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Daniel J. Kim (“Cobra Kai”) and Danielle Kennedy (“The ’Burbs”) have joined the cast of “Drive Thru Magic,” the upcoming scripted fiction podcast from actor, writer and director Briggon Snow (“The Bright Sessions”).
The project is produced by Atypical Artists and executive produced by Lauren Shippen.
“Drive Thru Magic” is a gay romance drama set against the unlikely backdrop of a roadside drive-thru, where two men find each other in the small, repeated moments between a menu speaker box and a car.
The first episodes will drop Sept. 7 on all podcast platforms.
Kim will voice Louie, a pre-med student passing time in a drive-thru job, who falls for a repeat customer. Snow will also star as Gabe, a young man caring for his grandmother as she loses herself to dementia, who finds an unexpected anchor in the voice on the other side of the speaker. Kennedy will play Barb, a biting, no-nonsense drive-thru lifer and the closest thing Louie has to a friend.
“I’m so thrilled to have Daniel and Danielle helping me tell this story,” Snow said in a statement. “I started working on this back in 2024 and kept walking away because it was at times a little too close. It’s rooted in something I’m still living through, but pushing through and creating this show has sort of been my way of facing hard loss and change. I wove it into a gay love story because grief needs somewhere to live, and love felt like the right place.”
Atypical Artists is behind such audio fiction hits as “Two Thousand and Late,” a dark comedy about our modern world and a 2026 Tribeca Audio Showcase selection, “The Bright Sessions,” a science fiction drama about people with supernatural abilities in therapy, “In Strange Woods,” the acclaimed original musical following a young girl after the loss of her brother as she tries to learn to survive, and Netflix’s “Stranger Things” spinoff “Rebel Robin: Surviving Hawkins.”
“Like everything Briggon makes, ‘Drive Thru Magic’ is so heartfelt, funny, and swoon-worthy,” Shippen said. “His writing perfectly intertwines love and grief — you’ll immediately fall for these characters and wish you could spend even more time with them. There are few writers and actors out there who can make you feel as deeply as Briggon and Atypical Artists is so honored to be stewarding this story.”
The series wrapped recording in Los Angeles earlier this summer.
Snow is represented by Eileen O’Farrell Personal Management and Dean Panaro Talent (voice). Kim is represented by Management 101 and Osbrink Talent Agency for voice. Kennedy is represented by Eileen O’Farrell Personal Management and Avalon Artists Group.
