The Audio Verse Awards Nominee Showcase Podcast

This is Ando Valentine, creator of Shadows of a Dark Past, which is a gothic horror drama examining the values of family, friendship, and love through the lens of a failed psychiatrist, a lonely vampire, and the last remnants of a once-proud family. This is Episode 3, “A Handful of Olive Branches”, At this point in the show, the main character, Mark McCain, has confronted the vampire Andrew. Andre...

Hello, this is Josh, I play Shaun on Stitch of Fate, which is about a group of Vampire Gangsters in New York who are caught up in a dangerous political struggle started by a ritualistic murder and a woman with stitched up lips, stalking one of the players. The game we use is Vampire the Masquerade which is a dark modern fantasy about powerful but cursed creatures of the night. To that end, we don'...

Hi this is Mark Gulino, the creator, producer, writer, narrator, composer, and sound designer for A Journey Beyond The Skies. A Journey Beyond The Skies is a science fiction story about a man who, after experiencing a devastating tragedy, is swept up in an adventure that takes him across a dangerous wasteland, and even beyond Earth itself. Listen to Declan as he narrates his journal entries, accom...

Hello, this is Philip Thorne, co-creator of The Amelia Project, which is about an underground agency that helps its clients fake their deaths and disappear. This is episode 25, Tatiana Gurkovsky, and the first episode of season 3. Thank you for listening. Transcript can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qt56uNLQxn9gvdUneQMr-ojJ38xYuOk2/view?usp=sharing https://ameliapodcast.com/ Twitte...

Evan: Hello! This is Evan Gulock. Niko: And I’m Niko Gerentes. Evan: And we are the creators of Death by Dying, a whimsical dark comedy fiction podcast about an Obituary Writer who investigates strange and mysterious deaths in the town of Crestfall, Idaho. Niko: Last year, Death by Dying premiered Tales from Crestfall: a miniseries expanding on the world of the show. Evan: And what better way to k...

Hello! This is Hannah Wright, writer and director of Inn Between, a fantasy adventure between the adventures, following five heroes as they learn that friendship is, in fact, the real treasure. This is episode 2.11: The Swap. Our heroes are on a quest to find a long-lost missing person in a forest besieged by strange fey magic. Thanks for listening! Transcript can be found at: https://drive.google...

This is Dallas Wheatley, I am the creator of Fireside Folktales and the writer of Whispering. Whispering is a show about Kore's ascent to Queen of the Underworld. I hope you enjoy the show, and thank you for listening! Transcript can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RAe7T-pp6oNNTeiPGfiXHDXmIxfYown9/view?usp=sharing https://firesidefolk.com Twitter: Fireside_Folk

Prototype World of Tomorrow is a mystery/comedy show takes place in a technologically advanced domed city that was built in the 1960s in Central Florida. In the first season, Tim Less tried, and failed, to solve the murder of prominent Progress citizen Liam Crawford, a murder which my character, Eve Moore was accused of. After Tim revealed the evidence that exonerated Eve, they went into partnersh...

Hi, my name is Mary Littlejohn. I am the writer/producer of Golden Ash, a Canadian neo-noir crime drama that follows one Detective Shaker as he tries to make sense of two seemingly unrelated cases. This is our teaser trailer. The entire series is now available for download on all major podcasting platforms. Thanks for listening. Transcript can be found at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o9c7K...

This is Tycho Newman. I am the writer, director, and producer of BLACK FRIDAY which is about …. Well, listen for yourself. [trailer] SPEAKER Let’s back up for a moment and set the table [ominous staccato music] BRITISH REPORTER It began several months ago; the phenomenon that is popularly described as ‘Black Friday.’ SPEAKER (cont) The Black Friday phenomenon has caused a fair bit of anxiety. BRIT...

Hi, this is Daniel Andrlik, GM of Explorers Wanted, which is a weekly Numenera actual play podcast about exploration, intrigue, and friendship. The show takes place 1 billion years in the future, where humans have risen again in the ashes of eight prior worlds, ancient civilizations whose technology is far beyond any of the current residents. The show features Atalia, a thief and nano (which is li...

Hi there, this is Lucas Angelo, one of the creators of Sector Ø, a show about Leland Huxley, a human kidnapped by a mysterious agency outside of time and space. After being partnered with literal dinosaur Dr. Fouhii, the two of them must modify timelines for their shadowy supervisors. Is there an end goal? Well, they don't really know. But something shady's definitely going on as they are sent to...

