It’s Halloween--and Here’s Your Treat From Us!

Open Your Goodie Bag, Boils and Ghouls--The Horror Host is back with a helping of Southern Fried Horror just in time for the Spookiest Holiday of The Year!  

This time, Public Domain Comics Theater turns to the 1951 Ace comic The Hand of Fate #8 for this tale of mad science and fourteen foot zombie pirates, featuring the voice talent of Anna Crawford, Vanessa Van Zerr, David Ellis, Eugene R. Hendricks, Chris Honeywell with a special appearance by Dread Media’s Desmond Reddick!  Can you withstand the assault of....The Monster of The Bayous?

Listen to Monster Of The Bayous Here!

If you like what you hear--or don’t like it--please email us at ocadecagonagontheaterworks@gmail.com...and keep an eye open for our third Public Domain Comic Theater tale, which will be available exclusively to Patreons of a number of podcasts and YouTube channels!

...oh, and also keep an eye out for Eileen Thorne: Freelance Lab Assistant, coming in 2021!

To Show You How Quickly Things Go ‘Round Here....

Yesterday, I had an idea for a rather strange series of audio dramas.

Those of you old enough to remember Video Stores probably share a particular memory with me...coming across a crazy Video Box with some kick-ass artwork and some bombastic back copy promising enough Thrills n’ Chills to make your brain explode with orgasmic delight.  You rent that video and take it home...only to find that the movie is nothing like the box promised.

So, I asked my fellow artists, what if we made audio dramas based solely on the box art and back copy?

I posted a couple of examples of VHS Box art. Roughly two hours later, our own David Ellis produced an outline for an audio drama based on one of those examples, Death Code: Ninja!

Thus was born VHS Box Theater, a series of done-in-one audio dramas based solely on cheap-ass VHS Videotapes from the classic Age of VHS.  We are not going to watch the movie...we’re going to give you the movie you were told you were going to see!

The first Movie For Your Ears will be available in the first quarter of 2021, with more coming as we get more and more inspired.  

Tell us what you think, and if you have a particular VHS Box that you think would be prime 8TW material, please email it to us at ocadecagonagontheaterworks@gmail.com.  We’d also like to hear from any voice actors (or potential voice actors!), sound designers, writers and other artists interested in doing business with our little audio drama collective!

We Need A Logo....

Good afternoon, everyone.  Hope you’re doing well.

When I approached Terry Moore all those weeks ago, I didn’t expect 8TW to become what it has become.  Truth be told, I expected Terry to say no.  Then I expected not to find a group of talented actors willing to work on the Strangers In Paradise project simply for the love of it.

...and I certainly didn’t expect everyone to have so much fun together that we wanted to make the Ocadecagonagon Theater Works into a going concern!  Yet, here we are, a group of artists who love audio drama and love making it with each other.  At our last meeting, we spent most of the time pitching new projects for next year and beyond!

So if we’re going to be around for the long haul, we might need a logo our audience (that’s you, people!) will come to associate with our brand of fun audio drama.  Something that will let people know what they’re in for when they choose to listen to one of our products and, maybe, be something they might want to wear or display on some merchandise down the future.

(Yes, we’re doing this out of a passion for the medium.  No, we are not aiming to quit our day jobs.  But it might be nice to have a little extra spending money at the end of some projects, you know!)

If you’re a graphic designer and you’ve been digging what we’ve been laying down, and what we will be laying down in the near future, and would like to design us a logo, we’d like that.  While there won’t be money up front, we are more than willing to work something out so you will be properly recompensed.

If you’d like to try your hand at embodying the 8TW, please contact me, Thomas Deja, at ocadecagonagontheaterworks@gmail.com.

Thanks in advance for letting me babble--and letting us into your earholes with our own special brand of entertainment.

8TW Update 10/26

Good afternoon, everyone!  I hope that, if you are able to, voted early.  Here’s what going down with our little troupe!

