Ep 1: Theresa

2025 ARKast Winner for Best Fiction Podcast! Welcome to Purgatory, Missouri. This audiodrama is based on the Dark Americana songs of Stuart Pearson and Hunter Lowry. It's a suspenseful and darkly comic supernatural mystery/drama that explores the boundaries of consciousness and questions our day-to-day reality. What is a dream? What is the Afterlife? Can they collide?Saint Therese of Lisieux once said "Time is but a shadow, a dream..."In Episode 1, Theresa and Blanca hope to find an exit from whatever this macabre, mysterious place is. The songs included in this episode are: "We Are The Falling Rain" and "We'll Meet Again" from American Gothic"The Last Cab Out Of Vegas" from Stories and Songs. (courtesy of Rock Talk Music)All songs from the "Dark Americana" series by Stuart Pearson and Hunter Lowry.Purgatory, Missouri is brought to you by Stage for a New Age Productions, a SAG actor signatory.Produced by Maureen Davis and Allyson Sereboff in cooperation with We Make Movies and Rock'n'Roll Radio TheaterDirected by Richard MalmosThis episode features (in order of appearance): Annette Homewoood as Hospital OperatorNathan Smythe as Arthur Vacca, pinbotJulia Albert as Nurse Kayla MunsonAlina Foley as TheresaHunter Lowry as the Phone BoothCrissy Guerrero as BlancaGina Elaine as Nurse 2Gary Lamb as Bumper CarSamuel Matury as Kissing BoothMindy Sterling as FiveBackground Carnie and Pinbot voices by Tonoccus McLain and cast.Purgatory, Missouri was written by Stuart Pearson and Hunter LowryScript editing and supervision by Maureen Davis.Recorded at Studiopolis in Studio City, Ca. and engineered by Bryan Showalter All mixing, foley and post-production by Stuart PearsonFor more information, please visit our website: purgatorymissouri.comDave Foley has a podcast with Tom Wheeler called "Really?!." where they discuss UFOs and the paranormal: https://www.youtube.com/@ReallywithTomandDaveCrissy Guerrero has a podcast with Claudia Dolph where they discuss... well,... everything: https://www.youtube.com/@studiocandc