The Audio Verse Awards Nominee Showcase Podcast

Strangers Issy, Drew and Cate, siblings separated as infants, are summoned to their  family home, the mysterious Harridge House, located in the equally mysterious town of  Harridge, Nevada. What secrets are the residents of Harridge House hiding… and  willing to do anything to protect? So begins Secrets of Harridge House. Hello, I'm Mark  Helton, and this is Part One of a speci...

This is Kimberly Billinton, the Creator and Showrunner of Where the Leaves Fall Purple, which is about a university student, Ben Miller who runs a failing true crime podcast. In an attempt to gain more listeners he asks if his best friend Janie will go missing a.k.a fake her own disappearance, and he’ll document finding her on his podcast. But the case goes from fictional to all too real and now B...

This is Kale Brown, the creator of SINKHOLE, a very normal podcast about data restoration, wireless neural interfacing, and why you really shouldn't bring your tapes anywhere near the Hole. This is episode one: The Three Rules of Data Restoration.  Transcript can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14d4i4rIUz39a1yV4ZH8VcCmuKyIh2Jnw/view?usp=sharing https://sinkholepodcast.com/ Twitte...

Hi there, I’m Cat Blackard - Showrunner and Director of The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program. Our series melds cosmic horror and black comedy in a unique and unholy fusion of live tabletop roleplaying and cinematic audio drama. Each season is a standalone tale where our cast viscerally lives the terror and uncovers uncanny mysteries. We create the story collaboratively through tabletop roleplaying...

This is Aoibheann McCann, co-writer and co-producer on Retreat Comedy, which is a six part comedy series set in Knocknahay, a small village on a stoat-infested lake, somewhere in Ireland, home to the Kathleen O'Mara Residential Centre for the Arts. Retreat has a playful look at the commercialization of the arts, genealogy, Irish history, cloning, Irish-Americans, ecology, DNA, globalization, the l...

This is Greg Carrobis, Editor and Gamemaster on Ghosts on a Train, which is about three people with the dangerous job of keeping trains safe from spirits as they travel through the harsh deathlands between the relative safety of electrically domed cities. This is Episode 43 - Templeton Unspooled (featuring Cai Gwilym Prichard). This is an Actual Play, a story found by playing the game Ghost Lines...

Hi, this is Adam Murciano. I am the Creator, Producer, Writer & Star of the show, CASCADIA! Cascadia is a deep-sea submarine thriller that follows a crew of divers to the bottom of the ocean to discover a new ocean-floor opening. However, Captain newcomer, Declan Walters has to prove himself to the veteran crew of divers who are already highly suspicious of him & his actions...This is epis...

Tavern Tales Junior is an ongoing actual play podcast using Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition rules and the Humblewood Campaign from Hit Point Press. Our adventurous story stars Robin, Wil, Savannah and the occasional guest star as Robin and Wil’s dad, Kyle, takes their characters on a wild adventure where no one knows what will happen next. Released bi-weekly, Tavern Tales J...

Hi there, this is Claudia Elvidge, creator and showrunner on Starfall, which is about a magical traveling acting troupe, their mysterious security guard with a giant sword, and the troubles they face while trying to put on a good show. This is Episode 10 from season one, in which our characters try on clothes, eat cake, and make a new friend, and nobody has any traumatic flashbacks. Definitely not...

This is Max Kreisky, Showrunner on True Tales of the Illuminati. True Tales is a full-cast workplace sitcom about conspiracies gone wrong. We follow a crew of secret society goons as they flail haplessly through history, snatching defeat from the jaws of other, weirder defeat. This is Episode 1 of season 2. If you haven’t listened to season 1, that’s fine! Each season is written to stand alone. Jo...

Hello! This is Michael, game master, producer, and composer on Green  Mountain Mysteries, which is a comedic actual play podcast set in the  urban fantasy universe of the Dresden Files novels. It's about four  sort-of monster hunters - Desdemona Brown, a medium psychic; Rosetta  Kamen, a half-faerie criminal; Albion Graves, an Odin-empowered  gunslinger and actual monster...

"Hello, this is Dom Guilfoyle, the creator of The Mistholme Museum! It's  the audio tour guide for a museum where all of the world's strangest  exhibits just kind of... wind up, somehow. This is the first episode of  Season 2, it's where the plot kind of  kicks into gear after a series of seemingly standalone stories. Hope  you enjoy!" Transcript can be found at: https://d...

This is Nicholas Hoyt Director of Mansfield Mysteries which is a satirical, cozy murder whodunit, featuring the inquisitive, martini-loving socialite Dorinda Mansfield. Set in quiet, affluent Berkshire Bay, and told over nine hilarious episodes, each three-chapter story finds Dorinda wrapped up in a new murder. With the help of her devoted daughter, Stacey—as well as the occasional frenemy—Dorinda...

