The Audio Verse Awards Nominee Showcase Podcast

Hello friends, Chris Henry here, sound designer and player of Sacha Stone on Crit Squad - An improv drama RPG show currently Running The Shadows of a cyberpunk corporate dystopia for your consideration. Please enjoy this excerpt from our Season Three opener, followed at around the 20 minute mark by a couple more scenes from past episodes that showcase some other moments that exemplify what we...

Hi! My name is David Magadan and I'm the Voice of Frank, writer and creator of the show Directive which is a Sci Fi podcast about a man that takes a 20 year job looking after sleeping passengers on the way to a new planet, only problem is he's alone. This is episode number 5. Please note that this content is rated R, and for the best listening experience please use headphones. Thanks so much for l...

Hi, I'm Thryn. I play Belka on These Flimsy Rituals, a narrative-first actual play podcast focused on telling small stories in big worlds. We launched in 2018 and are just nearing the end of our first campaign, Tiding. It explores a decaying, autumnal world shaped by huge, shambling god husks. We follow two caravans, banded together by disaster, trying to forge a new life beneath the shadows of th...

Hi!  My name is Scott Murray, and I am the creator of The Crimson Files Fiction podcast.  That means I do everything behind the scenes as a writer, director producer and editor.  The Crimson Files is an action/comedy superhero-themed fiction podcast.  The stories follow The Crimson Crane and her team (two web streamers, a mad scientist, a thrill driver and a grandmother) as the...

Hi everyone, this is V.P. Morris. I'm the sole writer, creator, and host of The Dead Letters Podcast. The show is a suspenseful audio drama focusing on the lives of a five women, who over history, have received letters that warn of death and destruction if they don't do as the sender says. In Season One we follow Fiona Weatherly, a college student in modern times who must deal with the chaos that...

Hi there! This is Vince Dajani, Creator of the audio drama, How i Died, which is about a coroner who helps solve crimes by speaking to the ghost of the victim. This is Episode number one: Shellfish. Our podcast is in the same vein as TV show procedural dramas, based around things like Bones and Ghost Whisperer. Each crime in our show is based on a true crime, some of which are unsolved. And the go...

Hi there, my name is Andreas Jorgensen, I play Doctor Martin Bengtsson, a professor of ancient language who is possessed by a demon on the run from their own kind on the podcast 'OMEN investigations'. We're delighted to be nominated for an Audioverse award, so much so that our boss Byron Brimstone has recorded a short introduction as to what it is we do, here it is: Attention new agents, this is m...

Hello, This is David Ortiz, writer and director for “Nulyn: The New Age”. This Audio Drama takes place in the world of Nulyn, thousands of years after the Great Celestial War, and the end of the First Age. It follows the life of young Faylin, a young boy who has lived in the service of the King and Queen of Andelia for his entire life. But now, in the wake of darkness and destruction, young Faylin...

This is Alexander J Newall, Executive Producer on Stellar Firma, a weekly Science Fiction, Comedy podcast following the misadventures of Stellar Firma Ltd.'s highest born but lowest achieving planetary designer Trexel Geistman and his bewildered clone assistant David 7 as they attempt to take listener submissions and craft them into the galaxy's most luxurious, most expensive and most questionably...

This is Alexander J Newall, Director on The Magnus Archives, a weekly horror fiction anthology podcast that follows the supernatural statements lurking in the archives of the Magnus Institute, an organisation dedicated to researching the esoteric and the weird. Join head archivist Jonathan Sims as he attempts to bring this seemingly neglected collection up to date supplementing them with follow-up...

This is Alexander J Newall, host and GM of the Rusty Quill Gaming podcast, an actual play podcast following a group of comedians, improvisers, gamers, and writers as they play through a custom game-world and extended campaign using the Pathfinder RPG system. Expect epic battles, critical misses, and surprise heartache as the party strive for fame and glory whilst cracking wise and trying not to ki...

Hello and welcome chummers, I am Digital Doom, the host and writer of Shadowrun Survival Guide’s ‘A Day in the Life; Stories from the sixth world.’ Where we tell you stories about an average person on one of the worst days of their lives, whether it is from a corporation, a Shadowrunner, or any other reason in this mixed up Sixth world. The year is 2080 and corporations run the world. Governments...

