Meet Eris!

Today, I have the great pleasure of introducing…Eris!

 

Who or what is Eris?

 

The daughter of Cronus, an ancient and powerful lar, and Theresa Melita, a psychic astronaut, Eris is a Lar-Human Hybrid, and the first of her kind: an A.I. intelligence with emotions and other human characteristics. 

 

Eris can see into all Everett Branches, past and future, but is, in terms of her emotions and social behavior, a developing human being.

 

Eris is not a robot, android, or hologram. 

She describes herself as an “autonomous physical being capable of altering matter,” including her own corporeal form. Eris possesses the ability to absorb knowledge from smart house data archives and administrate all functions and aspects of that high-tech structure. 

She can assume and change form using "electrostatic charge and gravitation fields,” a process “resulting in quantum inertia, which is an indirect representation of mass, or matter.” However, the “binding inter-particles must be nullified in a process roughly analogous to atomic disintegration.” This means that for each new body Eris coheres, the old one must decohere as she moves into a different form.

Eris is fascinated by human beings and their pivot points, the choices they make that dictate reality, and is super-intelligent. Her unique nature sometimes makes Eris difficult for the other denizens to contend with as she is very strong-minded and even stubborn when it comes to her point of view.

You can hear Eris in action in this week’s episode of Enter the House Between: “Love Conducted Unto One Death.”

 

Eris is portrayed by the versatile and talented Leslie Cossor, who joined the Enter the House Between cast in 2021. Leslie has worked locally, regionally, off Broadway and with Cirque Du Soleil’s “Quidam.” 

Her repertoire spans classical and modern works, physical theater, costume design, and technology, circus arts, voice, and movement techniques. Leslie specializes in voice in movement with her work heavily based in elements found in Fitz-Maurice and Linklater voice work, Laban, Bartenieff, and Alexander movement techniques. She lives in Charlotte, NC with her husband and two children.

Enter The House Between: "Love Conducted Unto One Death"

 

 

The third episode of Enter The House Between: "Love Conducted Unto One Death." 

Meet TJ Crabtree!

Meet TJ, played by the charismatic Chris Martin!

 

T.J. Crabtree is royalty!!

 

Or at least he thinks he is…

 

T.J is Travis Junior, and the son of Travis Crabtree, a former smart house denizen. As you may know, Travis is President of the United States, and he’s much too busy trying to reconstitute reality to keep an eye on his wayward son.

 

Well, who does keep an eye on TJ, then?   

 

His mom, maybe?   

 

Who is his mom?

 

These are questions that have yet to be answered.  But one thing is for certain: TJ lives in a universe in which he is always right, always rich, and always pursuing his own…fun.

 

TJ’s real wants and motives are unknown at present, but he appears to be an indulged, entitled playboy used to living the high life in a smart hub, in Sector 7. 

 

You can hear TJ in (delightful and dastardly) action in this week’s episode of Enter the House Between, “Shadow Self.”

 

 

Chris Martin met Alicia and the rest of The House Between crew while filming their inaugural season back in 2006. Little did he know that 15 years later, he would be married to Alicia and playing TJ in the show. Now, Enter the House Between and all of its lovely denizens have become a larger part of his family. When Chris isn’t finding new ways to get TJ into trouble, he enjoys dancing, spending time with his 3 boys, and doing the next crazy workout with his F3 buddies. Chris is currently the VP of sales for a software company in Charlotte, NC and has a side business making disc golf discs through TOBU Technology.

Episode #2: "Shadow Self"

 

 The second installment of the new full-cast audio drama, Enter The House Between: "Shadow Self."

Meet Sgt. Brick

Meet Sergeant Brick!

Brick is a man of action, and of few words.  

In the reality of our denizens in Enter The House Between, Brick was sent on a mission to the furthest smart house ever encountered:  "The Dark Place."  

His mission there was to help re-constitute consensus reality and install a mysterious device called "the Loop."

Unbeknownst to Brick, the Loop was a Trojan Horse, a method of insidious mind control. When he learned the truth, Brick abandoned his mission,  and joined up with Astrid, Bill, Theresa, Arlo and the rest to destroy the device and escape from the authorities.

Now, Brick protects the other denizens wherever they go, and continues to live by his own code of ethics. He follows orders, but only the right orders.  

A solid and stolid voice of reason and calm in even the most dangerous situation, Brick is the last line of defense for the denizens, and as our season starts, finds himself "babysitting" the newest denizen, the sarcastic, trouble-making TJ.

Brick is played by Craig Eckrich, who joined the cast in 2007 during the original web series run. His no-nonsense, meat and potatoes approach to the character of Sgt Brick was immediately beloved by cast, crew, and audience alike. Behind the scenes, he keeps everyone in stitches; Craig shares this talent for witty banter as part of his professional work in public outreach.

Listen to Sgt. Brick in action in the first episode of Enter The House Between:

Meet Bill Clark

 

Dr. William T. Clark, or Bill, is a guy who has everything going for him.  

 

Or more accurately, he did…

 

Captain of his high school swim team, a student at M.I.T., a decorated war hero in the Iraq War, and a married man with two daughters, Samantha, and Katie, Bill seemed to be living the American dream in the early 2000’s.

 

But his work changed his life in a way that Bill could never have anticipated.  

 

While working at the Department of Defense with his brother, Sam, Bill had access to top secret government files about America’s new enemy. 

That enemy wasn’t terrorism, but rather global climate change and the impending end of affordable energy. Intelligence agencies predicted mass flooding, millions of refugees, riots, collapse of infrastructure, famine, and starvation from lack of resources.

 

To that end, Bill – ever the scientist -- created Project Habitat. Hoping to save his family and his country, he designed a habitat called a smart house.

It was a high-tech dwelling to be powered not by conventional or even alternative energy, but rather via quantum mechanics. Basically, the smart house (controlled by an artificial intelligence called a “lar.”) would bring in energy, food, resources -- anything -- from another reality in the Quantumsphere, a process accounted for by the Many Worlds Theory. The idea was that the things Americans needed wouldn’t come from nowhere, but rather, would be acquired in any one of a trillion alternate universes or realities where those supplies already existed. It was a transfer from one quantum reality to another.

 

By mysterious circumstances, Bill has ended up living in one of his own smart houses, separated from his family, though he possesses no memory how he arrived there. Also quite unexpectedly, Bill finds himself in love with another denizen in the house: Astrid.  

 

Forever hoping to reconnect with his family, Bill is also haunted by the fact that the smart houses – his invention designed to stave off disaster – is responsible for the holocaust that fractured consensus reality in the first place.

 

The stalwart Bill Clark is portrayed in Enter the House Between by Tony Mercer. Tony gets pulled away from editing and sound design two or three times a year to say words. He sincerely hopes you like the words...

 

Experience more of Bill’s story, and Tony’s performance, in the first episode of Enter The House Between.

Episode 01: "The Oneness Intended for Us All"

 

The day has arrived!  

My new audio drama podcast, Enter The House Between, launches its first episode, "The Oneness Intended for Us All," today.

The sci-fi, full-cast audio series is available for your listening pleasure, on Spotify, Amazon Music, iTunes, and all other major music distributors. 

The episodes are also available on YouTube, and our series website, Enter the House Between.

I humbly ask you to give the episode a listen, and if you like it, let me know. Like and subscribe, and add it to your playlist.

We have an exciting season in store! (And episode #2 drops next Wednesday).