“I stand upon some dreadful brink, and it is utterly dark in the abyss before my feet, but whether there is any light behind me I cannot tell. For I cannot turn yet. I wait for some stroke of doom.”
— Éowyn in The Return of the King, Book Six, Chapter V, “The Steward and the King”
“Headless” production begins tomorrow. Forth, and fear no darkness, you wonderful mad creators. 🙂👍
Some really cool people are currently taking part of their one wild and precious life and using it to do something ambitious and hard that they don’t actually know, in their heart of hearts, they can pull off. Because it’s art, and making art means aiming at a higher place than any sane person would aim, risking failure and loss in return for the uncertain hope that maybe, if the fates are kind, magic will happen. And if it does then on the other side of the pain and blood there will be the cry of a newborn creation that didn’t exist before, and never would have existed, except that people came together and manifested their love of an idea into reality.
Tonight’s the night! The Local Haunt, an original pilot by @seanpersaud & @sineadpersaud inspired by their time working in museums in Salem, Massachusetts while growing up, and workshopped during the 2018 Sundance New Voices Writer’s Lab.
Featuring Jaime Lyn Beatty, Parvesh Cheena, Julia Cho, Tom DeTrinis, @hartgracesarah, Jason Huber, Tara Perry, @seanpersaud, @sineadpersaud, William Joseph Stribling, @marykatewiles, & Jimmy Wong. Art by Sarah Kieley, original theme by Dylan Glatthorn, & sound design by Lizzie Goldsmith.
The only thing more iconically silly than Sean Persaud’s Mad Hatter voiced Black Phillip in Little VVomen is Sean Persaud’s Mad Hatter voiced Black Phillip in the outtakes.
This is probably my favorite thing Sean has ever said.
Today marks five years since my first video chat with the Shipwrecked Comedy Core Four. It was a perk from the Poe Party kickstarter, to which I had contributed significantly more than I’d originally intended because the campaign had gotten me so excited for this project. I was excited but very nervous to talk to them, since conversing with people I don’t know is not something I’m particularly skilled at, so I was therefore delighted and pleasantly surprised by how easy I found them to talk to. I don’t remember all the details of that conversation anymore; the main thing I recall is telling them that my favorite author was Jane Austen and that I was a little disappointed that she wasn’t going to be in Poe Party and them responding with “Yeah, we just thought she’d be too similar to Charlotte Brontë”, which I only remember because Jane Austen frickin WAS in Poe Party, but I didn’t know it at the time, and they gave absolutely NO INDICATION that would have led me to suspect anything, which I’m still impressed by. Beyond that, I mostly just remember them being very kind and excited about what they were working on.
A lot has happened in five years. The world has changed, and my relationship to Shipwrecked has changed. I’ve gotten to know them pretty well, and every interaction we have makes me love them a little more. They are my favorite storytellers, and I would want to support their work even if I didn’t know them at all. But the reason I am so over-the-top, beyond enthusiastically supportive of them is that, in addition to being remarkably talented creators of wonderful projects, I also know them to be good and kind human beings. And that is such a rare combination that I will never shut up about it.
So please, if you can, I would encourage everyone to support Shipwrecked’s next project, Headless, on Kickstarter, and/or support them on Patreon. They are absolutely worthy of all the support they receive and so much more.
Tonight at 5 pm Pacific! Join the four of us on our YouTube channel for a BONUS Hot Ones inspired livestream – we’ll be answering your questions and as the Kickstarter numbers rise, so will the heat. Come watch us sweat!
All of the Headless cast!! This cast is so amazing and all of the characters seem like they’re gonna be super fun! Congrats to Shipwrecked Comedy for hitting the goal!!! But theres a week left of the campaign and there are awesome strech goals and also the more money the better the series will end up being anwyay! So if you’re able to you should totally go and back it here!
Eric took most of the photos and Corey created the graphics, but Sean put each and every one of these posters together – adding smoke, making them look cohesive. Don’t they look awesome?!
In honor of the livestream tonight, i give you the core 4 of Shipwrecked Comedy as their Headless characters! expect many more to come! and more pics of their outfits and everything! this is just a little preview! Enjoy!
Every character announced so far in the headless series over in @shipwreckedcomedy account! I had so much fun doing this and I am very excited for this series. Please help donate money on Kickstarter to make sure this series can happen!!
