Our Fair City

We're here with a fireside chat with Clayton Faits and Jeffrey Nils Gardner, creators of Our Fair City, led by Eleanor Hyde about the making of Season One of Our Fair City!

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Hello Listener. This is Producer Jeffrey. I have an important announcement for you - the person listening to Our Fair City right now in August 2024. You might be wondering - where did Our Fair City go?

We are going to try an experiment - really doing science, you could say! We’re going to put the show in reruns. Our Fair City was originally ran 8 seasons from 2009-2018. And we think the show is still relevant to our world right now. So starting in September, we’ll be rereleasing the show. 

You can listen to season 1 right now. It is an hour long single release that gets you right into the complex world of HartLife.

Starting in September on this feed, we are going to release season 2 rapidly in a 30-day period. It’s going to be almost daily. And then starting in October, we’ll be releasing weekly. 

So if you think it would be fun to be part of listening to the show along with lots of other people, please join us! Tell your friends! We think it will be a fun journey to take together. 

Meanwhile - For anyone who gets into the show and *just can’t wait* for weekly releases. We will have all 8 seasons available, ad free, as part of our membership. F

That membership is $5/month and gets you access to all of Our Fair City and also ad free feeds of all our other shows. We’ll also be releasing a lot of Our Fair City bonus content there - things like blooper reels and behind the scenes conversations from when we made the show years ago.

 More info about becoming a member can be found at AudaciousMachineCreative.com

Thank you for listening! We are excited to share Our Fair City with you, so thank you for your patience while we get all the pieces lined up. 

And as always - we will see you in the tunnels. 

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Loyal Policies- we're here with the first episode of HartLife NFP's new podcast- Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery. If you want to hear more, go subscribe on your favorite podcasting app, or listen at http://www.unwellpodcast.com.

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This episode features: Shariba Rivers as Lily, Marsha Harman as Dot, Clint Worthington as Russel, Bethany Hart as Cynthia, LaQuin Groves as Dale, Mark Soloff as an old man on the edge of town, Michael Turrentine as Wes, Pat King as Chester, Sebastian Orr as &$^#&$#(, Ele Matelan as ))@&*@^$&. Voices by Alex Brown, Jeff Van Dreason, Eric Silver, Julia Schifini, Amanda McSweene-Geehan, Michelle Nickolaisen, Jack Pevyhouse, Paul Miscagave and Bridge Greene.

Written by Jim McDoniel, sound design by Ryan Schile, directed by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, music composed by Stephen Poon, recording engineer Mel Ruder, Theme performed by Stephen Poon, Lauren Kelly, Gunnar Jebsen, Travis Elfers, Mel Ruder, and Betsey Palmer, Unwell lead sound designer Ryan Schile, Executives Producers Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Gardner, by HartLife NFP.

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From the audio notes of Abbie Douglas [They/them], PhD candidate in History (with a focus in urban planning) on the Fenwood Boarding House in Mt. Absalom, Ohio.

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Performed by Kathleen Hoil, directed by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, written by Jim McDoniel, with sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner. Unwell lead sound designer, Ryan Schile. HartLife NFP Executive Producers Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Nils Gardner.

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Our second trailer for the upcoming Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery- coming to your podcast feed February 2019.

Welcome to Mt. Absalom.

A Transcript of this trailer can be found here.  Content advisories for this trailer can be found here.This trailer was written by Jim McDoniel, with sound design by Hannah Foerschler, and directed by Jeffrey Gardner. The trailer features David Rheinstrom, Marsha Harman, Jeffrey Gardner, Nathaniel Ewert-Krocker, Kat Evans, Abby Doud, Krista D'Agostino, Ele Matelan, Pat King. Phoebetor by Mel Ruder. Unwell lead sound design by Ryan Schile. Unwell Executive Producers, Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Gardner.

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Loyal Policies: we're back with our final group of questions submitted by Listeners Like You. Thank you so much for all of your questions- it was so much fun to sit around and hash these out. If you've got more questions, please feel free to reach out to us on tumblr or twitter- we'd love to chat! Please note that this episode contains spoilers for Seasons One through Eight of Our Fair City.

If you’d like to support HartLife NFP and Our Fair City, you can join the amazing community on our Patreon page at http://www.patreon.com/hartlifenfp.  By pledging monthly, you can ensure the growth and stability of our company and get great rewards like Our Fair City ringtones, Herbert West on your voicemail, personalized HartLife policy certificates, and more. You can also help spread the word by rating and reviewing on iTunes or whatever podcasting service you are listening to us on!

