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Festival guests and attendees with ALL ACCESS PASSES are welcome to join us at Simpson House -- for a drink, a nosh, dance music and lots of networking.Featuring Black Crack Revue, Kansas City's legendary Afro Nuclear Wavabilly Funk Swing Reggae Turska Band.Thanks to Blackstone Publishing for sponsoring tonight's After Party.

MC Phil Proctor of the Firesign Theater with special guests Dion Graham, PJ Ochlan, Bill Dufris and many many moreComedy, original audio plays, music, singing, poetry, story-telling and more arefeatured throughout this 90 minute showcase.ROAD TO PREDATION: In the aftermath of battle, a Prussian soldier in the early 19th century confronts demons both real and […]

The Gatlingophone art sculpture/performance is designed and built by Alex. It is a mechanical 'record player' that looks like a civil war era gatling gun. Alex creates his own, one of a kind records to play on the gatlingophone. To do this, he uses audio clips taken from major news networks, editing them into a […]

Each night, beginning on Thursday, June 6th, from 5:15pm-6:15pm, and running through Saturday, June 8th, guest narrators read selections from Mark Twain at Prospero's Books (1800 W 39th St, Kansas City, MO) in their 2nd floor reader's room.Host Sean PrattProducer Alice Ann EnglishThanks to KAAD-LPfm for the nightly podcast.With support from SAG/AFTRA, 2018’s A Celebration […]

If you are peforming in Saturday night's AUDIO Tonight! please join our technical crew at Bragg Auditorium for dress rehearsal.This is a closed rehearsal for cast and crew directly involved in the performance.

Documentary film makers Yale Strom and Elizabeth Schwartz successfully produced "American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs," and now want to tell his story, and the story of socialism in America, via podcast and a radio play. Working from the source materials that made their documentary so powerful, they are focusing on […]

Stop in and take a listen at the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Podcast Palooza programs being featured on-line.

The LitRPG/GameLit genre – gamer fiction – takes center stage as narrators Jeff Hays and Andrea Parsneau, members of Soundbooth Theater, along with authors Dakota Krout, Charles Dean, Dave Willmarth, and Harmon Cooper discuss and showcase what makes this genre special to produce as audiobooks. Moderated by R.A. (Ramon) Mejia, who hosts The LitRPG Podcast, […]

Producer's Pitch Panel is for Workshop 101 & 102 Participantsand Podcast Palooza Producers (as space allows)This is your opportunity to present your work for feedback. Workshop participants are given priority in presenting their programs, with additional producer presentions as time allows.