Night Vale Presents Launches ‘Good Morning Night Vale’
Today, Night Vale Presents launches the first episode of Good Morning Night Vale, a talk show dedicated to the thrilling and strange podcast Welcome to Night Vale. The show is hosted by cast members Meg Bashwiner, Symphony Sanders and Hal Lublin, who will take a weekly deep dive into an episode of Welcome to Night Vale, starting with the very first from 2012. Episodes will feature interviews with the cast and creators, revealing origin stories, behind-the-scenes trivia and more never-before-heard information.
Welcome to Night Vale is a twice-monthly fictional podcast presented as a radio show. The episodes are done in the style of community updates from the small desert town of Night Vale. It features local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff’s Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers and cultural events. The show has grown to have a cult following, and has produced sold-out live shows across the globe, multiple novels and an audiobook, plus a multitude of fan fiction, fanscripts, fan art and cosplay. A television adaptation on FX is also currently in the works.
If you want to start listening but don’t know where to begin, check out this starter guide to steer you in the right direction. If you’re familiar with the show, you might recognize the Good Morning Night Vale hosts — Meg Bashwiner plays the role of Deb and the Proverb Lady in Welcome to Night Vale, Symphony Sanders plays Tamika Flynn and Hal Lublin plays Steve Carlsberg. Join the hosts as they provide a guide to the friendly desert community and dissect all the spooky and the weird.
From Meg Bashwiner, co-host of Good Morning Night Vale, tour director at Night Vale Presents, and the Proverb Lady and voice of Deb on Welcome to Night Vale:
“Making Good Morning Night Vale is such a treat. We are so excited to share this show with Welcome to Night Vale fans and engage them in conversation. The recording sessions have been hilarious, super weird and thought provoking in a way that only the phenomenally brilliant and weird subject matter can inspire. At times, the conversations feel like we are chatting and joking with each other from the comfort of backstage greenroom before a live show, other times it feels like we are in a Welcome to Night Vale symposium dissecting the storytelling structure and themes. Symphony, Hal and I look forward to inviting new and old Welcome to Night Vale fans into our fun and thoughtful behind-the-scenes, in-depth discussions, not to mention our bizarre tangents that show off what the inside of our strange minds look like.”
Check out the first episode:
