The Audio Verse Awards Nominee Showcase Podcast

Greetings this is Travis Vengroff the sound designer and producer of The White Vault. Grab a mug of coffee and your ice axe because we're about to join an archaeological team that's been trapped deep within the mountains of Patagonia. Icy winds, miles of treacherous terrain, and faulty equipment separate the team from the nearest human settlement. So far from aid they find they're still not a...

This is Chris McClure, the writer and producer of The Milkman of St. Gaff’s, and I also play all the characters in the podcast. Lovecraft meets Kafka in this fantasy/horror audio drama about Howie, a troubled young man who joins the milkmen on the island of St. Gaff’s, only to discover that the milkmen harbor a dark and dangerous secret. The island is rocky and vaguely reminiscent of Newfoundland,...

LAUREN: Hi, this is Lauren Grace Thompson - IAN: And Ian Geers LAUREN: The creators and writers behind The Vanishing Act. IAN: A rambling absurdity in 12 parts. LAUREN: Right, 12ish parts. IAN: The Vanishing Act tells the story of a mysterious - LAUREN: and fictional - IAN: -tragedy that occurred at a magic show way back in the 17th century and a rag tag group of scientists, con men, theatre artis...

This is PJ Scott-Blankenship, Creator and Director of Hit the Bricks, which is a musical audio play set in the Land of Oz 100 years after Dorothy's adventures. This clip is from early on in the season, when Jessi (our main character) and her cousin Wallace discover a magical secret on the abandoned farm of Dorothy Gale. You can find out more at hitthebricks.com Thank you for listening! Transcript...

This is Cai Gwilym Pritchard, Writer, Sound designer, actor, producer, logo designer, catering and, tea boy on Chain of Being, which is a mythic science-fiction story about the biblical Adam, traversing a hostile universe in search of an unknown extra-universal entity. This is Episode 13: A Wondrous Undoing. Having been captured by a human supremacist group that performs unnatural rituals in searc...

What's up listeners! I'm Ryan Krause, the Dungeon Master for Unlikely Heroes - A real play Dungeons and Dragons podcast based in our own slice of the Forgotten Realms known as "Kilerth". The story follows Rory Chesterschmidt (Played by Mike Wentz), Kyle Hansen (Played by Rob Stumpf) and Winona Applebeez (Played by Jenni Wentz) who start off at a high school reunion in current day times, but then f...

Why hello there! This is Harlan Guthrie, Editor, Producer and Player Character on Dice Shame, a dungeons and dragons actual play podcast of Storm Kings Thunder by Wizards of the Coast. Our show is about four adventurer’s tasked with re-ordering the giants that roam the world. Giants who seem hellbent on destroying everything in their path. What you’re about to hear is Episode 50 from our ongoing s...

Greetings Adventurers, This is Travis Vengroff the Game Master, Creator, and Producer of Dark Dice - a horror podcast that blurs the line between actual play and audio drama, where our story is determined by a roll of the dice. Previously, six travelers embarked on a journey into the ruinous domain of the Nameless God, they will never be the same again. One of the players is not what they seem as...

Hello everyone! This is Daniel Orrett, Lead Writer and Director of The Sojourn. Thank you so much for your nomination. The Sojourn is an original Science Fiction Audio Drama centred around a bold expedition across the Intergalactic Void, launched in search of new resources to save humanity from starvation. What you're about to hear is the third episode of The Sojourn, 'Yesterday's War'. Which is a...

Hello! I am Russ More, Co-Creator and Game Master for Facing Fate, which is an improvised actual play podcast focusing each season on different genres, game systems and characters.  You are about to listen to Season 01 - Episode 01 titled appropriately Luna Corp; Day 01. Luna Corp is a sci-fi thriller, using the game system Fate CORE, that follows employees of a privately owned...

Well hello there ! I'm Russ More, Co-Creator and Dungeon Master of Dumbgeons & Dragons, which is a comedic, improvised actual play following 2 separate groups of adventurers each tackling larger-than-life issues in their hopes to save the world against dragons, demons and devils. Dumbgeons & Dragons is first and foremost about bringing you, the listener, into the adventure and fe...

Hi, this is Nerys Howell, and I’m the writer and producer of Seren, as well as the voice of both Seren and PEARL. Seren is the story of a woman who is sent away from her home planet for not following her dystopian society’s laws. Over the course of 8 episodes the season follows her journey to a new unhabited planet, which she must start to terraform. This is episode 1, titled Departure, and is the...

