It’s Your Funeral Podcast

Dominick Varney, Drag Queen, actor, singer, playwright and Director of Advising & Success Programs with the College of Education & Human Development at the University of Maine joins us on stage for our premiere LIVE SHOW at the Next Generation Theatre in Brewer, Maine.  Dominick steps outside his Priscilla Poppycocks persona and shares how his glamorous alter ego came into being, providing him the voice to turn a horrible personal loss into an experience of hope and joy for everyone. Maizie Wyman, Funeral Director and episode sixteen guest returns for a post mortem, answering all of our audience's dying questions. Special guest appearances from previous episodes include Rich Kimball, Jen Shepard, Allen Adams, Michelle Weatherbee and Jason Preble.   SKELETON CREW:  Ty Wright (Audio Engineer), Gracie Livingston Kramer (Stage Manager), Jeannie Bauer (Design Consultant), Luci Kuykendall (Digital Research) and Maeve Kuykendall (Tickets & Merch). WRITTEN BY:  Adam Küykendall and Allen Adams MUSIC BY: Soundroll at Uppbeat.io SPONSORED BY: SKTours, Orono Brewing Co., The Emporium, Nocturnem, The Rock Team, Forecastle Tattoo and Downtown with Rich Kimball.

Dennis Price, Caretaker, Comic, Improviser, Actor and good karma farmer shares his harvest of love, joy and wit–all things a healthy body needs to live a rich and full life.  He’s so tasty you’ll want to sop him up with a biscuit.

Bob Libbey, Certified Public Accountant, retiree, part-time resident, tennis enthusiast and globetrotter–has a layover at our DEADEYE studio, en route to his next destination, to sum up his life.  His family lineage and lifestyle raise the question: Where are any of us truly from?  It might depend more on where you're going.

Nahisha Simon, Educational Technician, Haitian immigrant, American citizen and mother shares her trials and tribulations of a life transplanted from one world into the next, finding peace in the turmoil and an attitude that no one who dies is ever really gone.  You can take that as a comfort or a threat.  'Cause you know what you did.

Ben Layman, Ghost Hunter, actor, artist, teacher, and horror enthusiast takes us to his magic place just outside Derry and beyond the grave.  Despite liking things dark and gloomy you can't miss his distinctive light and warmth whenever you’re in his company.

Maizie Wyman, Funeral Director, server, mom and partner pulls back the mortuary curtain for a special viewing of her body of work guiding mourners through their grief while breathing life back into the recently departed.

Stewart Levine, Gastro Garage and PB Jam Band Sandwich Shoppe Founder, chef, actor, husband, father, entrepreneur, and Indiana Jones/Star Wars enthusiast joins us from his Atlanta home to share his recipe for a delicious life full of spice.  The secret ingredient is fire.

Michelle Weatherbee, Real Estate Broker, actress, wife and mother holds an open house in our living room studio offering a down payment on a good deed death.  She waved the finder’s fee.  We already knew her.

Grace Livingston Kramer, Administrative Specialist / wife / mother / director / dancer / actress / mentor / among many, many other talents shares with us her curious wonder at the wide world around her.  Why be just one thing when the buffet of life has so much to offer.  Time to load up your plates and say Grace!

Mike Abernethy, International Educator, husband, improv actor and world traveler maps out a life journey filled with minimal attachments packed for maximum experience.  TRAVEL TIP:  Souvenirs are for chumps.