Web Series Spotlight: Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party

Back in the fall of 2013, Shipwrecked Comedy, a sketch comedy channel on YouTube created by Yulin Kuang, Sinead Persaud and Sean Persaud, introduced their new mini web series “A Tell Tale Vlog,” which featured the aforementioned Sean as literary legend Edgar Allan Poe and Sinead as lady ghost Lenore, who haunts his study.

As of last week, Poe and Lenore are back in Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party, which will consist of 10 episodes. This new web series will focus on Poe – the master of the macabre and father of detective fiction – who invites his famous author friends, including Charlotte Bronte, Ernest Hemingway, Emily Dickinson and H.G. Wells (to name just a few) to a murder mystery dinner party that takes an unexpected turn when people start dying for real. While the main reason for the party is for Poe to desperately impress the object of his affection, Annabel Lee, the famous authors have to band together to find the killer among them.

The extensive cast includes:

Mary Kate Wiles, from The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Muzzled: The Musical as Annabel Lee
Joey Richter, from Muzzled: The Musical and School of Thrones, as Ernest Hemingway
Ashley Clements, also from The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Muzzled: The Musical, as Charlotte Bronte
Blake Silver, who has appeared in Hot in Cleveland and Monk, as HG Wells
Sarah Grace Hart, who has worked with Shipwrecked Comedy before and is a member of Upright Citizens Brigade, as Emily Dickinson
Lauren Lopez, a new transplant to LA and member of the Team Starkid theatre company, as George Eliot (aka Mary Ann Evans)
Margie Mintz, who produces theatre the LA’s Zephyr Theatre, as Agatha Christie
Whitney Avalon, from the successful Princess Rap Battle series, as Mary Shelley
Ryan Garcia, who has appeared in episodes of Pretty Little Liars and Jane the Virgin, as Eddie Dantes
Clayton Snyder, who appeared as Ethan Craft on Disney’s Lizzie McGuire, as Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jim O’Heir, from Parks and Recreation, as Constable Jim
Tom DeTrinis, co-founder and co-producer of 30 Minute Musicals, as Oscar Wilde
Jimmy Wong, from Video Game High School, as Constable Jimmy
Tara Perry, who starred in the Nickelodeon show The Fresh Beat Ban, as Louisa May Alcott
Jessica Jade Andres, from The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Emma Approved, as Krishanti

CORRECTION: Thanks to a Twitter heads-up from web series star and Executive Producer Mary Kate Wiles (SO very thrilled that she took the time to check out the spotlight and respond!), please note that Al Fallick, from Spies Are Forever, does appear as Mark Twain, but in a prologue to the web series. Sorry for the error!

The web series was made possible via a Kickstarter campaign, sponsored by thousands of people who raised over $72,000 for the production. A new episode will be released every Monday through October 31.

You can watch the first episode here and go to Shipwrecked Comedy’s You Tube page here to subscribe.

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