UNLICENSED

From Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, the creators of Welcome to Night Vale, Alice Isn’t Dead, and Within The Wires comes the return of Unlicensed, their critically acclaimed Audible Original, starring Molly Quinn, Lusia Strus and T.L Thompson.

Unlicensed follows Molly Hatch (Quinn), recently divorced, two years sober, and completely lost on where to go next in her life. On a whim she answers an ad for an assistant to a PI, traveling to an unpromising strip mall on Citrus Avenue in Azusa, CA, where she meets Lou Rosen (Strus). 

Lou is a brilliant detective, but she’s also a completely disorganized mess, both in her physical space and within her own mind. She loses evidence, forgets what she’s already figured out, and she hasn’t even gotten it together to get her PI license. 

Working illegally in the outskirts of Los Angeles, where the cul-de-sacs and strip malls sprawl into the desert, the only clients she can get are those who either can't afford anyone else or have cases that are too marginal for licensed PIs or the police to bother with. 

This unlikely pair, with no resources and no back-up, follow a trail of seemingly unconnected cases, leading them to a wellness cult, a deadly secret kept by California’s most powerful family, and a conspiracy that might go all the way to the governor. 

There will be grave danger. There will be deaths.

But maybe some things matter more than survival.

Unlicensed is a modern detective noir set in the parts of California rarely shown in the media. It’s also one of our favorite things we’ve ever written.

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Trailer for Unlicensed

Cast and Crew

Written by

Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor with Brie Williams, Glen David Gold and Aliee Chan

Starring

Molly Quinn as Molly, Lusia Strus as Lou and TL Thompson as The Narrator

Guest Starring

Jonny Atkinson as F.X. Rivera, Brennan Lee Mulligan as Hocus, Luna Tieu as Tammy, Demi Adejuyigbe as Jamie, Jacquelyn Landgraf as Linda Norman, Julia Morizawa as Shelby Haneda, Kevin R Free as Grady, Tom Mishke as Randy Cooper, Hal Lublin as Ron Norman, Janet Varney as Carol, Robin Virginie as Ouija Bird and Thom Rivera as George Perez. Trailer v/o by Meg Bashwiner.

  • Executive Producer at Audible is Ann Heppermann

  • Directed by Karlyn Daigle

  • Produced by Meg Bashwiner

  • Edited and Mixed by Vincent Cacchione

  • Sound design by Karlyn Daigle and Disparition

  • Original music by Disparition

  • Acquisition and Development Sonia Kim at Audible

  • Head of Audible Studios Zola Mashariki

  • Vice President of Audible Studios Mike Charzuk

    © 2022 by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

    Sound recording © 2022 by Audible Originals, LLC.