It is the dead of a chilly October night and Katie Hobbs is working. She’s taken over her father’s towing business and dispatch is sending her and her truck all over town to assist stranded drivers. But it seems there’s more out there tonight, especially on that stretch of road out by the train tracks…
Written, Directed, and Narrated by Jared Rivet,
Jared Rivet is a horror screenwriter, producer, director, author, and voice actor. He wrote the screenplay for the Kevin Greutert-directed feature film Jackals starring Stephen Dorff (released by Scream Factory in 2017). Since 2014, he has written, directed and acted in multiple episodes of Earbud Theater, an award-winning audio drama anthology series specializing in horror and science fiction. In 2016, he received an Audio Verse Award nomination for his performance in the Earbud Theater episode On the Line, which he also wrote and directed. He served as a guest lecturer at the Drexel University Great Works Symposium’s “Zom Con” in 2015; contributed an essay to the 2018 collection My Favorite Horror Movie; and he has co-hosted the monthly trivia event “Dead Right Horror Trivia” with Dr. Rebekah McKendry since 2015. He worked as a staff writer for the 2019 event series revival of Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark? as well as Syfy Channel’s upcoming TV series based on George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead. He has also written the premiere episode of the upcoming Are You Afraid of the Dark? podcast series for Nickelodeon. He is repped by Brad Rosenfeld at Culture Creative Entertainment and can be found on Twitter at @jaredrivet1.
J. Wilder Konschak (co-story) Wilder’s screenplays have been setup at Relativity, Amazon Studios, Myriad, and others. He just finished a stint as staff writer for Syfy’s upcoming DAY OF THE DEAD series, and his first feature film COLD WAR is currently streaming on Amazon Prime, available for rental or purchase from most major VOD/EST platforms. Wilder lives with his wife, two children, cat, and parents in San Pedro, and is presently learning to play the fiddle while the world burns. No, really, he is.
Produced by Tracy Clifton and Casey Wolfe
Editing and Sound Design by Michael Benni Pierce
Michael Benni Pierce has been a Film and Television Editor for over 15 years. After graduating from Hampshire College, Benni moved to New York and then soon after, Los Angeles to pursue his lifelong dream. During that time, he has worked on ABC’s award-winning series “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and its web counterpart “Slingshot”, edited the romantic feature film “The Trouble with the Truth,” starring Lea Thompson and John Shea, and cut both seasons of the hilarious New York Television Festival “Outside of the Box” winning web series “Hell Froze Over.”
Benni has also edited a number of documentaries, including “Scream: The Inside Story” and “Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy” for Bio Channel, in addition to a slew of short films, many of which were accepted to various film festivals, including “Meat Cute” (LA Lift-Off Film Festival) and “The Haunting of Lester House” (Hollywood Comedy Shorts Film Festival.)
Cast in order of appearance
Clarke Wolfe as Katie
An actress, a host, and a big nerd, Clarke Wolfe is known as a popular correspondent for Nerdist, Collider, Skybound, Syfy, and more. She is the producer and co-star of SLASHED! The Muscial which was nominated for Best Musical at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Clarke’s feature debut was the film Satanic Panic directed by Chelsea Stardust.
Find her on Instagram at @clarkewolfe
Josh Miller as Frank
Josh is a writer-director and sometime actor. He was the creator and lead voice actor of the FOX animated TV series Golan the Insatiable, as well as the co-writer of the Sonic the Hedgehog feature film and the co-writer/co-director of the Blumhouse/Hulu Into the Dark feature segment, School Spirit. He is also the co-founder and host of the long-running Los Angeles horror screening series, Friday Night Frights.
Rico Anderson as Brett
Rico has a dedicated fanbase for performances in the Star Trek: Renegades and most recently the comedy The Orville, but you can also see him in the current TV show S.W.A.T. Rico was directed by Joss Whedon (Marvel’s The Avengers, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) in the pilot for Dollhouse w/ Eliza Dushku and Tahmoh Penikett (Man of Steel, Battlestar Galactica), played (The Color Purple) Danny Glover’s son in in “The Harimaya Bridge” with Peter Coyote and starred in the Universal release of, “Hole in One” with Producer, David Ellison (Star Trek into Darkness, World War Z) and Dean Cain (Lois and Clark: The Adventures of Superman). Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. Or check out his boss website!
Tracy Clifton as Arielle
Tracy Clifton is an Earbud Theater regular (going on 5 years!) who made her debut as a 12 year old boy in ‘THE CREAKY STAIRS”. She’s been hanging around ever since and Earbud Theater hasn’t been able to get rid of her. She makes her directorial debut with “THE PEACEFUL SKIES” and also lends her voice talent to “GOODNIGHT AMERICA”, as Linda Evans, “GHOST RAIN”, as Grieve, and “CHAINS”, as Arielle.
Tracy is an actress, voiceover artist, screenwriter, and producer in LA. Her latest short film, “MEAT CUTE”, a horror romantic comedy, is currently an Official Selection at three film festivals and a finalist at a fourth. You can check out her work on her website at www.tracyclifton.com and find her social media and IMDB links there as well. Offline, she can be most easily found on the SoCal hiking trails or walking her two cats.
Briana Walden as Dispatch
Briana Walden is an Irish-American actress, writer and producer. After spending nearly a decade in the Business Development and Commercial Lending space, Walden turned her sights to storytelling in an effort to build a platform and use her voice to advocate for equality and proper representation on screen and off.
Walden quickly began to make a name for herself in Hollywood, landing her first television role opposite Chris Brown on the series “Black-ish“. In 2018, she landed her first series regular role on “Oishi: Demon Hunter” on Verizon GO90, a spinoff of the SMOSH Fan Favorite “Oishi: High School Battle”. Soon after, Walden portrayed the lead role of Nancy in the short film “NDL: National Date League”, which won multiple awards during its festival circuit. Walden was also nominated in the Best Actress Category for the role.
Walden progressed in fine tuning her voice, and in 2018 began developing a new television series “Polyester” with two fellow actors, Sarah Chang Tadayon and Veronica Sixtos. In 2019 she appeared in multiple projects, including co-starring alongisde Peter Gilroy and Kane Hodder in the feature film “Knife-Corp”, which is set for theatrical release in 2020. In 2020 she signed on as Supervising Producer of “Los Angelez”, a queer coming out Pilot written and directed by Louisa Hill.
Walden continues to bring her passion and vision to her work, recently making her directorial debut in the short “Lineage”, which explores the intergenerational bind between matriarchal ancestors. She lives in Los Angeles, CA with her senior puggle, Brodie.
Music by Kevin MacLeod
“Long Note Four” by Kevin MacLeod (incompitech.com)
“Long Note Two” by Kevin MacLeod (incompitech.com)
“Division” by Kevin MacLeod (incompitech.com)
“Thunder Dreams” by Kevin MacLeod (incompitech.com)
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