Rosy Fingered Dawn stretches her hand across the morning sky.  As least that is what one of Chorus believes.  (He’s kind of that way.  The other is not so sure.) A little snippet of a classic story in a modern setting about a timeless conflict. “Life is a Dream (or at least a wee nap”) […]

What is real? When we’re awake?  Or when we’re asleep. A Dublin business has spent twenty years carefully crafting her company, her position, her identity. No one questions her role.   She gets the business.  She gets the revenue.  She pays the salaries. She is in control of all, until a memory from the past […]

Dublin. Rain. Business. Money. Power.  Two lost souls wandering the streets and getting wet. A first look at a new show on an old  subject with a classic approach.   Cast, in order of appearance: Kota Fudauchi – Chaos Michelle Thomas-Hanson – Old Night   [22671.p1]

Fancy Club. Fatty Foods. Formal Music in the Background. This is where business is done. Or where we believe business is done. Or perhaps where we pretend that something like business might be done on a good day with a favorable wind. Three investors try to out bluff each other.   Cast, in order of […]

Bread Crumbs. Paths we find for ourselves. Paths we leave for others. The lessons we learn along the way. The gratitude we find with each step. A monologue of an African American Family history by Geoffrey Grier of San Francisco Recovery Theatre in collaboration with AfroSolo. A Studio Version of the live performance at Potrero […]

What holds friends together? Common background? Common history? A common vision of what they are? Three friends explore the different roles they have with each other.  They are moving into adulthood.  They are shaping their lives and their identities.  They also suddenly realize how delicate their common bonds may be. A New Audio Drama From […]

We know the story. Three women. A London Office. A missing colleague. And a pandemic. Three women wake one morning to discover that a colleague has vanished in the night. Gone. Poof. Not a bit of a trace. The clue to the story lies in a play that has just opened in a London Theatre. […]

She could have been somebody. A real contender. If there hadn’t been a global economic depression. If the world hadn’t been engaged in a world war. And if she hadn’t been a woman.  Through Fate or Good Fortune or the simple dedication of someone who was not discouraged by rejection, she came to lead the […]

New Drama.  New Story.  And it’s about arithmetic.  And work relief.  And Organizations.  And Power.  And National Security.  Plus it’s a Love Story.  A short preview of what is going to come.  Told as only the HWMS Audio Theatre can do it.  We’re Theatre Like You’ve Never Seen.    Cast: Zoe Anastasiou  – Computer Ron […]

A suitcase on the sidewalk. A weary traveller looking for an answer. A stage manager, looking for dessert. Introducing Kota Fudauchi to the audio drama Embisivle Friend. Cast: Kota Fudauchi – Himself Michelle Thomas Hanson – Stage Manager Skippy – Himself [21913]

A school.  A slightly unusual school. (Business curriculum.  Silicon Valley.)   A principal, slightly stressed.  A teacher. (ditto) Broken plumbing.  A friend with a yellow car.  A successful corporate leader offering advice to a young protégé while pulling the funds from another.   And a little girl shall lead them all.   Just another day […]

What’s to be done? Waiting at an old train station.  Not for a train of course.  But will she come? Does she ever come? To New Jersey. Deepest New Jersey.   A peek into the Audio Drama Embisivle Friend.  Cast Zoe Anastassiou – Zoe Josh LaForce – Josh Michelle Thomas Hanson – Stage Manager Skippy – […]

Cermack Road, Cicero, Illinois Once it was the center of the high tech world. Now it is a shopping mall. A mall that is barely making ends meet. Not a promising future for Silicon Valley.  But a useful place to introduce a new cast member.   A peek into the Audio Drama Embisivle Friend.  Cast […]

Every now and then you need to assess.  Take a look backwards. Ask “who did that character become?”  With this episode, we return to the world of the adult Madison Insullie and see her dealing with adult problems.    The 11th episode of the Audio Drama Embisivle Friend.  Cast Sahara Ale – Consuela Zoe Anastasiou – […]

We’ve lost our faith in books.  We’ve lost faith in texts.   May may have even lost faith in problem sets. Learning by doing.  Learning by interning.  Learning by being mentored.  It’s what you demand when you’re an 8 year old entrepreneur.   And a plasma steel cutter, just for good measure.  The 10th episode […]

Is a startup a startup if it doesn’t start up in a garage? That’s the myth.  We start with nothing but our wits and a little empty space from our parents, or our aunt, or some unrelated person up the street.  More companies have started in a garage than you might think. But at the […]

“Don’t let your kids take capital from strangers.” It’s the warning that parents should give their kids in Silicon Valley.  But parents may reason “if the kids get the investment, could things really be that bad?” Aravinda finds herself tested in the newest episode of the audio drama that puts our business future squarely in […]

How does it feel?  They made tup the first stair but not the second.  And who is there to hold them when they fall?  As we follow the story entrepreneurship and innovation, we start the story of a Investor’s Representative, a famous former CEO, who goes through the world doing the things that need to […]

The show is about the Stage Manager.  Every show is.  So our manager steps up to the microphone in the HWMS auditorium to  explain this Audiodrama Embisivile Friend. Introduction to the next section of the drama Cast Michelle Thomas-Hanson – Stage Manager Skippy –  Himself [21911]

Out Stage is Silicon Valley. Our actors are titans of Industry.   Some titans.  Fictional titans. And some kids who believe that they are titans and that the earth shudders when they walk. And a dog.  And a school.  And an actor who wants to give you a tour.  Ana DeLoret talks about the audio […]