Stories Found is an Austin-based comedy podcast and production company creating original, high-quality comedy for audio drama and live performance.
Our show features scripted comedy shorts, hilarious audio plays, and behind-the-scenes looks at the writing and production process. Every episode showcases the work of an emerging comedy writer, brought to life by professional actors and sound designers.
About the Hosts
Ava Love Hanna is a playwright, author, and award-winning storyteller obsessed with comedy and character-driven scripts. She is continually amazed by how often she is mistaken for a real grown-up.
Paul Hanna is an audio engineer, musician, and performer who brings the laughs to life with expert sound design.
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📍 Based in Austin, TX
New episodes every other week.
It’s Micro Monday, and this week we’re bringing you a short comedy where the BPM is high but the emotional stability is low.
It’s The Beat Drop — a hilarious and delightfully awkward one-minute play by Bethany Dickens Assaf.
Bethany Dickens Assaf is an award-winning playwright, director, and dramaturg based in Orlando, Florida. Her latest full-length play, Slaymaker, received a United Arts of Central Florida grant and will premiere in August 2025.
Bethany is both a personal and audience favorite, and we’re thrilled to feature her work on Stories Found again. Keep an eye out for a longer piece by Bethany later this season — be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss it.
Find more of her plays on the National New Play Network’s New Play Exchange:
https://newplayexchange.org/users/21483/bethany-dickens-assaf
Credits
Written by: Bethany Dickens Assaf
Logan: Gabriella Headley
Jay: Manuel Solis-Bauza
Audio Engineer & Sound Designer: Paul Hanna
Host & Producer: Ava Love Hanna
Episode Art: Ava Love Hanna
Support + Connect
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Stories Found is an independent podcast recorded at ELA Studios in Austin, Texas.
21 Jul 2025
The Balcony - Allison Page
About This Episode
It’s Micro Monday and this week we're headed to fair Verona with the wonderfully weird and hilarious short comedy, The Balcony by Allison Page.
About the Playwright
Allison Page is a writer & comedian in Nashville, Tennessee. She was a semifinalist for the 2025 Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission for There Have Been a Series of Miracles at Shrieking Ridge, and was a proud 2024 Tennessee Playwrights Studio Fellow with her play Roberta at the Bottom of the Pool. Her most recently published play, The Pyramid, is available from YouthPLAYS, and she has also been published by Penguin Australia and EXIT Press. You can find many of her scripts on the National New Play Network’s New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/3403/allison-page
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Credits:
Written by Allison Page
Juliet: Tonie Knight
Romeo: Joe Llorens
🎧 Audio Engineer & Sound Designer: Paul Hanna
🎙️ Host & Producer: Ava Love Hanna
🎨 Episode Art: Ava Love Hanna
Support + Connect
👉 Don’t forget to subscribe, review, and share the show—it helps new listeners find our indie audio dramas!
💛 Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesfound (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesfound)
💛 Want to be a guest? Visit us at https://storiesfound.com (https://storiesfound.com/)
💛 Find us on: Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube!
📍 Stories Found is an independent podcast recorded at ELA Studios in Austin, Texas.
7 Jul 2025
History in the Making - Clinton Festa
About This Episode
It’s Micro Monday, and we’re bringing you a fast, funny audio comedy: History in the Making by Clinton Festa!
History in the Making was the 2023 Cary Playwrights’ Forum Playslam winner.
About the Playwright
Clinton Festa started his career as a cartoonist and writer for his campus humor magazine. His plays have been produced nationally, in Canada, and in the UK, and are published in several anthologies. His scripts for seniors are published with ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center. He wrote and directed a seven-episode podcast series called The Malone Family in the Enchanted Forest. He runs an online book drive for inmates at prisons and juvenile detention centers called Sentences Book Donations. Clinton lives in Greensboro, NC with his wife and children.
👉 Check out Clinton’s other plays on Stories Found:
The Experience: https://storiesfound.com/episode-21-the-experience-clinton-festa/
Picky Zombies: https://storiesfound.com/episode-10-picky-zombies-clinton-festa/
Follow Clinton:
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/sentencesbookdonations)
Goodreads
NPX (https://newplayexchange.org/users/74998/clinton-festa)
Credits:
Written by Clinton Festa
MAX: Joe Llorens
DAVE: Paul Hanna
🎧 Audio Engineer & Sound Designer: Paul Hanna
🎙️ Host & Producer: Ava Love Hanna
🎨 Episode Art: Ava Love Hanna
Support + Connect
👉 Don’t forget to subscribe, review, and share the show—it helps new listeners find our indie audio dramas!
💛 Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesfound (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesfound)
💛 Want to be a guest? Visit us at https://storiesfound.com (https://storiesfound.com/)
💛 Find us on: Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube!
📍 Stories Found is an independent podcast recorded at ELA Studios in Austin, Texas.
Who has been a guest on Stories Found
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
Jonathan Wickremasinghe-Kuhn
Joe Llorens
Manuel Solis-Bauza
Reach and audience
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YouTube views
3,134
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
8 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
Quality
79
Social presence
0
YouTube
68
Engagement
32
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