Episodes

  • The Balcony - Allison Page

    The Balcony - Allison Page
    Jul 21 2025

    About This Episode

    It's Micro Monday and this week we're headed to fair Verona with the wonderfully weird and hilarious short comedy, The Balcony by Allison Page.

    About the Playwright

    Allison Page is a writer & comedian in Nashville, Tennessee. She was a semifinalist for the 2025 Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission for There Have Been a Series of Miracles at Shrieking Ridge, and was a proud 2024 Tennessee Playwrights Studio Fellow with her play Roberta at the Bottom of the Pool. Her most recently published play, The Pyramid, is available from YouthPLAYS, and she has also been published by Penguin Australia and EXIT Press. You can find many of her scripts on the National New Play Network's New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/3403/allison-page

    Follow Allison:
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    Credits:

    • Written by Allison Page
    • Juliet: Tonie Knight
    • Romeo: Joe Llorens

    🎧 Audio Engineer & Sound Designer: Paul Hanna

    🎙️ Host & Producer: Ava Love Hanna

    🎨 Episode Art: Ava Love Hanna

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    📍 Stories Found is an independent podcast recorded at ELA Studios in Austin, Texas.
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    3 mins
  • History in the Making - Clinton Festa

    History in the Making - Clinton Festa
    Jul 7 2025

    About This Episode

    It's Micro Monday, and we're bringing you a fast, funny audio comedy: History in the Making by Clinton Festa!

    History in the Making was the 2023 Cary Playwrights' Forum Playslam winner.

    About the Playwright

    Clinton Festa started his career as a cartoonist and writer for his campus humor magazine. His plays have been produced nationally, in Canada, and in the UK, and are published in several anthologies. His scripts for seniors are published with ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center. He wrote and directed a seven-episode podcast series called The Malone Family in the Enchanted Forest. He runs an online book drive for inmates at prisons and juvenile detention centers called Sentences Book Donations. Clinton lives in Greensboro, NC with his wife and children.

    👉 Check out Clinton's other plays on Stories Found:

    • The Experience: https://storiesfound.com/episode-21-the-experience-clinton-festa/
    • Picky Zombies: https://storiesfound.com/episode-10-picky-zombies-clinton-festa/

    Follow Clinton:
    Facebook
    Goodreads
    NPX

    Credits:

    • Written by Clinton Festa
    • MAX: Joe Llorens
    • DAVE: Paul Hanna

    🎧 Audio Engineer & Sound Designer: Paul Hanna

    🎙️ Host & Producer: Ava Love Hanna

    🎨 Episode Art: Ava Love Hanna

    Support + Connect

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    📍 Stories Found is an independent podcast recorded at ELA Studios in Austin, Texas.
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    5 mins
  • Best of Stories Found: 5 Calls - Ladi Loera

    Best of Stories Found: 5 Calls - Ladi Loera
    Jun 23 2025

    About This Episode

    This fan-favorite story by the incredible storyteller, Ladi Loera, returns as part of our Best of Stories Found series — now featuring our new format that brings the story right to the front of the episode and then offers a behind-the-scenes interview with the storyteller.

    Whether you're hearing this story for the first time or the fifth, 5 Calls, perfectly nails the nerve-wracking, awkward, and hilariously human moments involved in trying (and trying) to make a connection.

    About the Storyteller

    Ladi Loera is an artist, animal lover and award winning storyteller.
    He won the Moth with a story about sympathetic nausea and what it teaches us about love and connection. He is a homebody, whose idea of traveling the globe is going to a different HEB. If you're ever looking for him, he's most likely at home.

    Ladi is also the Artistic Director and Producer of Testify, an incredible live storytelling show in Austin, Texas. Visit https://testifyatx.com

    Credits:
    5 Calls was written and performed by Ladi Loera
    Audio Engineer: Paul Hanna
    Host: Ava Love Hanna

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    📍 Stories Found is recorded at ELA Studios in Austin, Texas.
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    31 mins
  • Vows - Jonathan Wickremasinghe-Kuhn

    Vows - Jonathan Wickremasinghe-Kuhn
    Jun 9 2025

    About This Episode

    It's Micro Monday! This week we're featuring the short audio comedy, VOWS by Jonathan Wickremasinghe-Kuhn

    About the Playwright

    Jonathan Wickremasinghe-Kuhn grew up in Selma, Alabama and attended the University of Southern California, where he received both his BFA in Writing for Screen and Television and his Master of Professional Writing degree. He has performed story-telling multiple times at The Moth and for the Two Truths & A Lie podcast. His plays have been produced by the A Light in Dark Places Festival, the Paragon Festival, Exposition Review, Stage Left Theater, Laughing Pig Theatre, Carrollwood Players Theatre, Magnetic Theatre, and Crafton Hills College.

