Coming Soon: Static by Ashley King

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08/30/24 • 1 min

At 18, Ashley King was ready to leave home for the beaches, booze & boys of Byron Bay — but her hot Australian summer didn't go as planned.

Static: A Party Girl’s Memoir is a four-part coming-of-age tale unlike any you’ve ever heard. Subscribe now to hear the first episode when it drops November 15th.

Royalty-free music by Anthem of Rain, Rock This House (Instrumental)

Royalty-free sound effects from Pixabay

Click here for a complete transcript of the trailer.

At 18, Ashley King was ready to leave home for the beaches, booze & boys of Byron Bay — but her hot Australian summer didn't go as planned.

Static: A Party Girl’s Memoir is a four-part coming-of-age tale unlike any you’ve ever heard. Subscribe now to hear the first episode when it drops November 15th.

Royalty-free music by Anthem of Rain, Rock This House (Instrumental)

Royalty-free sound effects from Pixabay

Click here for a complete transcript of the trailer.

Next Episode

Calgary to Byron Bay

Ashley can’t wait to leave home — and her overbearing mom, Carolina. She and her best friend, Britney, plot a hot Australian summer trip.

Note: this podcast includes explicit language and references to suicide and trauma.

This four-part series is an audio adaptation of the play Static: A Party Girl’s Memoir. Each episode starts with part of the play, performed by Ashley King as herself and Jaime Cesar as Carolina. Then, in the second half, learn more about this true story as Ashley talks to those who inspired the script.

Guest interview: Bruce Horak, actor, playwright, and visual artist, and Chief Engineer Hemmer on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Static is produced by Ashley King and Meg Wilcox, with support from Inside Out Theatre, Chromatic Theatre, and the Community Podcast Initiative at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada.

Show notes:

(00:00) Audio drama: Static, part one

(22:36) Ashley King and Meg Wilcox introduce the podcast

(27:58) Ashley interviews Bruce Horak

(56:40) Reflections and episode wrap-up

Click here for a complete episode transcript.

Music licensed under SOCAN 22C license.

Royalty-free music:

Anthem of Rain, Rock This House (Instrumental)

Maarten Schellekens, Salt Lake Swerve