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Theme Party: The Podcast by Lengthy Tangent

Theme Party: The Podcast features a collection of clever creatives that come up with an inventive, original idea for an episode based on the theme of the season. Season One’s theme is “Family Traditions". Each creator will feature the results of their hard work in our podcast feed, as well as appear in an interview episode where we celebrate their achievement, talk about their process, and get an anecdote or two about their experience with parties (themed or not).

In Theme Party: The Podcast's first episode by creator Lindsay Fawn, a rebellious young octopus races to finish a mech suit to honor her late mother and protect her kind from the surface world.

Website:
https://www.lengthytangent.com/

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SUPERNOVA by Liza Dealey-Thomason

Supernova is both a fanciful and autobiographical tale, based upon Liza’s real experience losing multiple family members to suicide and cancer. Expressed through her playing multiple characters, various genres of musical numbers (including but not limited to country, pop, R & B, and funk), and humor that perfectly juxtaposes the seriousness of the poignant thematic elements.

The show’s heroine shares the same name as the actress who plays her. However, in this dimension Liza belongs to a family of superheroes tasked with the very large feat of saving the world. Unlike the rest of the members of her family, at the top of the show, Liza is the only member who doesn’t have any superpowers yet. She’s merely equipped with a positive attitude and an uncanny ability to find joy in even the smallest things and darkest moments.

With no cure or anecdote in sight, the family’s mission is to discover the causes of an “emotional pandemic” sweeping the globe that results in people losing their will to live and “self-destructing”. The family’s adventure of saving the world is intrinsically linked with Liza’s personal journey of self-acceptance and becoming who she truly is.

On March 1st, Liza got the all too familiar call that another brother had died by suicide. Of her four brothers, three of them have taken their lives; joined in death by their mother and stepmother, who both passed away of differing cancers 15 years apart. Seemingly compelled by something greater than herself, Liza could no longer keep silent about her intimate experiences with death, grief, trauma, and mental health. Within months, a series of events, people, and opportunities serendipitously unfolded resulting in a one woman mental health musical comedy. What began as a small whisper of a desire to share her family’s story and possibly impact the taboo nature with which suicide and emotional well-being are currently regarded in society, quickly snowballed into a much bigger conversation about happiness, spirituality, and one’s ability to withstand the uncontrollable and unfair, but inherent, challenges of life. The show closes with a finale song that perfectly encapsulates the theme and message of the musical: What makes life worth living? Do more of THAT!

Website:
https://lizadealey-thomason.com/supernova-musical

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Seaboard International: Bureau of Public Secrets (S.I.B.O.P.S.) by Seaboard International

S.I.B.O.P.S. is an inter dimensional radio show broadcast from the vault at the Bureau of Public Secrets. Found sounds from the vast orbit of intergalactic travel along with songs of heartbreak and glee intermingle with tape hiss and analog saturation. Upon the Seaboard International anyone is welcome.

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Roxx Populi Episode 5: Populi's Pal by Taylor Geu

Decades ago, DARPA abandoned the research vessel USS Horus somewhere in the Atlantic. All information on the ship, and its role in the creation of superheroes, was erased. Except for the memories of one Captain Crowe.

A Hail Mary at the end of the line, Roxxie asks Crowe to take her to the condemned vessel. Quarterbag Life Insurance was on the ship, and any trace of them could lead her to Captain Wraythe’s body.

Instead, she finds a military drone, and is welcomed with a missile barrage.

Roxxie awakens on the USS Horus, Captain Crowe nowhere to be found. Her only company is a voice on the ship’s PA system. And that voice is Roxx Populi’s biggest fan.

For the first time in years, Roxxie is truly on her own. Now she’s forced to face not just a manic fanboy, but the fallout of her own celebrity.

Website:
https://www.taylordoddgeu.com/

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Challenger by Think Theatricals

Challenger: A New Musical is a loose, dance-heavy fantasy retelling of the 1986 Challenger Disaster. Set during the height of the Cold War, a spaceship and its crew become lost following a disastrous rocket booster explosion. It is up to two rogue scientists Richard and Sally to sift through government conspiracy, coverups, and politics to finally solve THE CHALLENGER. 