    He's also a Stories Found fan favorite with his hilarious story about an ill-fated shopping trip: Off Target.

    Credits: Written by Jonathan Wickremasinghe-Kuhn

    IVAN: Joe Llorens

    ANTON: Manuel Solis-Bauza

    🎧 Audio Engineer & Sound Designer: Paul Hanna

    🎙️ Host & Producer: Ava Love Hanna

    🎨 Episode Art: Ava Love Hanna

    👉 Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review — it helps new listeners find the show!

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    📍 Stories Found is recorded at ELA Studios in Austin, Texas.
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    4 mins
  • The Experience - Clinton Festa

    The Experience - Clinton Festa
    Nov 29 2023

    About This Episode

    ​This ​week on Stories Found, ​we're ​talking ​to ​one ​of ​our ​favorite ​playwrights, ​Clinton ​Festa, ​and ​then ​hearing ​his ​surreal ​comedy, ​The ​Experience. The play follows a couple dining at a restaurant with a twist - instead of food, they serve emotions. Frustration, rejection, nostalgia - it's all on the menu. With snappy dialogue and excellent pacing, Clinton creates a surreal world where feelings truly become tangible menu items. It's a thoughtful and hilarious look at the experience of human emotion.

    About the Playwright

    Clinton Festa began his career as a writer and cartoonist for his campus humor magazine. Since then he's had short plays produced around the U.S. and Canada, comedy sketches that have placed in national competitions, and a novel recently published with CamCat Books.

    During the pandemic, he wrote and directed a seven-episode action-comedy podcast called The Malone Family in the Enchanted Forest (produced by the Cary Playwrights' Forum). Clinton runs an online book drive for inmates in prisons and juvenile detention centers called Sentences Book Donations. He lives in Greensboro, NC with his wife and children.

    • Listen to Clinton's hilarious zombie play in Episode 10: PICKY ZOMBIES.
    • Order Clinton's book, Ancient Canada: a Mythological Tale at CamCat
    • Find Clinton on NPX, The New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/74998/clinton-festa

    About the Cast

    The Experience was performed for us by:

    Gabriella Headley as Wife

    Joe Llorens as Husband

    Tonie Knight as Waitress

    Manuel Solis-Bauza as Take Out Customer

    About the Crew

    Audio Engineer: Paul Hanna and ELA Studios

    Featured Organization

    Our featured organization this week is Sentences: Book Donations. Their goal is to network readers with prison librarians and juvenile detention centers to determine their needs and donate books for use in their facilities.

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    Stories Found was recorded at ELA Studios, deep in the heart of Austin, Texas.
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    20 mins
  • Burger Bard by Patrick Bates

    Burger Bard by Patrick Bates
    Nov 13 2023

    About This Episode

    Welcome to Stories Found Micro Monday. This week we've got the one-minute comedy, Burger Bard by Patrick Bates.

    About the Playwright

    Pat Bates has been writing plays since he was a kid. Now, he's written for stage and screen, optioned a screenplay, and won some awards along the way. In his spare time, he writes crime/horror/science fiction under the name Jack Bates.

    About the Cast

    Manuel Solis-Bauza as Burger Bard Boy

    Gabriella Headley as Customer

    About the Crew

    Audio Engineer - Paul Hanna

    Let's be BFFs!

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    Stories Found was recorded at ELA Studios, deep in the heart of Austin, Texas.
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    4 mins
  • The Brink Of Chaos - Mark Gifford

    The Brink Of Chaos - Mark Gifford
    Nov 8 2023

    About This Episode

    This week we're talking to Mark Gifford and hearing his hilarious story, The Brink of Chaos.