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Produced by Jeffrey Gardner. Recording Engineering by Mel Ruder, Photo by Sebastian Orr Photography.

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Loyal Policies: we're back with our third group of questions submitted by Listeners Like You. We got way more questions than we could handle in a single podcast, so we'll be answering your queries over the next few weeks---if you submitted a question and didn't hear it answered here, sit tight--we will most likely answer it in the next session. Please note that this episode contains spoilers for Seasons One through Eight of Our Fair City.

If you’d like to support HartLife NFP and Our Fair City, you can join the amazing community on our Patreon page at http://www.patreon.com/hartlifenfp.  By pledging monthly, you can ensure the growth and stability of our company and get great rewards like Our Fair City ringtones, Herbert West on your voicemail, personalized HartLife policy certificates, and more. You can also help spread the word by rating and reviewing on iTunes or whatever podcasting service you are listening to us on!

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Produced by Jeffrey Gardner. Recording Engineering by Mel Ruder, Photo by Sebastian Orr Photography.

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For our holiday special this year, we're incredibly pleased to bring you "Redeemers" by Bilal Dardai.  Adapted from his stage play of the same name, we're proud to bring you this full-length piece for the very first time in audio. Bilal is also a writer HartLife NFP's upcoming show Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery.  For rights inquiries for live performances of Redeemers, you can contact Bilal Dardai through his page on the New Play Exchange, or learn more on his website or Patreon.

This special presentation was made possible by our fantastic patrons on the HartLife NFP patreon.  This funding is crucial to the company as we prepare to launch our new show- we hope you'll consider supporting us at www.patreon.com/hartlifenfp.

Thank you all so much for listening.

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Written by Bilal Dardai. Directed by  Jess Hutchinson. Special Thanks to Linsey Falls. Sound Design by Alexander Danner. Produced by Jeffrey Gardner. Recording Engineering by Mel Ruder. Music by United States Air Force Concert Band (Jing, Jing, Jing (Jingle Bells), Nutcracker Suite (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, March, and Chinese Dance), Pat-A-Pan, Carol of the Bells),  United States Air Force Band of Mid-America Shades of Blue Jazz Ensemble (Oh Danny Boy), Kevin McCleod (We Wish you a Merry Christmas, Nouvelle Noel, Oh Holy Night, Silent Night), Kai Engel (Holiday Gift), Additional Music (from Audio Hero, Audio Blocks:, A World of My Own, Traveler’s Soul, The Rabbi Storyteller, Worst Foot Forward). Rosemary Brown cheers by the 2018 Northwestern Audio Drama class.  By HartLife NFP- Managing Director Eleanor Hyde, Executive Producer Jeffrey Gardner.

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Loyal Policies: we're back with another group of questions submitted by Listeners Like You. We got way more questions than we could handle in a single podcast, so we'll be answering your queries over the next few weeks---if you submitted a question and didn't hear it answered here, sit tight--we will most likely answer it in the next session. Please note that this episode contains spoilers for Seasons One through Eight of Our Fair City.

If you’d like to support HartLife NFP and Our Fair City, you can join the amazing community on our Patreon page at http://www.patreon.com/hartlifenfp.  By pledging monthly, you can ensure the growth and stability of our company and get great rewards like Our Fair City ringtones, Herbert West on your voicemail, personalized HartLife policy certificates, and more. You can also help spread the word by rating and reviewing on iTunes or whatever podcasting service you are listening to us on!

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Produced by Jeffrey Gardner. Recording Engineering by Mel Ruder, Photo by Sebastian Orr Photography. A huge thank you to our sponsor for this episode, Cards Against Humanity!

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Loyal Policies: we're back with another group of questions submitted by Listeners Like You. We got way more questions than we could handle in a single podcast, so we'll be answering your queries over the next few weeks---if you submitted a question and didn't hear it answered here, sit tight--we will most likely answer it in the next session. Please note that this episode contains spoilers for Seasons One through Eight of Our Fair City.

If you’d like to support HartLife NFP and Our Fair City, you can join the amazing community on our Patreon page at http://www.patreon.com/hartlifenfp.  By pledging monthly, you can ensure the growth and stability of our company and get great rewards like Our Fair City ringtones, Herbert West on your voicemail, personalized HartLife policy certificates, and more. You can also help spread the word by rating and reviewing on iTunes or whatever podcasting service you are listening to us on!

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Produced by Jeffrey Gardner. Recording Engineering by Mel Ruder, Photo by Sebastian Orr Photography. A huge thank you to our sponsor for this episode, Cards Against Humanity!

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