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A Blind Play
by Michael Mau
From MauHaus Productions comes the anthology narrative podcast series A Blind Play of Social Forces. Radio Dramas for the 21st Century that explore the human condition and the social forces we must navigate.
Episodes
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The Gray Zone: Episode 3
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. A MauHaus Production in association with StudioSouth Atlanta. Written by Michael Mau and recorded at StudioSouth Atlanta as part of the Adult Voiceover Class. As the Centrix Prime wetworks team heads to destroy the...
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The Gray Zone: Episode 2
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. After briefly meeting the crew of the Sardine, we return to the Ravioli where Lee reprograms Artemis and Silverman repurposes Fry. Mag Marlock continues to be grumpy, and someone disappears. COOKIE – Devin...
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The Gray Zone: Episode I
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Strange things happen when Captain Toby Nobel and his ragtag team of mineral poachers pick up a rich guy in a suit floating in space. Their return home is made even more complicated by an attack from infamous space...
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The Bradshaws Versus Bigfoot: Episode Four
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Created and written by Michael Mau and recorded at Studio South Atlanta in Sharpsburg, GA as part of the Adult Voiceover Class. STARRING Jake Williams Lilla Wise Tony Noel Meghan Coyle Jayson Goldman Original Music by...
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The Bradshaws Versus Bigfoot: Episode Three
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. One year before he disappeared, Brian gives Jake a rare artifact. Encouraged by his therapist, Jake decides he has to take action. And Jayson... has a Cousin Eddie special? Created and written by Michael Mau and…
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The Bradshaws Versus Bigfoot: Episode Two
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. As Jake is tempted to go searching for his father, we learn more about Brian's disappearance in Blue Ridge. Created and written by Michael Mau and recorded at Studio South Atlanta in Sharpsburg, GA as part of the Adult...
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The Bradshaws Versus Bigfoot: Episode One
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. One year after amateur Bigfoot hunter Brian Bradshaw goes missing and is presumed dead, his son Jake begins to get strange messages from his walkie talkie. Is it his father? Or a trap? And is it a coincidence that his...
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The Bradshaws Versus Bigfoot: Coming Soon
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. This is Michael Mau. Creator of the low-fi DIY podcast A Blind Play. While that show ran for three seasons – AND YOU CAN STILL catch it on all of your podcatchers – I’ve got something new for you. A few months ago, I...
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Sleepwalker X
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. A man with a severe sleep disorder becomes the star of his own reality TV show, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend. Sleepwalker X was written and directed by Michael Mau And stars Michael Mau as Wesley Elizabeth Pan...
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Little Bird
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. When triggered by a challenge from her peers, the daughter of a former military interrogator puts her father's inhumane lessons to the test, endangering her friends in order to protect herself. “Little Bird” is adapted...
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Bonus Episode: Pineville Trace
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Earlier this year, I recorded the audiobook for Wes Blake’s debut novel, Pineville Trace. I’ve narrated several audiobooks, but this one was special for me. Wes and I met in grad school at the Bluegrass Writers Studio…
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Bonus Episode: Inhabited
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. I promised some bonus episodes, and I'm bringing them to you. WELM, how do I begin to tell you about Daniel Wescott? I met Dan the way I have met many writers recently; he hired me to produce (and perform) an…
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A Wish & A Pear
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. From MauHaus Productions, A Blind Play. Bonus Episode. As promised, we have a few post-season episodes to delight and intrigue. Today’s episode is an excerpt from the novel A Wish & A Pear, the first in her Magical...
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Kadamati
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. MauHaus Productions presents A Blind Play. Episode 30. “Kadamati” Kadamati is Bengali for clay, the malleable matter capable of softness and hardness, of resilience and breakage. Kadamati is also the name of a dance...
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Cosmic Interference: Planetary Makeover Edition
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. MauHaus Productions presents A Blind Play. Episode 30. “Cosmic Interference” Interstellar talk show hosts El and Jay take their audience through the dim history of humankind with cameos from Oppenheimer, Jesus…
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Eye in the Garden
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. MauHaus Productions presents A Blind Play. Episode 29, "Eye in the Garden" A religious organization creates a system of satellites that will take away free will. Now the two engineers from the Eden Society, Theresa and...
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Jumbie Daddy
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. MauHaus Productions presents A Blind Play. Episode 28. “Jumbie Daddy” “Jumbie Daddy” was adapted from three flash fiction stories by Neala Luna Bhagwansingh: “Jumbie Daddy,” “Spoiling Fruit,” and “Children Playing…
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Barbecue
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. MauHaus Productions presents A Blind Play. Episode 27. “Barbecue” "In suffering there is a core within that can only be touched by the death of distant stars," writes author Ron Pullins. Argentinian dissident Enrico is...
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The River
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. MauHaus Productions presents A Blind Play. Episode 26. “The River” Childhood friends Jason and Julia must hide their relationship after Julia is shunned from their strict religious community following a tragic event....
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Processing
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. When biracial couple Charlotte and James argue too loudly on the street, James is arrested. As he is processed, Charlotte tries to bail him out while he deals with the racial prejudices of the justice system. Adapted...
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Who Cares?
