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Visionaries Audio Drama
Nearing extinction in 2185, the remaining human race opens rebellion against their slave masters, the superior visionary race.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations
Full-cast audio fiction, 16-32 minutes per episode. Season 1 released April 2020.
Show Summary
In the year 2185, the world is distinguished by two races – the Visionaries and the Dead-eye slaves. The Visionary race is the next step in human evolution. They have unique eyes which endows them with special abilities. Humans unable to evolve are slaves to the Visionaries because of their powerless eyes. These Dead-eye slaves open rebellion against the Visionaries.
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Society of Voice Arts and Sciences 2020 winner Richard Seneque for Best Producer in an Outstanding Production.
https://www.visionariesaudiodrama.com/
The Carlötta Beautox Chronicles
Comedy fiction podcast that follows the adventures of a wanna-be actress as she navigates the treacherous waters of Hollywood in her quest to become the Next Big Thing.
Content Rating: Explicit
Full-cast audio fiction, 8x15 minutes per season
Season 1 released April 2019
Season 2 released January 2020
Show Summary
The Carlötta Beautox Chronicles is a fiction comedy podcast that follows the adventures of a wanna-be actress and influencer as she navigates her way through Hollywood. Carlötta possesses all the ambition but zero the talent needed to make it in La La Land. However, what she lacks in ability, she makes up for in heart. With the help of her talent manager Dave, she's going to get that star on the Walk of Fame or her stage name isn't Carlötta Beautox!
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Called one of the “100 Outstanding Podcasts of 2019” by The Bello Collective.
The Carlötta Beautox Chronicles was a 2nd round finalist at the 2018 Austin Film Festival and a finalist in the 2020 Discover Awards' category: Best Podcast by a Woman Creator.
https://www.carlottapodcast.com/
Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery
A fiction podcast about a small town in Ohio with conspiracies, family secrets, and a ghost problem.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations Some language
Full-cast audio fiction, 12 episodes x ~25 minutes per season
Season 1 released February 2019
Season 2 released January 2020
Season 3 released February 2021
Show Summary
Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living in the town's boarding house which has been run by her family for generations, she discovers conspiracies, ghosts, and a new family in the house's strange assortment of residents. Unwell is produced by HartLife NFP.
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BBC's Best Podcast of 2021 in the 10th annual Audio Drama Awards Seven 2019 AudioVerse awards Highlighted in The New York Times, The Verge, and one of Polygon's best podcasts of 2019.
https://www.unwellpodcast.com/
The Elmwood Strain
A traumatized woman reluctantly returns to her dying hometown to find the stoner friends she abandoned are hooked on a strange new drug—with bizarre, seemingly supernatural qualities.
Content Rating: Explicit Some language Some violence or adult situations
Full-cast audio fiction with binaural sound design. 8 episodes at ~25 minutes per episode. Released January 2021
Show Summary
A decade after a tragic event, Paige is lured back to her hometown. A surprise reunion with friends turns sinister when she discovers they’re using—and dealing—a potent mind-altering substance, leaving death and destruction in their wake. As Paige uncovers the sins committed while she was away, she realizes too late that her old pals have big plans for her homecoming…like dosing her with their trippy new hallucinogen and forcing her to finally confront the nightmare she never truly escaped all those years ago. To get out alive she’ll have to battle her own trauma, her homicidal BFFs, and the literal ghosts of her past—all while being high out of her mind on a very strong psychedelic.
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Emmy-award winning sound designer (CJ Drumeller). Directed by acclaimed indie film director/producer Anthony Ladesich.
https://www.violethourmedia.com/elmwood-strain
Civilized
Stranded on a hostile planet, a crew of barely-competent explorers try their best to survive despite themselves.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations
An improvised sci-fi dark comedy guaranteed to leave you chuckling and deeply invested in this less-than-capable crew.
Full-cast, fully improvised
10-15 minutes per episode.
Show Summary
Civilized is a workplace drama superimposed on a ridiculous premise. Four less than competent characters are stranded after crash-landing on an alien planet, but they are still compelled to carry out their duties. Their search for meaning and purpose highlights how absurd our society’s fascination with work can really be.
