Edelweiss || Science-fiction, horror, fantasy podcast seeking voice actress

Edelweiss || Science-fiction, horror, fantasy podcast seeking voice actress

Project Overview

I'm finally producing a story I've been working on for several years, and I've decided to podcast it. The story takes place primarily in an underground city that is advanced in technology and computing. She is a programmer in a position of nobility within the city. The story is about her downfall and simultaneous grappling with her loyalties and beliefs, and alcoholism. The story is told through the main character, Wolf's, voice diary. 


The story is a mixture of science-fiction, fantasy, and horror. 

I am casting for long-term in a biweekly podcast. I am in the Chicago area, but you don't need to be since we can work via messaging and skype. I will likely run the pilot with you a few times to adjust my writing to your voice before releasing. We are in progress. Pay is negotiable (probably about 35-50 per episode for the first 10 episodes or so). It may not be much in the beginning, but as I expand, I will up the pay per episode. I want to have a voice actress be with us from the beginning. I am working for free right now, but I don't expect you to. :)

I am a recently graduated fiction writer. This is my first podcast, though I have been an editor for a literary magazine and have had fiction and poetry publications. This particular project is near and dear to my soul and I am ecstatic to move forward on it.

There is an end in mind to the story. However, I plan to be producing it for a number of years since the original idea was for the story to be a novel trilogy. I will have other voice casting during this time, and even a few instances when another character has their own episode. I don't want to recast Wolf during this time unless it is necessary. Please be aware of the commitment if the podcast takes off. No matter what, I am planning to broadcast for a year, or at least a "season one." If at the end of that year or season, our only audience is my mother, I will cancel it. I am optimistic though. My mother is good at advertising.

Summary of plot:


Edelweiss is a story about loyalty and identity. It takes place in a universe where magic exists and technology is seen as corrupt. 

Fifty two years ago, an alchemist named Arderr developed a new electric element, Chrodon. The element enabled rapid technology production that had never been seen before in the world.

And as we all know, what isn't understood is often feared. The king of Eskor immediately called for the execution of any inventor found to be developing with Chrodon. 


The hunt raged until Arderr used his magic to create a cavern underground where a series of architects and inventors were able to create the underground city of Pompartha. The rebel city.

The king searched for the city but could never find it. He eventually passed away and left the crown to his son, Prince Vinsent, who kept his father's ways and the cycle began again. 


The people of Pompartha have forgotten what the real sun is like under their computer generated sky programmed by Wolf, an orphan from Eskor who was taken in fifteen years ago. A girl who tried to bring the sky and the ground into one and created the Database, a system that brought the underground city together in one smooth line, with her mentor, Kingfisher. 

But the city was never built to last. 

 And one day the Database dies and the underground sky disappears.

This is Wolf's story. A story of betrayal, conspiracy, princesses and pirates--it is a story of voice, her voice. 

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  • Thank You

    Thank you so much for your auditions! It was a difficult decision, and all of you are super talented. Good luck in your next projects <3 I will be looking to cast male roles for Edelweiss in the future. I will have those casting calls up soon.
  • Kia has been casted :)

    Kia has been casted. I may cast Wolf next week instead of September. Meaning we will start production earlier. Call backs are still on. I'm not going to be listening to auditions tonight or tomorrow but I will be back i. monday <3
  • Shortened Wolf audition

    I deleted a part from Wolf's audition so it is shorter. Also, if you only want to read one of her parts for a shorter audition, that is totally fine.
  • Call-backs

    I am casting this with the assistance of my friend who has been with this story since the beginning as well, and she and I are planning to get together and screen callbacks on September 2nd. We may take a few more auditions after that. How call-backs will work. I will skype call or discord or whatever you want to chat on so we can talk more about the story and the commitment involved. It will probably just be with me. We can arrange it whenever our schedules are free. And if they aren't, we will figure it out. I will also ask you to read a part of the pilot with more direction from me. I will let you know well ahead of time if you are called back. I will cast Wolf shortly after that. Thank you for auditioning. <3
Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Wolf Orson
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: Tiffany Witcher

The role is a woman who is roughly age 26 of Native descent (for this reason, I want to cast a woman of color for her role. It is a voice role so you won't be seen, but representation matters.) The closest ethnicities I can think of to hers within the Edelweiss universe are south Asian and Native American since they are where I got inspiration for the culture she was born into. However, she has a lot of distance from her heritage as she was abandoned at a young age. She is very articulate, even when she is drunk, and I have always envisioned her having a somewhat androgynous tone. Like I said, she is an alcoholic, so I will need someone who can perform that without going overboard. 


Wolf has soft, dark hair and skin the color of hazelnuts. She doesn't remember anything before she woke up in a town when she was seven years old. She sometimes has dreams of who she assumes is her mother, but when she wakes up, her head throbs. Wolf is extraordinarily intelligent and logistical, but isn't aware of how much. She is often seen as cold by her programmers. She is harsh to them, but only because she sees the underground city as her reason to live and doesn't understand why others don't. 


