TWO THOUSAND AND LATE

STEP ?????: SEE A PRIEST. A woman, a demon, and a priest walk into a confessional...no, it's not the start to a bad joke, this is real life. And sometimes real life means seeking marriage counseling for you and the demon possessing you.

Forgive Havoc! is a crossover between TWO THOUSAND AND LATE and Forgive Me! a Rogue Dialogue production. It was originally performed live on June 12th in New York City.

Written by Lauren Shippen

Performed by Lauren Shippen and Casey Callaghan

Sound and music by Adam Raymonda

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PLUS! A special announcement! Grab tickets for our live show at forgivehavoc.atypicalartists.co!!

Forgive Me! tells the story of Father Ben, a try-hard young Catholic priest who was recently reassigned from Binghamton to St. Patrick’s, a new parish in Upstate New York, under mysterious circumstances. Each episode follows Ben into the confessional with another eccentric parishioner from around town, exploring the intertwined lives of this new community and the funny, sad, and sometimes painful experiences that come out of the Catholic experience. For credits, transcripts, and more info, visit RogueDialogue.com/Forgive-Me

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Hello havoc wreakers and welcome back to our little dose of hope. If you're just joining us, I'm Lauren Shippen, creator of Two Thousand and Late and, in an effort to balance out all the shitty stuff the audio drama tackles, I talked with some incredible artists, creators, and activists who are grappling with our twisted reality and doing hella cool stuff to counteract the bad.

This month, I'm talking to Gabriel Urbina, creator of The Harbingers and audio drama creator extraordinaire. We talk about writing power narratives, magic, and flawed characters. And then we play the...

Hello havoc wreakers! This month, we have a guest episode from the fabulous [REDACTED] - take a listen and then go catch up on the entire show!

EPISODE TITLE: [REDACTED] S1E1: False Start (Part 1)

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Introducing [REDACTED]; from Athan (The Grotto) and Jamie Petronis (The Cellar Letters)

Following the death of his twin, failing actor Jacob Kane assumes his late-brother’s life in hopes of a fresh start. Instead of finding stability, Jacob finds himself working within The [REDACTED] Unit, a covert agency tasked with containing impossible creatures and phenomena. As h...

Hello havoc wreakers and welcome back to our little dose of hope. If you're just joining us, I'm Lauren Shippen, creator of Two Thousand and Late and, in an effort to balance out all the shitty stuff the audio drama tackles, I talked with some incredible artists, creators, and activists who are grappling with our twisted reality and doing hella cool stuff to counteract the bad.

This month, I'm talking to Liz Neeley, co-founder of Unbreaking, founder of Liminal, and science communicator extraordinaire. She and the team at Unbreaking are doing the incredibly important work of tracking...

This month we're so excited to share The Pod's the Thing, a Shakespearean podcast!

Step aside Romeo- there’s a new romantic lead in town. His name’s Richard, and he’s got it all: a silver tongue, a smoking falchion, and some serious gaslighting. We welcome to the show Jordan Cobb (No Such Thing Productions) to take a look at everyone's favorite villain Richard III as he seduces Lady Anne over the corpse of her late father-in-law. Featuring: The Original Mr. Darcy, trochaic feet, Shakespeare's Richard v. History's Richard, congealed mouths, Richard III and Zombies, and Hot Bl...

Hello havoc wreakers, and welcome back to our little bonus show, where we try to find the hope amongst all the havoc. These are a mix of conversations aand guest episodes - we're hoping to spotlight more activists in the near future but many folks we planned to speak to are, understandably, a bit busy right now. Thankfully, there are a lot of places to find hope, and this month I was fortunate enough to speak to the lovely Emma Sherr-Ziarko - who plays Didi in our show - about her Shakespeare podcast, Pod's The Thing.

Pod's...

This month, we're sharing a show we love: Give Me Away from Gideon Media.

They call the spaceship that crashed in the Nevada desert “The Ghosthouse” because it screams—the screams of thousands of extraterrestrial political prisoners uploaded into its horrific mainframe. The only way to free them... is to transfer them into the bodies of humans willing to share their minds with an alien second consciousness. But who would volunteer for that? Graham Shapiro, divorced and adrift at age 50, is one of the first to raise his hand. Give Me Away follows Graham’s journey into a world...

Hello havoc wreakers and welcome back to our little dose of hope. If you're just joining us, I'm Lauren Shippen, creator of Two Thousand and Late and, in an effort to balance out all the shitty stuff the audio drama tackles, I talked with some incredible artists, creators, and activists who are grappling with our twisted reality and doing hella cool stuff to counteract the bad.

This week, I'm talking to Marc Sollinger, an audio drama creator behind such projects as Archive 81, Generation Crossing, and Conversations with Ghosts. We talk about what it means to be a...

