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About The Way We Haunt Now

The Way We Haunt Now is a lighthearted horror audio drama about female friendships, found family, and fighting the narratives that try to define us – even in the afterlife. Oh, and ghosts. Did we mention ghosts? It follows dual protagonists, Eulalie Reed and Frankie Summerson, on their crash course toward self-fulfillment and friendship as they struggle to make the most of life and what comes after.

Season Two of The Way We Haunt Now is written by Courtney Floyd and Georgia Mckenzie with sound design by Brad Colbroock. Episodes will be released on Saturdays, starting December 4th, 2021. The first full season was released in Fall 2020, and is available wherever you get your podcasts!

Cast & Crew (in alphabetical order)

Adam Lloyd as Sheridan, a Competitive Confectionary contestant

Alexander Doddy as William, a Competitive Confectionary contestant

Ali Hylton as the Apartment

Ariane Marchese as Assorted Ghosts

Austin Backman as Sam, a Death’s Cookery contestant

Becca Marcus as Lota • Transcriber & Community Manager

Brad Colbroock as Cas Bromley • Sound Designer

Bryan Green as Dave, a Death’s Cookery contestant

Caitlin Earley as Doctor*

Caroline Mincks as Mincks

Charlie Bucket as Asha, the spectral labradoodle

Christoper Colon as Concerned Bystander*

Cole Burkhardt as Matt (Eulalie’s student)*

Courtney Floyd as Eulalie • Creator, Showrunner, Lead Writer

Dallas Mugno as The Ghost of Thomas Edison*

Dan Gold as the Apartment

Danny Spiller as Aaron and the Closet Ghost

Darragh Ó Broin as the Ghost Bartender

David S. Dear as Henry

Eleanor Anwen as Emm, a Competitive Confectionary contestant

Eleanor Grey as Frankie

Elizabeth Holmes as Alex (Eulalie’s student)*

Georgia Mckenzie as Josie • Cowriter

Ivan Divino as Assorted Ghosts

Jeff Goldman as the Apartment

Jerron Bacat as Billy, a Death’s Cookery contestant

Jess “Bear” Winston as Alicia Delany

Kashyu as Wendy, a Death’s Cookery contestant

Katharina Dirschl* as Thrift Shop Customer

Kiona “Bashful Echo” as Assorted Ghosts

Kira Apple as Mary Bangs and The Narrator

Kirsty Woolven as the Apartment

Lauren Grace Thompson as Wyatt, a Death’s Cookery contestant

Lindsay Zana as Danny

L.W. Salinas as the Veil Librarian and the Mysteriously Familiar Librarian

Margaret Ashley as Georgie Yeats

Maritza Rodriguez as Ylena

Marnie Warner as Parker

Megan Gwen Davies as the Apartment

Meghan Griffin as Kaia (Eulalie’s student)*

Michelle Han as Madison, a Death’s Cookery contestant

Natalie Hunter as the Apartment

Paige Alena as Death’s Cookery Host

Paul DeCurtis as the Apartment*

Paul H. Rollins as Nick

Sarah McManus as Marissa, a Competitive Confectionary contestant

Shaun Grace as Assorted Ghosts

Sophia DeRise* as Bus Passenger

Sophie Hughes as Hughes

Stephanie M. Flint as Thrift Shop Employee*

Stephanie Mastrostefano as the Apartment*

Tal Minear as Myrtle

Tetisuka as Assorted Ghosts

Tim Briggs as Competitive Confectionary Host

Tim Lowe as Jon Harker

Will Stephenson as Angry British Chef

Territory Acknowledgements

The first season of The Way We Haunt Now was written and produced in central Virginia, on the territories of the Monacan and Manahoac people. It is set in Eugene, Oregon which is located on the traditional land of the Kalapuya peoples. The second season of The Way We Haunt Now was written and produced in New England, on the territory of the Abenaki people, and in California, on the territory of the Patwin (or Patween) people. We feel that this is important to note not because we’re trying to tick some “wokeness” box, but because history still haunts everything we do and create. Art is not magically separate from sociocultural contexts. In the US, that means we’re all making lives and telling stories in a system and society that was built on bad faith “agreements” with and the violent dispossession and systemic dehumanization of Indigenous people. Acknowledging this is only the first step.

General Acknowledgements

The Way We Haunt Now would not have been possible without help from a bunch of amazing people. When I was burnt out from moving across the country, starting a new job, and trying to finish my dissertation all at the same time, my partner, Jared Floyd, encouraged me to start writing creatively again because he knew it would help. He also continues to listen to me talk about the scripts and make endless to-do lists as I move from writing into gulp production. And he helps with Foley. And… well, if I list everything he does we’ll be here all day. When I was convinced my story idea was boring and bad, Annie Swafford swooped in and convinced me to work on it for Camp NaNoWriMo and then listened to me talk about my inkling story world and asked a bunch of insightful questions. When I started to realize Eulalie and Frankie’s story should be an audio drama, not a novella, Jen Sugden (Victoriocity) and Jamieson Ridenhour (Palimpsest) encouraged me to actually do the thing. When Jen handed James Oliva (What’s the Frequency?) the laptop we were Skyping on and asked him if he had any advice for me, he directed me to community resources and to PodTales which is how I learned about, applied for, and received?!! a Dashlane Cash Mini Grant for Fiction Podcasters in October 2019.

From this point on, lots of people are (or are getting) involved, and I’ll be highlighting them in list format!

• The amazing members of Wil Williams’s Podcasting Problems discord server, who answered all manner of questions and also commiserated with me (which is super important)
• The project’s Sensitivity Reader, Lara Ameen, who made not only the words but the SFX better with her comments
• My dad, who was gracious and willing to try something new when I ambushed him with my microphone and asked him to play a bit part