Dry Run: A Memoir by Nikki MacCallum
Produced by Lambo Productions, LLC (Broadway: "A Christmas Carol," 5 Tony Nominations), DRY RUN is a 26.2 episode serial podcast that compares the challenges of running a marathon to the struggles of alcohol addiction. It's an audio version of Nikki MacCallum's memoir that was released by Auctus Publisher's in 2019 and featured on CBS. Mirroring the book's format, each episode represents a mile of the marathon MacCallum ran as a Hail Mary pass of communication to her father, a recovering alcoholic and thirty-two-time marathoner himself, after he experienced a near death relapse. With original music by Brandon James Gwinn, DRY RUN features a cast of fifty-one (Casting by Tessa Faye Talent, LLC) and is narrated by author, Nikki MacCallum. The piece is directed by Nikki MacCallum and edited and engineered by Emily Crain.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 28
- Years Active
- 2021
MILE 8
During mile 8 of the Providence Marathon, adult Nikki receives a mystery phone call while high-school aged Nikki is traumatized at The Cheesecake Factory.
This episode is narrated by Nikki MacCallum…
MILE 7
Adult Nikki starts to become delirious during mile 7 of the Providence Marathon while a high-school aged Nikki comes home from school to find her mother teaching piano and her father in bed.
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MILE 6
Adult Nikki attacks the sixth mile of the Providence Marathon while a seventh-grade Nikki goes Christmas shopping with her dad at the North Shore Mall.
Narrated by Nikki MacCallum, this episode feat…
MILE 5
At Mile 5, an adult Nikki examines how her choice to run a marathon may be a PLD (poor life decision), while a twelve-year-old Nikki visits her father at rehab.
Narrated by Nikki MacCallum, this epis…
MILE 4
At Mile 4 of the Providence Marathon, adult Nikki battles with a pace-keeping twelve-year-old while twelve-year-old Nikki agonizes over what to tell her soccer teammates when they ask where her dad (…
MILE 3
Adult Nikki takes on the third mile while a younger Nikki sports a bad middle school hair style and learns that her father is an alcoholic.
Narrated by Nikki MacCallum, this episode features Brooke C…
MILE 2
Adult Nikki is on the second mile of the Providence Marathon while eleven-year-old Nikki is forced to run a Turkey Trot. Thank God she has a Walkman and a Les Miz CD.
Narrated by Nikki MacCallum, thi…
MILE 1
Adult Nikki is at the starting line of the Providence Marathon while six-year-old, Nikki embarks on a Halloween adventure with her favorite playmate, Dad.
Narrated by Nikki MacCallum, this episode …