The Audio Verse Awards Nominee Showcase Podcast

Hello, my name is Sean Heyboer. I am the creator and writer of Constants, a dark fiction anthology bringing you stories from across the collapsing omniverse. Constants aims to be an immersive storytelling experience that features some of my personal favorite vocal performers that are currently working in the audio space today. Each episode is self-contained, but will become part of a larger narrat...

This is Michael J Rigg, the writer-producer-creator on COPPERHEART, which is a post-apocalyptic reality-bending sci-fi thriller about a community of two thousand people waiting out a nuclear winter in an underground bunker. When an astronaut in a space station's Earth Return Vehicle crash lands nearby, the bunker survivalists must figure out how to deal with the unexpected stranger. Because there...

Hey there. This is Dania Ramos, series creator and writer of Timestorm , which follows twins from Newark, New Jersey, who travel through time to preserve their culture’s true history. This is Episode 3: Atabey. Thanks for listening. https://timestormseries.com/

This is Michael J Rigg, the GM and Storycrafter on The Steam Rollers Adventure Podcast, which is an actual-play alternate-reality Steampunk comedy role-playing adventure fantasy set in the Heart of Bronze novels also written by Michael J Rigg. Each episode is a table-top roleplaying session enhanced with music and sound effects. Season 1 of SRAP follows three completely different characters from t...

Hi.  I’m David Beck and I’m the director on Arabian Nights 2, which is the follow up to Arabian Nights 1! This installment follows the epic adventures of Sinbad the Sailor with various beasts and baddies, but it’s still anchored by the sort of framing device of Scheherezade and her nightly storytelling to Shahriyar in order to save her life…which we followed in the first instalment, Arabian N...

Hi there, this is Jordan Stillman, and I'm the Executive Producer of The Ordinary Epic: a fantasy audio drama about five friends and the challenges they face together—both in their "real" lives and in a shared imaginary world that tabletop role-playing games make possible. This is season one, episode 2: The Dip. In the previous episode, Marcus joined a coworker's game night and made a bit of a mes...

This is Isaac Young, co-creator and co-star on FNU: The Fake News Update . FNU is an absurdist public radio parody that has very little to do with public radio. It follows the adventures of  two bumbling public radio anchors, Perennial Eschner and Anahita Ardashir, who are constantly thrust into the middle of strange and exciting FN adventures. FNU releases four, five minute episodes a week,...

Hello, everyone, my name is JV Hampton-VanSant, I'm the writer, creator, producer and voice of Jordan on RedWing: The Audio Drama. RedWing the Audio drama is an Urban Fantasy, Superhero podcast about Jordan Redfield-Wade, billionaire, philanthropist and private investigator. It centers around him and his family as they fight the forces of general evil. This episode is Season 2 episode One, Fire Fi...

Hello! This is Abigail Wahl, the voice of Ally from the time travel search and rescue adventure, Sem: Adventures Across Time. A story about finding courage and bravery as a young woman named Ally finds herself lost in the wrong place and time period, only to be rescued by a man named Sem who’s sworn duty it is to find and save others like her. Now, Ally will have to overcome her fears and join Sem...

Hi there, this is Jack Pevyhouse. I’m the writer, director and voice of Shiloh in Forest Guide . Forest Guide is a four-part miniseries about a grad student questioning his place in academia and struggling to shift his life into what he actually wants. And one night, he gets help to do so from a strange woman in the woods—with pointed ears and a lantern lit by a glowing celosia. This series deals...

Hi, I’m Rob, creator and writer of the sci fi comedy, Oblivity. Oblivity is about a disgraced war hero who is posted to Pluto on her toughest mission yet: to oversee a small, dysfunctional research team. Battle-scarred and bewildered, Commander Falconer only wants to return to the comfort of combat. Making life difficult for her are peppy thrill-seeker, Christy; enigmatic and prodigious Burney; an...

Hello, This is Talon Stradley, creator, writer, and producer of Newton’s Dark Room. Newton’s Dark Room is a fictional artist collective comprised of cosmic space beings, vintage AI’s, tiny civilizations, post-ancient cults and, of course, plenty of cats and Roombas. I made Newton’s Dark Room because I wanted to put out a wide variety of content all under one banner. On top of podcasts, we also mak...

Hi, we’re Modified Roll, an actual play D&D 5e podcast where we focus on collaborative story telling in an open, homebrew world. We believe this freedom allows us to bring an authentic D&D experience where we as players have the opportunity to do whatever we want in a world lovingly crafted by our talented DM Liam. This podcast was also a learning experience for all of us, but especially m...