As far as accent goes, her character history matters. Wolf was abandoned in an overground town when she was 7 years old. She doesn't remember what her mother sounds like. She would have developed an accent for the town she was begging in, and that would have mixed with the accent of the underground city. My mental picture is a faded British accent, but the reason I selected "any" is because I really want this open to the voice actor's interpretation. We can work more on Wolf's voice together when I can individually answer your questions and go more into detail, but accent isn't something I am really listening for in auditions. 


I don't mind casting younger, but you must be over 18. The role isn't pornographic (though there is sexual content), but I am going to be diving into some serious issues and getting in trouble with someone's parents is the last thing I want to deal with. There will be horror elements and serious issues I want to explore, so you cannot be squeamish. You may get little to no warning before getting these scripts (more than likely, knowing me, you will definitely get some warning). This isn't meant to scare you. I just want to give as much information as I can head on. 


As far as how much the story deals with Wolf's ethnicity - there will be racist characters she encounters, but I don't plan, don't need, and don't want to use any slurs or severe hate speech. She encounters more discrimination based on the fact that she wasn't born in the underground city than anything, which is an important part of the plot. Her ethnicity itself is an important part of her, but not a crucial part of her that I need to call out or tokenize every 10 words. She is just a character who happens to have dark skin and heritage in the tribes of the overworld. Later in the series, she will find her mother and will learn more about her heritage, but we won't get into this in early recordings.

  • I have caught myself wondering if we, in the underground city, are a different type of human than in Eskor, above-ground. If we were reprogrammed as soon as we step foot here. Or were born here? Well, I’m sure those who were born here are more programmed than I am.

    I hope...I hope I was reprogrammed, even slightly. Updated even.. I don’t want to be the girl scrounging for loose crystals on the cobblestone streets. I remember her hands that touched the shit-covered walls. They can’t be the same hands that touch the holograms, that type the codes in for the Pomparthian Database, that lead the encryption department of the city. These are new hands.

  • The gamekeeper held my head up as Henry swallowed the contents of the glass in a smooth, singular motion. I realized Henry had done this before. I was still held for a moment as we waited to see if Henry would die, then the gamekeeper threw me to the stony cobblestones. “Drink one.”

            I had to think fast. I thought about sound. I thought about where the dribbles I heard earlier were coming from. All four corners of my mind were screaming. Calm down, I told them. Give me something. I remembered that the droplet sounds came from the left. I had heard a rat scurrying from my left side. The glasses were arranged in a triangle. I already drank one from the right side. Henry drank one from the bottom. I had to make a choice—and I hear the rat’s feet again. The rat was scurrying away from the alley while the gamekeeper was dripping the poison into one of the glasses. His feet tapped toward my feet, and then pittered away into the city.

            So I select the top glass.

            I could say I didn’t hear anything as I drank it, but I did. I heard the chattering of birds on top of the building to the east of us. They were two buildings away on the south waste pipe.

            I don’t know how I suddenly remembered how to feel sounds. But that was the biggest idea I had so far of where I came from. If I made it out of this, maybe sounds would lead me home. If I had one.

            They wouldn’t.

            I put down the empty glass and topple over, the ale from the first glass starting to reach my head.

            Henry picks up another glass to the left. It is one of the two I am sure has the poison in it. I hold my breath, almost wanting to tell him to stop, but he drinks it.

            We don’t have to wait long. Henry starts coughing up heavy saliva before he finishes his glass. The glass explodes into shards on the cobblestones. The sound of it hurts my ears, because it is the shattering sound of a person’s fear dying with them.

    I had been thinking, and thinking, and thinking, and churning and panicking so much that I forgot the most crucial part of the game: if I lived, Henry had to die.


Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Kia Mentelo- Mercenary
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

Kia is the King's mercenary searching for Pomparthian rebels. 


She is tall, and muscular, and worked for King Vinsent's father in his later years, and continued working for Vinsent.  She keeps her black hair in a long, smooth braid, but that is all that is smooth about her. Her face is covered with burns and is permanently maimed. She has no control over the right side of her face.  It is unclear what happened to Kia or where she came from. All that is clear is that she is a killer, and if you ever see the left corner of her mouth smile, it is too late to run. 

Kia finds Wolf's voice diary a year after the Database is shot and after Wolf escapes from Pompartha, but that is another story. She records her own voice over Wolf's records starting episode 4 or 5. Her records are a bit of a time jump in each episode since Wolf does not escape Pompartha until episode 10. 

  • Wolf. W-O-L-F. Like the dog? That’s what you call yourself. A dog.


    You see, Wolf. I’ve been tracking you for some days now and you seemed to have dropped this. It repeats every word you spoke...even a year ago, when you say the, what’s it called, Database died.


    I don’t understand some of your language. But I do understand one thing: You’re a Pomparthian Rebel. You may have come from Eskor, but you chose Pompartha. What you chose is in your skin no matter what runs in your blood.


    (Inhale) and...dog, I see your skin. I am going to tear it from your bones. Like I was hired to do.


    And I don’t have to find you.


    I already have.


    Oh, Wolfie, I’m going to get a hell of a paycheck for you.

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