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Dancing Stickman is a production company in Oakland, CA streaming radical imagination straight from the Town to your ears. Featuring collaborative storytelling podcasts in the form of actual plays, anthology series, and more.
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S4E1 Next 150: Huichiun 2175
The year is 2175. Despite the wars, trials, and upheavals of the early 21st century, humanity has managed to not only survive, but thrive. This unlikely outcome is largely attributed to a dedicated…
S3E8 Worldsbuilder: Status Report
How do I actually bridge the gap between "starving artist" and "sustainable creator"? In this update episode of Worldsbuilder, I’m pulling back the curtain on the business of creativity to share the…
S3E7 Worldsbuilder: Imagination Is For Everyone With Quinn Murphy
How do we move beyond the canon of traditional gaming to create spaces where every player feels empowered to participate and create? Prolific game designer Quinn Murphy of Thoughtcrime Games, shares…
S3E6 Worldsbuilder: Storytelling Starts At Home With Sam Bempong
I talk with Sam Bempong - multi-hyphenate film producer, creative entrepreneur, and community organizer - about what it takes to build the infrastructure for narrative film in your city. As a…
S3E5 Worldsbuilder: Art Is Magic
This episode is a reflection on the way art is used to manipulate reality, for good or ill. Trigger warning that this episode discusses the Epstein files, and the revelations the recent release have…
*BONUS* face-eating leopards (an original poem)
face-eating leopards OR FAFO Original poem by Sara Brink (2024) The spiritual community exhorts us at this time to stay grounded in our bodies, so I offer this prayer/curse/warning as a reminder of…
START HERE - Dancing Stickman
Welcome to Dancing Stickman! This isn’t a typical podcast feed. I’m Sara Brink, creative director, and here’s how it works: each season is a complete, standalone narrative or experiment, and you can…
S3E4 Worldsbuilder: Oops, All Witches Wrap Up
Ash, Annette, Andy, and I reunite to chat about the end of Oops, All Witches. We talk witches, gods, and monsters, using fiction to represent ideal real-world solutions, and what comes next for…
S3 Worldsbuilder: *BONUS* Be Good
In the wake of Renee Good's execution by the state, I have some things to say about American politics, art and fascism, and the expansion of our imaginations. Let's dream up a better world, and then…
S3E3 Worldsbuilder: Making the Weirder Choice With Ashlyn Sparrow
You may know her as Nia from Oops, All Witches, but game designer and scholar Ashlyn Sparrow sat down with me today to talk about transmedia games, the future of the game industry, and how games can…
S3E2 Worldsbuilder: Broken Sky Post Mortem
No better way to learn from one's mistakes than to publish them publicly on the internet, right? This is a breakdown of Broken Sky, a transmedia alternate reality game that I ran over July 2025. Join…
S3E1 Worldsbuilder: Leveling Up With Kenna Alexander
How do we make a living making art? Kenna Alexander from Coyote & Crow Games joins me to talk about how they bootstrapped a game company after their surprise $1 million Kickstarter campaign…
S2E5 Broken Sky: SOUL
Four Souls are drawn to the yawning Void at the center of their existences. Sarah Purcell as Minerva Annette Moran Lee as Ofelia Sara Brink and Jacob Wolf Lefton as the Game Masters This episode…
S2E4 Broken Sky: SPIRIT
*SPOILERS* for the Oops, All Witches finale, publishing 12/31/25. The strands of the Web draw a Wild Spirit and a Great Spirit to a captive trapped by the remnant of a vanquished god at its…
S2E3 Broken Sky: HEART
Three witches of the Heart converge in the depths of the unconscious between worlds. Ariella Weigl as Charley Oleander Mack as Emmett Sara Brink and Jacob Wolf Lefton as the Game Masters This…
S2E2 Broken Sky: Summer Solstice - Berlin
The sky is breaking. Something is watching. Jacob Wolf Lefton as Twin 2 Sara Brink as the Dungeon Master This episode is one of two inciting incidents of Broken Sky, a transmedia alternate reality…
S2E1 Broken Sky: Summer Solstice - Oakland
The sky is breaking. Something is calling. Sara Brink as Twin 1 Jacob Wolf Lefton as The Narrator This episode is one of two inciting incidents of Broken Sky, a transmedia alternate reality game…
S1E15 Oops, All Witches: Make Holy What Already Was (Arc 4, Part 5 of 5)
Every ending is a new beginning. Though the chapter closes with witches lost, the next is determined by their choices. Corruption, chaos, change, and a new order. We conclude the tale with women at…
S1E14 Oops, All Witches: Make Holy What Already Was (Arc 4, Part 4 of 5)
When bonds are broken, to whom falls the responsibility of repair? The Weaver makes, yes, but unmakes also. Is she the Void? Is she the Web? Is she You? The witches bear the burden of…
S1E13 Oops, All Witches: Make Holy What Already Was (Arc 4, Part 3 of 5)
Here at the center of the Web, reality converges, splits, converges again. The witches level up to their final form, an amalgamation made whole, a spirit made flesh. What story will they weave when…
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Dancing Stickman has published 33 episodes since February 2025, covering topics in Arts.
Dancing Stickman is currently moderate with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 45m.
