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 Theater

Directed by Richard Malmos

This episode features (in order of appearance):

Annette Homewoood as Hospital Operator

Nathan Smythe as Arthur Vacca, pinbot

Julia Albert as Nurse Kayla Munson

Alina Foley as Theresa

Hunter Lowry as the Phone Booth

Crissy Guerrero as Blanca

Gina Elaine as Nurse 2

Gary Lamb as Bumper Car

Samuel Matury as Kissing Booth

Mindy Sterling as Five

Background Carnie and Pinbot voices by Tonoccus McLain and cast.

Purgatory, Missouri was written by Stuart Pearson and Hunter Lowry

Script 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 Pearson

For more information, please visit our website: purgatorymissouri.com

Dave Foley has a podcast with Tom Wheeler called "Really?!." where they discuss UFOs and the paranormal: https://www.youtube.com/@ReallywithTomandDave

Crissy Guerrero has a podcast with Claudia Dolph where they discuss... well,... everything: https://www.youtube.com/@studiocandc