Award-winning scripted Fantasy Adventure podcast THE ONCE AND FUTURE NERD is looking to cast a recurring character.

The Character is a man in his 50s or 60s, trying to live a quiet life after many years of facing violence and doing violence himself. These days, his struggle is to maintain his dignity in spite of a soul-crushing job.

We are especially interested in casting a performer of an Indigenous cultural identity for this role.

Between rehearsals, recording sessions, and pickups/retakes, you should expect a total time commitment of ~4-8 hours per “chapter,” and we hope to record 2-3 chapters per year. All work will be remote (but hopefully simultaneous with other actors) for the foreseeable future. (If you do not have your own home recording setup that is to our specifications, one will be provided to you, if you are cast.) At this time, we’re able to provide actors with a $35 honorarium per chapter.

We are hoping to record one “chapter” in the next few weeks, and then another a few months after that. This Character will feature meaningfully in the first of those, and very significantly in the second. The role is likely (but not certain) to continue beyond that.

You must be over 18 to take this role. If you think this is for you, please email iordic.princes at gmail dot com with subject line “TOAFN B2C9 Casting” to request instructions for how to audition. We must hear from you by June 17 in order for you to be considered.

If this isn’t for you personally, please help us spread the word!

(WE WANT TO PAY YOU TO WRITE FOR US.)

THE ONCE AND FUTURE NERD is seeking freelance writers to pitch and write minisodes (~5 minute audio drama vignettes) set within the High Fantasy world of our show. Scripts based on accepted pitches will be recorded by our cast and released on our main feed.

These will be PAID commissions – Writers of accepted pitches will receive $40 per completed/approved script.

Writers must be willing to work within our established script format, and to implement Producer notes on content, style, and story canon. Experience writing for audio is preferred, as is existing knowledge of TOAFN’s story world and tone. But anyone with a pitch for a short High Fantasy story will be considered.

Writers of Color and writers of marginalized genders are strongly encouraged to apply. 

If interested, please email iordic.princes @ gmail with the subject line “Minisode Freelancer.” Include your name, the best way to reach you, and (optional) a link to any relevant work samples you’d like to share. Please DO NOT include your pitch in your initial email. We will respond back with instructions on how to pitch us.

Please note: At this time, we’ll be prioritizing writers with a story pitch already in mind. However, if you don’t have a specific pitch in mind but would still like to be considered for future writing opportunities, do feel free to write in and introduce yourself.Thanks!

We are so happy to announce a new T Shirt design available in our merch store. Presenting #NOTALLNECROMANCERS!

This shirt features the hashtag across the front of the shirt. The back of the shirt features a quote from everybody’s favorite necromancer, Renault D’Esprit, as he tries to defend the reputation of necromancers everywhere.

For a limited time offer, these shirts will be available “at-cost” (we are only charging what CafePress charges us to print the shirts). Once this promotion expires, the price will rise only slightly, but be sure to order your copy now!

As always, you can find all of our merchandise at cafepress.com/toafn, and you can find our partner site’s yarn and jewelry products (TOAFN-inspired or otherwise) at etsy.com/shop/twogreydogsdesigns. We hope you enjoy!

Our friends at Two Grey Dogs Designs are an awesome Etsy shop, where they hand-dye yarn for knitting, and hand-craft jewelry to match. They’ve been making some yarns inspired by our show, you may remember them from their yarn design inspired by Brennen’s Dreams, as well as the earrings to match.

Well, we are happy to announce their newest TOAFN-inspired yarn, Not All Necromancers!

As you may have guessed, this color scheme is inspired by everyone’s [least] favorite undead lich. The yarn’s neon green comes from the green poisonous attack that Renault D’Esprit uses against our heroes in Chapter 8. Check it out, and consider it as a gift for your favorite knitter in your life!

We are also happy to announce that we’ve officially partnered with Two Grey Dogs! Any sale they make on a TOAFN-inspired product, we’ll get a bit of support, and in exchange we’ll shout out their Etsy shop. We’ve also linked to them on the menu bar above.  So we hope you check them out!