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2020 Webby Awards Honoree, Scripted (Fiction)
The Land Whale Murders
A Gilded Age comedic alternate history of murders, birders, and a missing whale.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations
A full-cast audio fiction comedy Season 1, episodes 1-13, coming Fall 2021 Episodes approx 25 minutes
Show Summary
Picture it - New York 1896! Smoke, pollution, horses dying on the streets. Also some bad stuff. Among the dirt and grime walk The Four Elementals a group of science-leaning friends. But when one of them is murdered a deep conspiracy is revealed. Who's behind it? Big Whale Oil? The notorious Blow Hole Gang? Or something much worse! And what does newly elected Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt have to do with it? All this and MORE! Come for the comedy! Stay for the birds! Enjoy the plants! And sure there are corsets too!
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Writer Jonathan A. Goldberg has won The Rita And Burton Prize, Israel Baron Award, The L Magazine Pocket Fiction contest, the Silver Squeaky Pickle Their previous podcast The Fall of the House of Sunshine was nominated for a whole bunch of Audio Verse awards and even won a few! It was also featured as one of the top 100 podcasts by the Sunday Times!
ROGUE RUNNERS
Actual play audio drama podcast that adapts your fave stories to TTRPGs.
Content Rating: Some language Some violence or adult situations
Season 1 Premiered 05/14/2021 - 15 episodes released weekly.
Show Summary
Volume 1: “In the Blood” parodies roguelike HADES while playing it as a 5th Edition D&D campaign. It tells the story of four wretched shades battling their way out of the Underworld for one more chance at life, set in the world of the original game with a new story. In the Blood meditates on the questions of punishment, redemption, and making the world better within unjust systems. Fans of mythology, queer fantasy, and improv comedy will find a lot to love in the show. While the adventurers roll dice and the show makes many loving references to the source material which inspired it, audiences need neither be fans of HADES nor D&D to fall in love with our four player characters and cast of zany mythological NPCs.
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https://www.whisperforge.org/roguerunners
The Gloom
An investigative journalist uncovers clues surrounding a decades-old cold case, where she eventually learns the horrifying truth about a systemic cover-up tied to her own past.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations Some language
Full-cast audio fiction with binaural sound design. 8 episodes at ~25 minutes per episode. Premieres (episodes 1 and 2) 5/10/21
Show Summary
An investigative journalist researching a string of unsolved crimes centered around the children’s ward of a New York City psychiatric hospital uncovers the horrifying truth about a deep rooted, systemic cover-up that may or may not be hiding a ghastly supernatural secret that is tied to her own past.
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Starring Tobin Bell, who won Fangoria's coveted Chainsaw Award for his portrayal of Jigsaw from the Saw film franchise. Directed and produced by Frank Merle (Producer's Guild of America), who has directed critically-acclaimed independent films such as The Employer and From Jennifer.
https://www.violethourmedia.com/
The Axe and Crown
A Pratchett‐esque comedy about beer, bowling, and bad decisions.
Content Rating: Clean
Full-cast audio fiction, 12×10 minutes per season
Season 1 released April 2017
Season 2 in pre-production
Show Summary
Gubbin the troll runs a grimy tavern on the wrong side of the river, with his clueless new landlord Stan and shady niece Betula to keep him company. Set in the world of Alba Salix.
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Parsec Awards, Winner, Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Short Form), 2018
Official Listening Selection, HEAR Now Festival, 2018
https://albasalix.com/axe-and-crown/
The Orphans
Blast off into a galaxy of intrigue, deception and rebellion! A thriller anthology of a single, dark future.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations
Full-cast audio fiction, 8×20-40 minutes per season
Season 1 (Crash) released May 2016
Season 2 (Facility) released July 2017
Season 3 (Investigation) released July 2018
Season 4 (Exposé) released May 2020
Season 5 (Wild Tales) August 2020
Season 6 2021
Show Summary
Survive in a harsh universe: castaway on a hostile world, confronted by A.I.s with unprecedented emotions, and strangers who share faces.
