The Audio Verse Awards Nominee Showcase Podcast

This is Emily VanDerWerff, Co-Creator on Arden, which is about the missing person case of Julie Capsom, a starlet who vanished in 2007 leaving behind a male torso in her trunk, and Bea Casely and Brenda Bentley, the reporter and detective who are hired ten years later to find her. The following is a highlight reel from Season One, comprising some of our favorite moments from the show, and highligh...

Hey there! I'm Mike Rugnetta, I'm Shannon Odell, I'm Nick Guercio, I'm Jenn de la Vega, I'm Bijan Stephen and I'm Taylor Moore. We are the cast of Fun City, a Shadowrun Actual Play RPG podcast about a group of career criminals living in a super-future, post-climate apocalypse New York City who are trying to navigate the moral grey areas of contemporary life. Also there are jokes. This is episode o...

My name is K. Thomas Zipperer, and I’m one of the writers behind the true crime comedy “Wheels Of Justice”. Wheels of Justice is a one hour standalone audio drama covering the fictional investigation into who pushed the Governor of Texas down a staircase in his wheelchair. In this scene, our main protagonists, Bob and Zipp, meet with a wheelchair salesman in an attempt to gather some information a...

This is Melissa Sheldon, Writer, Producer, and occasional actor on X Why Podcast, which is an anthology series of short stories based around themes of all kinds, chock-full of social commentary, sarcasm, bad and good jokes, and showcases the immense talent of indie voice actors & writers from all over the internet. This is episode 4: Relationship Planet. In this episode we have a nature docume...

This is James Palmer, producer on Radio Free Detroit, an in character, in universe podcast set in the cyberpunk future of Shadowrun in 2080; we have a mix of monologued pieces and audio drama, and the primary character is Ziggy the Troll Shadowrunning Philosopher, a big man, with cybernetic arms, big thoughts, and a perennial love of ice cream. This is Episode 5 of our crossover audio drama, calle...

Hey there, I’m Lucas Duff I am the GM and editor of Ballad of the Seven Dice. Our Show is a 5e podcast, like many others out there. What we do that’s a little different is not only do we have our fully produced actual play podcast, meaning sfx, music, ambiance, you name it, but we also do audio drama episodes between our main episodes. So our story takes place in the forgotten realms, where it is...

This is Matt, host on Merely Roleplayers, which is about a real London theatre company jumping through decidedly not-real stories in lots of different genres. This is Act One of season seven, “Upstaged!", where the company enter a nationwide televised theatre competition to raise money to save a children’s theatre programme. Thank you for listening. https://www.mattboothman.com/merelyroleplayers/

Hello! Sarah Golding here - Astral Queen dialogue editor and voice actor as Captain Kelly and the AI Computer in this one off script - a winner of the first ADPP Script writing competition by the amazing Paul Spencer. This was edited and sound designed by Eli McIlveen with original music by Tom Rory Parsons and guest appearances from Mark Lubienski Steel and Graham Rowat. Love a northern accent me...

Hello Sarah Golding here - Producer and wannabe Voice actor and Writer of some parts of The Moonologue sessions. I set it up with my production company Quirky Voices to celebrate the moon landings 50th anniversary, man, as I DO LOVE SPACE very much and the moon - and encouraged folks to submit some new writing - I DO LOVE NEW WRITING - short monologues to be performed by some of the best and my mo...

This is Colton Flick. I was one of the writers, vocal directors, and audio editors for Still Lives [pronounced like a noun] -- or Still Lives [pronounced like a verb], if you prefer. It's a pun! Our show is about the last five people on Earth hearing a knock at the door, and trying to come to terms with the fact that they may not actually be the last five people on Earth. We think of it as a pasto...

Hello, this is Florence Hood, I curate Once, a short fiction podcast. Each week we release a unique piece of audio fiction created by our team of writers and performers. After this introduction, you can listen to a collection of lines and moments from our first episodes. If you’re intrigued and would like to listen to our full episodes, you can find us on soundcloud.com/oncefictionpod, or wherever...

Hello, this is Rob Trevino, co-creator of Parasitecology and other podcasts from ohthehumanity.com . We’d like to thank those who nominated us for the Audio Verse Awards. Audio fiction for us and, dare I say, our fellow nominees, is a labor of love and listener support is incredibly important to all creators. We appreciate it greatly. Parasitecology is a darkly comic sci-fi audio drama about Javie...

