In this episode we interview Cavan Hendron, creator and one of the book writers and lyricists of Borden: A New Musical, which reimagines the Lizzie Borden story through the eyes of Lizzie’s older sister, Emma, shifting the focus from the question of what happened on August 4, 1892, and toward the complicated family relationships, ambitions, sacrifices, and loyalties surrounding the story.

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In this episode we interview Kristofer Geddie, the Executive Director of Venice Theatre in Venice, Florida, the oldest community theatre in Florida, which is celebrating its 76th year in operation. Kris is also the director of Blood Relations by Sharon Pollock, a unique play about the Lizzie Borden case, which runs from October 9 to November 1 of this year.

Kristofer Geddie is Venice Theatre’s Executive Director after serving as Director of Diversity and General Manager. He holds a BFA in Musical Theatre and an MA in Arts Administration and has been seen performing on stages worldwide. In addition to Venice Theatre, Kris serves on the Ambassador Circle for Embracing our Differences, the personnel and Equity/Inclusion committees for Southeastern Theatre Conference, is the treasurer of the Florida Theatre Conference, the Florida State community theatre representative, a mentor for Take Stock in Children, and is thrilled to serve as a Board Member for Squeaky Wheel Theatre Group, Sarasota Arts and Cultural Alliance, Suncoast Black Arts Collaborative, and President for the American Association of Community Theatre.

In this episode we interview Steven Cheslik-deMeyer, who, along with Alan Stevens Hewett and Tim Maner, created the rock opera Lizzie, which is enjoying a world-wide production life, from its humble beginnings as a 45 minute, 4-song experimental musical, created for the tiny mythic theatre company in the 1990s. LIZZIE has grown to be a nearly two-hour, four-woman show, with a six-piece rock band, that has quite the cult following.

Steven is a lyricist, musician, author, and artist who is currently writing a book that combines memoir, family lore, and twentieth century queer history. He lives in New York City with his husband. You can read his blog at stevencheslikdemeyer.com

In this episode we interview with Derrick and Brian Belanger, publishers of Belanger Books, one of the world’s most prominent Sherlock Holmes publishers. Founded in 2015, they have an ever-expanding library of anthologies and novels. Derrick and Brian discuss their publishing house and areas of interest, as well as how Lizzie Borden fits into the Sherlock Holmes world.

In this episode we once again interview with Dennis Binette, co-author of many books published by the Fall River Historical Society, including The Knowlton Papers, Women at Work, the Fall River Discourses series, The Knowlton-Pearson Correspondence, The Jennings Journals, and Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie A Borden and Her Fall River.

Dennis discusses the stories of the people who helped make Parallel Lives the classic history of Lizzie Borden’s world. These anecdotes are priceless stories told by one of the preeminent authorities on the case and now the life of Lizzie Borden.

In today’s episode we explore where the archive and the imagination meet—sometimes in productive dialogue, sometimes in open confrontation. This is a place where documents matter, facts matter, but so does the question of what history feels like once it has passed through the human mind.

Our guest is Ric Rebelo, author and filmmaker, whose recent work spans an intense, prolific engagement with horror—particularly short fiction—alongside the release of three new books centered on one of the most relentlessly interpreted figures in American history: Lizzie Borden.

I’m joined today by Dr. C. Michael Hiam, author of Murder Aboard: The Herbert Fuller Tragedy and the Ordeal of Thomas Bram, a gripping new work of historical true crime.

This maritime mystery unfolded off the coast of Massachusetts, just three years after the trial of Lizzie Borden, and invoked startling parallels to the Borden case.

I’m joined today by the brilliant Anna Behrens, a devoted Sherlockian and fellow Lizzie Borden aficionado, for a conversation that explores an intriguing literary crossover: what happens when the world’s most famous fictional detective steps into one of America’s most infamous real-life murder cases?

We’re diving into four imaginative works that bring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to Fall River, Massachusetts, to investigate the 1892 Borden murders. We’ll look at Sherlock Holmes and the Incident in Fall River by D.A. Joy, Holmes and Watson by David Ruffle, Sherlock Holmes and the Fall River Tragedy by Owen Haskell, and Sherlock Holmes: The Maplecroft Message by Joe DeSantis.

You can purchase the books through the links below:

Sherlock Holmes and the Incident in Fall River by D.A. Joy

Holmes and Watson by David Ruffle

Sherlock Holmes and the Fall River Tragedy by Owen Haskell (out of print/ebay)

Sherlock Holmes: The Maplecroft Message by Joe DeSantis