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2016 Audio Verse Awards Finalists
Dumbgeons & Dragons
A comedic, fantasy actual play podcast about saving the world.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations Some language
An improvised actual play comedic fantasy podcast that will leave you laughing, crying and rooting for every character you meet.
Full-cast, Part Scripted/Part Improvised
Season 1 released January 2017 - May 2019
Season 2 began June 2019 - in ongoing production
Show Summary
Dumbgeons & Dragons A comedic actual play podcast created by your new best friends telling the story of 2 adventuring groups trying to save the world. Each episode is filled with thrills, laughs, magic, and drama!
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2021 Webby Awards Honoree, Scripted (Fiction)
2020 Podcast Awards Nominee - Games and Hobbies
2019 Audio Verse Awards Nominee - Improvised Production
2018 Alberta RPG Awards Nominee
CARAVAN
A Weird-West Audio Adventure About Going Through Hell With The People You Love
Content Rating: Explicit
Season 1 Premiered Jan 2019 - 10 episodes. Season 2 in production. Episodes released biweekly.
Show Summary
CARAVAN is a Weird-West Audio Drama Adventure about getting through Hell with the people you love. When Samir and his best friend Carlyle take a camping trip to the Canyon, they don't plan on getting caught in a thunderstorm. Even worse, they don't plan on Samir falling into the Canyon. When he wakes up, Samir finds himself in a new world, where ghosts, demons, vampires, and other monsters terrorize the locals like any villains in a western. Samir joins up with a caravan—a vigilante train of supernatural bounty hunters—to delve deep into the Canyon depths, and find a way out of Hell once and for all.
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WINNER: Audio Verse Awards 2019 - Best New Audio Play Production, Best Writing of a New Audio Play Production, Best Performance of a Leading Role in a New Audio Play Production - Sushant Adlakha, Best Performance of a supporting Role in a New Audio Play Production - Danielle Shemaiah, Best Action Sound Design in a New Production, Best Environmental Sound Design in a New Production
https://www.whisperforge.org/caravan
In Another Room
An amateur paranormal investigator gets trapped inside a notoriously haunted house, where every room she enters transports her to the last inhabitant’s grisly murder.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations Some language
Full-cast audio fiction with binaural sound design. 8 episodes at ~30 minutes per episode. Released July 2020
Show Summary
Adapted from E3W Productions’ critically acclaimed immersive theatre show, In Another Room is an 8-episode narrative horror podcast that takes listeners on a terrifying tour through a sinister mansion’s chilling past—one room at a time. Listeners meet Wendy Morrow as she prepares to enter the notoriously haunted home, following her research notes and voice recordings as she makes her way through the house and uncovers the eerily tragic stories that each room harbors within. Each episode focuses on a specific room in a different period of the house’s history from its troubled construction in the 1870s to today—presenting a mosaic of connected ghost stories which cumulatively unlock the mystery at the dark heart of the house.
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Emmy-award winning team for sound design (CJ Drumeller) and original score (Nathan Matthew David and Jeremy Lamb). Nightmarish Conjurings called it a "thrilling terrifying narrative podcast."
https://www.violethourmedia.com/in-another-room
Vega: A Sci-Fi Adventure Podcast!
Deep inside the fantasy future, a state-employed bounty huntress must choose between preserving her decorated career or defying her employers by exacting personal revenge on an elusive terrorist.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations
Single voice storytelling with music and minimalist sound design. A spirited storytellling style. 13 episodes at ~25 minutes per episode. Season 1 concluded October 2020.
Show Summary
The Vega Podcast is meant to be pure storytelling fun. The style of narration is designed to feel like your best friend sat you down and began telling you, blow for blow, about the incredible sci-fi adventure she just finished furiously binge-watching. The spirited storytelling is enhanced by a selective, minimalist soundscape and with music that we're confident the kids would say passes "the vibe check." You can listen to the entire first season on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher.
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2019 Audio Drama Awards Winner of "Writing of a New Spoken Word Production", "Performance of a New Spoken Word Production", "Performance of a Spoken Word Production", and "New Spoken Word Production" categories. 2020 Audio Drama Awards Winner of "Writer of a Storytelling Production", "Storyteller in a Storytelling Production", and "Storytelling Production" categories.
https://www.ivuomatellsstories.com
Harlem Queen
A drama about gangsters in Harlem during the 1920s.