This is Evan Tess Murray, the creator of This Planet Needs a Name, which is about a crew of terraformers working to create a new home for humanity. This is Episode Zero, our full prologue, which introduces the seven primary members of our ensemble and gives you a chance to get to know them before they touch down on their new planet. Thank you for listening. http://www.needsanamepod.com Twitter: @n...

Hi. My name is Emily Rainbow Davis and I am the writer, director and producer of The Dragoning. In the Dragoning, a city is shaken by an epidemic of women turning into dragons. This is Episode One and it features Ray, who is a taxi driver in Dragon City. Thank you for listening. Transcript can be found at: https://www.messengertheatreco.org/transcript-episode-one/episode-one-transcript https://www...

Greetings, I'm Travis Vengroff the sound designer and producer of The White Vault: Iluka. Iluka is a full self-contained story that takes place within the White Vault universe, which means if you enjoy it, we've created many more audio adventures just like it. We're about to take you on a journey into the Antarctic, aboard the research vessel Iluka as it works to get a coring sample off the southe...

This is Karin Heimdahl, creator of Y2K, which is about two long-distance friends in the year 2000 and the modern day student who finds their voicemails and turns them into a podcast. In 2000, best friends Jess, in Auckland, New Zealand, and Kat, in London, UK, try to support each other across the oceans in a time of dial-up internet and extraordinarily expensive long-distance phone calls. In 2020,...

Hello, this is Andrew Santoro and Kelsey Henry. We're the writers/creators of Tomorrow, the Void which is a sci-fi mystery set aboard a last hope colonization ship in the farthest reaches of space just as everything starts to go wrong. This is episode 1 - Ghost Stories. Thanks for listening. https://tomorrowthevoidpodcast.com/ Twitter: @tomorrowthevoid

Hey there! This is Dania Ramos, head writer of Timestorm, which is a middle-grade audio drama about twelve-year-old twins who travel in time to find their culture's true history. This is episode eleven: What is Missing, which is the first episode in our second season. You can hear the entire first two seasons at TimesormSeries.com. Thanks for listening! Transcript can be found at: https://www.coco...

This is Wil Williams, Showrunner on VALENCE, which is about Liam Alden, a pretentious, bisexual sadsack with magical abilities trying to take down a tech giant known for making magic suppressants. This is episode 3, "Razzle Dazzle", in which Liam and his team investigate their first lead Link to transcript: https://hughouse.productions/2020/02/08/1-3-razzle-dazzle/ Website: https://hughouse.produc...

Hello, this is Julie Saunders, creator of Believer, which is about a fake psychic who travels to a small town in Oregon in search of her missing ex-girlfriend. This is episode one, the version that aired in March of 2020, and I hope you enjoy it! Thank you for listening. Link to transcript: https://believerpodcast.com/transcripts/episode-101 Website: https://believerpodcast.com Twitter: @BelieverP...

Hi, this is Matt Boothman. I'm the compere on Merely Roleplayers, the podcast where theatrical people play roleplaying games, in pursuit of maximum drama.  This episode is Deja Vu, Act One, the first act of the tenth story in our Blackshaw Saga. Throughout the Blackshaw Saga, members of Blackshaw - a real-life theatre company - have been thrown into a series of standalone adventures in a rang...

Hello, This is Derek Adams, the writer of NORA. And Jonathan Sparks, Composer and Sound Designer for NORA. NORA is an exploration of the ‘found footage’ style of podcast, a grad student stumbles across a tiny mystery in some old photos of her town. A building that seems to be present, then disappear throughout the years.  Her investigation leads her to a murdered man, a strange local Detectiv...

Howdy fellow Strugglers, this is Justin Hellstrom – the sole blood cult summoner of paleo-mythic reptiles in The Great Chameleon War. The show follows the Amanuensis as he catalogues an extradimensional jungle around Mt. Tahoma called the Nesting Zone – a landscape prowled by titanic lizards and deranged dream explorers. This is a bioweapon lurking in your backyard. A chorus of basilisks gnawing y...

Hi there, my name is Ann Sloan, the creator of The Carlötta Beautox Chronicles. Our show is a satirical, screwball comedy about a wanna-be actress and influencer who is trying to make it big in Hollywood. This episode is entitled: The Musical Episode is exactly that -- our first foray into the realm of musicals. It is very much outside the norm of what we usually do and I do hope you enjoy it. Tha...

Greetings Citizens, This is Travis Vengroff with the Department of Public Affairs, Divisions on Broadcasting - AB3. The Great Archon Archon and her government have given us the opportunity to introduce you to a show that was co-created by myself and Citizen Kaitlin Statz called Liberty: The Tower. Liberty is a series of stories that exist in the Liberty Podcast feed and that all take place wi...