2023 Award Nominees
Audio Fiction
Best Writing / Script
Ian Geers, Lauren Grace Thompson (Fawx & Stallion)
Alexander Danner, Jeff Van Dreason (Greater Boston)
Drew Frohmann (HUMAN-B-GON)
K.A. Statz (The Boar Knight)
Naomi Clarke (The Secret of St. Kilda)
Pamela Palmater (Warrior Kids Podcast: The Boy and the Whale)
Silvie Zamora (Whistlebottom - A Trespasser’s Tale)
Mark Keller (Womb Envy)
Best Sound Design (Overall)
Jennifer James (A Pony Tale)
Cass McPhee (Moonbase Theta, Out)
Sarah Dibble Laska (Nicki Fix’s Time Mix)
Richard Hughes (Ore - The Iron Trilogy)
Tal Minear (Re: Dracula)
Eric Milos (Table Read Podcast)
Rebecca Nolan (The Apocrypha Chronicles)
Travis Vengroff, Dayn Leonardson (The Boar Knight)
Ira Marlowe (The Unseen World)
Ethan Wellin (Two Dead Girls in Jubeliene)
Best Sound Design (Environmental)
audioquinn (Clearfield)
Travis Vengroff, Dayn Leonardson (Don’t Mind: Cruxmont)
Brad Williams (Once Upon a Wasteland)
Richard Hughes (Ore - The Iron Trilogy)
Rebecca Nolan (The Apocrypha Chronicles)
Gareth Fry, Ben Grant, Helen Skiera, Ella Wahlström, Mike Winship (The Dark is Rising)
Robin Shore (The Slightly Sleazy Speakeasy)
Kae Shoe, Travis Vengroff (The White Vault: Echoes)
Iain Hunter (Tobias and Syd)
Best Sound Design (Action)
Michael Ryan Hahn (Fire Pockets)
Melissa Pons (Liars & Leeches)
Maximilian Clark (Superhuman Public Radio)
Colin Peterson (The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program)
Gareth Fry, Ben Grant, Helen Skiera, Ella Wahlström, Mike Winship (The Dark is Rising)
Robin Shore (The Rapscallion Agency)
Rachel J. Wilkinson, Kae Shoe (Vampire: the Masquerade Port Saga)
Victoria Cheng, Jino Jang, Michael Keane (We’re Alive: Descendants)
Best Supporting Performance
Erika Sanderson (Don’t Mind: Cruxmont)
Shawn Pfautsch (Fawx & Stallion)
Victoria Thomson (How it Ends)
Ian Slessor (HUMAN-B-GON)
Katy Secombe (Kisses on a Postcard)
Jamie Richard-Stewart (Liars & Leeches)
Karyn O’Bryant (October’s Children: Leaf Peepers)
Miles Yekinni (The Dark is Rising)
Michelle Kelly (The Secret of St. Kilda)
Ethan Carson (The Slightly Sleazy Speakeasy)
Kat Mermelstein (Vampire: the Masquerade Port Saga)
Thomas Bell (We’re Alive: Descendants)
Sarah Price (Where the Stars Fell)
Daniel Fernandes (Womb Envy)
Best Leading Performance
Max Vitkus (Better Men Elsewhere)
Adjoa Andoh (Don’t Mind: Cruxmont)
James Oliva (Greater Boston)
Rebecca Soler (Lethal Lit: A Tig Torres Mystery)
Kendall Byrd (Liars & Leeches)
Caroline Mincks (Seen and Not Heard)
Mo McKynzie (Small Victories)
Alex French (Subsister: A Real Podcast)
Noah Alexander (The Dark is Rising)
Stephanie LaVardera (The Rat King)
Justin Kapla (The Smell of Pines, Darkly)
Emily Goss (Two Dead Girls in Jubeliene)
Silvie Zamora (Whistlebottom - a Trespasser’s Tale)
Jordan Trovillion (ZOiNKS!)
Best Chemistry
Jonathan Price, Max Vitkus (Better Men Elsewhere)
Tal Minear, Jude Stonecypher (Joy to the World)
Andre Bullock, Ben Adams, Ian Harkins (Ore - The Iron Trilogy)
Todd Haberkorn, Claire Dodin (The Rapscallion Agency)
Kim Donovan, Erin Gould (The Slightly Sleazy Speakeasy)
Sion Daniel Young, Ell Potter (Tobias and Syd)
Daniel Fernandes, Storm Steenson (Womb Envy)
Jordan Trovillion, Trey Tatum (ZOiNKS!)
