Favorite Audio Drama Producers

The cream of the crop and the intriguing newcomers to modern audio theater, with a few classics represented.

Crazy Dog Audio Theatre
The Crazy Dog Audio Theatre catalogue has some unusual, outrageous, and unexpected pieces of work, care of the writing talent of award-winning playwright Roger Gregg. Originating from Dublin, Ireland, Crazy Dog Audio Theatre produces live and studio recordings for RTE Radio 1, Ireland's Public Broadcasting Company. Location sound recording, top-notch voice acting, and part-zany, part-lucid scripts add up to truly memorable audio experiences. If you live outside of the Green Isle, don't despair! Much of their work is available to download through the site or on CD. Don't miss their great write-up on radio drama writing, sound effects, and the epic adventures of Bill Lizard!

Los Angeles Theatre Works
The Los Angeles Theatre Works produces audio theatre more along the lines of contemporary fiction/theatre, their stories focusing more on realistic settings and people's lives in historic and modern societies. Romance, tragedy, betrayal, love, suspense... It's all here, as part of the Los Angeles Theatre Works' Audio Collection, a series of renowned audio plays produced with some of the best voice actors alive today with full professional resources at their disposal.

Great Northern Audio Theatre
Great Northern Audio Theatre is another producer of contemporary audio theatre, the collaborative effort of Brian Price and Jerry Stearns. They've been producing together since 1995, and now have a catalogue from the insightful to the absurd, science fiction to fanciful, featuring original writing, great talent, and inspired sound design... Some of the best in America!

Coyote Radio Theater
Auuuoooo!!! From the deserts of Prescott, Arizona, howls the hilarious comedy of the Coyote Radio Theatre. Inhabiting a truly twisted comic world in which nothing is safe (or sane), Coyote Radio's targets of satire range from R2-D2, National Public Radio, spy movies, and... well... something about an exploding head.

Decoder Ring Theatre
The Decoder Ring Theatre from Toronto, Canada, creates audio theatre in one of its most successful traditions--noir. Their 1930s-esque stories of gritty detectives and despicable crooks, seductive females and bodies that tell no secrets. Whether it's the crimebusting adventures of the Red Panda, or the outrageous noir comedy of Black Jack Justice, look for some truly spirited and incorrigibly mysterious from Decoder Ring's World where everybody wears hats.

Yuri Rasovsky
Yuri Rasovsky, founder of the Hollywood Theatre of the Ear, has been professionally writing, directing, acting in, and producing radio drama for over 30 years. He has achieved many awards on his hundreds of productions, tending to produce historical or classic pieces intended for a literature audience. His recent production, "Sherlock Holmes Theatre," won the prestigious Audie Award in 2006 for best audio drama.

The Soul Patrol
The Cosmic Forces' "The Soul Patrol" follows an angelic force out to save souls in a troubled world

Icebox Radio Theater
A theater of the air located on the very edge of America in International Falls, Minnesota, The Icebox Radio Theater’s mission is to bring the stories of the Borderland to World!

Shoestring Radio Theatre
Shoestring Radio Theatre is a nationally-syndicated radio drama program featuring original radio plays by contemporary writers as well as adaptations of traditional favorites—everything from classic murder mysteries, "radio noir," and historical dramas to contemporary comedies, thrillers, and science fiction

Texas Radio Theatre Company
The Texas Radio Theatre Company presents the best in modern audio theater performances, recorded in front of an audience, featuring award winning original works and classic adaptations. The Texas Radio Theatre Company has been performing in the Arlington, Fort Worth and Dallas areas since 2001.

Shadow Falls
Dark history rises again in the town of Shadow Falls when a second young girl goes missing. A terrifying podcast experience not to be missed!

Dream Realm Enterprises
Dream Realm Enterprises features a wide range of audio entertainment, from Sherlock Holmes mysteries to tales on the edge of the experience, and comic robot adventures!

The Moonlit Road
Not technically audio drama, The Moonlit Road features ghost and scary stories of the South told by haunting narrators

Circus 13 Productions
Features a variety of fan and original audio drama, with Dr. Who, James Bond, and original fantasy and sci-fi adventures. Very fun.

Schlock Audio Theatre

Darker Projects
A truly impressive assortment of terrifying tales and unsettling adventure

After Hell
Ollin Productions' After Hell tells dark stories from a world that has fallen, where evil creatures roam the earth and nowhere is safe. Rather than strict horror, After Hell tends to have more "Tales from the Crypt" -esque stories with twisted endings and even comic moments.

The Grist Mill
Spine tingling short audio horror fills the Grist Mill, a series featuring chilling stories introduced by ominous "Inspector 12." Featuring Joe Lansdale's God of the Razor, among other great stories!

Atlanta Radio Theatre Company
ARTC is an extremely active, high-quality radio theatre organization that frequently produce works by popular authors from HP Lovecraft to Robert Heinlein. They have a great podcast and back catalogue. Not to be missed.

Dreamseed Productions
Dreamseed Productions is a new audio theater company with a very contemporary edge. Their entry work, "Buried in Falling Sand," has a refreshingly original sci-fi script and crisp production. Stayed tuned for "Soul Rift," a series of phantasmagoric detectives.

Firesign Theatre
Celebrating their 40th anniversary, the Firesign Theatre are true audio revolutionaries, having produced truly groundbreaking audio comedy in a free-form, stream-of-consciousness style mastered in absurdity, irreverence, and awkward juxtapositions of the high and low-brow.

Searcher and Stallion
Searcher and Stallion is an ongoing science-fiction audio drama about a mysterious hero, Searcher, with no idea of his identity or history and his adventures through distant galaxies with his robotic companion, Stallion. A true use of audio theatre's ability to capture the imagination and transport us to far-flung reaches of the universe without CGI!

Eye of the Storm
An online radio soap opera telling a story of intrigue, betrayal and oil money in Lafayette, Louisiana. Very unique and good listening even if you'd never watch the TV equivalent

Wireless Theatre Company
Contemporary audio plays ranging from the comic to the serious, written, produced and starring some of the UK's top talent and all available for free digital download.

California Artists Radio Theatre
The California Artists Radio Theatre (C.A.R.T.) has been presenting award-winning stage productions, as well as the best in classic and modern audio drama, for more than 50 years. The CART company of actors is a 'Who's Who' of the most respected National Theatres of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as the best of American Broadway theatre, film, and television. CART was founded by veteran actress, director and producer, Peggy Webber, who has performed in more than 8,000 network radio shows, 300 television programs, 100 stage plays and 21 feature films. C.A.R.T. performances have been heard on XM Radio, Oasis Recording, and Audible programs and have been broadcast over NPR, Pacifica, American Public Radio and on local public ra

wyrd enterprises
The home of The Fantastic Fate of Frederick Farnsworth the Fifth, a romantic adventure comedy fantasy action thriller audio theater drama in serial format with full cast and sound effects.