SEASON FINALE! STEP NINE: BURN IT ALL DOWN. SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION (THROUGH ARSON). OVERTHROW MANAGEMENT (LITERALLY). FACE DOWN ANOTHER DEMON FROM HELL...wait, what?

Two Thousand and Late is a production of Atypical Artists and executive produced by Patrick Ellis and Lauren Shippen. The show was created, written, and directed by Lauren Shippen, with the brilliant Octavia Bray as our script consultant. Our spectacular sound design is by the fabulous Jeffrey Nils Gardner, our dazzling original art was created by the first-rate Ellis Carson Jones, and our rollicking theme music is by the ever-wonderful Brandon...

STEP EIGHT: GET FIRED. Okay, so maybe let up a little bit. Turns out standing up doesn't work at all. Crash out about how wrong things are going and try to step back from the edge. Fail to do that.

Two Thousand and Late is a production of Atypical Artists and executive produced by Patrick Ellis and Lauren Shippen. The show was created, written, and directed by Lauren Shippen, with the brilliant Octavia Bray as our script consultant. Our spectacular sound design is by the fabulous Jeffrey Nils Gardner, our dazzling original art was created by the...

Hello havoc wreakers and welcome back to our little dose of hope every week. If you're just joining us, I'm Lauren Shippen, creator of Two Thousand and Late and, in an effort to balance out all the shitty stuff the audio drama tackles, I talked with some incredible artists, creators, and activists who are grappling with our twisted reality and doing hella cool stuff to counteract the bad. For our last bonus episode of the first season, we have a very special crossover episode with Spirits!

Spirits is a boozy dive into myths, legends and folklore, and...

STEP SEVEN: START A UNION. Actually do something. Make demands, take no prisoners, and don't let up until you win. Lead everyone else into victory!

Two Thousand and Late is a production of Atypical Artists and executive produced by Patrick Ellis and Lauren Shippen. The show was created, written, and directed by Lauren Shippen, with the brilliant Octavia Bray as our script consultant. Our spectacular sound design is by the fabulous Jeffrey Nils Gardner, our dazzling original art was created by the first-rate Ellis Carson Jones, and our rollicking theme music is by the ever-wonderful Brandon Grugle...

Hello havoc wreakers and welcome back to our little dose of hope every week. If you're just joining us, I'm Lauren Shippen, creator of Two Thousand and Late and, in an effort to balance out all the shitty stuff the audio drama tackles, I talked with some incredible artists, creators, and activists who are grappling with our twisted reality and doing hella cool stuff to counteract the bad.

This week, I'm talking to Matt Klinman, a brilliant writer who I first met when I started organizing with the Writer's Guild of America. We get into that...

STEP SIX: EAT AN ENTIRE CASSEROLE. Have a weird unsettling dream that your demon watches like its favorite TV show, comfort a coworker, and then fail to help another because everything is futile. Have a total meltdown!

Two Thousand and Late is a production of Atypical Artists and executive produced by Patrick Ellis and Lauren Shippen. The show was created, written, and directed by Lauren Shippen, with the brilliant Octavia Bray as our script consultant. Our spectacular sound design is by the fabulous Jeffrey Nils Gardner, our dazzling original art was created by the first-rate Ellis Carson...

Hello havoc wreakers and welcome back to our little dose of hope every week. If you're just joining us, I'm Lauren Shippen, creator of Two Thousand and Late and, in an effort to balance out all the shitty stuff the audio drama tackles, I talked with some incredible artists, creators, and activists who are grappling with our twisted reality and doing hella cool stuff to counteract the bad.

This week, I'm speaking with Marisa Torelli-Pedevska, co-founder of the Inevitable Foundation. Inevitable is an extremely cool organization all about elevating disabled writers in Hollywood. Marisa and I talked...

STEP FIVE: HYPNOTIZE YOUR BOSS. Riding high off your success, try to convince your boss to ease up. Make sure to bask in the victory before things start to fall apart again.

Two Thousand and Late is a production of Atypical Artists and executive produced by Patrick Ellis and Lauren Shippen. The show was created, written, and directed by Lauren Shippen, with the brilliant Octavia Bray as our script consultant. Our spectacular sound design is by the fabulous Jeffrey Nils Gardner, our dazzling original art was created by the first-rate Ellis Carson Jones, and our rollicking theme...

Hello havoc wreakers and welcome back to our little dose of hope every week. If you're just joining us, I'm Lauren Shippen, creator of Two Thousand and Late and, in an effort to balance out all the shitty stuff the audio drama tackles, I talked with some incredible artists, creators, and activists who are grappling with our twisted reality and doing hella cool stuff to counteract the bad.