Best Ensemble Cast (Fiction Podcast)
Don’t Mind: Cruxmont
Lethal Lit: A Tig Torres Mystery
Ore - The Iron Trilogy
Starship Q Star
Superhuman Public Radio
Table Read Podcast
The Intruder
Vampire: the Masquerade Port Saga
Best Director
Drew Frohmann (HUMAN-B-GON)
Marisa Ewing (Liars & Leeches)
Jacob Mandell, Derrick Valen (October’s Children: Leaf Peepers)
Lucy Aley-Parker (The Intruder)
Christof Laputka (The Rapscallion Agency)
Ashe Croce, Chelsea Feltman (The Rat King)
Ira Marlowe (The Unseen World)
Best Editing (Fiction Podcast)
Angelo Espiritu (Better Men Elsewhere)
Jacob Haller, Chris Anderson (How it Ends)
Maximilian Clark (Superhuman Public Radio)
Rebecca Nolan (The Apocrypha Chronicles)
Colin Peterson, Cat Blackard (The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program)
Robin Shore, Luke Allen (The Rapscallion Agency)
Ethan Wellin (Two Dead Girls in Jubeliene)
Victoria Cheng, Jino Jang (We’re Alive: Descendants)
Best Scoring
Maybe Wednesday (Spirit Box Radio)
Josh Sneesby (The Dark is Rising)
Luke Allen (The Rapscallion Agency)
Ira Marlowe (The Unseen World)
Matthew Sheeran (Tobias and Syd)
Robert Mai and Dani Berkov-Hopkins (We’re Alive: Descendants)
Best Series Premise (Fiction Podcast)
Clearfield
Fire Pockets
Seen and Not Heard
Small Victories
Spirit Box Radio
Starship Q Star
Subsister: A Real Podcast
The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program
The Rat King
Womb Envy
Outstanding Comedy
A Pony Tale
Fawx & Stallion
Fire Pockets
Lethal Lit: A Tig Torres Mystery
Starship Q Star
Superhuman Public Radio
Table Read Podcast
The Slightly Sleazy Speakeasy
Womb Envy
ZOiNKS!
Outstanding Drama
Better Men Elsewhere
Kisses on a Postcard
Ore - The Iron Trilogy
Seen and Not Heard
Small Victories
The Intruder
The Smell of Pines, Darkly
Tobias and Syd
Oustanding Fantasy
Greater Boston
The Boar Knight
The Dark is Rising
Warrior Kids Podcast: The Boy and the Whale
Where the Stars Fell
Whistlebottom - a Trespasser’s Tale
Outstanding Horror/Thriller
Clearfield
Liars & Leeches
October’s Children: Leaf Peepers
Re: Dracula
The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program
The Rat King
The White Vault: Echoes
We’re Alive: Descendants
Best Cover Art
All official selections will be eligible to win this award
Best of the Best - Audio Fiction
The winners of each Outstanding award will be placed in competition against each other for this award.
Outstanding Mystery
Don’t Mind: Cruxmont
How it Ends
Subsister: A Real Podcast
Spirit Box Radio
The Secret of St. Kilda
Two Dead Girls in Jubeliene
Vampire: the Masquerade Port Saga
Outstanding Science Fiction
HUMAN-B-GON
Joy to the World
Moonbase Theta, Out
Nicki Fix’s Time Mix
Once Upon a Wasteland
The Apocrypha Chronicles
The Rapscallion Agency
The Unseen World
Best Costume / Makeup (Actual Play Video)
Hamnah Shahid (GUDIYA)
Hamnah Shahid (Itaewon By Night)
Stefon “Waffles” Timmons (Outcast & Outclassed)
Cai K. (The Unsung Tales)
Cassi Mothwin (The Wretched Actual Play)
Best Ensemble Cast (Actual Play Video)
Itaewon By Night
Outcast & Outclassed
Shadesong Interlude: Livsdottir
Valloward: A Speculate Actual Play
Ways & Wanderings
Best Game Master (Actual Play Video)
Deborah Ann Woll (Children of Éarte)
Josephine Kim (Itaewon By Night)
James Pacheco (Tales from the Hearth: Starfarers)
Kimi Hughes (The Unsung Tales)
Michael R. Underwood (Valloward: A Speculate Actual Play)
Best Player Character Performance (Actual Play Video)
Lauren Urban (Children of Éarte)
Noordin Ali (GUDIYA)
Rebecca Hare (Shadesong Interlude: Livsdottir)
Jay Africa (The Unsung Tales)
Cassi Mothwin (The Wretched Actual Play)