This is Eduardo Soto Falcon, writer-director on "Dad’s Ashes", which is about a man that wakes up in a strange motel room, unable to remember how he got there or what happened to the urn with his dad's ashes. As this man tries to unravel the mystery, we listen to his every thought, unfiltered and uncensored, in a standalone neo-noir play somewhat reminiscent of the Twilight Zone. Thank you for lis...

This is Philip Thorne, Co-Creator of The Amelia Project, which is a black comedy about an underground agency that specialises in faking its clients deaths and setting them up with a new identity. What you’re about to hear is episode 17 which is called Bartholomew Fuckface Chucklepants Knuckle-Cracker. The only thing you should know going into it is that we advise all our listeners to listen to the...

This is JV Torres, creator of “The Rise of King Asilas,” which is a show set in a futuristic America under the totalitarian rule of a king on a mission to save humanity. This story reaches the far fringes of speculative conspiracy theories and weaves in current political discourse in dark, intense satire—interlacing quaint subtleties with theatrical madness. What I have set out to do is bring the...

I'm Cap Blackard, show runner for The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program. Our series is an occult radio play of unknowable horror and black comedy. It's also an unholy marriage of improvised actual play and scripted audio drama. These live performances channel the visceral panic and humor of actually living through sanity-shredding nightmares. Then my team and I go back in, script new elements, bring...

This is Jason Phelps, Dungeon Master on Flintlocks & Fireballs, a 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons Actual Play Podcast following the adventures of four mad voice actors and three luckless privateers across the shores of the Napoleonic world of Calcinea.  This is a 37 minute sample from Episode Fifty Four: Confessions & Carriages, taking place in a tavern in the town of Treachery, on...

Hello! This is Jimmy Sprinkles here. I am the producer and Games Master of ‘Brits on Bikes’ An actual play collaborative storytelling podcast. Every week Eve, Kat and I step back in time to the 1970s and enter Marsh Haven – a seemingly normal British town, with a whole host of not so normal secrets. The game uses the Kid’s on Bikes system. A rules system inspired  by shows films and books. Li...

Hi, this is Drea Silvertooth, the GM of Bad Heroes. We are a Pathfinder first edition actual play podcast set in a homebrew world. The show follows four would-be heroes who are persuaded by the queen of Vyer, a nation tied irreversibly to Hell, to hunt down dangerous curses plaguing humanity. The episode you’re about to hear is lighter on game mechanics but features a lot of great roleplay and sto...

Hi, this is Emma Brown, co-creator of Husk, a narrative drama about two friends that were abducted by aliens. Rebecca was returned to earth immediately, while Dmitri is still gone, and now Rebecca is the number one suspect in the case of her missing friend. You’re listening to episode two, where we meet the main officer on the case, Warren. Thanks for listening. https://www.huskpodcast.com/

I’m Gerard O’Brien voice actor with the Hawk Chronicles, a show about the Baltimore PD, and the Inter Galactic Force. Like many of the voice talents in the show, I play several characters. My nomination is for Dmitri Karloff, A Russian for hire thug.  Another voice talent who does many characters is Jon Macinta. He’s nominated for Robonaut 4, the computer aboard the Boldibar Space Station. Ch...

Hi and welcome to Weal or Woe. I’m Laura and I play Mona, a bad ass elven warrior scything her way through bad guys for her goddess. We sit around a real table and tell a character-driven, improv-heavy, adult-friendly, juice-soaked story set in a homebrew world. We use the Pathfinder second edition rules system, and while we love it, who really cares about rules? Come hang out with me and the Disa...

Hi! This is Jeff Stormer, host of Party Of One, an actual play podcast focused on two-player roleplaying experiences. This is episode #167, I Haven't Seen You Since... with Ash Cheshire. Every week on Party Of One, I sit down with a friend to play a two-player tabletop RPG; we share some laughs, maybe a few tears, and have a really good time. The show aims to explore a varieties of genres, setting...

This is Minerva Sweeney Wren, Creator and Performer of McGillicuddy and Murder's Pawn Shop, which is set in 1921. Maude, the main character and narrator, gets a diary and begins to write in it. The only problem is, her life is boring. She types all day until her fingers are sore, and then comes home, sleeps, and does it all over again. She wishes her life was an adventure. And it isn’t. That is, u...