Content Rating: Explicit
Full-cast audio fiction, 10-20 minutes per episode
Season 1 released February 2019.
Show Summary
Based on the life of the real Stephanie St. Clair, a numbers queen and activist in the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Queen brings all the glamour, drama, and insight into the pervasive issues faced by black communities
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'Well written, well acted, Harlem Queen is very special' - Terence Winter, creator of Boardwalk Empire 71 Best Podcasts of 2020 - Discover Pods 12 Hidden Gems Podcasts You Don't Want to Miss - CBC Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grant Recipient 2020
Between The Devil
A young girl stows away aboard her father’s merchant ship in 18th century Europe, but instead of adventure she finds terror on the high seas.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations
Full-cast audio fiction with binaural sound design. 8 episodes at ~25 minutes per episode. Released September 2020
Show Summary
Craving adventure, a young girl stows away aboard her father’s newly-christened merchant ship, but finds instead terror on the high seas, as rampant paranoia grips the crew, and unseen malevolent forces commandeer the vessel for their own purposes
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Emmy-award winning team for sound design (CJ Drumeller) and original score (Nathan Matthew David and Jeremy Lamb)
https://www.violethourmedia.com/between-the-devil
The Ordinary Epic
A comedic audio drama about found families, role-playing games, dungeons, and (occasionally) dragons.
Content Rating: Explicit
Full cast audio fiction. Fantasy comedy. 6 episodes at ~20 to 30 minutes per episode. Season 1 released April 2019.
Show Summary
The Ordinary Epic is a professionally acted, lushly sound designed, and gorgeously orchestrated tale of reluctant fantasy heroes (and the people who play them). A 2020 BBC Audio Drama Awards finalist for "Best Podcast or Online Audio Drama," the AV Club called The Ordinary Epic "one of the cheeriest debuts of spring," with "a sweeping soundscape and beautiful musical design." Listen to the entire first season on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you enjoy podcasts.
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"Best Podcast or Online Audio Drama" finalist at the 2020 BBC Audio Drama Awards.
https://www.theordinaryepic.com/
Realms of Peril & Glory
Astonishing adventures with beloved characters across a huge variety of game systems.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations Some language
Full-cast Actual Play/Audio Fiction, 3-14x 30-100 minutes per season
Season 1 releases August 2021
Season 2 releases December 2021
Season 3 Releases January 2022
Show Summary
An all new actual play podcast from the visionary minds behind the critically acclaimed audio drama, The Orphans. RPG will chronicle astonishing new adventures with beloved characters across a huge variety of game systems. RPG will launch with a roster of three game systems and an incredible expansion underway for 2022 and beyond. Blasting off, Fall of 2021.
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The Critshow
Three friends find themselves the last line of defense against the things that go bump in the night in this Monster of the Week actual play podcast.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations Some language
Full-cast TTRPG audio fiction, 40-60 minute Launched May 2018. In ongoing production.
Show Summary
A Comedy/Horror actual play podcast along the lines of Buffy, Supernatural, or Ash vs The Evil Dead using the PbtA game Monster of the Week. The players, playing as themselves, explore other TTRPG's all within in the same dimension hopping narrative - in an edited style that keeps the action (and the dice) rolling, while teaching you everything you need to know to play at home.
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2020 AudioVerse Award Nominee for Best Improvised Show. 2020 AudioVerse Aware Nominee for Best Player Direction. 2019 AudioVerse Award finalist for Best Improvised Show. 2019 AudioVerse Aware finalist for Best Player Direction.
https://www.thecritshowpodcast.com
Facing Fate
An improvised audio fiction series that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Each season explores a new genre with some of the darkest and funniest improvisers we can afford.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations Some language
Full-cast Actual Play/Audio Fiction, 10x30-60 minutes per season
Season 1 released January 2020
Season 2 in pre-production/scheduled release September 2020
Show Summary
An improvised audio fiction series that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Each season explores a new genre with some of the darkest and funniest improvisers we can afford.