Best Overlay Design (Actual Play Video)
Children of Éarte
GUDIYA
Shadesong Interlude: Livsdottir
Tales from the Hearth: Starfarers
The Wretched Actual Play
Ways & Wanderings
Best Ensemble Cast (Actual Play Podcast)
Halfwits & Failed Crits
Rift Walkers
Sword of Symphonies
Tales Yet Told
The Atomless
The Dirty Twenty
Top of the Round
Best Game Master (Actual Play Podcast)
Jeff Stormer (Party of One)
Cat McDonald (Sword of Symphonies)
J Strautman, B Marsollier (Planet Arcana)
Kendrick Smith (Tales Yet Told)
Frazer Shepherdson (The Dirty Twenty)
CJ McCullough (Woeful Revelry)
Best Player Character Performance (Actual Play Podcast)
Ross Bryant (Ain’t Slayed Nobody)
Taylor Garcia van Biljon (Backwater Bastards)
Shenuque Tissera (My First Dungeon)
Peter Marsollier (Planet Arcana)
Skye Wallace (Planet Arcana)
Laura Tutu (The All Night Society)
Dillin Apelyan (The Atomless)
Nikki Richardson (Top of the Round)
Best Editing (Actual Play)
Mathr DeLeon, Josh Ramsay, Krossland Shaw, PJ Heller (Catacomb Party: The Tales of Kana)
Travis Vengroff (Dark Dice: The Long Road)
Brian Flaherty (My First Dungeon)
J Strautman (Planet Arcana)
Colin Peterson, Cat Blackard (The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program)
Cassi Mothwin (The Wretched Actual Play)
Michael R. Underwood (Valloward: A Speculate Actual Play)
Kestrel Esin (Woeful Revelry)
Best Original Music (Actual Play)
Mathr DeLeon (Catacomb Party: The Tales of Kana)
Hitoshi Sakimoto, David Wise, Steven Melin, Brandon Boone, Ryan McQuinn, Jeff Goldblum, Enzo Puzzovio, Travis Vengroff (Dark Dice: The Long Road)
J Strautman and B Marsollier (Planet Arcana)
Kathleen Childs (Sword of Symphonies)
Ryan McQuinn & Mike McQuinn (The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program)
Best Sound Design (Actual Play)
Daniel Matthews (Backwater Bastards)
Travis Vengroff, Dayn Leonardson (Dark Dice: The Long Road)
Jonathan Swenson (Halfwits & Failed Crits)
Aram Vartian (Kill Every Monster)
Brian Flaherty (My First Dungeon)
Aubrey Knotts (The All Night Society)
Colin Peterson (The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program)
Best Series Premise (Actual Play)
Ain’t Slayed Nobody
Kill Every Monster
Party of One
Rift Walkers
The Wretched Actual Play
Ways and Wanderings
Woeful Revelry
Outstanding Actual Play (Video)
Children of Éarte
GUDIYA
Itaewon By Night
Outcast & Outclassed
Shadesong Interlude: Livsdottir
Tales from the Hearth: Starfarers
The Unsung Tales
The Wretched Actual Play
Valloward: a Speculate Actual Play
Ways and Wanderings
Outstanding Actual Play (Podcast) - D&D
Catacomb Party: The Tales of Kana
Dark Dice
Kill Every Monster
Planet Arcana
Rift Walkers
The Dirty Twenty
Top of the Round
Outstanding Actual Play (Podcast)
Ain’t Slayed Nobody
Backwater Bastards
Halfwits & Failed Crits
My First Dungeon
Party of One
Sword of Symphonies
Tales Yet Told
The All Night Society
The Atomless
The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program
Woeful Revelry
Best Original Song
“Kisses on a Postcard” (Kisses on a Postcard)
“Sinister Stirring Stories” (The Boar Knight)
“Get Ready” (The Unseen World)
“Rift Walkers Suite” (Rift Walkers)
“Smell of Pines Darkly Theme” (The Smell of Pines, Darkly)
“The Dirty Twenty Theme Song” (The Dirty Twenty)
Best Family Friendly
Joy to the World
Kisses on a Postcard
Nicki Fix’s Time Mix
The Boar Knight
The Unsung Tales
Warrior Kids Podcast: The Boy and the Whale
Ways and Wanderings
Best Anthology
Joy to the World
Kill Every Monster
Party of One
Table Read Podcast
The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program
Warrior Kids Podcast: The Boy and the Whale