Hello, This is Dragon, I’m a cast member of Penance RPG and manage our social media. We a role play podcast – so we record our role playing games and fully edit them for release. Our podcast contains various adventure campaigns with several different groups of players. We aim to promote collaborative storytelling through character interaction with their environment and improvisation to solve the v...

Hey! We are the Magic Quest Boys of Dragontown. We are a new, improvisational, epic, fantasy, comedy, story telling podcast. Basically, we're playing Dungeons & Dragons, okay? And it's awesome. Our Dungeon Master is incredible and he wrote the whole campaign. Don't worry if you haven't played Dungeons & Dragons before, you're going to love it. Everybody loves it. It's the best. Our tale is...

This is Megan Burnside, executive producer of The Hidden People, a creepy modern fantasy that begins with a murder mystery and slowly pulls back the curtain on a hidden world of dark action and adventure. This is episode four, which will give you an idea of the characters and their world as they deal with the fallout from the murder of Mackenna and Thomas's parents. If you enjoy this episode, be s...

This is Dominic Hargreaves, producer of Victoriocity. Victoriocity is a detective comedy drama set in a reimagined Victorian past, and is written by Chris and Jen Sugden. The story follows Inspector Archibald Fleet and journalist Clara Entwhistle, who in season one investigated the murder of an eminent scientist in the vast metropolis of Even Greater London. In season two, Fleet and Clara have a n...

This is Hem "Volonda" Cleveland. I am the producer and dungeon mistress on The Lucky Die podcast. The podcast is a 5e Dungeons and Dragons actual play podcast, where three convicted criminals have to save the world as the gods around them re dying. This is episode 81 of The Lucky Die and it is called "Power Plays". It is after the group have had a major loss and after they've had a very large meet...

This is Stephen Buckley, cast member and Dungeon Master on Second Best: A D&D Adventure. Second Best is a D&D 5th Edition “actual-play” podcast created and performed by a cast of professional comedians. In the fantasy world of Second Best, The Finest are the sought-after and much respected heroes tasked with keeping order in a dangerous, chaotic time. Our story  is not about them. Rat...

This is Jesse Duvall, writer of Scared Shirtless. This is episode 0: The Man and the Moon. The Steward is an eldritch being: immortal, unchanging and haunted, but also fascinated by humans and their little lives.  The Steward creates places and things.  Ideas float past him and are made solid.  In this episode, we'll meet the Steward, and learn a little bit about what they bring to...

Hello, this is Russell McGee, the writer and director of this adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which was originally presented on Halloween in 2018. The name Frankenstein is world-renowned, but what do you really know of Shelley’s original vision? This faithful adaptation presents the 'creature' as an intelligent being that has suffered the injustice of mankind. In celebration of the two...

Hi, I'm Stoo Goff, I'm the composer and audio engineer for Tales from the Aletheian Society, which is a comedy horror audio drama about the misadventures of a society of Victorian occultists. http://hunterhoose.co.uk

Hi, I'm Steve Phillips, Producer of  Discovery Mountain .  Discovery Mountain  is a dramatized audio series where listeners experience adventure, mystery, campfire songs, and, most importantly, where they get to know Jesus. Each season of the show is based around a Bible story, with a modern-day parallel occurring in the small but friendly town of Discovery Mountain. The Bible...

This is Rhi, the GM and producer on the Magpies Podcast, which is a Blades in the Dark actual play. It’s about a band of criminals-turned-vigilantes who are struggling to survive in the haunted, industrial-fantasy city of Duskwall. They pull of daring heists, stick it to the rich and powerful, and forge unbreakable bonds of friendship. This is Season 1, Episode 7, and it sees the Magpies fulfillin...

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...

Hi, I’m S.H. Cooper, co-writer and voice actor for Bridgette on Calling Darkness. We are beyond thrilled to be nominated for an Audioverse Award and I wanted to take a moment to introduce our show. Co-written by myself and Gemma Amor, Calling Darkness is a horror comedy that follows six women who come together for an acting seminar, only to accidentally summon a demon. With the dead refusing to st...