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2021 New Jersey Web Fest - Best Editing of an Actual Play
The Courtship of Mona Mae
In the 1870s, pioneer Mona Mae Christophe searches the American West for her mother, Clara, who she was sold away from during slavery. Mona must recall a past long forgotten in order to survive so that she can find her mother, love and create a secure way of life for herself.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations
Season 1 will start February 2020, with two episodes, 20 minutes long each. The first episode will be available Feb. 15. The second episode will be available March 15.
Show Summary
The American Western told through the perspective of a Black woman. Born into slavery, Mona Mae has had to build and rebuild her life. She has managed to make a way out of no way, a made a decent life for herself only for it to be taken away from her once again. She take a journey across the American West to search for not only her mother, but also love.
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Alba Salix, Royal Physician
‘Sup, witches? A hospital sitcom with a fantasy twist.
Content Rating: Clean
Full-cast audio fiction, 6×30 minutes per season
Season 1 released November 2014
Season 2 released November 2018
Show Summary
Farloria’s Royal Physician has her work cut out for her. As head witch and the only regular staff member at the new House of Healing, Alba’s got an endless lineup of patients and a bickering King and Queen to please.
Fortunately, help is on the way. Unfortunately, that help is from Magnus, a troublesome young ex-monk and aspiring surgeon, and Holly, an accident-prone fairy herbalist.
An award-winning fairy-tale comedy for the ear.
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Gold Award, 2015 Mark Time Awards (Fantasy category)
Parsec Awards finalist, 2015
Official Listening Selection, HEAR Now Festival, 2015
Greater Boston
A speculative fiction podcast about an alternate-reality version of Boston featuring collisions between fact and fiction, comedy and drama, and a subway system that's been converted into its own city.
Content Rating: Some language Some violence or adult situations
Full-cast audio fiction, 12-14x35 minute episodes per season.
Season 1 released March 2016.
Season 2 released January 2017
Season 3 released September 2018
Show Summary
Greater Boston is a bi-monthly full-cast audio drama set in the Boston metro area, blending the real and the unreal, the historical and the fantastical. It all begins with the death of Leon Stamatis, a man so enamored of predictability that the least hint of uncertainty makes life unbearable. But by leaving the world, he has irrevocably changed it.
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2019 AudioVerse Award for Jessica Washington for Performance of a Role in an Ensemble Cast for an Audio Play Production
Called one of the “100 Outstanding Podcasts of 2018” by The Bello Collective.
https://www.greaterbostonshow.com
What's The Frequency
A lone distorted voice reaching out for help. Will anyone be able to stop the madness from spreading?
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations
Full-cast audio fiction, 12x25 minutes per episode.
Season 1 released September 201.
Show Summary
An experimental, psychedelic noir audio fiction podcast set in 1940s Los Angeles. A private detective is hired to find the missing writer of a radio play, as the city descends into madness and is haunted by a mysterious voice interrupting the radio broadcasts.
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2017 Audio Awards finalist
https://art19.com/shows/whats-the-frequency
The Cleansed
In a post-apocalyptic world, a brother and sister from a band of survivalists are called on a great adventure to stop two madmen from destroying what remains of society.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations
Complete storyline unfolding over three Seasons, typical episode runtime 30-45 mins. Seasons 1-2, 8 eps each, Season 3 10 eps. Recorded fully on location for a gritty, immersive sound.
Show Summary
Equal parts "Mad Max" and "The Stand," this post apocalyptic saga is set in a world 15 years after the collapse of the world as we know it. A brother and sister grow up in rural Maine and unwittingly embark on a adventure to save the City from the religious zealots and ruthless military fight for control over the fallen world. An epic serialized audio drama adventure with 30+ actors, cinematic sound design and original music.
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Grand Prix Nova - Romania. Mark Time Award for best science fiction audioplay.
Of Fae and Fiends
A dark fairy tale for the whole family!
Content Rating: Clean
A longform 'audio movie' - 9x 30min episodes releasing weekly March 23 - May 18, 2021.