"This is Karin Heimdahl, creator of Chaika, which is a sci-fi drama about a young woman who believes she might be the last human in existence. This is episode one, where Chaika’s journey begins. Thank you so much for listening." Transcript can be found at: https://y2kpod.com/chaika-transcripts/#S1E1 https://y2kpod.com/chaika/ Twitter: @chaikapod

This is Darian Lindle, I’m the writer and an executive producer on SILÖN, which is a historical science fiction adventure about a secret society sailing in and out of space/time in a sentient airship. SILÖN is an acronym for The Secret and Impossible League of the NoöSphere. In the first season, The Baltimore Plot, our heroes, Nicola Tesla, Ada Lovelace, and Lord Byron discover that someone is und...

This is Fay and Tash, the creators of Beneath Our Feet. It's a fiction podcast about community resistance, myths and underground cities - and some pretty cool mushrooms. A housing estate is being demolished, to make way for a new development. Five young people meet beneath the estate, for one last underground rave. A cave-in causes them to fall deep underground, discovering a fantastical world, as...

This is Rex New. I wrote The Hacker Chronicles and I’m also one of its directors. The Hacker Chronicles is a thriller about a barista named Alice who turns to cyber-crime in order to pay off her student loans. The episode is Episode 11. It’s really the climax of our show. Our show’s heavily serialized, so I’m going to do my best to get you up to speed. Episode 11 is called “This Is Not a Simulatio...

This is Eli Ramos, creator of Under the Electric Stars, which is a  cyberpunk adventure about Caine Reyes, the fastest driver in Metropolis  West. This is Season 2, Episode 7: In the Shadow of the Tower, the  midseason finale of Season 2. Thank you for listening. Transcript can be found at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i4659gkZEKuDvnv4AUwJn_CTmjP9bdlFWjiG4vMfdf4/edit?usp=shar...

Hey! This is Adam Murciano! I am the Executive Producer, Co-Creator & Co-Writer of the show ICE-CREAM. ICE-CREAM follows 14 year old Elgin Foster, as he spends the summer of 1988 in Arizona at his Dad's house. He begins to witness a string of children going missing throughout the summer, by the local ice cream truck man. However, nobody believes him - not even his own dad - so he and neighbor,...

Hi there! This is é boylan, writer, composer, and director of The Doctor is Dead. The Doctor is Dead is a new musical audio drama created by me. A contemporary fantasy for queer imaginations, The Doctor is Dead follows a secret society of trans outcasts who live underground. Using their unique abilities to investigate a mysterious empty coffin, our outcasts sing a song of leaving, of grief that be...

Welcome to this sample episode of the Death Saving Bros podcast! My name is Paul Camper and I am the Game Master for our 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons actual play show. Over the past 4 years, we have published a 90 episode campaign, which we capped with a 10 episode miniseries that follows the exploits of the character Dosh Johnson in the midst of an impending plot to begin a war. What you ar...

Hey, everybody, this is Ben. I'm the GM on Pink Fohawk. We are an actual play podcast where we play Shadowrun Second Edition. This is an excerpt from Episode 10 entitled Whack a Moletov. We have three player characters: the first is Tina Bonemeal, played by Dan, who is a 9.5 foot tall troll bruiser. Wannabe actress, socially awkward. She's a skull-crushing teddy bear always looking for a friend. W...

Hi, this is Rich Hosek, writer, narrator and producer of Bedtime Stories for Insomniacs, a fiction podcast that brings you fresh, new, original tales of mystery, suspense, horror, sci-fi and humor almost every week. You don’t need to be an insomniac to listen, and you don’t need to listen at bedtime. These short stories are just as entertaining during your commute, or while you are running or doin...

This is Trevor Van Winkle, Creator and Writer of Tales of the Echowood. Tales of the Echowood is a fantasy anthology, featuring an old sprite named Grael, our storyteller, and a mysterious human traveler, lost inside this world, whose story unfolds during the course of Echowood's ten episodes. This is Episode 3: Empire of the Echowood. Thank you for listening. Transcript can be found at: https://h...

This is Trevor Van Winkle, Creator and Showrunner of The Sheridan Tapes. The Sheridan Tapes is about the search for missing horror writer Anna Sheridan, the mysterious cassette tapes she left behind, and the group of people known as The Searchers that are determined to find her. This is Episode 59: A Shroud of Thoughts. It comes at a point in our story where the Searchers are sent out to investiga...