Candy Claus, Private Eye
Dramatized Comedy Christmas Series
Santa’s bastard daughter solves hardboiled Christmas crimes on the North Pole in this half-hour audio comedy. Candy is a death-metal-loving, peppermint-schnapps-swilling PI trying to solve the North Pole’s first murder in 500 years without learning the true meaning of Christmas. A sendup of toxic positivity and prodigal homecomings, the show introduces characters like SANTA BLOB (a deformed snowman built as a surrogate Santa Claus), MOPPET (a gingerbread man baker conscripted as a pathologist) and GUMDROP THE WINTER SQUID (a Krampus-esque calamari committing unspeakable acts on the seafloor).
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For Whom the Jingle Bell Tolls – Candy Claus, Private Eye
Season 1, episode 1. Santa's bastard daughter is a Christmas-hating private eye who stumbles into investigating the North Pole's first murder in 500 years. Written and directed by Ella Gale. Producer: Dillon Magrann-Wells Sound supervision and sound design: Sarah Gibble-Laska Composer and musician: Gillian Beth Durkee Candy: Aly Dixon Minty: Moujan Zolfaghari Santa: Kyle Kinane Narrator: John Ennis Police Officer: Rudy Schultz Marmalade: JoAnn Schinderle Yuli: Jordan Doll ATC: Dillon Magrann-Wells Additional sound editing: Nathalie Escudero, Natalie Cordero, and Zachary Spiezer Dialogue editing: Ella Gale Sound recording: Dillon Magrann-Wells Singers: Gillian Beth Durkee, Alycia Scott, Meredith Strang