Purgatory, Missouri

Winner of the 2025 ARKast award for Best Drama podcast, “Purgatory, Missouri” is a suspenseful and darkly comic supernatural mystery/drama that explores the boundaries of consciousness and questions our day-to-day reality. What is a dream? What is the Afterlife? Can they collide? It features atmospheric and immersive sound design, a large professional cast and is based on the Dark Americana songs of Stuart Pearson and Hunter Lowry.

It stars Dave Foley (Kids in the Hall, Fargo), Mindy Sterling (Austin Powers, The Goldbergs), Crissy Guerrero (In the Heights, American Mariachi) and Alina Foley (The Spy Next Door, The League). In “Purgatory, Missouri”, an epileptic woman falls into a coma and finds herself in a grimy, rundown carnival, where the sky is grey and danger is everywhere. Each Newcomer gradually loses their memories of who they were while the carnival itself seems to be ripping apart. Why do people meander aimlessly in a constant state of terror? Trouble is everywhere - are you ready? You can find out more about the show and the Dark Americana songs it was based on at purgatorymissouri.com .

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