This week's guest is the incredible Elyse Willems! She is a writer, producer, and performer, born in Canada, now living in Los Angeles. Elyse has co-written two video games, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed (2022), and Arcadeggedon (2021). In 2019, Elyse served as showrunner, writer, and cast member of Arizona Circle, a 22-minute, 8-episode sketch series. A year later, she published her first children’s novel, “A Night in Halloween House” (2020), a nostalgic holiday adventure for young readers, which reached #1 in Children’s New Halloween Releases and Children’s Spine-Chilling Horror in Amazon Books. Elyse is the host of PBS SoCal’s Won’t You Be My Gamer, an online series where she interviews a featured expert and plays video games related to their expertise. In 2024, she hosted reveal and launch content for Square Enix’s Life Is Strange: Double Exposure. Every other week, Elyse lets her spooky side show, investigating macabre topics as the creator, co-host, and writer of the 30 Morbid Minutes podcast. A movie fan and buff, Elyse was also the co-host of Warner Bros. Entertainment's official Popcorn & Shield podcast, which covered upcoming releases and classics pulled from the Warner vault. Elyse got her start in the entertainment industry at GameTrailers as a production assistant on Spike TV’s GT.TV with Geoff Keighley. Her role evolved and Elyse was promoted to producer and cast member for the website. In 2015, her love for both video games and comedy brought her to the gaming entertainment group Funhaus, where she spent nine years developing and performing in thousands of hours of video and live content, earning the Funhaus YouTube channel over 1.6 billion overall views, and leaving a lasting legacy in gaming entertainment. She has a lifelong love for puppetry, and performs Barry the Beaver in PBS Austin's How Are We Today? premiering in 2025. You can follow Elyse on Instagram and Bluesky @elysewillems Watch Won't You Be My Gamer. Listen to 30 Morbid Minutes today! Read her book, A Night in Halloween House. Visit her website: https://www.elysewillems.com/
