We listen to a lot of podcasts here at Geste. This one caught our attention and wouldn’t let go.  So we asked the host and producer, Jill Wright, if we could share it with you. Here’s the latest episode of Monument Valley: A Monument from the Valley.

Monument Valley, written by Lizzie Vieh

directed, produced, and edited by Robert A. K. Gonyo

featuring

Laura Hooper as Jill Wright

Anna Savant as Mary Louise Wright

Tara Gadomski as Rhonda Grinnell

Nick Fondulis as Mark Percy

Caitlin Johnston as Lacey Renault

The music used in Monument Valley is by Kevin MacLeod; the compositions “Clean Soul,” “Colorless Aura,” and “Past the Edge”.  Our theme tune is “Sneaky Adventure” also by Kevin MacLeod.  All are used under a Creative Commons By Attribution 3.0 license. Visitincompetech.com to hear more of Kevin MacLeod’s work.

The photo of Monument Valley is in the public domain, used under a CC0/no attribution required agreement from Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/en/monument-valley-sandstone-buttes-861978/)

This is the third of our three improvised radio dramas, created and performed live at Coalwork in Scranton, Pennsylvania as part of the the Scranton Fringe Festival. This show, recorded live on October 4, 2015 features:

Actors: Nick Fondulis, Tara Gadomski and Caitlin Johnston

Live Foley Artist and Mandolin Player: Robert A K Gonyo

MC: Rebecca Masci

Audience: the awesome people of Scranton, Pennsylvania!

Here’s a teaser (based on audience suggestions:)

A one-hit-wonder novelist needs to get through his writers’ block before his leaky roof and new marriage both collapse.  When his flirtatious mother-in-law arrives for an extended visit, his mind his expanded. But can his weakened plumbing handle the added pressure?

This is the second  of our three improvised radio dramas, created and performed live at Coalwork in Scranton, Pennsylvania as part of the the Scranton Fringe Festival. This show, recorded live on October 3, 2015 features:

Actors: Tara Gadomski, Laura Hooper and Caitlin Johnston

Live Foley Artist and Mandolin Player: Robert A K Gonyo

MC: Steve Clark

Audience: the awesome people of Scranton, Pennsylvania!

A teaser (based on audience suggestions:)  Two sisters of different weights finally come face-to-face with their absent yogic father and his harem of yoginis. Can any of the women in this man’s sphere of influence stand up to his controlling asanas, or will they all stay in child’s pose, forever chanting his name?

 

This is the world premiere of  A Knock on the Door, an improvised radio drama experiment.

This play is the first of our three improvised radio dramas, created and performed live at Coalwork in Scranton, Pennsylvania as part of the the Scranton Fringe Festival. This first show, recorded live on October 2, 2015 features:

Actors: Nick Fondulis, Tara Gadomski and Caitlin Johnston

Live Foley Artist and Mandolin Player: Robert A K Gonyo

MC: Eleanor Gwyn-Jones

Audience: the awesome people of Scranton, Pennsylvania!

As per audience suggestion, this is the teaser for our show:

Ladder impresario Mrs. French and her trusted assistant, Henry,  find themselves at a crossroads in the company’s growth.  As they hatch plans to expand the business to non-ladder products, a legal dispute from abroad sends them into a tailspin.  What will happen to French Ladders if they can’t call themselves French? And is Henry really as dedicated to the company as he claims?  Find out more in this improvised corporate dramedy by Geste.

Is it real or is it Memorex?

That’s all we can say about this thriller from Robert A. K. Gonyo.

Starring Kerrie Bond and Tara Gadomski

Featuring Kari Morris and Robert A. K. Gonyo

Written, directed, edited and produced by Robert A. K. Gonyo…

…or is it real?

The theme tune for Geste is:

Sneaky Adventure by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

After a funeral in rural New Zealand, a mother and daughter struggle over a missing book and a dark family secret, in this new drama by Laura Hooper.

Starring Laura Hooper and Sophie Sorensen

Directed by Kari Morris and edited by Tara Gadomski

SOUNDS AND MUSIC USED:

Most of our sound effects we create ourselves. But we also rely on some wonderful producers of sound effects who generously license their art under Creative Commons agreements. Here’s a list of those used in Yakim, the Spiritual Advisor:

Stomp Dance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

and

Sneaky Adventure by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Max and Renee seem like a perfect match. They are both smart, silly and pretend they don’t work out that much.  But while connecting over a blind-date, vegan dinner, they find a major divide. All Max wants to talk about it film, and Renee just cannot.  But what is behind Max’s obsession with moving pictures? And why is Renee so frightened?  Movie Date is a romantic comedy that isn’t afraid to admit it.

Written by Tara Gadomski.

Starring Joseph Melendez and Tara Gadomski and featuring David Neal Levin. Recorded by Robert Gonyo. Directed by Illana Stein

SOUNDS AND MUSIC USED IN MOVIE DATE:

Most of our sound effects we create ourselves. But we also rely on some wonderful producers of sound effects who generously license their art under Creative Commons agreements. Here’s a list of those used in Movie Date:

Procession of the King by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Record Scratch by luffy http://freesound.org/people/luffy/

Beeps by ThompsonMan http://freesound.org/people/ThompsonMan/

Fireworks Display Intense 009 and Six Bursts of Laughter From a Group www.freesfx.co.uk