The Ballad of Dena & Andrea

“The Ballad of Dena & Andrea” is a podcast featuring original murder ballads and conversations in reaction to the story of Andrea Yates and Dena Schlosser, two women who murdered their children in the early 2000s.

Host Becky Poole was originally drawn to this story when she learned that Dena and Andrea ended up as roommates, briefly, in a North Texas mental institution. She soon discovered that their lives had been heading in the same tragic and preventable direction for years. Poole wrote an album in the style of Appalachian murder ballads and Americana to create empathetic myths about these mothers.

With this podcast, she invites artists, colleagues, and friends to have conversations in reaction to the story - covering topics like religion, mental health, women's health, misogyny, our failing justice and healthcare systems, motherhood, creating work about tragedy, and more. Each episode includes a bit of Dena and Andrea's story, an interview chat, and an original song. Not a classic true crime doc but myth-making by ballad with honest conversations. Please join us to discover what might come up for you.

Guest

Carly DW Bones

Carly DW Bones (they/she) is a theatre director, intimacy coordinator, sex educator, community facilitator, mental health advocate and thespomancer. They work at the intersections of performance, ritual, sexuality, gender, community, and trauma-sensitivity. Carly has directed at: Coin & Ghost, The Echo, ESTLA, The Illyrian Players (founder), Inkwell Theater, Kayenta Center for the Arts, The Road, Rogue Artists Ensemble, The Vagrancy, the Hollywood & Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, and more. She is a freelance intimacy coordinator for professional theatre companies (A Noise Within, Antaeus, Boston Court, Coeurage, Coin & Ghost, East West Players, EST LA, Ghost Road, Greenway Court, IAMA, Moving Arts, The Road, Skylight, Son of Semele, StarKid), university theatre programs (CSULA, CSULB, Emerson LA, Occidental College, UCLA, USC, Pomona College), and film (Hypochondriac, Serpentine Pink, Next of Kin, My Life Stopped at 15).

https://thespomancer.com/

Guest appearance on:

Garden in Kerrville - 08 - With Educator/Facilitator/Artists Carly DW Bones & Zach Bones