Dark Road Diaries Episode 6
Project Overview
This is an unpaid audition opportunity for “Dark Road Diaries,” a supernatural comedy audio fiction podcast from the team behind the award-winning audio drama “Once Upon a Wasteland.”
Recording for the show will be done asynchronously. Cast members will have at least two weeks to submit their lines after an episode’s script is finalized.
Auditions close on Wednesday, June 10. Lines will be due on Friday, June 19th.
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Devoted couple Jack and Daria hit the road on a thrilling and hilarious adventure to track down their friend Jamie and save her from a demonic possession. With the help of the experienced and insightful Monsignor Jenkins, they journey across the country, facing off against supernatural forces in situations that can be terrifying and absurd, often at the same time.
With Daria's quick wit, Jack's fearlessness, and the Monsignor's expertise, they're ready for anything. This supernatural comedy is a raucous tale of love, friendship, and the power of laughter in the face of danger. A pulse-pounding (and sidesplitting) journey filled with thrills, chills, and plenty of snark awaits.
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A seasoned Catholic priest with the weary calm of someone who has seen enough supernatural nonsense to stop performing surprise. He is dry, thoughtful, and quietly brave, with a habit of saying deeply alarming things as if he’s commenting on the weather. McManus understands that St. Agatha’s deconsecration leaves a dangerous vacancy, and he approaches the situation with moral seriousness, practical caution, and just enough gallows humor to survive the night. Looking for a grounded, lived-in performance; warm but tired, reverent but not naïve.
- english
- male adult
- american
Mr. Prosser, I have said prayers in places where the walls bled. I know when a thing is finished.
This place is no longer protected by the Church. But that does not mean that it should be unprotected.
Unauthorized entry. Improper claiming. Unregistered binding. Possession by proxy. Threshold tampering.
A diocesan administrator who believes very strongly in procedure, paperwork, and leaving strange cemeteries on schedule. Prosser is not foolish, but he is deeply unprepared for a world where legal language, supernatural covenants, and self-assembling tables all occupy the same jurisdiction. He should feel buttoned-up, skeptical, increasingly exasperated, and just frightened enough to make his insistence on normalcy funny. The comedy comes from him trying to maintain professional composure while reality becomes aggressively unreasonable.
- english
- male adult
- american
There is not “one more thing.” We’ve completed the rite and signed the paperwork. And now I have a long drive back to a building where things to not make noises after they’re empty.
The Board recognizes nothing. This property remains under Diocesan control until formally sold, transferred, or abandoned.
You cannot transfer boundary maintenance of a Church property to a woman who appeared beside a self-assembling table.
The recording secretary of the St. Agatha’s Perpetual Association for Boundary Maintenance and Posthumous Quiet Enjoyment. Precise, severe, and unnervingly composed, Mrs. Vellum should sound like every complaint, citation, and final notice in history has passed across her desk. She is not loud or theatrical; her power comes from certainty. She treats supernatural terror as an administrative matter and human panic as a scheduling inconvenience. Looking for a voice that is dry, crisp, authoritative, and quietly terrifying — less “witch” and more “HOA secretary with metaphysical enforcement powers.”
- english
- american
- female senior
The St. Agatha’s Perpetual Association for Boundary Maintenance and Posthumous Quiet Enjoyment.
The Board recognizes the withdrawal of ecclesiastical sponsorship from the property commonly known as St. Agatha’s Cemetery.
Vacancy creates opportunity. We dislike opportunity.
A practical, blue-collar presence who has been hired to do a simple job and quickly realizes he is nowhere near the correct pay grade. He is not cowardly so much as admirably honest about danger; when the cemetery starts behaving badly, he takes the most sensible path available and leaves. This role should be natural, dry, and reactive, with strong comic timing. He serves as the audience’s common sense in the scene: confused, unnerved, and increasingly unwilling to pretend any of this is normal.
- english
- american
- male adult
That wasn’t me.
I’m afraid too, if it helps.
I just remembered I have to be somewhere.
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