The Audio Verse Awards Nominee Showcase Podcast

This is June Clark Eubanks, director and voice actor for Oz 9. Oz 9 is a science fiction comedy in the same way those cylindrical things on the rotisserie at the 7-Eleven are meat. What follows is a recent episode from Season 3 entitled Invasion of the Body Snackers. Our crew, both on Earth and in space, are in danger of imminent death - as they usually are - and completely unable to handle it, as...

This is Eli Ramos, creator and producer on Under the Electric Stars, which is about Caine Reyes, a driver who lives in Metropolis West, one of the last cities standing after a nuclear disaster known as the Incendiary. After their bot gets broken, their hunt to fix him gets them caught up in the rising revolution, spearheaded by the rebel group Zero Zero. This is Episode 13: Answers which was our S...

Hi. I’m Sterling Rae, creator and one of the writers of Novitero.  Which follows the story of Princess Cesaleza who was banished from her home due to a mistake that cost her half her family's fortune, and now is left with a choice: find a way to make up the lost funds or leave her home forever.  When a raid unites her with a group of wanted criminals, Cesa creates an unlikely alliance wi...

This is Noah DeBiase, Narrator and Sound Designer of Simon Graves Presents. Simon Graves Presents is a gay horror anthology podcast. Each episode offers a stand alone horror, mystery, or suspense story featuring gay characters and themes. This episode, Stud Muffins, centers on Randy and his desperation to lose weight. After ordering weight loss supplements off of a late night infomercial, Randy so...

This is Paul Camper, the Dungeon Master on Death Saving Bros, which is an actual play 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons podcast. Our goal is to make a story that is fun for us and for our listeners through memorable characters and incredibly irreverent humor. We want you to feel like you’re at the table with us, sharing in the jokes and playing along. What you’re about to hear is a modified versi...

Hi Audio Verse Award voters, I'm Emily VanDerWerff, and I'm the co-creator and co-executive producer of Arden, which is... kind of sort of a fake true crime show, but also about two women who just can't stop arguing with each other because, I mean, they should get together, and it's also kind of a Shakespeare adaptation and also about generational trauma. It's a comedy! Anyway, this is Episode #20...

This is John Allis. I’m the writer, producer, and an actor on the podcast On Top of Hooper’s Hill. Our show is one part of a much larger transmedia project called Weather Front. I want to say just a little bit about what that means. One crucial challenge of modern life has to do with keeping our hearts intact in the midst of constant crises from all directions. There’s no straight line through a d...

Hi my name is Kieran Walsh and I play Captain Gino Whelan on the Green Horizon. This episode that you’re about to hear from the Green Horizon is the first episode of season 1 which is our pilot episode. Which is named “Does It Have a Penis Jilly?” This episode primarily features the introduction of the captain and his crew as they traverse through their first mission in space.  It is a dark c...

Hi. This is Ian Geldart, the writer, producer, and sound designer of the Real Legitimate Anthology, which has been nominated this year for best Environment Sound Design and best Performance of a Leading Role. Our podcast consists of mini-series, ten episode fictional documentaries, the first being Real Legitimate Actors, a comedy series following failing actors, the second is Real Legitimate Apoca...

Hello,  I’m Jon Rolfe, creator of The Oasis Transmissions, a serialized science fiction podcast. The story unfolds through the perspectives of multiple characters who are struggling to survive on a remote world hundreds of lightyears from home.  The episode you’re about to hear is the season two premiere. I couldn’t possibly recap everything that’s happened so far, but here the important...

This is Adam Culbertson, DM and Editor on Microphones & Monsters, which is a Cthulhu Mythos D&D 5e actual play. This Clip is from Episode 8 after the detectives have been following a lead on a murder suspect. Aleister the Dreamlands Cat Warlock, Victor Stodge the Mythos Ghoul Monk, and Dr. Julian Cottage the Human Artificer face off against the suspect when they end up going against a Shog...

Hello friends! I’m Erik Saras, one of the producers and showrunner for Marsfall: ANDI’s Development. In the following excerpts from this eight-episode series, you’ll see the early life of an evolving artificial intelligence. Watching ANDI learn more about the wide spectrum of human emotions is critical to his growth, whether he’s being directly tested by Chip Heddleston or interpreting the subtle...