Show Summary
Lizzie (10) returns to her ancestral home in Maine to make an amazing discovery: the woods behind the farmhouse contain a doorway to the mystical realm of Faerie. But a dark storm looms over the horizon of Fae: Lizzie’s Great-Uncle Carlow has enlisted a goblin army to conquer the World Tree, and has set his sights set on our world after… All that stands in Carlow’s way is Lizzie and her unlikely friends: a talking goat, and a swordfighting weasel.
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One of the 14 Best Fiction Podcasts You'll Want to Binge in a Day, Oprah Magazine
The End of Time and Other Bothers
A cafeteria worker, a demonic filing clerk and a fairy PR exec are thrown back into the ancient past to save the universe.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations
Full-cast TTRPG audio fiction, 60 minute episodes
Launched April, 2018
Show Summary
We are an improvised fantasy roleplaying game set in the world of Alba Salix.
A group of comedy improvisers come together every two weeks to co‐create a story using the Dungeon World roleplaying system. No animals are harmed.
It’s a tale of flightless fairies, half-demons and cafeteria line workers, dystopian empires, magical waterfalls and mysterious books. Oh, and the end of time—that’s in there somewhere too.
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"The team behind Alba Salix has given us the next one I foresee being a breakout star in the genre."
- Wil Williams @ Wil Williams Reviews
Dark Tome
Teenager Cassie Pinkham discovers a magical book that literally transports her into the world of the story - with unexpected consequences.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations
Anthology short 'weird' fiction wrapped within a framing narrative. 9 eps each seasons 1-2, average ep runtime 35 mins. 3rd season / spin-off coming 2022. Occasionally drop mini-sodes with 'on brand' short stories with light SFX and music touches.
Show Summary
What if there was a book that literally opened up doorways to other worlds? Where would it lead, and could you handle what you found on the other side? Cassie, a teen that's having trouble fitting in at school, is about to find out. One day, after she wraps up community service at a local hospital, she stumbles out of the basement of a spooky bookshop and into a story set on a devil's staircase in a remote Italian village.
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Full-cast, acclaimed audio fiction based on the works of: - Joe Hill, Roshani Chokshi, Catherynne M. Valente, Joe R. Lansdale, Tananarive Due, Alyssa Wong, and Nalo Hopkinson Featured top audio fiction of 2016 by Apple
Moonbase Theta Out
A gripping, emotional sci-fi audio drama about the shutdown of the last Moonbase, the crew left on board, and what remains.
Content Rating: Some language Some violence or adult situations
Full-cast audio fiction, 20 x 5 minutes S1, 10 x 20 minutes S2
Season 1 released November 2018
Season 2 released August 2019
Season 3 in pre-production
Show Summary
It is 2098. The Moonbase program, owned and operated by corporate enclaves back on Earth, has been determined unprofitable. The last base, Theta, is twenty weeks from being decommissioned. Most of the crew is in stasis awaiting retrieval. Five remain – Roger Bragado-Fischer, Nessa Cheong, Ashwini Ray, Michell L’Anglois, and Wilder.
In Season 1, Roger Bragado-Fischer, Communications, reported to management in a series of official weekly broadcasts. In Season 2, we experience the personal side of the same series of events through each character’s voices – their private journal entries, messages sent to one another and those they care for, so far away. And from that distance, we hear at least one voice in reply.
Join the crew of Moonbase Theta, as well as Roger’s husband Alex from back on Earth, as they reach out to share the beauty, the isolation and frustration, the love and enmity, the humour, and the tragedy, as they all count down to the operation’s end.
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2020 Webby Awards Honoree, Scripted (Fiction)
https://monkeymanproductions.com/moonbase-theta-out/
Death by Dying
Mystery and misfortune lurk behind every corner in this absurdist dark comedy fiction podcast about an obituary writer who investigates delightfully grim deaths in the small town of Crestfall, Idaho.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations
Full-cast audio fiction, 20-30 minutes per episode.
Season 1 released October 2018
Show Summary
The Obituary Writer of Crestfall, Idaho, finds himself deeply in over his head as he investigates a series of strange and mysterious deaths… when he is supposed to simply be writing obituaries. Along the way he encounters murderous farmers, man-eating cats, haunted bicycles, and a healthy dose of ominous shadows.
