Atlanta Fringe Audio

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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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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What if women could get men pregnant? The Supreme Court’s Dobb’s Decision provoked Messenger Theatre Company’s short audio drama, "The Chip."

An experimental piece of tech has been invented to help combat eroding abortion rights for women. The chip will move a pregnancy from a woman’s body to a man’s. The couple in this play grapple with this man’s unexpected pregnancy. In a post-Roe V Wade world, women begin to take desperate measures.

Transcript:
https://www.messengertheatreco.org/the-chip-transcript

Website:
https://www.messengertheatreco.org/#/audio-drama-podcast/

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The Romcom Formula is a scripted romantic comedy audio series about love, control, and what happens when someone who knows romance a little too well decides to play matchmaker in real life.

 

Shannon, a romance audiobook narrator, believes every great love story follows a formula. Armed with trope expertise and good intentions, she secretly sets out to orchestrate a romcom for her overworked sister, Claire, by engineering meet-cutes, forced proximity, and just enough chaos to spark chemistry with Tony, the charming handyman next door.

 

As Claire and Tony’s connection deepens, the cracks in Shannon’s plan begin to show. Careers shift, long-distance love tests their bond, and real life refuses to follow a tidy three-act structure. Set against family dynamics, creative ambition, and a wink at romance culture itself, The Romcom Formula asks whether love is something you can manufacture—or only stumble into when you stop trying so hard.

 

Website:

www.romcomformula.com

 

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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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A story of three brothers who traverse the territories doing bad things for good reasons in the final days of the Old West.

 

Upon learning that Young Henry Morgan has hired bounty hunters to kill them, the Phloaters must figure out a way to deal with it, without harming Miss Kitty's only living family.

 

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Exhaust is a dark, intimate play set during the early years of the Holocaust. Over the course of a single drive, two Nazi drivers talk, argue, joke, and circle around the reality of what they are doing. What begins as routine conversation slowly reveals a much more dangerous landscape beneath it: fear, guilt, survival, cruelty, and the desperate need to keep functioning inside a system built on murder.

As the journey continues, their sharply different ways of coping begin to collide. One buries himself in detachment and procedure; the other is haunted by memory and unable to fully look away. Their exchanges shift from mundane to menacing, from bitterly funny to deeply unsettling, exposing not only the machinery of violence around them but the fragile, compromised humanity still flickering inside it.

Tense, claustrophobic, and morally unflinching, Exhaust confronts the banality of evil head-on. It is a play about what people do to survive, what they choose not to see, and what it costs to keep moving forward when stopping feels impossible.

Transcript:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hKvrP7MHM0h6GGh1v1f_fi02RP9R_GQU/view?usp=sharing

Website:
https://www.facebook.com/WhiteMouseProductions

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Exhaust is a dark, claustrophobic play set during the early Holocaust. Over a single drive, two Nazi drivers joke, argue, and unravel, revealing fear, guilt, and complicity beneath their routine. A tense portrait of ordinary men trapped inside the machinery of atrocity.

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

 

 

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.

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