ADVENTURES IN NEW AMERICA - New Podcast From Night Vale Presents

Premiering on September 28, ADVENTURES IN NEW AMERICA is the first sci-fi, Afrofuturistic, political-satire buddy comedy, serialized for New Americans in a new and desperate time. The podcast follows the escapades of two mismatched African American best friends: a depressed man with cancer and a sociopathic criminal mastermind. Together, they embark on a supernatural Afrofuturistic adventure in a desperate attempt to survive the wilds of New New York.

Created and written by artist and filmmaker Stephen Winter (Jason and Shirley) and his longtime collaborator Tristan Cowen, the first season of ADVENTURES IN NEW AMERICA follows IA (Winter) - a fat, lonely, middle-aged curmudgeon who gets diagnosed with a terminal illness then fired for a pre-existing condition, and Simon Carr (Paige Gilbert) - a young, brash, trickster-sneak-thief and "sociable sociopath" who never takes no for an answer. IA and Simon take on a series of increasingly wild heists to get quick cash to pay for IA's medical treatment... then get ensnared in a secret cabal of tetchy terrorist vampire zombies from outer space who want to take over the world. Helping and hindering IA and Simon's progress are their respective love interests: Serena (Pernell Walker, The Deuce) - the escaped tempestuous royal daughter of a radical black separatist, who has turned to a life of crime to pay for her education - and Gertrude (Starlee Kine, Mystery Show) - a gorgeous and dryly-droll Jewish woman of uncertain age and origin, with a risky agenda of self-preservation all her own.

A production of Night Vale Presents, ADVENTURES IN NEW AMERICA is equal parts inspired by the celestial teachings of Sun Ra, Sanford and Son, the poetic fiction of Octavia Butler and the UNDERGROUND comic Cerebus the Aardvark. Translation: a veritable stew of stark horror, kitchen-sink melodrama, slamming door sex comedy and phantasmagoric Afrodiasporic fantasy. There will be musical numbers - and radical reflections on our dangerous, beautiful and heart-pounding world.

Stephen Winter and Tristan Cowen have been brothers and collaborators for 15 years and are equal parts Jamaican, Czech, Jewish, French and Cajun, but Stephen always marks "black" on the census, cuz, as many ADVENTURES IN NEW AMERICA characters comment, "you are what cops think you are."

ADVENTURES IN NEW AMERICA will be available for free on Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, and wherever listeners can access podcasts. Listeners can find more information at adventuresinnewamerica.com and nightvalepresents.com.

Stephen Winter is an award-winning artist and filmmaker whose 2015 film Jason and Shirley was called "one of the year's finest" by Richard Brody (The New Yorker) and had a two-week run at MoMA in New York. His 1996 debut film Chocolate Babies premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and enjoyed a 2016 revival at New York's Anthology Film Archives. Stephen produced Jonathan Caouette's landmark "narci-cinema" documentary Tarnation (A.O. Scott, New York Times), which premiered at Sundance, Cannes, LAIFF and NYFF. His music videos include "It's Different For Girls" by of Montreal, "Speculum Orum" by M. Lamar, and the upcoming "Bad Friend" by Cheese on Bread. Stephen has worked creatively with Lee Daniels on The Butler, The Paperboy, Precious, Shadowboxer, John Krokidas (Kill Your Darlings), John Cameron Mitchell (Shortbus, Hedwig & The Angry Inch), David France (Justice For Marsha, How To Survive A Plague), Bridey Elliott (Clara's Ghost), Xan Cassavetes (New York I Love You, Kiss of the Damned), Zoe Cassavetes, Allen Hughes, Gus Van Sant and Steve Harvey. Stephen has taught revolutionary cinema at Cornell University, Pratt University, Brooklyn College and Williams College.

Night Vale Presents, a partnership between Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor and Christy Gressman, is a podcast network dedicated to a vision of boundary-pushing and original podcasting. Founded in 2015 by Fink and Cranor, creators of the genre-defining fiction podcast Welcome to Night Vale, Night Vale Presents is dedicated to developing and producing podcasts by artists who have never worked in the format before, bringing diverse perspectives to a continually evolving medium.

Including Welcome to Night Vale, our shows Alice Isn't Dead, Within the Wires, The Orbiting Human Circus (of the Air), Conversations with People Who Hate Me, It Makes A Sound, I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats, Sleep With Me, Pounded In The Butt By My Own Podcast and Good Morning Night Vale, are downloaded over 5 million times per month and are listened to in almost every country in the world. Night Vale Presents is a pioneer of live podcast touring, having produced over 300 live events in 35 U.S. states and 16 countries.

For more information, go to www.nightvalepresents.com.

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