The Audio Verse Awards Nominee Showcase Podcast

Hey there, folks! Kevin La Porte here; Dungeon Master for The Session Tapes. We’re an actual-play or live-play roleplaying game podcast, using the Dungeons and Dragons 5 th Edition ruleset.  Our show is recorded live on the tabletop; with one microphone set between 4 players. This heightens the experience of being “in the moment”; nothing is scripted, no clues or hints are given to the player...

This is Cedric Reeve, voice actor on The Beacon, which is about magic, monsters, and the importance of making friends. This is episode ten, “At Night, It Snows,” in which our heroes finally face down the monster that’s been threatening their campus, and decide what victory would truly mean for them. Thank you for listening. https://www.thebeaconpodcast.com/

This is David Hanna, voice actor on Soulborn City, which is about experiencing a fantastic and messy magical world through the lens of emotion. This is episode one, in which we are introduced to the divinely-powered empath, Sefriya Parzol, and the emotionally noisy city which has just become her home. Thank you for listening. https://www.thebeaconpodcast.com/about-sc

Hi, this is Spencer Coles, project director for Albion: The Old Kingdom which is set well before the events of Fable: The Lost Chapters, during an era seemingly lost in time...The Old Kingdom. Our story primarily follows the life of William Black, and how he procured the means to vanquish The Court of Blades. And through this venture, the long forgotten past will be unveiled. Revealing how the thr...

This is Lara. And this is Chriss. And we are the creators of The Atomic Library. The Atomic Library is a scripted comedy audiofiction podcast featuring a ragtag band of municipal misfits tasked with running the Orson Welles Community Library five years after the Allpocalypse. That's right - ALL the apocalypses. This is episode 5: The Library Conference. Most of the staff is out of town at an...

Hey there! I'm JD Sutter. Executive producer and director of Greenhorn Tales and the voice of Nicholas Vincent. Greenhorn Tales is a short-form, all-ages, comedy audio drama about Cameron Carson and Nicholas Vincent; two guys in their early 20’s who share an apartment in the small town of Bristol. They are desperately trying to be adults, but haven’t quite got the “adulting” thing down yet. The sh...

Greetings Acolytes! I'm Kennedy Phillips, Creator of Magus Elgar. You may also recognize my voice as Magus Serling Tenthorn, Mentor to those who wish to learn all about the magic of Hearth. The various casters in the world of hearth master their arts by speaking obscenities in the ancient tongue of trite; literally insulting the entities that rule over reality called the elements. Since these elem...

This is Evan Gulock, writer and director for Death by Dying, an audio play about an Obituary Writer who investigates strange and mysterious deaths in the town of Crestfall, Idaho... when he’s just supposed to be writing obituaries. On his misadventures he comes across murderous farmers, man-eating cats, vampiric nuns, and an ominous beast stalking the Dark Woods. The deaths become more personal wh...

This is JC De La Torre, Creator of Vampires of White Chapel. This show is about a young FBI agent, Arianna Grayson, who is unwillingly turned into a vampire by Allister the Annihilator, a serial killer she was hunting. Allister suffered a similar fate in the late 1890's, when Jack The Ripper, a vampire himself, offered Allister the choice - live as a vampire or die in horrible agony. What would yo...

This is JC De La Torre, Head Writer and Creator of Continuum Force. This show is about a military team of time travellers who discover that aliens are going into our past and changing key events to modify the course of human history. Their job is to defend our fabric of reality from this threat and restore the timeline. The sample episode we are providing is episode 9 - Wheel in the Sky. In an att...

God Complex is an audio drama set after the apocalypse, told from the point of view of various gods who all seek a reason to exist in a world without mortals to deify them. The following clip is taken from Chapter 26 of the series, in which Fea, a young goddess based on Celtic mythology, faces off against Otohime, a Japanese water goddess. Thank you for listening! https://soundcloud.com/namependin...

Hi my name is Orlando Segarra Co-Creator of Just Press Playhouse and this is Lights On in Puerto Rico. A holiday fable about how a young girl’s prayer helps light the way for Santa to the island of Puerto Rico following the devastation of hurricane Maria. Thanks for listening! http://www.justpressplayhouse.com/lights-on-in-puerto-rico.html

Hello there! I’m Russ More, the Dungeon Master, producer and co-creator of Dumbgeons & Dragons, a D&D 5e Actual Play podcast following the story of 3 adventurers trying so very hard to save the world. More often than not, it turns into a trial of comedic errors that somehow errs on the side of victory! That’s the luck of the dice though, isn’t it? You’re about to listen to Season 2-Episode...

