Huck Finn vs The World - Steam Punk Adaptation (Episode 4)

Huck Finn vs The World - Steam Punk Adaptation (Episode 4)

Project Overview

Hello everyone! 

We are producing a new audio drama, Huck Finn Versus The World, that is an abridged adaptation of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but here is the twist: it's set in a steampunk world! 

The scripts for the 5 episodes have been written, and we have a few characters that we need to fill for the fourth episode. 

If you are interested in playing one of the roles please use the audition lines below.


If you are cast for a role we will need your email address to provide you the script and instructions. Please check back to this posting after the deadline for further details.

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
BEN ROGERS
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: Carter23

BEN ROGERS, ten year old boy from Arkansas. Curious, energetic. STRONG ARKANSAS ACCENT.

  • How's it work, sir?

  • What's so grand about tamkwarin parts rather than steam anyhow? We got lots of

    coggers and cogworks who are all or most all steam run.

  • Tamkarin sounds like a real smart buy! Mr. King, you are one educated chap!

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
CONDUCTOR
open
Unpaid

CONDUCTOR, middle-aged man. Professional. STANDARD AMERICAN ACCENT.
One line, possibly played by the actor who plays Local Man #3 and Local Man #5.

  • (yelling out)All aboard! Last call!

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
DOC ROBINSON
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

DOC ROBINSON, middle-aged man. Educated, smart, analytical, kind to the true Wilks family. MILD ARKANSAS ACCENT.

  • (snorts, laughs in disbelief)You... You can't be serious! Is the whole town daft? He's

    no more an Englishman than I am a stuffed boar!


  • I don't know. But give your uncle's lawyers a week to sort it out before you give them

    anything. Please.


  • (laughs)Aside from him sounding English and having travel papers?(beat)He claims

    Peter has a tattoo by which he can prove his relation.


Voice Actor
Voice Actor
HARVEY
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: fletch

HARVEY WILKS, middle-aged Englishman. Kind, mild mannered. EDUCATED ENGLISH ACCENT.

  • Mary Jane, darling, you look just like your mother, rest her soul.


  • The last time we saw either Peter or your father, George, was before they came

    here, at George and Abigail's wedding. I'm your Uncle Harvey and this here is your

    Uncle William.


  • He hopes we find you well.


Voice Actor
Voice Actor
JOANNA
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

JOANNA, ten year old girl from Arkansas. Third of the three Wilks nieces. Nice, skeptical, curious. MILD ARKANSAS ACCENT.

  • (suspicious)Do men of the cloth usually say cogger?

  • King Law-(pause)(confused)Wait... I thought you lived in Sheffield.


  • (incredulous)Why? Why would he visit Sheffield so often?


Voice Actor
Voice Actor
King
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

KING, sixty-eight year old man. Traveling conman. Ill-tempered, arrogant, completely selfish. NEW YORK ACCENT.

  • (gruffly)Hey, you! Shove off!

  • (proudly)I'm a musician of sorts when I have the right instruments. But, these days I

    mostly stick to revival meetings, preaching, and selling medicinal

    remedies.(beat)What about you?


  • (horrible English accent)Yes, I’m so sorry, dear.(beat)And Miss Naomi! Oh, were you

    dear Peter's housekeeper the last time we saw each other twenty year ago?


Voice Actor
Voice Actor
LOCAL CHILD (one line)
open
Unpaid

LOCAL CHILD, nine year old girl. Curious. STRONG SOUTHERN ACCENT.

  • (very excited)Do something else!

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
LOCAL MAN #1 (two lines)
open
Unpaid

LOCAL MAN #1, middle-aged man in the crowd. STRONG TENNESSEE ACCENT.

  • (critical)What do we want to do upgrades for? They're as expensive as sin!

  • (impressed)Smooth and easy!

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
LOCAL MAN #2 (one line)
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: xathien

LOCAL MAN #2, young man in the crowd. MILD SOUTHERN ACCENT.

  • (snorts)(continues incredulous)Low prices? I can get two or three steam cogworking

    parts for the price of one of these tamkwarin ones!


Voice Actor
Voice Actor
LOCAL MAN #3
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: xathien

LOCAL MAN #3, old man in the crowd. STANDARD AMERICAN ACCENT.

