The Audio Verse Awards Nominee Showcase Podcast

Hi there! This is Jeff Heimbuch, the writer director of Light House. Light House is not your typical haunted house story. It follows Tara Hollis, who moved into Light House as young girl with the her family to get a fresh start. But, there is a darkness that dwelled in the heart of Light House...one that was waiting for her. The show follows Tara throughout her life, from a little girl a...

This is Kate Butler, and I play Lia Rowse on Witches of the City, which is about magic and the power that comes with it. This is Episode 1. 15-year-old Lia Rowse is the youngest member of her coven and is completing her application to the Witchcraft Guild of North America. In Lia’s application tapes, she is required to answer a series of questions in order to prove why she should be accepted to th...

This is Tracey Houston, writer/creator and sound-designer for "Genius". "Genius" is a 13-episode thriller with a hint of gothic romance. Sabine Moriarty, a brilliant mathematician, is the sister of Sherlock Holmes' arch-nemesis, Jim. The story weaves between the present, where Jim enlists Sabine in his nefarious plan to be Sherlock's undoing, and the past, where we revisit the Moriarty siblings' t...

This is Peter Cosmas Sofronas, the writer and director of Putting 2&2 Together. This is the story of an ex comic book artist, his estranged sister, and the mild-mannered accountant who loved them both. What begins as the aftermath of a love triangle evolves and expands into a community of broken people seeking to heal each other and to become the best versions of themselves by "Putting 2&2...

This is ItMe!! the writer, actress, producer and sound designer for InCo, a story about a disgruntled information courier who, thanks to a mysterious radio transmission, ends up fishing a brat from the inky void of space.  The series follows the two of them as they work on a way to get him back home, to the apparently fictional planet of Eolara. This is a mini episode that takes place 9 month...

This is Derry, your Genderfluidiest GM on Dice Will Roll, a Pathfinder 2nd Edition Actual Play Podcast that puts marginalized people at the forefront of the stories and gives people without a spotlight a chance to really shine. Also, there's clowns! This is Carnivals & Clowns, Episode 1 of Extinction Curse, our new circus-themed campaign where a travelling troupe of performers are thrust into...

This is Cam Collins, co-creator of Old Gods of Appalachia. Old Gods of Appalachia is an Eldritch horror anthology podcast set in the shadows of an Alternate Appalachia, a place where digging too deep into the mines was just the first mistake. This is Episode 5 of Season 1, The Boy. Thank you for listening. Transcript can be found at: https://www.oldgodsofappalachia.com/uploads/episodes/s1-episode-...

This is Alan Mandel, and I’m the director of Red Valley, a mystery drama about the creation of hypersleep.  No one at Overhead Industries wants to talk about defunct research station Red Valley, and account man Warren Godby is out of his depth. When he meets Gordon Porlock, a disgruntled archivist with a bag of tapes from the station’s last known occupant,  they will begin a journey to t...

Hey, this is Drea Silvertooth, the GM of Bad Heroes. Bad Heroes is an actual play podcast about four — you guessed it — bad heroes hunting curses in a land bound to Hell itself. Our game is narrative-rich and rules-light, and we’re using Pathfinder First Edition mechanics in a homebrew world. This is Episode 16, part twelve of The Forgotten Court. Gydeon, an aristocratic elven sorceress; Iria, a w...

This is Jeff Stormer, host and producer of Party Of One, an Actual Play podcast focused on two-player role-playing experiences. This is episode 206 of the show, Hey Man I Love You But No F*****g Way with Aaron J. Amendola. This is a particularly special episode, particularly because it is a listen-along episode: We recommend you pull up the Front Bottoms album Talon of the Hawk on your music playe...

Well hello, I’m Christopher Sipsma, the Friendly Neighborhood Keeper for Untitled Dice Game’s Department of Deliverance arc.  We are currently running a Monster of the Week game featuring a group of hunters with strange talents who have been recruited by the Department of Deliverance, a secretive government agency, in order to fight monsters. (Nina: I flip my badge out the window that I rolle...

This is Quinn Majeski, GM and Editor of Monster Hour - a fully produced, narrative-driven Monster of the Week actual play podcast. Our show follows three unlikely heroes as they delve into the web of dark secrets and supernatural threats plaguing the upstart town of Firmament, Colorado. Our motley crew consists of: JR, the Crooked, a silver tongued thief with a magic skeleton key. Constance, the E...

