Created as a way to bring theatre to your ears over the airwaves, DTC Radio is the latest branch of Distilled Theatre Company. Here you'll find brand new thrilling stories, chilling tales, and fantastic yarns written for the radio by award winning playwrights. For more information, you can "like" Distilled Theatre Company on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @DistilledTC.
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SERIES FINALE! Five years in the future...the entire West Coast of the United States has been decimated by nuclear war, and now that people have begun to rebuild, they demand to be entertained. So, when the movie industry sets up shop in Hollywood, Florida a desperate monster movie studio looking to capitalize on the modern nuclear hysteria hires a…
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Five years in the future...As greenhouse gases accumulate and global warming reaches new heights, string instruments are consistently flat and trumpets are unable to reach the low end of their range. Franklin, a violin maker and climate change denier, refuses to reengineer his instruments or his perspective. Faced with significant criticism from hi…
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Five years in the future...George has just returned home after five years overseas in military intelligence fighting in a war no one seems to know about. He craves a return to normal, everyday life, except a pervasive app, called the Small Talk Assist App, makes that impossible. What will a world where small talk and every day human interactions ar…
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Five years in the future...The west coast of the United States votes in favor of secession- a motion that came to be known as “the Separation.” In the ensuing chaos, a shadow government takes control, and democracy is suspended. Somewhere a man named Jeremy is held in a room by an anonymous woman who tortures him with a smartphone app. Jeremy suppo…
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Five years in the future... The Walt Disney Company owns every known intellectual property — except one. McKayla Evans, creator of webcomic sensation "April Showers," stands as the final defense against The Mouse's complete cultural monopoly. When the rights to her creation are sold to Disney without her consent, McKayla sets out to take back what'…
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Five years in the future... the gig economy has expanded to include emotional labor: just as you can catch an Uber or outsource your errands to TaskRabbit, you can hire an emotional labor proxy to break up with someone, educate people to be more “woke,” and cut toxic people out of your life. When Jo takes on the proxy gig of cutting off contact bet…
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Five years in the future...the Amazon-Google-Apple conglomerate WonderCorp has released a brand-new home assistant called "KIRA." Aiden and Charlie are best friends who have been chosen as beta-testers for the system's new AI feature, which includes an "EmotionalChoice" detector. When this new feature reveals Charlie's secret love for Aiden, both f…
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Sam and her best friend Ben are struggling with adulthood, their views of the city, and what dating in their 20's really means. Their "it is what it is" attitude keeps them together and fighting against the world. When Ben meets a guy whose views on life challenge everything they believe, Sam is forced to take a deeper look at her life and the choi…
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Kasey and her partner Rylan would like to have a nice, quiet Easter dinner: eat some ham, maybe chit-chat about church, listen to Mozart. But their neighbors Talitha and Tyson have other ideas. Who could have known a painting of Jesus would be so offensive? Written by Joshua Smalley. Directed by Kristan Seemel. Starring Aaron Ballard, Barron B Bass…
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Flor and Stephen are on a drive that will take them through the last two years of their relationship together. The ups, the downs, the in betweens, the loving exchanges, and the hurtful arguments. How do you make a change? You can listen to your head, your heart, or both; but when you know, you know. Written by Krysta Gonzales. Directed by Daren Ta…
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(Gasp!) No! Fiddle dee da Fiddle dee dee, what did he write what did he tweet? After his shocking election, The Joker has spent the last year stirring up quite the covfefe! Tune into Distilled Radio on Jan 20th, the one year anniversary of the Joker's inauguration as Mayor of Gotham (No!), to find out if he and his merry band of villains will succe…
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This week on Murder Is My Jam, the only true-crime podcast with serial killers and self-care, Sidney is anxious and Ellen isn’t here. Or, Sidney knows exactly where Ellen is, but first she has to navigate this week’s horror story, about what happens to two female podcasters who dare to talk about murder. But Sidney has a message for the listeners: …
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Jacob is an actor--a rising young talent struggling to find himself. After suffering a meltdown on national television, Jacob instead finds himself struggling with possible career suicide. One morning he awakens to discover something else entirely: his exact duplicate; a man named Troy Maxim. Troy is handsome, charming, eager to please, but somethi…
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The Shakespeares only had one bank left to rob. It should have been easy...in and out in under sixty seconds; but a fit of madness and an itchy trigger finger changed all of that. Now the three sorority sisters are on the run, and seeking refuge with a mystic who believes they've dipped their toes into a pool straight from hell. That uneasy feeling…
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In an effort to avoid the most boring summer vacation in living memory, Levi Shepherd and her sister Jessie invent their very own urban legend: the Swamp Beast of Bandon, North Dakota. What begins as a website parodying the likes of Sasquatch and the Skunk Ape quickly takes on a new meaning when two young visitors to the site fall for the blurry ph…
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Individualist, Jason finds himself in a new dimension where name brands and status are all that matter. Anything else is harshly punished. Jason struggles to fit into this new world while trying to maintain some degree of individuality in the process.
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Violet Shaw has so many questions. Why did her cat run away? Why did her boss lay her off? Will she ever get anywhere as a working artist? Who is this mysterious masked man leaving purple stencil paintings in random locations in Brooklyn? How did she wind up on a billboard overlooking the BQE? Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? Listen to Dist…
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Pro-wrestlers are a fascinating breed. They compete, they fight, they bleed, and they live for the noise of the crowd. But when they're not in the ring, when they're at the mall, on the road, or even just out to dinner, they carry the expectations of the crowd with them. Before she fights for the Women's Championship belt, Angelica Rhodes, or if yo…
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In this drama, a brother and sister argue about the merits of a particular piece of art work while on vacation in San Diego,. The unlikely tourists find themselves at the base of the 25-foot bronze statue, titled "Unconditional Surrender", a replica of the WWII soldier kissing a nurse in Times Square. The backstory of the iconic kiss comes into pla…
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Sandy and Richie went to the same high school but they never really knew each other. Years later a Tinder match brings them back together for the town carnival, where a series of rides brings has them reminiscing, flirting, and arguing. But one ride in particular is calling to them, beckoning them down the horrifying, dark tunnels of Dr. Shock's So…
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Unsatisfied with the hustle and bustle of New York City, disillusioned twentysomething Dana moves to LA with a plan to...well, he's not really sure what the plan is. As he tries to find his way in his sun-drenched new city, he finds himself growing distant from the girlfriend he left back in New York, while putting all his hopes in a new relationsh…
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Unsatisfied with the hustle and bustle of New York City, disillusioned twentysomething Dana moves to LA with a plan to...well, he's not really sure what the plan is. As he tries to find his way in his sun-drenched new city, he finds himself growing distant from the girlfriend he left back in New York, while putting all his hopes in a new relationsh…
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Unsatisfied with the hustle and bustle of New York City, disillusioned twentysomething Dana moves to LA with a plan to...well, he's not really sure what the plan is. As he tries to find his way in his sun-drenched new city, he finds himself growing distant from the girlfriend he left back in New York, while putting all his hopes in a new relationsh…
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