The Blood Still Speaks
Project Overview
The Blood Still Speaks (Formerly The Life and Many Deaths of Abel Carter) is a supernatural noir audio drama set in modern-day New Orleans. Abel, a 152-year-old medical examiner is cursed, or blessed, with endless resurrection. He investigates mysterious deaths with the help of his best friend and assistant Serenity.
Abel has found a bit of a trick to put him above the rest, to solve the cases that baffle the living, he sometimes has to die himself.
Format:
Pilot episode runs ~20 minutes, with potential expansion to a serialized season.
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Sugar's mom, reoccurring minor character. Black women in her 50s-70s. Southern or Cajun accent.
- english
- creole
- american (southern)
- podcast
- female senior
- cajun
No! Not every call is an emergency, girl, I just wanted to call you, dang.
Sugar! Baby! Don't you dare hang up on me.
It was a year ago Serenity! I swear girl...How's work? Ya Daddy just got promoted.
Young. Gross. Endearing.
That is how I would describe LaBelle. A new detective with a blasé attitude and a sick love for the gory and the dramatic. Someone who got a little too into true crime and now is our primary boots on the ground.
Can be really any gender presentation or ethnicity. Side role with potential to join main cast.
- english
- male young adult
- female adult
- androgynous
- male adult
- podcast
- female young adult
(rambling) Yeah, right! I thought it was weird too… with how much damage was on the passenger side, you would think that anyone else in the car would be completely flattened… but you know how witnesses can be. I am waiting to hear back if the hospital has anyone who would line up with the description we got.
Good. Good. (pause)...anything juicy?
General Position for a few extras!
These have a pretty wide range from tattoo artist to AI message bot. Feel free to take some liberties or send your demo reel! These lines are optional and you don't have to do all of them. Just in case you want direction!
- male adult
- female adult
- female young adult
- androgynous
- podcast
- male young adult
(AI) What would you like to send?
(Front Desk) Mmm, nope, nothing in the books at least. What did he get done? I can ask around for walk-ins.
What We’re Looking For
We’re seeking an audio designer who can craft immersive, emotionally precise soundscapes. This is a story in New Orleans with medical elements, so there will city sounds, jazz, and bodies (Oh My!)
Ideal collaborator will:
Be comfortable working with voice-driven storytelling (minimal cast, layered internal narration).
Have a strong sense for atmospheric realism — rain, room tone, breath, subtle sound cues that tell a story.
Be able to build a consistent identity for the show and its locations
Design and mix all soundscapes, including Foley, ambient layers, and transitions.
Collaborate on developing the show’s audio “language”
Work from clean dialogue stems and guide tracks.
Deliver broadcast-quality stereo masters for podcast release.
Optional: help develop the show’s sonic branding (intro sting, transitions, credits).
DAW: Pro Tools, Reaper, or similar
Delivery: 44.1kHz / 16-bit WAVs (stereo)
Must be comfortable with remote collaboration and notes via Google Drive / Discord
- audio engineer (music)
- sound design
- foley effects
*Say something you think would fit*
- Age (Visual): 22–28
Background: New Orleans native, modern, sharp-witted. Works in the morgue assisting Abel.
Voice & Personality:
Bright, modern, grounded. She pokes fun at Abel’s long speeches but secretly finds comfort in his steadiness.
She’s pragmatic, but curious
Voice should have warmth, humor, with an edge of a short life with too much grief.
Sample Tone Directions:
Carries her own quiet wisdom, she’s young but has seen enough to know how fragile life is.
- english
- female adult
- female young adult
- cajun
- american (southern)
- podcast
At least let me grab the Car! (Frenzied, exasperated)
Why do you do this to yourself? (Soft, curious)
You know I'll be here, can't scare me off that easy (Smug)
- Age (Visual): 24–35
Actual Age: 302 (born July 5, 1722)
Background: Mixed heritage (African and French), born in New Orleans. Charismatic, calculating, dangerous.
Voice & Personality:
Smooth, velvety, charming with a dangerous undercurrent.
Where Abel sees hope in people, Jean sees weakness. He’s seductive because he’s so persuasive.
Speaks with the ease of someone who’s always one step ahead.
Sample Tone Directions:
Starts warm, inviting, the voice of a trusted friend.
A slight edge of menace always lingers, like a smile with too many teeth.
Carries an ageless quality: he sounds young, but time has made him cunning and patient.
- english
- male young adult
- french
- male adult
- cajun
- podcast
- american (southern)
- black american
What can I say? You know what I am, what we are.
The boy in the river? oh he's just the first.
They all think they’re immortal… until they bleed, until they feel that life just *poof*. Only we know the truth.
- Age (Visual): 38–52
Actual Age: 152 (born February 29, 1872)
Background: White, originally from New York. Longtime transplant in New Orleans. Works as a medical examiner.
Voice & Personality:
Rich, deliberate, intellectual voice. A man who’s seen the worst of humanity and still believes in its best.
He notices beauty in unlikely places, the music drifting through the Quarter, the colors of a bruise, the resilience of the living.
A survivor who’s grown more hopeful, not more bitter, over time.
Sample Tone Directions:
When cataloging bodies, he’s clinical but tinged with empathy, as though honoring the life lived.
His voice softens with moments of wonder or small joys.
Hope and warmth slip through even when discussing grim subjects, he believes there’s meaning in the world, even in death.
- english
- male adult
- podcast
- male senior
- male young adult
- all american accents
- british
Abel James Carter, February 29th, 2025. Subject: unidentified male, approximately thirty-five, recovered from the Mississippi near the French Market. Signs of immersion, though not long. Rigor has not yet fully set in… which is interesting, given the heat.
Well, there's only one way to find out (fun, wild)
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