ABOUT

Pacey’s Creek

Valen Shore and Alison Zatta met online while living in Scotland in their early 20s and have been writing together ever since. In that time they’ve been best friends, roommates, and business partners, but never lovers. They formed Pacey's Creek as a space to develop alternative entertainment, deconstruct the media that helped shape them, and put the elements back together in unexpected ways.

Valen and Alison’s first original musical Chriskirkpatrickmas: A Boy Band Christmas Musical had its Off-West End debut in 2023 after hugely successful Hollywood Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe runs. A parody musical about the rise and pause of (arguably) the world's greatest boy band, Chriskirkpatrickmas received 5-star reviews from The Guardian, Broadway World, and many others. This “gloriously inventive and hilarious” (Theatre Weekly) exploration of a certain indefinite “hiatus” mourned by Millennials worldwide features all-original music, a plethora of 90s nostalgia, and some truly impressive wigs. It’s also more historically accurate than you might expect. Mostly.

Valen and Alison are also co-creators and DMs of Real Housewives of Dungeons and Dragons, an actual play D&D podcast from Reality RPG, now in its third season.

Valen Shore

Valen is a musician and writer based in Austin, TX. Valen's music has had millions of streams across all platforms. Her songs have been featured on Riverdale, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Lucifer, Pretty Little Liars, and The Sims 4, and most recently on Amazon Prime Video’s hit show Motorheads. In 2018 she toured with BRONCHO and SYML.

One time Fred Savage bought a dvd of her music and had notes on the sound mix that were valid.

For a full list of Valen’s credits: www.valenforever.com

Instagram: @valenforever / Spotify: VALEN

Alison Zatta

Alison is an L.A.-based writer, actor, and producer. Favorite acting credits include the music video for P!nk’s F**kin’ Perfect directed by Dave Meyers and the title role in the DC area premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice. Alison is a graduate of Georgetown University, where she received the Annabelle Bonner Medal for Short Fiction Writing. Her award-winning short film Girl Meets Roach screened at 40+ festivals worldwide and she recently completed another festival circuit with her script The Break-App (Winner, Copa Shorts Film Festival Screenwriting Competition; Finalist: Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, Oxford Film Festival Screenwriting Competition; Semi-Finalist, Omaha Film Festival Screenwriting Competition). www.alisonzatta.com

Instagram: @alisonzatta