This week, I am completely honored to be talking with Jenny Pizer, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives and Special Counsel to the CEO at Lambda Legal. If you're not...

STEP 4: ARGUE WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND (AND YOUR DEMON). Lie about your demon, ignore your new coworkers, and get a stiff drink. And if you run into your harasser, don't apologize this time. For anything.

Two Thousand and Late is a production of Atypical Artists and executive produced by Patrick Ellis and Lauren Shippen. The show was created, written, and directed by Lauren Shippen, with the brilliant Octavia Bray as our script consultant. Our spectacular sound design is by the fabulous Jeffrey Nils Gardner, our dazzling original art was created by the first-rate Ellis Carson Jones, and our...

Hello havoc wreakers and welcome back to our little dose of hope every week. If you're just joining us, I'm Lauren Shippen, creator of Two Thousand and Late and, in an effort to balance out all the shitty stuff the audio drama tackles, I talked with some incredible artists, creators, and activists who are grappling with our twisted reality and doing hella cool stuff to counteract the bad.

This week, I'm talking with writer and educator Lux Alptraum, who has written about a myriad of fascinating topics, mostly focused around sex. Sex has always been a hot...

STEP 3: MAKE WORK FRIENDS. Bond in the break room, volunteer to talk to your boss, and fail to actually make anything better. Cap off the whole day by really, really freaking out your girlfriend.

Two Thousand and Late is a production of Atypical Artists and executive produced by Patrick Ellis and Lauren Shippen. The show was created, written, and directed by Lauren Shippen, with the brilliant Octavia Bray as our script consultant. Our spectacular sound design is by the fabulous Jeffrey Nils Gardner, our dazzling original art was created by the first-rate Ellis Carson Jones, and our...

Hello havoc wreakers and welcome back to our little dose of hope every week. If you're just joining us, I'm Lauren Shippen, creator of Two Thousand and Late and, in an effort to balance out all the shitty stuff the audio drama tackles, I talked with some incredible artists, creators, and activists who are grappling with our twisted reality and doing hella cool stuff to counteract the bad.

This week, I'm talking to TikTok sensation Meredith Lynch, who really knows how to find the funny in the worst bits of our society. I talk to her about...

STEP TWO: START A NEW JOB. Struggle with setting a combination for your locker, make a lukewarm ally, and, no matter what, do NOT talk about unions. Oh, also, be sure to avoid your girlfriend as much as possible.

Two Thousand and Late is a production of Atypical Artists and executive produced by Patrick Ellis and Lauren Shippen. The show was created, written, and directed by Lauren Shippen, with the brilliant Octavia Bray as our script consultant. Our spectacular sound design is by the fabulous Jeffrey Nils Gardner, our dazzling original art was created by the first-rate...

Hello havoc wreakers and welcome to our weekly dose of hope! In an effort to balance out all the rough stuff the audio drama tackles, I talked with some incredible artists, creators, and activists who are grappling with our twisted reality and doing hella cool stuff to counteract the bad.

This week, to start us off, I hopped on the mic with my dear pal Klaudia Amenabar to have a bit of a meta conversation about fandom and activism. Part of the aim of these bonus episodes is to inspire you, the listener, to take your love...

STEP ONE: HARASS A LANDLORD. It doesn't have to be your landlord, just a landlord. Ideally, a guy you went to high school with who still hates your guts and is being unreasonable to your best friend from the job you no longer have.

Two Thousand and Late is a production of Atypical Artists and executive produced by Patrick Ellis and Lauren Shippen. The show was created, written, and directed by Lauren Shippen, with the brilliant Octavia Bray as our script consultant. Our spectacular sound design is by the fabulous Jeffrey Nils Gardner, our dazzling original art...

THIS IS HOW TO PROCRASTINATE THE END OF THE WORLD (otherwise known as the nine circles of hell on earth)! What do you do when you're thirty-six years old and you've been possessed by a demon and been fired from your job? You don't let the demon possessing you bring about the apocalypse like it wants to.

CONTENT WARNING: This show contains all kinds of bad things: it's set in our modern day, which means it involves discussion of inept government, unfair business practices, labor abuse, small-mindedness, substance abuse, grief and loss, COVID, chronic illness, sexual harassment...

TWO THOUSAND AND LATE is a new dark comedy from the creator of The Bright Sessions. The 10 episode first season follows the story of thirty-six year old Harper who, at a dead-end in her life, is unexpectedly possessed by a demon sent to end the world. Harper isn't interested in the apocalypse, but maybe having a demon will help wake her up after years of sleepwalking through life. TWO THOUSAND AND LATE is an Atypical Artists production, executive produced by Patrick Ellis and Lauren Shippen. For more information about the show, go to harperandhavoc.com. If you'd like to...