Creative Director

Dom Purdie is an audio engineer / music producer / composer based in the United Kingdom. He graduated from Bath Spa University in 2019 with BA in Creative Music Technology. Since then, he has worked as a freelance audio engineer for artists and producers, as well as working on audio for film with experience as a dubbing mixer, composer and sound designer. A project he was recently involved with is a short film titled “Scarlett Storm” which was selected for various film festivals. He has released electronic music under the name “Audiorate” as well as a non-musical sound art piece under his own name titled “Sticky Situation”.

Writer

Kevin Wetmore is a professor of Theatre Arts, an actor, director stage combat choreographer and award-winning author. He writes a good deal about popular culture, horror, science fiction, and their relationships to the larger social context.

He is a proud member of the Horror Writers Association and an author of numerous short stories as well.

A Connecticut Yankee now living in Los Angeles with stops on the way in the U.K. and Pittsburgh, Kevin also writes extensively on the film and theatre of Japan and Africa. He has also written about Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Shakespeare, Kabuki, zombie movies, and post-9/11 horror. He has more degrees than a thermometer, but hasn't let it go to his head. He hopes you enjoy his work, learn from the non-fiction and delight in the fiction.

Writer

Emma Huang is a writer, artist, and game developer based in Seattle, WA. Her work has appeared in Moonbow Magazine, Oneiroi Journal, and various other literary magazines and her horror short script The Smile Room was a semifinalist in the Killer Shorts Screenplay Competition. Currently, she is working with Team Patchwork on their indie game Dreamwalker. In her spare time, she enjoys collecting rubber ducks and reading about cryptography.

Senior Story Editor, Emeritus

Nicholas Thurkettle is a writer, actor, and filmmaker. His short films have played over 40 festivals around the world, winning awards such as Best Director, People’s Choice – Best Short Film, and Best Comedy Short.He has three books published – the short story collection Stages of Sleep, the sci-fi thrillers Seeing by Moonlight, and A Sickness in Time; the latter two co-written with M.F. Thomas. He is the co-producer of the award-winning horror romance feature A Ghost Waits, which was acquired for distribution by the boutique horror label Arrow Films. He is a writer, producer, director, and performer with the award-winning sci-fi/fantasy/horror anthology audio drama podcast Earbud Theater, as well as producer/head writer of their live stage spin-off.

www.nicholasthurkettle.com

Writer

Roseanne Sinclair is the creator, writer and host of the true crime podcast, Killafornia Dreaming. As a native of Southern California, her interest in crime began during the late 20th century rise of the serial killer, particularly along the western coast of the United States. This led to an interest in writing horror fiction and poetry. But she eventually shifted gears and refocused her studies, earning her BS in Human Development, and working in early childhood education for more than a decade. After taking a hiatus from work to focus on raising her family, she rediscovered her interest in crime through trial watching, crime tv shows and documentaries. But it was the burgeoning popularity of crime podcasts that really drew her back in. After a couple years of being an avid listener, in 2017 she decided to try her hand at creating her own show based on the stories that Anna Sahlstrom created.

Writer

Anna Sahlstrom is an actress/writer/producer originally from Vancouver, WA. She has been a principal in commercials for Adobe Creative Cloud and Karmora.com and has had roles on My Crazy Birth Story, Justice For All With Judge Cristina Perez, and many industrials and short films. She also wrote, produced and starred in the comedy shorts Pick Me!, Business Casual, and Super Break-Up. Her other film credits include the voice of the Neighbor in the English language dub of the film Chameleon, the indie thriller, Anti, and the docudrama, The Rite of Exorcism. The feature adaptation of her play, The Go-Girls, was a finalist in the 8x8 Screenwriting Competition. The pilot of her historical limited series, La Famille, made semi-finalist in the Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards. She received a Post-Graduate Certificate in Acting from Drama Studio London and a BA in Theatre from Loyola Marymount University.

Writer

Laura Townsend is a published essay writer, produced playwright, and accomplished screenwriter based in Los Angeles. Townsend graduated with a BA in Creative Writing and English from The University of Iowa. Following graduation, she earned a certificate in comedic television writing from UCLA. She placed as a Finalist at the 2019 Austin Film Festival for her original pilot, Driver’s Ed. In addition to My Dark Path, she is a writer and researcher for The Jury Room podcast and Let’s Start a Cult podcast. Her writing has been published in Marie Claire.

www.lauratownsend.com

@wonderscriptslt on Instagram and Twitter

Writer

Sam French is a Brooklyn based writer and director. NY stage credits include Kragtar (54 Below), The Alligator Play (Hudson Guild Theatre), Millicent Scowlworthy (Uncanny Valley), and Freaks (NYC Fringe). He is a former member of the Williamstown Theatre Festival directing corp, a former Robert Moss Directing Fellow at Playwrights Horizons, and a core member of Third Space Theater. He has previously written audio fiction for Brick Moon Fiction and Kidpod Theater. He is the co-host of the podcast Insert Movie Here: The Musical! in which he turns movies that shouldn't be musicals into them anyway. BFA in directing: Carnegie Mellon University.

Writer

Reseracher

A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with a deep passion for education and anything history related, Nicky Abraham is an undergraduate student currently studying History Education and Korean in Provo, Utah. This is Nicky’s second podcast, and he is very grateful to be working with the excellent staff and writers of My Dark Path. When not fact-checking Dark Paths he can be found reading Wikipedia, folk dancing with friends, writing short stories, and perusing local archives for primary sources.