E-VATAR - A Podcast Musical A Big Dumb Buildings Production

During quarantine, a 20-something searches for acceptance and love using a new social media robotics technology in this new kind of musical.

Episode 1 - "Peyton, I'm Coming Home"  - Taylen travels from Beijing to their hometown Seattle to patch things up with Peyton and finds themself in a new pandemic world.

In order of appearance:

Narrator/Peyton - Sean Rooney
Taylen - Thomas Farnan-Williams
Flight Attendant - Kia Hightower
Newscaster - Travis Guillory
Airport PA/Man in airport terminal - John Burns

Music and Lyrics by Brian Eads and Gregg Standridge
Book by David Wilson-Burns
Directed by John Burns

Episode 2 - "A New World"  - Taylen's friend Alisha suggests Taylen try a new robotic social media technology that they've been avoiding.

In order of appearance:

Narrator/Peyton - Sean Rooney
Taylen - Thomas Farnan-Williams
Newscaster/E-Vatar Elliot - Travis Guillory
Alisha - Kia Hightower
Clarke - Sam Briggs

Music and Lyrics by Brian Eads and Gregg Standridge
Book by David Wilson-Burns
Directed by John Burns

Episode 3 - "This is E-Body!"  - In their E-Vatar, Taylen joins a new friend, Clarke, for a trip to the club exclusively for E-Vatars.

In order of appearance:

Narrator/Peyton - Sean Rooney
Taylen - Thomas Farnan-Williams
Clarke - Sam Briggs

Music and Lyrics by Brian Eads and Gregg Standridge
Book by David Wilson-Burns
Directed by John Burns

Taylen and Clarke move in together and Alisha shares are true feelings.

Newscaster - Travis Guillory
Narrator/Peyton - Sean Rooney
Taylen - Thomas Farnan-Williams
Clarke - Sam Briggs
Alisha - Kia Hightower

Music and Lyrics by Brian Eads and Gregg Standridge
Book by David Wilson-Burns
Directed by John Burns

Instead of checking on Alisha as Clarke suggested, Taylen goes out for a night at the E-Body.

Narrator/Peyton - Sean Rooney
Taylen - Thomas Farnan-Williams
Elliot - Travis Guillory
Alisha - Kia Hightower

Music and Lyrics by Brian Eads and Gregg Standridge
Book by David Wilson-Burns
Directed by John Burns

Big Dumb Buildings (Gregg Standridge and Brian Eads), author David Wilson-Burns, and actor/director John Burns join forces to create an original Podcast Musical. E-Vatar is a sci-fi love story set in a near, but dark future where the pandemic has taken the world in an unexpected turn. The vaccine has failed. Humanity has become quarantined into complete isolation, and has turned to E-Vatar; a new social technology, which allows a person to enter and experience the virus-ridden outside world as a highly advanced, miniature android. Taylen, a non-binary twenty-something, navigates the bizarre and obsessive world of E-Vatar society while attempting to retain their humanity and dignity. When romance sparks, Taylen faces unforeseen difficulties. Wilson-Burns weaves a rhythmically-driven script with the rock musical score of Standridge and Eads (Big Dumb Buildings) in a musical theatre, podcast, short series.
It will be available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Podcast Addict, and on the E-Vatar Buzzsprout page.