The Audio Verse Awards Nominee Showcase Podcast

Hi! This is Luke Varner, GM and Producer on Eidolon Playtest, an actual-play role-playing show that uses a game system we've written ourselves! Our game, EIDOLON: Become Your Best Self, is about manifesting the latent power of your soul, bringing forth the supernatural abilities you've always had dormant within you to battle evil, protect what you hold precious, and confront the hidden facets of y...

This is Dot Moore. I play the character Binary on Resting Glitch Face, which is a Shadowrun 6th Edition Actual Play podcast. We are an all-female cast with the exception of our Game Master, and we have been lovingly referred to as “The Gilmore Girls of Shadowrun” by our fans and followers. We started releasing episodes for Season 2 earlier this year, and we are so thankful for our wonderful commun...

This is Georgia Mckenzie, creator of Fast Track to 40, a podcast about the terrifying transition from your 30s to your 40s and the panicked drive to hit those goals you've been wanting to. This is episode 5 of the ten episode first season, where we get introduced to Clarity, Penny & Janet. At this point everyone has made steps towards their goals. It's not their fault that it's all been mis-st...

Greetings. I'm Chance Muehleck, writer and co-producer of Saturn's Return. Saturn's Return is a contemporary fable about loss, sacrifice, and ordinary magic. It's set in a fictional small American town, where what you believe is as important as who you listen to -- and why. This is episode one of three. Thank you for listening. Transcript can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B_hJfKaNZ...

Hello, This is Michael Ireland, Director of The Secret of Saint Kilda, a supernatural thriller where we follow Lockie, a con man who escapes to St Kilda with the promise that this time, he’ll change his ways. Unfortunately for him, the inhabitants of the island have other ideas. He seeks redemption and they seek a saviour. This is Episode 9 of our first season, Lockie is welcomed by all but one on...

JESSI GOTTA Hey. This is Jessi Gotta writer producer and director on TELL ME A STORY: THE TRUE LIFE OF JAKOB STANLEY PATRICK SHEARER And this is Patrick Shearer sound designer, producer and director on TELL ME A STORY: THE TRUE LIFE OF JAKOB STANLEY. JESSI GOTTA The podcast is about the 2011 disappearance of 4 college students in the woods near Porter Township, Pennsylvania while researching a doc...

Hi, this is Michael Shannon, showrunner, writer, and director of The Storm Chasers. The Storm Chasers is a fantasy, adventure/comedy, audio drama. This episode is about main charcter, Dodds Aldon, as he finds himself ready to start his life as a sea-fairing adventurer. The only problem? He's flat broke. Dodds, along with new friends: Quinn and Jackie, have to figure out a way to get off of land an...

This is Scarlett, Creator and Audio Engineer of On Asphalt Bones, a show about making something of yourself, even when the world is over. This is Episode 7: INEFFABLE. It is worth stating that On Asphalt Bones is best listened to in order - from Episode 1 through to the end - although we are confident enough in our production that we think, even as a standalone, you will really enjoy this episode!...

This is Anna Maguire, director of Find Us Alive, which is a science fiction show following the crew of Site-107, an SCP Foundation research facility trapped inside a mysterious extradimensional rift, as narrated by their Communications Operator, Dr. Harley. This is Episode 24: The Beach Episode, when the building mysteriously floods with water, forcing the staff to take a break from their clandest...

This is Steele Filipek, director, and co-producer of The Green Lama, which is about a pulp superhero and his allies trying to protect post-World War II New York City from a gang war. This is season 1, episode 4, “A Deadly Debate.” Fully licensed, it is a true sequel series to the original 1940s pulps and radio drama, so if you like action, mystery, and daring-do, you’ll love The Green Lama. Thank...

This is Steele Filipek, creator, lead writer, co-producer, and director of Queens of the Sapphire Sea, an action-comedy about the adventures of pair of seaplane mercenaries over the seas and through the skies of interwar France. This is season 2, episode 4, “Storms Colder and Cold Shoulders.” If you like witty banter, European romanticism, Hayao Miyazaki (particularly Porco Rosso), and swashbuckli...

Hi this is Adam Davis, Dungeon Master and Producer of To DnD or Not To DnD an actual play 5e Dungeons and Dragons podcast where five Indianapolis based stage actors try their very best to navigate the world of Dungeons and Dragons despite many of them, myself included, having little to no experience with the game. What we do have, however, is a knack for storytelling and character development whic...

