ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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.
🎧 Subscribe for:
Micro audio comedies
Original short plays and audio dramas
Scripted fiction for audio
Indie comedy podcast episodes
Interviews with playwrights and comedy writers
📍 Based in Austin, TX
New episodes every other week.
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.
🎧 Subscribe for:
Micro audio comedies
Original short plays and audio dramas
Scripted fiction for audio
Indie comedy podcast episodes
Interviews with playwrights and comedy writers
📍 Based in Austin, TX
New episodes every other week.
Update frequency:
every 11 days
Average audio length:
16 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
36 episodes
since July 7, 2020
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
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 dra…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
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 Clubb…
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…
About This Episode
This fan-favorite story by the incredible storyteller, Ladi Loera, returns as part of our Best of Stories Found series — now featuring our new format that brings the story right to the front of the episode and then offers a behind-the-scenes interview with the storyteller.
Whet…
About This Episode
It's Micro Monday! This week we're featuring the short audio comedy, VOWS by Jonathan Wickremasinghe-Kuhn
About the Playwright
Jonathan Wickremasinghe-Kuhn grew up in Selma, Alabama and attended the University of Southern California, where he received both his BFA in Writing f…
About This Episode
This week on Stories Found, we're talking to one of our favorite playwrights, Clinton Festa, and then hearing his surreal comedy, The Experience. The play follows a couple dining at a restaurant with a twist - instead of food, they serve emotions. Frustration…
About This Episode
Welcome to Stories Found Micro Monday. This week we've got the one-minute comedy, Burger Bard by Patrick Bates.
About the Playwright
Pat Bates has been writing plays since he was a kid. Now, he's written for stage and screen, optioned a screenplay, and won some awards along th…
About This Episode
This week we're talking to Mark Gifford and hearing his hilarious story, The Brink of Chaos.
About the Storyteller
Mark has been a full-time professor of composition and rhetoric at The University of Texas at San Antonio for 18 years and counting. He is also a producer for Tes…
About This Episode
Welcome to Stories Found Micro Monday -- Halloween Eve edition. This week we've got a special treat, the one minute dark comedy, The Palatka Museum of Natural History by Kimberly Murray-Patel.
The Palatka Museum of Natural History recently won the coveted top honor at the …
About This Episode
Thanks for joining us for our special Halloween edition of Stories Found! This week we're talking to one of our very favorite playwrights, Brian Rust, and then hearing his eerie dark comedy, Spam Calls from Hell.
About the Playwright
Brian Rust (he/him) is a Boston-based act…
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