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Director's Notes – Episode 130

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

Joseph and I have talked a lot about the notions of faith and veracity. For millennia, humanity has devised gods to explain what...

Director's Notes – Episode 129

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

Well, here I am. Doing my best to write to you in my sixth day of illness. During those days I have gone to Chicago to do the fi...

Director's Notes – Episode 128

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

These director’s notes are a few days late, and the reason is that I made a mistake and just didn’t write them. So apologies...

Director's Notes – Episode 127

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

The idea for this episode came about during a live stream. Over on the 2018-07-26 17:08:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Director's Notes – Episode 126

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

There was a guided meditation track I listened to once in the bathtub. You're standing in a calm ocean, near the shore. You visu...

Director's Notes – Episode 125

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

Whenever we write about Madeleine LaFleur and the Tourism Board, I get to thinking about what tourists in Night Vale are like.&n...

Director's Notes – Episode 124

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

This new episode reminded me to talk to you about pancakes.

I love pancakes. Everyone loves pancakes. Everyone, except the...

Director's Notes – Episode 123

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

We shifted to this new format of multi-part stories, rather than year long slow building arcs, for several reasons. The first, o...

Director's Notes – Episode 122

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

Hello from a jetlagged writer. I flew home from Sydney, Australia yesterday. We existed within February 15 for 43 hours, which i...

Director's Notes – Episode 121

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

I’m a firm believer in the use of limitations and random constraints in the making of art.

When I first moved to New Yor...

Director's Notes – Episode 120

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

Religions are scary. Lots of tales of people getting eaten by whales, or laughed at by God, or getting murdered by relatives, or...

Director's Notes – Episode 119

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

I am a fan of outtakes, first drafts and ideas that were floated but went nowhere (I gasp when thinking of Billy Wilder's 1961 p...

Director's Notes – Episode 118

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

New Zealand cares deeply about good coffee. Not iced coffee. They give no shits about iced coffee, which I learned when my frien...

Director's Notes – Episode 117

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

Joseph and I first met in 2009, shortly after he had moved to New York. I was writing and performing in a theater collective cal...

Director's Notes – Episode 116

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

One of the awful things about being in high school band is you have to go to pep rallies. This is, of course, more than balanced...

Director's Notes – Episode 115

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

Since you're obviously a fan of Welcome to Night Vale, I'm pretty sure you'd like to hear about gravel.

I live in a rural ...

Director's Notes – Episode 114

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

Not everyone in Night Vale ages normally. 

Jackie Fierro was 19 years old for many many years. Earl Harlan and Cecil ...

Director's Notes – Episode 113

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

Dessa wrote this episode, and I'd love to talk to you here about what an incredible writer she is, but you can experience that f...

Director's Notes – Episode 112

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

In high school, my friends and I invented a game where we would sit in the town park and compete to identify each person that dr...

Director's Notes – Episode 111

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

We are entering Night Vale’s sixth year. So it seemed as good a time as any to look back to the start and see how much has cha...

Director's Notes – Episode 110

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

Often, listeners of Welcome to Night Vale call our show "Lovecraftian." Often, I bristle at that because I don't love H.P. Lovec...

Director's Notes – Episode 109

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

We have a running joke that Jeffrey knows every person through his time working with the Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas. The bigg...

Director's Notes – Episode 108

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

Like Cal in episode 108, my mother had a 1980 Mercury Monarch, brick red, four doors. She and my dad bought it brand new. I was ...

Director's Notes – Episode 107

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This is an episode I’ve wanted to do for a long time, switching between two parallel versions of the same town. In my original...

Director's Notes – Episode 106

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

When we wrote the first Welcome to Night Vale novel, we got to tell the story of this town from the points of view of characters...

Director's Notes – Episode 105

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People ask about the visuals of Night Vale all of the time. What does Cecil really look like? What color is this or that charact...

Director's Notes – Episode 104

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

Fictional deaths are dramatic. The hero's best friend dies in a massive choreographed fight sequence. Or a symbol of innocence, ...

Director's Notes – Episode 103

(NOTE: As always, Director's Notes contain spoilers)

Growing up in the 80s, it was pretty common to spoof the clean-cut suburban culture of the 1950s. 80s music celebrated the digit...

Director's Notes – Episode 102

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It’s my fault you’re getting this a day late. Sorry! I’m on the road right now, in a super secret location doing some rese...