Party of One Kicks Off Spring Season With Award-Winning Authors, Actors, and More

Party of One, the award-winning actual play podcast about getting to know brilliant artists, entertainers, and trendsetters through the shared, universal experience of play, kicked off its Spring 2026 season today with a lineup of special guests from across the world of movies, fiction, podcasting, comics, and games.

The season premiere, now available on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts, sees Jeff sit down with actor Lachlan Watson (Y2K, Chucky, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) for a game of 1978: The Night They Came Home by World Champ Game Co. Along the way, the two chatted about horror media, queer storytelling, and the transformative power of play.

Upcoming guests and games this season include:

• Don’t Kill a Bird With a Baseball feat. Tom Harrison: One half of the Anime Sickos podcast returns for his fourth installment on the show, in which he and Jeff Stormer try and stop the history-making catastrophe that is that time Randy Johnson exploded a bird with a baseball 
• In This World feat. Ellen Adair: To celebrate Opening Day for his beloved Philadelphia Phillies, Jeff sits down with actor, podcaster, and sports analyst (and fellow Phillies phanatic) Ellen Adair (Homeland, MLB Network's "Off Base," Take Me Into the Ball Game) for a worldbuilding game exploring what sports could look like in a number of parallel worlds
• Not a Tabloid feat. John Allison: Jeff and special guest comic writer and artist John Allison (Scary Go Round, Bad Machinery, Solver) get deeps the journalistic weeds for a very silly, very spontaneous game of Not a Tabloid, a TTRPG of improvised news interviews
• Death of the Author feat. Isabel J. Kim: Things get very meta for Jeff and author Isabel J. Kim (Sublimation, Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole) as they explore what happens when a superhero wakes up to the comic book contrivances all around them
• Elf With a 10-page Backstory feat. Johnny Stanton IV: In a celebration of all things tabletop, Jeff and Johnny Stanton IV (ex-NFL Fullback and TTRPG AP performer) deep-dive into every overused trope and overwrought monologue RPGs have to offer
• We Did Start The Fire feat. Sarah Gailey: Jeff sits down with author Sarah Gailey (Spread Me, Just Like Home) to explore a strange post-apocalyptic world, and the twisted minds (and one super-intelligent frog) that made it that way 

Launched in 2015, Party of One blends conversational interviews with live storytelling experiences, told through the medium of tabletop RPGs. The premise is simple: Each episode, Jeff sits down with a guest one-on-one to play a game and tell a story. Along the way, he chats with the guest about their passions, creative processes, and lets his guest show a different side of their personality.

“The best part of this job is getting to record cool podcasts with cool people,” Stormer said. “This season is the best example of what Party of One can be. I can’t wait for people to hear what’s in store, and the best part is: We’re just getting started.”

About Party of One

One part interview, and one part improv storytelling through games. A podcast about getting to know artists and entertainers through the shared, universal act of play. Each episode, host Jeff Stormer sits down with a guest one-on-one to play a game, tell a story, and have the kinds of experiences that can only occur when creative processes are allowed to run wild. There’s laughs, surprises, occasionally a few tears… it’s a good time.