Yesterday, we came together for a general meeting and to record the third episode of Public Domain Comic Theater!  This time, we adapted ‘Murder Mansion,’ a story that appeared in 1952‘s Adventures Into Darkness #5.  It’s about con men, a special brownstone, a demon and it’s...pets.  Unlike Episodes One and Two (which will drop this Halloween on the Two True Freaks Network!), this episode will be available free to people who are Patreons to several horror-based podcasts.  We will disclose more info as Episode Three come close to its launch date.

And if you aren’t a Patreon but want to listen to the episode, it will be bundled with the first two episodes in Public Domain Comics Theater Comics For Your Ears #1, a special digital 'box set' that will be available in time for Christmas....as well as a fourth episode exclusive only to the set, and a couple of little surprises.  Keep an eye on this space for more info.

Work on Strangers In Paradise: The Audio Drama continues, with half of the eight episodes that encompass Book One in the can.  Watch out for the 2nd Teaser for this project, done with the consent and advisement of series creator Terry Moore, which will announce the debut date.  We anticipate that Book One will run throughout the holiday season, at which point we’ll take a rest before we launch into Book Two.

...not that 8TW is going to just go away for a while.  We can’t say what we’ve got in store, but one of the great things about how this collection of audio drama geeks from across the country keeps coming up with new things to produce and share with you.  We can say that if you’re without a Valentine’s Day date for 2021, we will have your back.

As always, please keep an eye on this blog for more information on present and upcoming projects.  We invite interested voice actors and fans of audio drama to write us at ocadecagonagontheaterworks@gmail.com with input, voice reels and anything that comes to your mind!  There will be auditions for some key characters in Book Two, so we welcome inquiries from present and aspiring voice talent!

You Might Want To Listen To This....

It's finally here!  The Ocadecagonagon Theater Works' first release!

Public Domain Comic Theater, adapts actual stories from comic books that have fallen in the public domain...in this case. Ghosts #1 from 1951!

Join Thomas Deja, Chris Honeywell, Nicole Thomte, Brad Oxnam, Vanessa Van Zerr, David Ellis, Amy Riddle, Eugene R. Hendricks, Lauren A. Kennedy, Femmie London, Anna Crawford and special guest announcer Witney Seibold of the Critically Acclaimed Network and the Schmoedown for this landmark journey into the exciting realm of Full Audio Drama!

Listen to Flee The Phantoms Here

We'd love to know what you think--please email us at ocadecagonagontheaterworks@gmail.com

OCADECAGONAGON THEATER WORKS UPDATE (STRANGERS IN PARADISE and PUBLIC DOMAIN COMIC BOOK THEATER) 10/12

Happy Indigenous People Day!  I hope everyone is doing well.  We here at the ‘Works are very busy.

We’ve continued recording the eight episodes that take up ‘Book One’ of the audio adaptation of  Strangers In Paradise.  The first three episodes are fully recorded and are presently going through Chris Honeywell’s sound design process and the addition of the music from Jim Moon and His Eldritch Light Orchestra.  Portions of other episodes have also been recorded.  It looks like this interpretation of Terry Moore’s independent comic classic is on schedule for it’s debut later this year!

When is that debut date?  Well, we’re not ready to announce it officially just yet...but you might want to keep your Fridays free.  Watch out--listen up--for the next trailer.

And Public Domain Comic Book Theater continues to grow, with a second story, Monster of the Bayous, recorded.  This drama is adapted from a story published in the 1951 Ace Comic The Hand of Fate #8.  It’s an action packed adventure of mad science and zombie pirates featuring the talents of Vanessa Van Zerr, Anna Crawford, Eugene R. Hendricks and David Ellis, with a special appearance by Dread Media Podcast Maven Des Reddick,  and it will be coming your way later this month!

...and if you’re wondering about our first story, Flee The Phantoms--it’ll be available this Friday, October 16th through the Two True Freaks Podcast Network.  It’s free for all, a little something to show you what we can do and get you used to launching your weekend for us!

Please keep an eye on this blog for more information on present and upcoming projects.  We will soon be accepting auditions for roles for Book Two of Strangers in Paradise, so write us at Ocadecagonagontheaterworks@gmail.com if you’d like to submit voice reels or be a part of the Theater Works in some other way!