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Cast and Crew Memories Special - Part 1

May 10, 2024·30 min·2 clips

Virginia Spots, who wrote 32 episodes of the Sheridan Tapes, reveals she started working on the show while processing a devastating pregnancy loss during the pandemic.

The special opens with James Cain trying to put gratitude into words. Cain, who played Peter Slate, says the show meant enough to him that the memory is hard to pack neatly away. He looks back through email and lands on the audition trail in December 2020, the day after his birthday, when pandemic era audio drama stopped feeling like a passing experiment. The thread is community. Van Winkle and Virginia took a chance on him and handed him a character he remembers as warm, kind, considerate, and steady. It is a small memory, but it lands. Greg Vincegara comes in next with dry humor about voice type, age brackets, and the strange emptiness of online auditions. Then his story gets practical. Young Paul was not in the audition sides, but the creators heard something in his adult read and gave him room to work. That stuck with him, and his advice is blunt: send the read even when nobody seems to be looking for that voice. Brooklyn Andler follows with Episode 70. She names Child 1 in Lux y Veritas and remembers working with Virginia, Ollie, and the wider cast as an honor. Her comments turn toward the series itself, with mystery, action, complicated characters, and the Jersey Devil all part of why the session felt alive. Near the end, the archive gets less graceful. The closing stretch drifts from memory into podcast promotions, and the mood changes from shared reflection to regular feed business. Even so, the special works best as a handful of thank you notes from performers who found chances, roles, and a shared story inside the production.

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A warm Sheridan Tapes goodbye shaped by cast memories and quiet gratitude.

This Sheridan Tapes farewell piece is built from behind-the-scenes memories shared by James Cain, Greg Vincegara, and Brooklyn Andler. Cain looks back on auditioning in December 2020, finding more audio drama work during the pandemic, and the weight of leaving Peter behind.

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