Hello, This is David Ortiz, writer and director for “Entropy”.  It is the year 2309. Humanity has expanded across the stars and has established The Colonial Spine, a gateway to all the major planetary colonies, overseen by the Conglomerate Council of Earth’s Colonies. However, a vile crime organization known as the Deneer Syndicate, has overthrown the government of Kepler and has begun slaugh...

This is Cait Gallagher, creator of Voidless. The series is about a rebel Captain who gets separated from her group and finds some time to reflect as she finds her way back. We are going to start you off at the start, this is Episode 1. Enjoy. Transcript can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OxQOCMi8-yj7vrYuSKLsAwh07WmC-OxI/view?usp=sharing https://shows.acast.com/voidless Twitter: @cal...

This is Lee Shackleford, creator of RELATIVITY... which is about two people, a man who’s alone on a damaged spaceship light years from Earth, and a woman back at Mission Control who fights tirelessly to keep him alive. And to their surprise, the further they get from each other in space, the closer they become in every way that matters.  What you’ll hear now is part of episode 56, a fan favor...

This is Ditrie Marie Bowie, creator of Sticks Shift Incorporated, which is about life, death, and a little bit of chaos. If you enjoy science fiction, mystery, and urban fantasy, odds are you’ll enjoy Sticks Shift Incorporated. Here is episode one from season one, “It All Started on a Friday.” Thank you for listening. Transcript can be found at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/170WDm9024C3iUNkP...

This is Claudia Elvidge, creator of The Beacon, which is about magic, monsters, and the importance of making friends. This is Episode Two of Season Two, “Lassie Go Home.”  Thank you for listening. Transcript can be found at: https://www.thebeaconpodcast.com/transcript-s2e2 https://www.thebeaconpodcast.com Twitter: @thebeaconpod

Kathryn: Hi! I'm Kathryn Stanley, one of the creators of Dramatically Dapper, a subsidiary of Laughably Dapper Entertainment. Jacob: And I am Jacob Birks, also one of the creators of Dramatically Dapper. We’re here to introduce to you The Mistress Files. K: The Mistress Files is written by Alexander Liddel, and is about the world’s most infamous threat, The Mistress, who heads the organisation kno...

This is cuppycup, producer and game master on Ain’t Slayed Nobody, which is about Sheriff Ellie Bishop and 4 hired hands looking for revenge and redemption in the American Old West. This is Episode 1 of our first season. We are playing Call of Cthulhu 7th edition in the Down Darker Trails setting, but you don’t need to know the game at all to enjoy our show. We blend comedy and horror and put an e...

Hello! This is Dom Guilfoyle, the writer, performer, sound designer and editor for The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality. This is episode one of the series, which is presented as the audio tour guide for a museum of strange and mysterious items. Each episode has a few stories, based around the history of an item you have found on your tour, as well as some tidbits about the mus...

Hello friends! I’m Erik Saras, one of the producers and showrunner for Marsfall: Bunker Down. In this miniseries, we wanted to explore a rarely examined side of the Marsfall universe - what is life like back on Earth? Through the eyes of Doctor Katie Hall, who wakes up in a bunker beneath Earth’s surface, we quickly learn that survival on both the Red and Blue planets is not guaranteed.  Afte...

This is Natalie Winter, the Producer of The Ragged Scratch Podcast. We are an anthology podcast, and aim to bring the new writing night experience to audio dramas, so each season we produce twelve short new-writing audio plays from different writers. Like a chocolate box of audio goodies, there's something for everyone - from hard-hitting emotional dramas, to thrillers, slapstick capers, sci fi, h...

This is Evan, I play Vaelin on Wonders & Blunders, which is a Dungeons & Dragons Actual Play podcast, meaning we roll dice to help us tell an improvised story. If I had to describe our show I'd say it has a fun horror comedy vibe with a cute family dynamic!. What you're about to hear is Episode 45: Get to the Cabin! The crew has just escaped a wild fight, our halfling is poisoned somehow,...

"Hi there, my name is Zach Phillips. I’m the co-creator, co-producer, and Dungeon Master for A Single Quest, a 1-on-1 Dungeons & Dragons podcast. Our show, starring me and my best buddy from high school, Matt Demetrides, focuses on the adventures of a young hero named Toby Flutterheart. Matt plays Toby, who has had a handful of adventures (with varying results) since we started our podcast in...

Hi! I'm Amy Giacomucci, and I co-create The Godshead Incidental alongside Cara Ehlenfeldt.  The Godshead Incidental is about an advice columnist and the letter she never answered in the city of Godshead, where D-list celebrities, government officials, and local citizens keeping a low profile can all count a few gods among their number.  The episode you're about to listen to is Episode 4:...