By supporting BlueLife, you become part of the journey — helping us create, share, and expand a story that explores humanity’s will to survive, even when the odds seem impossible. Welcome to BlueLife.

Rewards:

$15 — Digital Access Pass
Digital wallpaper + behind-the-scenes group link

$30 — Sticker Pack Bundle
Digital access + 3-pack of stickers

Physical rewards will be shipped ASAP. Please expect a month before receiving them.

Origin:

BlueLife has been over two decades in the making — a story born from pure imagination and a love of worldbuilding. In 2001, Mark first dreamed up the idea in the form of a fax-based role-playing game with friends, where assassins hunted each other for a mysterious substance called BlueLife. Years later, while studying film noir at Emerson College, Mark wove the idea into audio dramas and short films, each time pushing the world further into the future. In 2016, fate and friendship brought Mark and playwright Kenneth B. Heaton together with a shared goal: to create a rich, character-driven sci-fi story told through the intimacy of sound. Over the next decade, they built the world of BlueLife episode by episode — a gritty, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles where power, survival, and humanity collide.

BlueLife Fax RPG Map/Rules/Character Sheet
provided by Cody Fitch

Production:

In 2021, BlueLife found its first audience at the Austin Film Festival, where the completed first season script became a semifinalist in the Fiction Podcast competition. The festival hosted a live performance of the first three episodes, directed by Mark, and the audience’s reaction — excitement, curiosity, and a hunger for more — proved they had created something special. Knowing the soundscape would be as important as the script, Mark and Ken searched globally for a sound designer, ultimately finding Rachel Boyd, whose creativity and technical brilliance transformed the series. With Rachel’s soundscapes guiding our talented cast — including Mapuana Makia, Joel Marsh Garland, Donna Jay Fulks, JillMarie Lawrence, and many more — the world of 2088 Los Angeles came alive.

BlueLife Logo

Designed by Fae Briar
Inspired by Katie Heaton

Meet the Creators:

Production Team BlueLife

Mark Vashro (Producer/Director/Story by): Mark is an award-winning filmmaker and actor. He is most known for his Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winning short film, Thunder Road. He has also won Best Director at the Boise Film Festival for his cross-country bicycling documentary, Bike Against the Wind. After several years of producing feature films in Massachusetts, Louisiana and California he moved into the world of audio drama as the director for the Bay Area Radio Drama’s Sci-Fi series, Dark Matter: Last Transmissions from Echo Base. As an actor, he continues to perform in theater and other media projects.

Kenneth Heaton (Writer): Kenneth recently completed the feature screenplay, The Dead Beat, based on his play, The Ontological Detective, which he also directed in an off-Broadway production. Other New York productions include Departures at Ecole Internationale de New York, and En Vino Veritas at La Mama. In San Francisco, his short play The Polling Place was presented as part of “Demos Kratos Theatro,” by the Utopia Theatre Project, and Abducted was a finalist in Short Lived VII at PianoFight. His play, Mustard Seed, won the Southern Playwrights Competition Award. War and Civility received a Greater Phoenix Critics Circle award and was later presented at the Summer Stages Festival in Tulsa. As an actor, he appeared with Hugh Laurie in Chance on Hulu, and as Ray in the Academy Award nominated short, The Letter Room. He is a member of SAG, AEA, and The Dramatists Guild.

Rachel Boyd (Audio Producer/Sound Designer): Rachel is an audio professional with two music degrees and over a decade of experience. She is known for recording various musical ensembles, her work in public radio, and production work on the audio-drama podcasts Codename: Blank!, Hearing the Haunted, and Fear Daily. Rachel is an active musician with a penchant for storytelling.

BlueLife

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