NARRATOR WILL VOICE ALL 7 CHARACTERS

This is a narrator-driven audio story told as if around a campfire (part of the SPARTANS! audio-fiction podcast). 

We’re seeking a single actor to voice the first-person narrator (Patrick), but also Jenny, Gabriella, Laura, Courtney, and Alison, as well as Mike.

So, in other words: we need an adult or young adult male voice for the narrator but the actor will also need to voice 5 teen/young adult women (Jenny, Gabriella, Laura, Courtney, and Alison) all with distinct voices and personalities.

It's important that you can do these female voices without going too broad, cartoonish, falsetto, or stereotyping. Up for the challenge?! :)

Some notes:

These are teens, but I find it's best to use young adult voices for these characters, not make them sound too young. They don't feel young to themselves!

Less is more. Warmer is better than colder. Nuance and naturalness are king and queen.

Setting: Maplewood-Sparta (somewhere in suburban America with seasons. Loosely based on Upstate NY but no regional accents of any kind required).

Date: December 21, 1994
Tone: 90s teen gothic / suburban horror fable / moral allegory

Age: Older, young adult or adult looking back at high school.
Type: 

Adult self: warm, campfire voice tinged with the darkness and wonder of the tale he is telling.  

Teenage self: popular kid (baseball player) but grounded. A good guy. Steady observer. A part of things but slightly on the edges, with quiet depth.
Voice: Warm, reflective, confident. Performative in moments but earnest in others — someone telling a story from experience, not fantasy. WAS there, but also DOES like to lean into the urban-legend storytelling quality of all this too.
Arc:
He is friends with Mike and loosely part of the popular crowd, but somewhat at its edge. A little jealous, a little self-deprecating, and quietly in love with Gabriella, he becomes both witness and accomplice to the night’s events.

Age: 16
Type: Queen bee / social predator / beauty with a fatal edge
Voice: Sharp, confident, and calculated. She's a little smaller than the others but her mean streak is legendary. She sees everyone's flaws and is always somewhat performing for an invisible audience. Remember, this was the 90s, so mocking and sarcasm were basically currency.
Overview:
The alpha of her group. Dazzling, manipulative, and magnetic, Jenny craves adoration, fears irrelevance, and hates vulnerability and visible "effort" in others (Laura's obsessive with grades, Courtney's failed dieting) and is threatened by Gabriella's new effortless-seeming dark glow.
Arc:
When she mocks the Krampus legend, her cruel “truth-telling” becomes literal — each insult turns supernatural. By the end, she’s left at the party with only her own anger, isolation, and the demon in the mirror.

Age: 16
Type: Beautiful/ kind/ calm-appearing, poised, but hiding a traumatic secret that is ripping her in half.
Voice: Low, calm, steady — with hints of sadness or mystery.
Overview:
Once Jenny’s closest friend and mirror, Gabriella is evolving beyond the clique — experimenting with identity, spirituality, and self-expression, though none of her friends know about it. She wears red velvet and a simple black choker instead of the status symbols that define the others.
Arc:
Becomes the moral and emotional counterweight to Jenny. When Jenny calls her “two-faced,” Gabriella literally splits — her inner conflict made visible. (Her trauma and transformation will carry into the following episode of SPARTANS!: THE CHOKER.)

Age: 16
Type: Sycophantic, self-conscious, wanting to be liked, especially by Jenny
Voice: Hopeful, agreeable, a little breathy
Overview:
Jenny’s follower. She’s been dieting for months, terrified of losing her place in the group. When Jenny mocks her body, her self-loathing becomes literal, spiraling into supernatural gluttony.

Age: 16

Type: High achiever / girl next door. Calm at surface but obsessed with grades and the cracks are showing. Think of the girl who is in all AP classes and also a starter on the soccer team. That's her.

Voice: Steady, frank. Middle register.

Overview:

Valedictorian track, straight-A student, but barely keeping it together lately. Jenny sees her diligence as weakness and targets her, triggering the first supernatural punishment — uncontrollable self-destruction through anxiety.

Age: 16
Type: The party girl / the host/ a bit boy-crazy
Voice: Loud, performative, feminine, fun, slightly slurred.
Overview:
Alison hosts the party at her father’s sprawling, half-haunted Victorian home while he’s away. She’s the one who tries to keep the peace, torn between idolizing Jenny and resenting her. Her panic when the house turns on them makes her the story’s “normal” emotional barometer.

Age: 17-18
Type: Golden boy / athlete but a senior and high school glory beginning to fade. Think of the only guy in high school who can handle—and then even get bored of—the hottest, meanest girl. That's him.
Voice: Relaxed, masculine, slightly cocky — but a bit withdrawn lately. 
Overview:
Star quarterback and baseball pitcher, known for impossible luck — the kind that makes him untouchable. He’s Jenny’s boyfriend, though his affection is cooling. His “luck” becomes a thread that will carry into THE STARTER, the sixth episode in the series.