Act 1
0:00 Challenger Overture
1:55 Good News – Ronald Reagan
4:30 A Teacher in Space – Sally, JR, Gemini, Mike, Kid
6:02 World Domination – Christa, Company
9:17 Christa - Sally, JR, Gemini, Mike 
10:21 First Step – Neil Armstrong 
13:50 Bob Fosse – Mike, Company 
16:58 Commercial Break - Kids
18:42 Million to One – Richard, Company 
21:05 Launch Preparation – Mike, Company 
21:52 Mission Control – Surrey, Josh, Moreno, Debra, Gus, Squirrel, Company
24:19 Flight of the Challenger – Christa, Company 
27:05 Savior – Ronald Reagan, Mike, Gemini, Company 

Act 2
30:49 Dream – Mike, Scobe, Gemini
33:24 Howdy, Texas – Richard, Company
35:38 Time to Learn – Christa, Company 
39:08 The Woman Is Dangerous – Morton Thyikol, Company 
42:48 Take It or Leave It – Sally, Company
46:00 Simple – Richard
48:56 Orion’s Jet – Neil Armstrong, Richard, Company 
52:32 Widget (Court Scene) – Richard
54:02 Flight of the Challenger (Reprise) – Company 
55:38 Go Challenger – Sally, Company 

These are excerpts from the original 2025 concept album. The actual show currently runs 3.5 hours long with full score and dialogue, calling back to the “epic” musicals of the 1980s.

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Captain Skimp - The Beginning by Cinematic Audiobooks

Twelve-year-old Nils Olsen lives in the coastal town of Svendborg in Denmark with his sensible but unremarkable parents. His life is orderly and predictable, and excitement is in short supply—until his eccentric and largely withdrawn grandfather, who lives in the family’s garden shed, gives Nils an unexpected birthday present.

The gift is a ship. Well, not a ship exactly, but the materials to build one: weathered planks, timber, and an idea that borders on the impossible.

Reluctantly, Nils’s parents agree to let him and his grandfather work on the project in the garden, certain it will be short-lived. They assume the scale of the task will overwhelm him and that the ship will never be finished.

They are wrong.

As the vessel takes shape, Nils discovers a determination he didn’t know he possessed, and what begins as an unlikely construction project becomes the first step toward a life-changing adventure.

The full score of the Captain Skimp series grew out of more than fifteen years of live, improvised storytelling with children aged 4–12. Through his part time work—first in kindergarten and later as a schoolteacher—Jonas Præst Nielsen recorded over 300 sessions, letting characters, worlds, and stories emerge naturally through play and interaction with the children. This improvisational process became the creative backbone of the series. As Nielsen says, “I didn’t write the story—the characters did.”

Jonas Præst Nielsen is a Danish composer and musician who later expanded into writing and storytelling. His musical background shapes the series’ distinctive music, rhythms and cinematic sound universe. For his Cinematic Audiobooks, he has received several grants from the Danish Arts Foundation, AUTOR, and KODA, supporting productions that combine artistic authenticity with a high, technical quality of sound design.

Website:
www.cinematicaudiobooks.com

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Oblivion Girl by Skyride Studios

Essa didn’t ask for rumors to follow her like gum stuck to the bottom of her shoe. However, being known as ‘Oblivion Girl: Destroy of Cities’ was a rumor she could sink her teeth into. With the help of her sidekick, Atticus, the two were doing just fine hunting bounties, fighting pirates, and arguing with Gypsies. And she didn’t even mind when Alita joined the group—even though they constantly fought. This was all, of course, before she knew her brother Eden was still alive.

 

But it wasn’t just Eden she needed to worry about. Sure, he may be the commander in the elite squad of military kill machines, but he was still the brother she knew and loved. Wasn’t he?

 

Now, along with her group of trigger-happy outcasts, they must fight for their lives if they want to win the war against Eden. Will Essa keep her reputation as the #1 bounty hunter, or will she lose everything when facing an opponent more powerful than herself?

 

Transcript:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/155-3GF2E52n_BuEhS3x-5H54SU1xiNEm/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115705266597612880735&rtpof=true&sd=true

 

Website:

www.skyridestudios.com

 

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TRAILER: Captain Skimp - The Beginning

One man. A handcrafted world of sound. Captain Skimp is a ‘Cinematic Solo Experience’ where a full orchestral score acts as the second narrator. This Nordic-British saga is cinema for the ears—designed by a teacher and composer to spark mental imagery where traditional storytelling fails. The voyage begins.

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TRAILER: Theme Party: The Podcast

In Theme Party: The Podcast's first episode by creator Lindsay Fawn, a rebellious young octopus races to finish a mech suit to honor her late mother and protect her kind from the surface world.

Listen to the full show and 21 other productions starting May 20 at www.atlantafringe.org/fringe-audio or wherever you enjoy your podcasts.

TRAILER: Seaboard International: Bureau of Public Secrets (S.I.B.O.P.S.)

Seaboard International is a winding mix of inter dimensional radio show and travel log with found sounds and pop songs.

Listen to the full show and 21 other productions starting May 20 at www.atlantafringe.org/fringe-audio or wherever you enjoy your podcasts.