Indie AF Creators & Guests

Sarah hosts MADIVA podcast to help budding voice actors navigate the madness, and voice acts in over 70 indie audiodrama podcasts including Scottish Podcast, 1994, Amelia Project, Hostile Worlds, Edict Zero, Oz9, The Orphans, Ancestry, We fix Space junk, Minefire, and more. She was Podhost for ADPP, and runs Quirky Voices, with new podcast Anyone F’Coffee, and voice acting how-to podcast MADIVA, aiming to produce Teddy Stories and MADCAP in 2020 and more in collaboration ...

Megan Gwen Davies is new to the world of podcasts, discovering her love while studying Sound for her Film Degree. She is diving headfirst into the world of audio story telling as a voice actor, writer, director and sound editor. She specifically likes writing horror and mysteries.

Bob Raymonda is a writer and producer based out of New Rochelle, NY. In 2015, he founded the literary and arts magazine, Breadcrumbs, and helped produce it's sister podcast later that year. In 2017, he co-founded the podcast production company Rogue Dialogue, through which he's co-created, directed, and written for two shows, Windfall and Forgive Me. He's also written an episode of the long-running fiction podcast, The Truth, and had small voice acting roles in shows like Fireside Folktales, The Truth, and the upcoming series Primordial Deep.

Lou is a nonbinary writer and director, with a particular interest in the steampunk and horror genres, and in writing for LARP, TTRPGs and audio-fiction. By day they are a scientist and spend most of their time peering at clinical trials data and going “Hmm….” then making graphs about it. They live in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and refuse to leave, because why would you want to leave somewhere less than an hour away from the seaside, Hadrian’s Wall AND a selection of premium-quality castles?

Michael is the co-creator and Director of The Secret of St Kilda Audio Fiction

Seattle-based scribbler of silly things.

A Chicago native raised in the heart of the improv comedy world, Chrisi has a deep love of old time radio shows. With a Masters in TV writing/digital media from UCLA sitting on the shelf, and a quarantine keeping her at home, she created "Madison on the Air."

Cat Blackard is a multimedia artist known for her work as a writer, podcast host, graphic artist and actor. She's series creator and co-author of The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program, the award-winning horror comedy audio drama, and Lightning Dogs, an animated series inspired by classic 80s cartoons. She's the founder of the multimedia storytelling company, Omniverse, as well as The Nerdy Show Network - the longest-running geek podcast collective.Blackard's podcasting career began 2009 with her co-founding of the series Nerdy Show and Dungeons & Doritos - launching what would become The Nerdy Show Network. Dungeons & Doritos would be her first major acting roles as both the sensationally sensual dragonborn, Jamela, and the senile wizard narrator, Galdap. That series evolved into the programming that Blackard would become best known for: improvised audio dramas, particularly "RPG Audio Dramas" - live tabletop roleplaying turned into immersive cinematic narratives. Her work as a performer and storyteller continues as she experiments with new varieties of improvisational narrative in her own work and beyond.As Art Director for Consequence of Sound from 2008-2019, Blackard created a body of pop culture illustration, paintings, and multimedia art alongside in-depth articles and interviews. She later went on to launch Consequence Podcast Network as its director, producing series such as The Opus in collaboration with Sony. Her career as a media journalist and speaker is filled with humorous and in-depth discussions on-camera, on-stage, and in the studio with notable personalities and innovators such as Dan Aykroyd, Phil Collins, Janelle Monáe, Reggie Watts, Eric André, 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Barry Levinson, David Byrne, Chelsea Manning and many more.

Maddy Searle is a sound designer, writer, producer, director and voice actor. They make podcasts under the banner of Snazzy Tapir Productions. They are one of the core cast members of the actual play podcast Realms of Peril and Glory.

Audio Producer, Sound Designer, Composer, Writer, Actor, Do-er of things.

Erika Sanderson trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, UK. She works as an actor, director, and voice actor.A highly versatile character actor, Erika's stage career spans over 3 decades in which she has created a myriad of roles in a variety of genres from children's theatre to classical plays and musicals.Since 2015 she has appeared in several audio dramas and is an award-winning voice actor. With a vocal range encompassing different ages, genders, accents and creatures she has become known as "The Woman of a 1,000 Voices" for her work on The NoSleep Podcast.

Beth is a writer and voice actor based in the UK. She has a keen love of sci fi, comedy and the surreal.

Actor, Producer, and editor, mainly for Bloody FM, and one half of Eeler's Choice. She/her, he/him

Naomi Clarke is a prolific scriptwriter most well known for her work on The Secret of St Kilda. The audio drama has garnered over 100k listens, 12 AudioVerse awards (including Best Writing), and festival nominations worldwide. With over 100 podcast credits, there’s very little she can’t do. Whether its production, performance or promotion, Naomi always commits to the bit 100%.

Writer of films and audio dramas. Editor of videos. Visual storyteller.

Editor/sensitivity reader & published writer. Likes monsters. Plays Azu on the award-winning The Rusty Quill gaming podcast. Views are her own. She/her.

Orange, California native Kc Wayland has carried within him a passion for the creative arts from a young age. As a teenager, he earned the Award of Excellence in Arts and Best Student Editor and graduated with top honors from Orange High School Media Arts program for Acting and Film Theory, earning the Principal’s Medallion. Upon graduating, he was awarded an academic scholarship to attend Chapman University’s School of Film and Television. In January of 2002, Wayland enlisted in the United States Army, taking a leave of absence from Chapman. He received two certifications in broadcast engineering and was awarded both Top Graduate and Distinguished Honor Graduate. He returned to Chapman in 2003, but was deployed to Iraq midway through his first semester. From 2003 to 2004, Wayland served with the 222nd Broadcast Operations Detachment in the heart of Baghdad. His service earned him a nomination for a Bronze Star for meritorious service. During his time overseas, Wayland filmed his personal experience that would later become the documentary “365 Boots on Ground.” Wayland returned to Chapman within a month of active combat. During this adjustment period back to civilian life, he focused his energy on completing “365 Boots on Ground.” The documentary would go on to earn several awards, including: Best Documentary at Chapman 2005, Best Student Documentary at the Bear Bear Film Festival, and Best Student Film at the Tiberon International Film Festival. He graduated from Chapman in 2008 as the Cheverton Graduate (valedictorian) of his class.While teaching film at Costa Mesa High School and Coastline ROP, he began writing what would later become “We’re Alive: A Story of Survival.” What started off as a means of coping with his military experience, “We’re Alive” evolved into a wildly successful and revolutionary zombie audio drama. Wayland acted as lead writer/editor/director/producer of “We’re Alive” on each of the 48 episodes from 2009 to 2014. The rise of “We’re Alive” coincided with the booming popularity of podcasts and zombie culture, standing out for its gritty urban realism and focus “Theater for the Mind” audio techniques. Its success earned the show a place within the Nerdist Podcast Network, garnering over 100 million downloads in the course of its run at the time of this publication. A sequel of sorts to “We’re Alive: A Story of Survival” entitled “We’re Alive: Lockdown” was successfully funded via Kickstarter in July of 2015, and was released April 2016. The next iteration of We're Alive, Goldrush, is currently in post-production. Following the success of “We’re Alive,” Wayland signed with the Paradigm Talent Agency in February of 2016.