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2019 AudioVerse Awards
Best New Audio Play Production of 2019
Writing of a New Audio Play Production: Evan Gulock
Vocal Direction of a New Audio Play Production: Niko Gerentes
Environmental Sound Design of a New Audio Play Production: Niko Gerentes
Best Performance of a Leading Role: Evan Gulock as the Obituary Writer
Best Performance of a Supporting Role: Hannah Smith as the Angel of Death
The Wanderer
A queer fairy-folk tale about being separated from the ones you love, to keep them safe, to bring them home.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations
Single narrator audio fiction, 10-20 minute episodes.
Show Summary
The Wanderer is a predominantly single-narrator queer fairy tale audio drama that follows the journey of a man who has struck a deal with the forest—wander and he may just get his love back. With only his guitar and his wits, the Wanderer follows the mysterious and dangerous old paths in search of the route that will lead him back to Andrew. The Wanderer is a story about being separated from the ones you love to keep them safe, to bring them home.
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The Amelia Project
A dark comedy about an agency that specialises in faking its clients’ deaths, then letting them reappear with a brand new identity!
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations
Full-cast audio fiction.
Season 1 released in December 2017.
Season 2 released in July 2019. Season 3 being released spring-summer 2021.
Season 4 coming autumn 2021.
Show Summary
Have you ever wanted to disappear and start over? The Amelia Project provides fake deaths and new identities to an eccentric clientele of criminals, cult leaders, con artists, politicians and more. But how long can the secrecy last?
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Austin Film Festival 2017 finalist.
British Podcast Awards 2019 finalist.
Audio Verse Awards
2018 Best New Comedic Production.
2019 Best Instrumental Composition.
2020 Best Audio Play production
2020 Best Writing
2020 Best Cover Art
2020 Best Performance of a leading role to Julia Morizawa
2020 Best Performance of a supporting role to Julia C. Thorne
2020 Best Music
Called one of the “100 Outstanding Podcasts of 2019” by The Bello Collective.
“This is pure escapism with a delightful story, written and performed by people who want to make you laugh so hard you cry.” Elena Fernandez Collins.
“The Amelia Project is an ambitious and borderline hedonistic venture when it comes to sound” Will Williams
We Fix Space Junk
An award-winning dark sci-fi comedy about two repairwomen surviving in space against insurmountable odds and unimaginable debt.
Content Rating: Some violence or adult situations
Full-cast audio fiction, 8×15-30 minutes per season
Season 1 released March 2018
Season 1.5 released June 2018
Season 2 released September 2018
Season 2.5 released August 2019
Season 3 TBR 2020
Show Summary
'We Fix Space Junk' follows seasoned smuggler Kilner and reluctant fugitive Samantha as they travel the galaxy, dodging bullets and meeting strange and wonderful beings as they carry out odd jobs on the fringes of the law.
A female-led sci-fi comedy sitcom set in the far future, in a high-tech, dystopian world, We Fix Space Junk draws on the sci-fi of the past, following in the footsteps of Harry Harrison and of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Equal parts love-letter to sci-fi and satire of the present-day, Space Junk is lovingly produced by Beth Crane and Hedley Knights of Battle Bird Productions.
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2019 AudioVerse
Performance of a Leading Role in an Audio Play Production: Beth Crane as Kilner
Instrumental Composition in a Production: We Fix Space Junk Main Theme by Hedley Knights
Action Sound Design in a Production: Hedley Knights
Environment Sound Design in a Production: Hedley Knights
Performance of a Supporting Role in an Audio Play
Production: Emily Stride as Penne
2018 AudioVerse
Best Writing of a New, Comedic Production: Beth Crane
Best Writing of an Ongoing, Short-form, Comedic Production: Beth Crane
Best Performance of a Supporting Role in a New Production: Francesca Mintowt-Czyz as Marilyn
Best Performance of a Supporting Role in an Ongoing, Comedic Production: Francesca Mintowt-Czyz as Marilyn