  • Can he smash this watermelon with that cogworking leg of his?

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
LOCAL MAN #4 (one line)
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: xathien

LOCAL MAN #4, middle-aged man in the crowd. NEW ENGLISH ACCENT.

  • No. Sorry.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
LOCAL MAN #5 (one line)
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: bryanjmarler

LOCAL MAN #5, young man in the crowd. STANDARD AMERICAN ACCENT.

  • Sorry, kid.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
LOCAL MAN #6
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: xathien

LOCAL MAN #6, middle-aged man in the crowd. STANDARD SOUTHERN ACCENT.

  • Oh, yessir. I seen him.

  • Oh, yessir. He were plucked up by a farmer goin' to Pugsville. A uh... A Mr. Phelps, I

    believe. That visitin' preacher man, Harvey Wilks. He sold him off at a discount

    price. Called it a bargain

  • Good luck, kid.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
LOCAL WOMAN #1
open
Unpaid

LOCAL WOMAN #1, middle-aged woman in the crowd. STANDARD SOUTHERN ACCENT.

  • Can you tell us, Mr. King, how the price of tamkwarin is expected to change in the

    future?


  • (delighted)No grinding!


Voice Actor
Voice Actor
LOCAL WOMAN #2
open
Unpaid

LOCAL WOMAN #2, young woman in the crowd. MILD SOUTHERN ACCENT.

  • Sorry. No.


Voice Actor
Voice Actor
MAN FROM HETRIANA
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: xathien

MAN FROM HETRIANA, middle-aged man. Friend of deceased Peter Wilks. A bit drunk. Pleasant, sad. STANDARD ARKANSAS ACCENT, DRUNK.

  • (approaching)(stumbling)Excuse me. Excuse me.


  • (slurring slightly)Oh, a friend of mine, Peter Wilks, just died.

  • (slurring slightly)Oh, thanks. Pete’s the kind of fella you miss, you know? Decent. He

    adopted his orphaned nieces, you know. He worked hard every day. He was a

    tanner.


Voice Actor
Voice Actor
MARY JANE
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

MARY JANE, fifteen year old girl from Arkansas. First of the three Wilks nieces. Proper, kind, thoughtful. MILD ARKANSAS ACCENT.

  • Of course, uncle. Susan and I will show you to your room.(beat)What's your name?

  • oanna! Are you questioning the poor boy?(gasps)Where are your manners? The

    good book says we are to treat others with kindness, and that's how we were

    raised! That's how Ma, Pa, and Uncle Peter all believed was the right and

    respectable way to do things!


  • (whispering, worried)You might be too late. I saw Uncle Harvey - or whoever he is -

    go into town with him this morning, but I haven't seen him since.


Voice Actor
Voice Actor
MISS NAOMI
open
Unpaid

MARY JANE, fifteen year old girl from Arkansas. First of the three Wilks nieces. Proper, kind, thoughtful. MILD ARKANSAS ACCENT.

  • I was. Fresh with my cogworking leg.

  • Mr. Wilks, Doc Robinson from town to see you.

  • Excuse me, but you all have some visitors.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
SUSAN
open
Unpaid

SUSAN, thirteen year old girl from Arkansas. Second of the three Wilks nieces. Nice, mild mannered, sincere. MILD ARKANSAS ACCENT.

  • (sad)We miss him so much.

  • (sniffling)Yes, please, Joe.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
THE DUKE
open
Unpaid

THE DUKE, thirty-one year old man. Traveling conman. Clever, charming, arrogant. STANDARD TEXAS ACCENT.

  • (whispering, threatening)Fine, old man. You can stay, but no funny business. Help

    me with this.

  • (nonchalantly)I rather think so. Though, this last job I stayed one too many nights.

    The item I was selling takes tartar off the teeth, but generally the enamel along with

    it.(sighs)And you?

  • (irritated)You know, I’m the who sweet talked the girl downstairs to give us a room at

    a discount price.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
TOWNSPERSON #1 (one line)
open
Unpaid

TOWNSPERSON #1, middle-aged woman in the crowd. MILD ARKANSAS ACCENT.

  • A fine plan!

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