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. MauHaus Productions presents A Blind Play. Episode 24. “Who Cares?” After a hard day at work, Julie is in dire need of a snuggle, but David seems reluctant to oblige. As Julie drains a bottle of wine, her tongue…
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The Quiet One
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. 86-year-old Dot is frustrated by life as dementia takes control. She wants to get rid of her husband, but the man at the customer service counter won't help her out. And why on earth won't Bernie eat his bacon butty?...
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Hero's Eyes
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Told from the point of view of a peregrine falcon, Hero's Eyes is the story of fifteen-year-old Jessie as she learns to build trust with her partner Hero while also dealing with an overbearing mother. “Hero’s Eyes” was...
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Charleston. Twenty-Two
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Eric's trip to visit his cousin Jona in Charleston forces him to learn much more about life, death, and relationships than he had expected. Originally published in Cutbank. “Charleston. Twenty-Two” was adapted from the...
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Season Three Preview
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Coming in one week, Season Three of the anthology podcast series, A Blind Play. This season we will bring you ten more episodes with twelve stories of people navigating their worlds, facing their fears, and finding out...
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Ten Seconds
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Three men find their lives intertwining over and over again. Are the cosmically linked, or is it a coincidence? Written and directed by Michael Mau STARRING Evan Judway as the Narrator and every other character. Music...
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Anoint Your Engine for a Heavenly Ride
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. The bizarre death of the town eccentric has people vying for his collection of Christian memorabilia, and the town barber has something to say about it. All episodes written and directed by Michael Mau Elliott Bales as...
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Greetings from Haiti & Hotel del Sol
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Greetings from Haiti and Hotel del Sol were both written and directed by Michael Mau In "Greetings from Haiti," feeling guilty for his complacency, a man finally decides to lend a hand to the cause and finds himself...
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Marlboros, the King & 8 O'Clock Bean
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. When tragedy befalls the neighbor of a retired woman, she learns more about the woman than she ever expected. "Marlboros, the King and 8 O'clock Bean" was written and directed by Michael Mau and stars Annie Weaver as…
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Gina #Engendered
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. (TRIGGER WARNING–This episode focuses on sexual assault and gaslighting. Characters make direct references to rape.) A woman who mocks the #metoo movement finds herself conflicted when she shares her own story and is...
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This is Our North Dakota
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. A rising musical star tries to keep a promise she made to her dying mentor and former lover. Inspired by the 2003 album This is Our North Dakota by No River City. Written and Directed by Michael Mau STARRING Jennifer...
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Left & Leaving
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. After his girlfriend Andi disappears, Michael desperately searches for her while struggling with his own identity separate from her. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Michael Mau STARRING Danny Gavigan as Michael Nneka as Andi...
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The Man from the Egg
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. A timid man with a dark secret tries to mend his broken relationship with his brother. The Man from the Egg was written and directed by Michael Mau, And stars Andrew Hunter as Jamie Bryce Townsend as Cliff Annie Weaver...
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Best Launderette
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Two Albanian refugees find comfort in their clandestine dance rendezvous while surviving the lasting trauma of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. Adapted from the short story "Best Launderette," first published in Fifth...
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Season Two Teaser
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. This season on a Blind Play of Social Forces: BEST LAUNDERETTE: THE MAN FROM THE EGG LEFT & LEAVING THIS IS OUR NORTH DAKOTA GINA #ENGENDERED SLEEPWALKER X MARLBOROS, THE KING, AND 8 O’CLOCK BEAN GREETINGS FROM HAITI...
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Best Laid Schemes
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Invited to a "Predator/Prey Summit," Lion, Gazelle, Polar Bear, Seal, Crocodile, and Pelican must decide if they are willing to make peace or tear one another to pieces. Adapted from the short story published in...
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A Blind Play of Social Forces
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Following a bigoted lesson on the September 11 tragedy, Sara is brutally attacked by a classmate. As school officials downplay the incident, the teacher who inspired the violence defends his backward beliefs. “ A Blind...
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Papa & Eyes: Stories from a Classroom
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Inspired by a painting by Bo Bartlett, “Papa” was published in the British journal Firewords Quarterly in 2014. In 2018, the story was adapted into a staged reading. It is one of two stories I wrote about Albanian...
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Silence
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. A childhood memory of a racist encounter is brought to the surface when a young man once again faces a bigot. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” -WB Yeats, The Second…
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To the Touch
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. After Grace is institutionalized for a potentially dangerous "disorder," she learns to embrace her powers and grow her self-worth. “To The Touch” was published in the 2020 edition of Jelly Bucket Literary Journal under...
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Pal
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Abandoned by her mother, twelve-year-old "Kid" takes on the mother role to care for her only father figure, her profoundly disabled step-father Pal. A visit from her classmate Evander, terrified by what he sees in the...
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Platypus
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. When awkward teen Joey discovers that Shannon, the girl he is obsessed with is actually a platypus from another planet, he is forced to come to terms with his own definitions of gender, sexuality, and friendship. Our...
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Introducing A Blind Play of Social Forces
You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. "They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social...
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How many episodes does A Blind Play have?
A Blind Play currently has 44 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is A Blind Play about?
From MauHaus Productions comes the anthology narrative podcast series A Blind Play of Social Forces. Radio Dramas for the 21st Century that explore the human condition and the social forces we must navigate.
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A Blind Play has 44 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Who hosts A Blind Play?
A Blind Play is created and hosted by Michael Mau.
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