This is Cai Gwilym Pritchard, creator of Chain of Being, which is is a mythic science fiction podcast which is a glimpse into the future: where gods control the cosmos and mortals are left to fend for themselves in a vast, indifferent universe. This is episode 19: born to die. This is the finale of the show and shows the main character, Adam, working his way through the mystical realm of Eden. Tha...

Hello, this is Cady Bailey, coproducer, co-writer, and voice of Celia Nunally and Dia on The Adventures of the Forget Me Nots. This is Episode 7.1: May I Have This Dance. In this episode, second mate Zinkus McGee takes a break from life aboard the pirate ship to track down information on some mysterious birds at the Engineer’s citadel graduation ball. However, she isn’t the only one conducting a l...

This is Kyle, Game Master on Quest Friends!, an actual play podcast where five best friends explore themes of friendship and family using cartoonish settings and over-the-top characters. The episode you're about to listen to comes from our current season, Quest Friends! Hereafter: a story inspired by cartoons like Gravity Falls and The Owl House, where the realm of the dead is only a plane ride aw...

Hi! I'm Aud Andrews, and I am the voice of Chartrulean in Packhowl Media's audio series, The Madness of Chartrulean. It's an off world science fiction fantasy epic that digs into the mind of Chartrulean, the eccentric inventor of a new form of energy. The abuse of this new energy sets off a chain of events that leads to questions about humanity, as Chartrulean now has to navigate his planet's comp...

Hi: My name is Madeleine Holly-Rosing and I'm the writer/producer of the 8 episode steampunk supernatural audio drama, Boston Metaphysical Society: The Ghost Ship. Inspired by my graphic novel series, it's about an ex-Pinkerton detective, a spirit photographer, and a genius scientist who battle supernatural forces in late 1800s Boston. This original story follows our team as the investigate a ghos...

This is William McDonald, co-producer and voice actor for The Adventures of Captain Radio, a retro-futuristic science fiction audio drama. This is Season 1, Episode 3, “Monks of the Dark Adaptation.” In the distant future, the heroic Captain Radio teams up with his robotic sidekick and a former enemy to save Lady Andromeda and stop his arch-nemesis, Doctor Orban, from destroying the universe. Capt...

Hi, this is Nicole Knudsen, creator and narrator of The Godfrey Audio Guide! This show is the audio tour for the fictional Annabelle H. Godfrey Historic Estate and Museum. Think a fine art museum meets the Winchester Mystery House. It’s a show that blends horror, sci-fi, and art history (both real and imagined), and while there is continuity within the show, most episodes are self-contained and ca...

This is Emma Johanna Puranen, writer, sound designer, and voice of Ship on ROGUEMAKER, a science fiction mystery about a group of people on a budget spaceflight who end up stuck in escape pods with only the radio for company after disaster strikes. Together, they must figure out what happened to their ship and where they’re going now. We’ve got music, laughs, and existential dread aplenty! This is...

This is Stella Odom, Creator and Editor of Syntax for Twin Strangers Productions. Syntax is a sci fi horror audio drama, following a team of explorers venturing into a new world on behalf of the mysterious biotech firm VINCULA. This is an excerpt from Episode 6 of Syntax. Our group of scientists, who call themselves the Breachers, are taking a pause from hiking far into the wilderness and are usin...

This is W. Keith Tims, writer, producer and performer of The Book of Constellations. It’s a down-to-Earth sci-fi road trip about Rael, the sole survivor of an alien race, who has come to Earth to fight the same Darkness that claimed his own people. Along the way Rael gathers allies from the lost and forgotten of America, including Satya, a teenager running from her abusive family, and Simon, the n...

Hi folks. This is Jordan Sewell, writer, director and editor of CanniBlaw, Cannibals at Law - a radio comedy in three parts. It's about a place called Cannibalabama County where everybody lives a peaceful life worshipping the Baby Guzzler. But when activist Abe Hancock attacks a county church because cannibalism is “wrong”, local anthropophagites don't feel safe anymore. So, they go back to being...

This is Greg Wilson, Sound Designer on USS Artemis, which is about a rescue mission in deep space going horribly wrong. You are Captain Lee of the United Star Ship Artemis. Your mission is to piece together what happened...and survive what comes next. USS Artemis is an immersive theatrical experience that uses binaural audio. As it is a bit different from other radio plays you may have listened to...

Hi this is Leanne Egan, writer and producer of Tell No Tales, which is about ghosts, the people who hunt them, and finding out who the real villains are. Better Place is the world leader in ghost removal, but Leo Quinn — the assistant to Better Place’s director — has doubts about the ethics of their work. They’re building a recorder to pick up the voices of ghosts, and in doing so they hope to adv...