PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND Two eras. One darkness.BASED ON THE ORIGINAL SCRIPTED PODCAST Created by Hayle · Huggins · Szadkowski↓
41°49′ N 71°25′ W
OLD MONEY.NEW HORRORS.HUMAN PROBLEMS.
01 / THE STORY
A way back. A way in.
Some secrets don’t stay buried.
A disgraced journalist comes home chasing redemption. A troubled psychic sees a killer she can’t escape. And Providence’s oldest families will do anything to keep their secrets.
When ritualistic murders shake the city, Gray Sheridan and Harper Zeleker uncover a generations-old occult conspiracy—with disturbing ties to Gray’s own family. The story that could save his reputation may destroy everything else.
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A killer to catch.
A body becomes a living beehive. Each new murder is more elaborate. Each one is building toward something.
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A society to expose.
Behind the money and the manners, the Socium Obscura pursues the one thing wealth can’t buy: power over death.
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A past to survive.
The 1930s are more than a backstory. They are the fuse burning beneath the present.
Cosmic horror. Human dysfunction.
They aren’t seasoned paranormal investigators. They’re imperfect people making questionable decisions in an impossible situation. The dread is real. So is the dark humor.THE X-FILES’ skeptic–believer tension meets WIDOW’S BAY’s eccentric New England unease.
02 / TWO VIEWS OF PROVIDENCE
Same city. Different ghosts.
Choose a timeline. Watch the city change.
NOW
Charm on the surface. Rot underneath.
Prestigious universities, crooked history, eccentric charm. Contemporary Providence is a small, gritty city enjoying a renaissance—but the habits of its most powerful families haven’t entirely disappeared.
THE INVESTIGATION BEGINS HERE
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLANDTHE PRESENT
03 / THE PEOPLE IN THE DARK
No one comes without baggage.
Beautifully flawed. Spectacularly unprepared.
Seven lives. A century of secrets. Select any name below to open their dossier. ↓
DOSSIER 01 / 07
The disgraced journalist
Gray Sheridan
He made up his last story. This one might kill him.
Once a celebrated investigative journalist, Gray is exposed for fabricating his memoir about the illegal organ trade. He returns to Providence to settle his late grandfather’s estate—and finds a murder that could resurrect his career.
Reveal their secret +
His grandfather’s mementos document an occult society suspiciously well. The story Gray is chasing may have been his family’s story all along.
Character imagery conveys the intended look and tone. Television casting is not attached.
Meet the supporting characters +
Officer Treyshawn Stokes
A disciplined Providence cop from Central Falls. The investigation forces him to choose between protecting his career and doing what’s right.
Officer Eric DeSantos
A capable officer with a volatile private life. Through the Socium, he gains access to power far beyond his badge—and becomes a dangerously unpredictable instrument of Holland’s ambitions.
04 / BUILT TO GO DEEPER
Four seasons. An expanding mythology.
The first murder is just the beginning.
Each season brings a new central threat. The family secrets and consequences keep growing.Choose a season below to explore its story. ↓
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SEASON 01
The Apiarist
A murder is only the beginning.
A corpse transformed into a living beehive brings Gray, Harper, and Delilah together. As the ritual murders escalate, their uneasy investigation collides with the Socium’s parallel hunt for the killer.
For Gray, a shot at redemption. For Harper, a threat inside her own mind. For Delilah, the unmaking of everything she thought she knew.
MADE FOR THE SCREEN
A world you can feel.
Decaying mansions. Art Deco interiors. Clandestine clubs. Ritual tableaux. Creatures envisioned through practical effects and makeup.
The two timelines give the series a visual language of its own: modern grit against old-world opulence, with something impossible breaking through both.
PRACTICAL HORROR. A WORLD WITH TEXTURE.
05 / ALREADY ALIVE IN AUDIO
A completed first season. A creative foundation.
Hear the world. See the potential.
12 audio episodes. A full cast. A world already brought to life.
Dark Providence began as a fully produced, serialized audio drama. The complete 12-episode audio season establishes the characters and mythology, with room to reimagine and expand the story for television.
Performers in the existing audio series. Television casting is not represented here.
Explore the wider audio ensemble +
Mark Larson
Officer Treyshawn Stokes
Zdenko Martin
Officer Eric DeSantos
Susannah Rogers
Vanessa Ashcroft / Phaedra Celeste
Patrick Hayle
Sgt. John Murphy
Marta Cross
Chief Lucia Benevides / Carmen Almazan
Bryan Cogman
Malcolm Sidwell / Dr. Ernst Bauer
Matt Golden
Martin Stein
Samara Bay
Jenna Reyes
Becca Lish
Older Merle / Viv
Jake Cogman
Kai Perry
Angela K Thomas
Dr. Cooley / CSI Tech
Tony Torn
Cyrus Whately
Lisa Beth Birnbaum
Amy Sutton
Mickey Solis
Eli Rare / The Ancient Voice
Susannah Hoffman
Mistress Violet / Ruby Redd
36,000+STREAMS / FIRST 5 MONTHS¹
Top 3%GLOBAL LISTEN SCORE²
4.8★AUDIENCE RATINGS³
30×SOCIAL GROWTH / FIRST 5 MONTHS
Audience milestones reported by Chaos Assembly; figures are historical. ¹ Total streams, not necessarily unique listeners. ² Per Listen Notes. ³ Aggregate across podcast platforms.
“Your show is incredible; I haven’t been so invested in a new work in years!”— Kate Byrd, Patreon supporter
Original genre entertainment about people who get in way over their heads. Supernatural mysteries, horror, science fiction—and stories built to grow from audio to screen and beyond.
INDEPENDENT BY DESIGN
Human imagination. A world with room to grow.
Chaos Assembly brings writers, performers, illustrators, and producers together to create original stories. The studio builds across audio, art, and live performance, with the creators staying close to the work.
Dark Providence already has an illustrated world and an audience-facing archive of in-world documents, creator conversations, and behind-the-scenes material.
A writer, director, designer, and actor with degrees in theatre and broadcasting from Marquette University. His dystopian Macbeth adaptation was a Script Pipeline First Look finalist; other projects placed highly in PAGE and BlueCat. A co-written pilot was one of 16 projects selected from more than 4,000 entries for Imagine Entertainment’s Impact3 incubator.
02Clark HugginsArtist / Co-creator+
A RISD-trained illustrator whose work has appeared in Spectrum, Imagine FX, and Infected by Art. He created Reckless Deck, raising more than half a million dollars across two Kickstarter campaigns, and served as Creative Director of Heromaker Studios and Senior Art Director for GravyStack. He holds an MFA in Acting from the A.R.T. Institute at Harvard.
03Zuzanna SzadkowskiActor / Writer / Co-creator+
Known for Dorota in Gossip Girl, Mabel Ainsley in The Gilded Age, and Nurse Pell in The Knick. A Barnard alumna with an MFA from the A.R.T. Institute at Harvard, she co-authored the Dark Providence pilot, has written plays and screenplays, and has appeared in The New York Times’ Modern Love column. Her teaching work includes acting at NYU Tisch.
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