

Please subscribe and rate Dead North wherever you get your podcasts, to help us spread the word.

Our next episode, “Summer,” is scheduled for release June 15, 2021. 

Thank you for listening.

Coming March 15: The premiere episode of Dead North, horror theater for your ears.

Oncoming Productions and Hot Chocolate Media