Hey there friends and comrades, this is Morgan Maxwell the writer of Dispatch from the Desert Planet and voice of Broadcaster J. June. The following is Episode Three of Season One, titled “Deepest Gratitude.” Dispatch from the Desert Planet is a part podcast part activist art project that weaves real earth concerns into a future science fiction dystopia. The 89.x1 radio team does their best to bri...

This is Jamie Killen, writer and director of Mirrors, which is about several women separated by generations, connected by the same haunting. This episode is Chapter 16, the Season 2 finale. Thank you for listening. Transcript can be found at: https://www.mirrorspodcast.com/transcripts https://www.mirrorspodcast.com/

This is Amy Frost,  narrator and producer. And on behalf of myself and writer JF Dubeau, I would like to welcome you to Achewillow. Oh, you’ve never heard of the place? Don’t worry, most people haven’t. Achewillow is a small town on the border between Vermont and Quebec, and, as Miriam DuFour, a young woman from Montreal is about to find out, there’s more going on in the sleepy town than meet...

This is M. Roke, the creator of Harbor, which is about the Greer siblings, who have a lot on their plates- including monsters with personal problems, dirty bureaucracy, and secrets in the sticks. This is a clip from Episode 4: Moth to the Flame. Thank you for listening. Transcript can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wFuV0HoMsya8DjW4sSJc-0ibDVsSkI6N/view?usp=sharing https://www.harbor...

This is Lena Winter, creator of The Adventures of Sir Rodney the Root, which is about a knight named Gilbert just trying to do the right thing. The right thing in this case happens to be completing a quest for powerful magical relics to restore the titular tubular character, Sir Rodney, to his human form. Unfortunately, adding to the gargantuan challenge, Gilbert finds himself saddled with a rag-t...

Hi! I'm Kyle Decker, the Game Master and editor of  Quest Friends! Quest Friends! is a role-playing podcast where my best friends and I explore friendship, family, and that weird space in-between. It's one billion years in the future, and between dealing with vengeful stage magicians, deadly game shows, and a horrible Hamilton parody, our heroes have to unpack their own emotional baggage...

This is James Cain. I'm the director of Apocalypse Songs, a show about music journalist Amy Louise Chen's investigation into an obscure New Zealand countercultural musician, Clara Wilson. Clara released one album in the late 1960s, self-recorded on cassette tape, and died shortly afterwards, but in the years since, rumours have sprung up that Clara's songs contained coded messages predicting futur...

This is Julia Wallach, Creator and voice of Paige Gilbert on Things Unsaid, which is about Paige investigating the disappearance of her mother, a deaf journalist. This is Episode Four- Corny Talks, Paige has been recording her mother’s old diaries as a method of processing the trauma, and is beginning to find intriguing information relating to the present. While Paige is going through her findings...

Hi, this is Chris Burke. I write, direct and create the sound design and music for Mandible Judy. Not your typical horror, sci-fi, genetic mutation podcast, Mandible Judy also features telepathic frogs, a synth-wielding geneticist and strangely sonorous rocks from space.  Although our story gets weirder as it rolls along, we decided to rely on our fist episode as an introduction. You’ll meet...

This is Anna Maguire, Director of Find Us Alive, which is a science fiction action show following the crew of Site-107, an SCP Foundation research facility lost in a mysterious pocket dimension, as narrated by their radio communications officer, Dr. Harley. This is Episode 06: Incident B, the finale of the first arc of the show, in which the main characters band together to save the site from a ch...

This is Francesca Mylod-Ford, creator, writer, director and producer of The Pilgrimage Saga, which is about 5 humans and an AI searching for planet earth. You are listening to bonus episode “Leslie”. This episode is set before the main timeline of the show and details how Dr. Armstrong came to take her place aboard the Starstrider. Thank you for listening. Transcript can be found at: https://drive...

Hi, this is Adam. I'm the curator and storyteller at Runelanders. We're an actual play RPG show, presented in a style we call 'retrofuturistic fantasy epic'. This is better experienced than explained, but in a nutshell it's full-steam fantasy with a hard R rating as we present an impossible future as envisioned by an imaginary past. This is episode 9 of season 2; "A Ballroom Blitz". It contains se...

Hi there! This is Scott Thomas. Sound designer, actor, and writer for Less Is Morgue; a bi-weekly comedy podcast about Evelyn, a cheerful, Nickelback-loving ghost, and Riley, the paranoid ghoul who ate her corpse, hosting a podcast together. This is Episode 14: Chortle At Riley’s Bones, in which our two hapless heroes try to sell all the bones piling up in the basement in hopes of buying a sword....