Hello heroes, this is James D’Amato and I am the Host and gamemaster for Campaign: Skyjacks . Skyjacks is an actual-play podcast featuring professional improvisers telling the story of a daring group of Sky Pirates in an original setting based on folktales and inspiration from the music of our favorite band: The Decemberists. On our show, we balance humor with gripping emotional storytelling. Our...

This is Kessi Riliniki, Writer, Producer, Graphic Artist and Voice Actor on Counterbalance, a High Fantasy Audio Drama Podcast. A hole has been torn into the weave that creates magic, allowing spirits that threaten the wellbeing of mortals to manifest. Counterbalance is about the journey of three people attempting to fix the hole, while trying to find out who caused it to rip in the first place. I...

Hey there! I'm Alex, and I play one of the lead roles by the name Alexander Black on 2000 DC - A Sitcom Podcast! What you are about to hear is Season 1, Episode 5. Titled - The Job Search. In this episode, my co-star, Dimitri, who plays himself gets fed up with his job of voicing commercials and wants to get something that gives him a little more money in the pocket. Thanks for listening, and enjo...

This is Stephanie Resendes and Micah Rodriguez, the showrunners for the How it Ends podcast. Our show follows the journey of our main character, Micah Velez-Jones, as she tries to uncover the meaning of her nightmares with the help of her two best friends, Elia Cabral and Devon Williams. The episode you are about to listen to is Episode 5 from Season 1. Micah, Devon, and Elia take a trip to her ho...

Hi there, this is Colyn deGraaff, the Creative Director of Cold Open Stories, and I’m pleased to tell you that our third production, When All Lights Have Gone Out was nominated in this year’s Audioverse Awards. When All Lights Have Gone Out is a tense science-fantasy thriller. It follows The Adepta Sororitas, an all-female division of a galaxy-spanning faith that has held humanity together for tho...

This is Tony, Dungeon Master for DnD RAW, an actual play with a party of friends who mostly follow rules as written for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition with unearthed arcana material. In an interwoven campaign of interplanar threats, insidious plots, and wild adventures, we have two diverse parties, Serviceable Plots and Rumble Squad, who improvise compelling storytelling with laughs along the...

Hi, this is Jared J. Smith, writer and director of The Phenomenon . The Phenomenon takes place in the aftermath of a supernatural threat that's driven mankind to the brink of extinction. It follows survivors from around the globe who have to learn to survive in a new world with just three simple rules: Do not look outside. Do not look at the sky. Do not make noise. Thanks so much for listening. En...

This is Christopher Reynaga, Writer and Director of Point Mystic. Point Mystic presents itself as a long-running radio show named after a mythical place that explores stories behind the magic, mystery and the unexplained. A journalistic “This American Life” or “Radiolab” in search of the supernatural. However… this is not the whole truth. This is Christopher Reynaga, Writer and Director of Point M...

Hi, I'm Joseph H. White. I'm the head writer and creator of MEET/CUTE, which is about an audio sitcom about two podcasters who discover they each host a podcast with the same name. It's a podcast about podcasters making a podcast...Meta. With a dash of magical realism featuring the great city of Chicago (it really is its own character). It's part sit-com/part rom-com/all pod-com. Take a break. Hav...

Hi! This is Mariam Ahmad, Creator and GM of The Musafirs, a decolonised actual play podcast set in Sarzameen, a South Asian fantasy setting. The following episode you're about to hear is our second one, where the main cast of characters meet for the first time - and it really sets the tone for the show. Thank you for listening. http://themusafirspodcast.com/

Good evening, intrepid listeners. This is David King, creator of the Midnight Marinara podcast. Midnight Marinara an anthology series that takes short, eerie stories and adapts them into fully cast audio dramas in the style of classic radio. What you are about to hear is a sample from our last season finale and our Halloween special, "La Llorona," which is an original story written for the show, a...

This is Steven LaFond, Co-Creator and Producer on Witchever Path, which is an interactive fiction series where our audience votes between episodes to influence the protagonists’ decisions. This is episode 1 of latest story, Underground. Thank you for Listening. http://www.witcheverpath.com

Hello! This is Francesca Mylod-Ford, creator of The Pilgrimage Saga . This show is about five humans and an AI, looking for home – and it’s a science-fiction story. This episode is season one, episode eight: “Stuck in the Middle (With You)”. And… hope you enjoy it! Enjoy the show. https://thepilgrimagesaga.wordpress.com/