Episode 5: A girl walks home at night

Valeria Angelico is a London-based writer and script editor. While A Girl Walking Alone at Night is her first podcast credit, she previously wrote an award-winning short film, The Bed, and co-wrote a choose-your-own-adventure live show that sold out at Edinburgh Fringe 2023, Chaotic Neutral. As a writer, she focuses on character-oriented drama and dramedies, always looking to blend genres and explore LGBTQ+ narratives. Her love for scripts and plunging into different universes led her to script editing and sensitive script reading. 

“Why we can’t feel safe by doing such a simple act? This is the core question that I wanted to raise with A Girl Walks Home at Night. It’s a social drama, it’s a thriller, maybe even a horror in some parts — but it is definitely a familiar landscape to many of us. 

The threatening backdrop leaves space for the narrative plot: an innocent call to a friend becomes a way to unravel a girl’s thoughts and fears. With this double narrative, I intend to shed light on two different kinds of harassment: the one of catcalling and whistling in the streets, and the more subtle one, the manipulative and twisted.”

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Written by Valeria Angelico

Directed by Bruce Bigg

Produced by Bruce Bigg and Ano Okera 

Assistant producer: Stephane Ugeux 

Shelly Rose Kapur as Girl

And Raphael von Blumenthal as Boy. 

Additional voice work by Tom Summerhill and Kieran Taylor Ford. 

Editing and sound design by Dea Cisar and Astrid Kirkeskov. 

Theme music was composed by FIGI.

A special thanks to Philip Palmer, Richard Shanon, John Pickard and Lisa Hack for their support.