Jack, It's Me
Project Overview
Jack, It’s Me is an indie horror audio drama set in the rainy, isolated town of Cedar Bend. Told through private tape recordings, found audio, and intimate first-person narration, the series follows strange disappearances, small-town superstitions, missing time, and the quiet rules locals know better than to break.
The story blends psychological horror, analog/found-audio unease, surreal small-town mystery, and slow-burn character drama. Think rainy Pacific Northwest dread, diner coffee at midnight, motel rooms that remember too much, and the feeling that something just outside the trees knows your name.
This casting call is for a featured role in the episode “Tape Found In Room 6,” a standalone found-tape installment connected to the larger story.
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This role is for Tape 008 Pt. 2, an emotionally heavy episode centered around the discovery of a body pulled from the river, and the moment Denis arrives at Holly’s cabin, devastated by what he’s just learned.
Voice type: Male, late 30s to mid 40s
Accent: American / small-town possibly southern drawl.
Role size: Supporting role for this episode, with potential for future appearances
Tone: Grounded, restrained, emotionally strained, intimate, tired
Denis is the town mechanic in Cedar Bend. He is older than the FMC and has become involved with FMC in a way that is tender, complicated, and morally messy.
In this episode, Denis has just been told that the body found by the river.
This is not a loud grief scene. Denis should not sound theatrical or overly dramatic. His pain is quieter than that. He is stunned, disbelieving, exhausted, almost embarrassed by his own vulnerability. He is a man trying to keep his voice steady and failing.
There is also ambiguity around Denis. FMC cares deeply for him, but the audience should not be entirely sure whether he is safe.
The performance should allow both things to be true: he is grieving, and something about him may still feel unsettling.
Denis is:
- A small-town mechanic
- Emotionally restrained
- Tired in a very lived-in way
- Capable of warmth and gentleness
- Possibly hiding things
- Deeply shaken in his scene
- Not villain-coded in an obvious way
- Not melodramatic
- Someone who sounds like he hates needing help
His grief should feel real, but controlled.
Please have:
- A decent microphone
- Minimal background noise
- Clear audio
- WAV or MP3 format preferred
- Ability to act naturally and quietly without over-projecting
- Comfort with emotionally heavy material
This is an audio drama, so emotional subtlety matters more than a “big” performance.
**PLEASE HAVE DISCORD.**This project works quickly and I prefer discussions to be held over Discord.
- english
- male adult
- all american accents
- audacity
I sat in the truck outside the sheriff's office for maybe twenty minutes after. Maybe more.
I don’t know what to do. What am I supposed to do?
Yeah. I know. I know, sweetheart. I'm sorry.
Role: Frederick - Morning Chef at Junco Diner
Role Type: Supporting / Featured Episode Lead
Project: Jack, It’s Me fiction horror audio drama
Episode: “Tape Found In Room 6”
Accent: Any North American accent welcome
Age Range: Adult, ideally 30s–50s sounding
Gender: Male / masculine voice preferred
Payment: Unpaid / volunteer role (If episode generates income, 75% will be paid to VA)
Deadline: May 6th, 2026 Role Needed ASAP
Recording Length: Approximately 30 minutes
Content Warnings: Psychological horror, unsettling imagery, implied threat, mild panic/distress, eerie audio/static, references to death/disappearance.
Frederick is the morning chef at the Junco Diner, but this episode takes place on his first night in Cedar Bend, before he really knows what kind of town he has stepped into. He is staying at the Steelhead Motel in Room 6 while waiting for the keys to his cabin, and records himself as the room begins behaving in ways it absolutely should not.
Frederick is dry, practical, observant, and not easily rattled... or at least, he tries very hard not to be. He has a blunt sense of humor and reacts to horror less with screaming and more with tired irritation. Think “exhausted line cook meets supernatural wrongness and decides to document it because someone should.”
He should sound grounded, intelligent, mildly sarcastic, and increasingly unsettled as the episode goes on. His fear should build slowly under the humor rather than explode all at once. He is not theatrical by nature, which makes the moments where he starts to lose composure more effective.
This is a featured episode lead role. Frederick carries most of the episode through solo narration.
Voice DirectionLooking for a performance that feels natural, intimate, and believable, as if Frederick is genuinely recording into a tape recorder alone in a motel room.
Tone references:
- Dry humor
- Understated fear
- Practical, working-class exhaustion
- “I do not have time for this haunted nonsense” energy
- Slow-burn anxiety beneath a calm surface
Please avoid an overly dramatic “horror narrator” voice. This should feel like a real person trying to stay rational while the room slowly proves him wrong.
**PLEASE HAVE DISCORD.**
This project works quickly and I prefer discussions to be held over Discord.
- male adult
- podcast
- north american
- adult
- narration
- audacity
“This is Frederick. With a C-K. I’m saying that first because I’ve been in Cedar Bend for approximately four hours, and three separate people have already spelled it wrong.”
“The motel clock says 3:12, but I don’t respect it enough to include its opinion.”
“I am not opening the bathroom door. I have existed long enough to understand when something wants attention. Attention is how you lose fingers.”
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