This is Brad Beideman, one of the creators of Barjory Buffet: The Cruise Detective. Our show  is about a crimesolver outsmarting maritime murderers on themed cruises like the west coast holiday convention boat the Santa Cruz Santa Cruise. The following clip is the first two chapters of our sixth episode, Dunk or Drown. And all you need to know continuity wise is my character, Neil Greg, is a...

Hi, this is Kyle Gould, the creator, producer, editor, director, writer and dungeon master for Morty’s Devils, a 5e Dungeon and Dragons stream game that happens every Friday night on twitch.tv/unmadegaming .  I then transformed that streamed game into a weekly podcast.  While only six episodes have come out, there will be a total of twenty episodes for season one, taking us all the way t...

Hi, this is Amy Thorstenson, the creator, writer and editor of Cosmic Love. Cosmic Love is about Madam Xandra, who hosts a radio show where she gives love and sex advice on an intergalactic space station. All Madam Xandra wants to do is give advice to the good people and aliens of the galaxy, but mortal danger just keeps getting in the way. You're about to listen to Season 2, Episode 3. In Season...

Hello, this is Jean-Paul Garnier, owner of Space Cowboy Books and producer of Simultaneous Times podcast. Simultaneous Times is a bi-monthly podcast of science and speculative fiction radio dramas set to music, released on the 15th of each month, along with Simultaneous Times Supplementary Log - interviews with the authors and musicians released on the 1st of every month. Please consider Simultane...

The Veiled Monarch is an urban fantasy taking place in modern day Florida. This is a world where vampires, werewolves, Druids and Humans all live together in relative peace. The non Human groups are regulated by laws that are difficult for normal law enforcement to maintain. This is where the Iron Oath comes into play. the Iron Oath was formed in the early 12th century to help Humans remain safe a...

Mike: Hi, I’m Mike Fuller. Kari: And I’m Kari Aguila. Mike: And we’re actors on the improvised audio fiction podcast, “Broken, Alaska”. Broken is a tiny town. Kari: Only 71 people… Mike: It’s small, but it’s full of stories. The show revolves around the people who live in Broken, and the ways that they handle the stresses of living in such a secluded place. Kari: And just like in a real small town...

This is Mike Atchley I’m the Narrator and Dungeon Master for Dice Tower Theatre; a unique narrated audio drama based around a basement tabletop role-playing game.  More specifically, a retelling of the events from both the table and the minds of the players themselves, narrated like as a story with many of the original players reprising their role from the table in this format. Placed within...

This is Lex, creator of The Deca Tapes. An eight-part show about a group of people who are locked into the same space together. Trying to figure out where they are and how to get out. What you’ll hear now is the first episode. So, prepare to learn the truth. http://thedecatapes.com

This is Raul Vega, the creator of Rose Drive: A serialized mystery-thriller podcast which follows the life of Markus Hill and the inhabitants of his sleepy, waterfront hometown of Southampton. In it, Markus returns home after a 10 year leave hell bent on seeking revenge on Forrest Sutherland, a former classmate of his who ran over and killed his little sister senior year of high school. Markus wil...

Hello, this is J. Michael DeAngelis, the co-creator and co-producer of Mission: Rejected , which is the story of what happens when the world's greatest secret agent discovers he can choose to NOT accept his missions. While he's on a very curious cruise, the world depends on a team of backups: a nervous pencil pusher, a convicted computer hacker working off her sentence, a fading former sitcom star...

This is Jordan Cobb, and I'm the creator and voice of Chel on Janus Descending, which is a science-fiction horror story that takes place on a distant planet orbiting a binary star, where two xenoarcheologists, Peter and Chel, have landed to explore the ruins of an ancient alien civilization, and instead find themselves in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the creatures that destroyed the civiliz...

Greetings. This is Chance Muehleck, writer and co-producer of Dreamland . Dreamland is a full cast neo-noir about a private detective who’s hired to track down a Hollywood con artist. Inspired by true events, the story follows two separate timelines that converge in unexpected ways. It’s part mystery, part satire, and full immersion. This is Episode One: Jackie. Thanks for listening. https://www.d...