    About the Storyteller

    Mark has been a full-time professor of composition and rhetoric at The University of Texas at San Antonio for 18 years and counting. He is also a producer for Testify, a monthly storytelling show in Austin, Texas. Mark is also the co-creator and co-producer for Like Minded Lunatics, where he helps create a weekly television show for Austin Music T.V., as well as short-form video content for the Like Minded Lunatics YouTube channel. When Mark finds himself with free time, he enjoys trying to remember his own name.

    About the Cast

    Storyteller: Mark Gifford

    About the Crew

    This version of Mark's story was recorded at the live storytelling show, Testify, in Austin, Texas

    Featured Organization

    Our featured organization this week, is one of our very favorite shows, TESTIFY - a live storytelling show in Austin, Texas.

    The amazing crew at Testify love stories -- hearing them, crafting them, and sharing them. Each month, Testify offers a live show featuring true stories told by the people that lived them.

    If you're in the Austin area and have a story to tell, they'd love to hear it.

    You can submit your own story to one of their themed opportunities on their website, TestifyATX.com

    Let's be BFFs!

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    Thanks for listening to Stories Found! We heart you.

    • Want to chat about this episode? We're here for it! Email: hello@storiesfound.com
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    Stories Found was recorded at ELA Studios, deep in the heart of Austin, Texas.
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    28 mins
  • The Palatka Museum of Natural History - Kimberly Murray-Patel

    The Palatka Museum of Natural History - Kimberly Murray-Patel
    Oct 30 2023
    About This Episode Welcome to Stories Found Micro Monday -- Halloween Eve edition. This week we've got a special treat, the one minute dark comedy, The Palatka Museum of Natural History by Kimberly Murray-Patel. The Palatka Museum of Natural History recently won the coveted top honor at the Whiskey Theater Factory's annual one minute play competition. That means that this play was written in only ten minutes in front of a live audience. It's a phenomenal feat to write anything that quickly, but this play is truly spectacular. About the Playwright: Kimberly Murray-Patel Kimberly Murray Patel considers herself a Renaissance woman in regard to the world of theater, and not just because she is thick and prefers clothing that is lacking in structure. The majority of her time is spent as a freelance costumer for companies in the Central Florida area. When she needs a break from the sewing machine she loves to perform and write short plays. "The Palatka Museum of Natural History" recently won the coveted top honor at the Whiskey Theater Factory's annual one minute play competition. We'll be featuring Kimberly' ten-minute play, Upgrade, in a future episode, so make sure to subscribe on your favorite app so you don't miss it! About the Cast Joe Llorens as Joe Joe Llorens has been a performer for over twenty years. In that time, he's done things. Some of those things he's liked, even. Joe will keep trying to do things he likes and not be as judgy about the things he doesn't like because he really should cut himself a bit of a break. He loves his wife, children, and pets, though. A lot. Manuel Solis-Bauza as Brandon A born and raised Puerto Rican native, Manuel Solis-Bauza is a graduate of the Rollins College class of 2020, having acquired a BA in Theatre Studies and Communication Theory. Seen on the Rollins stage as Shu Fu in Good Person of Setzuan and Solomon in Speech and Debate, Manuel has recently performed in a variety of acclaimed Central Florida shows such as Nick in The Wingman, produced by New Generation Theatrical, Nelson in Our Lady of the Tortilla, produced by Descolonizarte Teatro, and most recently as Kennedy in The Vast of Darkness, produced by Whiskey Theatre Factory and voted as Critics' Choice for Best Drama at Orlando Fringe 2023. About the Crew Audio Engineer: Paul Hanna and ELA Studios Fun Stuff We've added this play to our Spooky Stories Found playlist on Spotify. It's the perfect playlist for a dark comedy filled Halloween night! If you enjoyed this episode, it'd be the perfect Halloween treat if you left us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! For more exciting ways to show your support, visit our Support the Show page. Happy Monday and Happy Halloween from all of us at Stories Found! Let's be BFFs! Subscribe to our newsletter! storiesfound.substack.com Thanks for listening to Stories Found! We heart you. Want to chat about this episode? We're here for it! Email: hello@storiesfound.comFind us on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube!Want to be a featured guest in a future episode? Let's do it. Email: submissions@storiesfound.com Stories Found was recorded at ELA Studios, deep in the heart of Austin, Texas.
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    4 mins