S1E1 - File 1: The Man Cave
A secret in the garage. A friendship put to the test.
Episode Notes
When a tight-knit group of mates decide to renovate their friend’s garage while he’s away, they stumble upon something hidden - something terrible. The discovery unravels everything they thought they knew about him, and forces them to question how far loyalty can stretch when the truth is darker than anyone imagined.
Severed Connections is a found-audio drama told entirely through voicemail messages.
File 1 contains Messages 1–12.
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Hugo Hudson
“The voice you hear is not the original. That would be too dangerous.
Instead, I’ve brought in Hugo - a performer willing to lend his voice so that these messages can be heard without placing the true sender in greater jeopardy.
He doesn’t imitate. He inhabits. Every hesitation, every slip of tone, every silence that feels just a little too long - Hugo carries them across intact, so you’re not just hearing a story; you’re overhearing a truth.
If you think the messages in Episode One sound too natural, too ordinary… that’s the point. That’s how this kind of story hides - in plain sight.”
- Elowen
Yvette Ross
Writer, Director & Producer
Yvette is the creator of Severed Connections, responsible for writing, directing, and producing the series.
Working alongside Elowen Black’s “recovered transmissions,” she shapes the fragmented recordings into a coherent narrative - organising, restoring, and interpreting the voicemail files released to the public.
Her work blends grounded character drama with escalating mystery, focusing on tension, emotional realism, and slow-burn suspense. Severed Connections is her flagship audio drama project, developed as a showcase of narrative craft and worldbuilding, with additional scripted projects currently underway.
When she’s not assembling the archive, she works across screenwriting, audio production, and immersive storytelling - specialising in building tightly structured thriller narratives with strong character psychology at their core.