This is Ali Hylton, creator of Dining in the Void. This show is about six alien celebrities who are trapped onboard a space station. They will have to work together to survive—or die at the hands of an unknown monster. You are about to hear our compilation episode of the Cassie Monologues, which takes place alongside season one. Cassie gives some insight into the greater universe and story, so be...

Hi folks, this is Ian W. Hill, the co-creator and sound designer of the science-fiction sitcom for your ears, Life With Althaar, and I’m here with co-creator and showrunner, Berit Johnson  —  Hello!  —  We also both write, act, and do almost all the other jobs on the show   —  Along with the other 22 members of the Gemini CollisionWorks theater company   — &...

Hi! I'm Kristen DiMercurio, showrunner and head writer of Brimstone Valley Mall! Before you get started here with season one, episode one, we wanted to let you know that our show does contain explicit language. I mean, our main characters are demons from Hell so they're not exactly known for being polite. With that out of the way, it's time to transport you back in time to the wildly mundane world...

This is Ben Warren, writer and director of Fire Bird. A labour of love, Fire Bird weaves together different renditions of the phoenix story with established Slavic folklore to tell a unique version of the legendary bird’s tale. Inspired primarily by Yakov Polonsky’s children’s fable, ‘A Winter's Journey’ and orchestrated with key themes from ‘The Firebird Suite’ by Igor Stravinshi, it draws heavil...

Hi! This is Samy, the writer, and creator of Desperado, which is an urban fantasy podcast about three people chosen by the gods of death of their respective culture, now having to defend their heritage against modern-day crusaders. This is episode 1.1 Something Older Than Mexico, which is the best place to start if you’d like to give our story a shot, and if you do, I hope you’ll enjoy! Thank you...

This is David S. Dear, creator, producer, and writer of A Ninth World Journal. This show is about a man named Januae who, due to the result of carelessly experimenting with a teleportation device, jaunts randomly throughout the world which takes place a billion years in the future. This is Episode 28: Faster Raster in which he is pursued by a bounty hunter hired to find Januae by the Order who bel...

Hello! This is Jeffrey Nils Gardner, the Executive producer of Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery.  In this show, Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living in the town's boarding house which has been run by her family for generations, she discovers conspiracies, ghosts, and a new family in the house's strange...

Greetings this is Kaitlin Statz the writer and creator of VAST Horizon. And I'm Travis Vengroff, the Producer and Sound Designer. We greatly appreciate our nomination for the AVA Awards this year and are proud to share the first episode of our second season - Recovery. VAST Horizon is the story of one woman's fight for survival against the void of space. In season 1 our protagonist, Dr. Nolira Eck...

This is Kc Wayland, Writer/Director and Producer of We’re Alive: Goldrush, which is a continuation of our main story, We’re Alive, focusing on one particular adventure involving several soldiers who are on the path of finding a billion dollars in gold, after the world has ended. It’s a story of friendship, loyalty, and what is truly valuable in their world . This is a short segment from Chapter 1...

This is Natalie Winter, the Producer of The Art of Ambition, which is a modern noir-esque series told from the perspective of a New Yorker with his ear to the ground and a knack for turning a situation to his advantage. You're about to listen to Chapter 1: The Art of A Doorman, which was originally written and produced as a short new writing piece for the Ragged Scratch Podcast in January 2020. Af...

Hi! My name is Cole Burkhardt, the Writer and Director of Null/Void. Null/Void, a Piece of Cake Podcast Production, is a science fiction audio drama about a young black woman, Piper Lee, as she navigates this hellscape we call the working world. Her life is saved from a horrific accident by a mysterious voice named Adelaide. Piper soon uncovers a malicious plot by a monopoly of a tech company and...

This is Kenon Pearce, the Dungeon Master and host of Top of the Round, which is a highly edited and fully scored actual play podcast about three unlikely companions discovering that the world they know is a facade placed by self-serving higher powers. They must make the impossible choice of who to trust, knowing there will be consequences for whatever decision they make - consequences not only for...

Molly: Hi! This is Molly Olguin, co-creator of the Pasithea Powder and voice of Jane Gonzalez. Jackie: And I’m Jackie Hedeman, co-creator of the Pasithea Powder and voice of Sophie Green. Molly: The Pasithea Powder is a science fiction thriller. Jackie: It’s also a post-war epistolary slowburn. Molly: If you want a more specific breakdown, it’s about Captain Sophie Green, recovering from a war tha...