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— Primary & secondary characters —
In order of appearance…
A white nonbinary person with chin-length brown and gray hair and a dark red shirt smiling closed-mouth at the camera.
Caroline Mincks | Voice of Sigyn
(They/Them)
Caroline Mincks is an audio drama writer, director, designer, and voice actor. They are best known for creating Seen and Not Heard and SHIFTS and for co-creating Light Hearts, Hughes and Mincks: Ghost Detectives, and Surreal Love. Their voice can regularly be heard on all of those shows, as well as This Planet Needs a Name (Zahava), Ad Read (Computer God), The Reignition Theory (Captain Chloe Vasker), and Me, My Demon, and I (Sister Mary). Off the mic, they serve on the board of directors at a local theatre, where they also direct children’s musicals.
Find Caroline on Twitter @saucymincks and online at carolinemincks.carrd.co.
A smiling young white man with brown hair, green eyes, and glasses standing in front of a snowy background.
Nick Webster | Voice of Loki; Show Creator & Script Editor
(He/They)
Nick is one of the creators and voice actors here at Starlight Audio. He's been involved in the arts in some capacity since he started doing community theatre as a teenager and hasn't turned back since. When he isn't working on a podcast, Nick is spending time with his dog, sewing, listening to other podcasts, playing D&D, or taking a walk around the neighborhood.
Find Nick on Twitter @NickCWebster.
A smiling white young adult with brown eyes and a dyed orange undercut.
Cassie Josephs | Voice of Morgan Daley; Show Creator & Script Writer
(She/He/They/Ey)
Cassie is a Seattle-based writer and artist who’s carried a deep passion for the arts since their seven-year-old-self made their Barbies act out tales of murder, betrayal, and political intrigue. These days, their tales are actually a bit lighter. (But only a bit.)
As a proudly nonbinary, autistic, bisexual, polyamorous person, Cassie is very used to not seeing himself represented in media—so now, he’s going to create the representation he wants to see in the world.
When she’s not creating podcasts, she loves reading, watching cartoons, and playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Find Cassie on Twitter and Medium @cassjosephs and online at cassjosephs.com.
A light skinned Black man with short curly hair that is shaved on the sides is wearing a striped button down and smiling at the camera.
Sawyer Greene | Voice of Reese Belmont
(He/They)
Sawyer Greene is a Virginia based and NYC trained performer with a specialization in musical theater. He is beyond thrilled to be a part of this new and exciting project.
Find Sawyer @queer_elf_club on Twitter and online at sawyergreene.com.
A non-binary, Asian adult with short, teal hair and dark brown eyes sits in front of a concrete wall, gazing away from the camera. They have piercings in their lip and ears, and a tattoo is visible on their chest. She is dressed entirely in black with a high collar and low neckline. Around her neck is a iridescent glass rectangular pendant.
Maki Yamazaki | Voice of Akemi Hayashi; Musician (Akemi and Reese’s Music)
(She/They)
Maki Yamazaki is a queer, non-binary artist, voice actress, musician, composer, programmer and engineer based in Scotland. Although they are probably best known for their solo music and performances as Dr. Carmilla, Maki has also had several of their comics published, work displayed in numerous exhibitions, and released a number of indie games and demos. Maki is particularly fond of weaving storytelling into her work and enjoys providing voice-acting for both pleasure and accessibility. She enjoys spending her spare time coding her game engine, engaging in amateur science, and reading LGBTQAI+ fantasy and sci-fi stories. Responds positively to cats, curry and good coffee.
Find Maki on Twitter @makiyamazaki and online at makiyamazaki.com.
A young, South Indian man with short hair and a small beard against a dark background, smiling directly into the camera
Kiran Kumar | Voice of Benji Daley
(He/Him)
Kiran is a voice actor, singer, and software engineer who resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. A relative newcomer in the acting world, he has always dreamed of lending his voice to new and compelling stories. Kiran is ecstatic to do just that in his first ever voice over role by bringing the character of Benji Daley to life. When not auditioning, or taking classes, Kiran spends most of his spare time recording, editing, and mixing various a cappella music projects. Beyond that, he and his partner sing nonsensical songs about their dog while scratching his belly.
A young Black woman wearing two-strand twists in her hair and a pink t-shirt leans against a brick wall, smiling widely into the camera.
Regina Renee Russell | Voice of Natasha Abney
(She/Her)
Regina is a New York based actress, writer and director. Originally hailing from the Bronx and a graduate of Cornell University (B.A. Theatre Arts) and East 15 Acting School in London (M.F.A Acting), Regina's favorite recent roles include: LCDR Talise Asherah: Primordial Deep, Evelyn Wesley: Unwell a Midwestern Gothic Mystery, Trainee: Brimstone Valley Mall, Lysistrata: Lysistrata, Lysander: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Helena: A Midsummer Night’s Charity Stream.
Find Regina on Instagram @reggirenee, on Twitter @reginarenee594, and on Backstage as Regina Renee Russell.
A light-skinned Native person with dark eyes and green hair pulled back away from their face, wearing headphones, a beaded necklace, and a dark shirt, who has a turquoise stud piercing on their lower lip. Only their face and shoulders are visible, and they are smiling gently, looking at the camera.
Elián Sweeten-López | Voice of Brian Davis
(He/They)
Elián Sweeten-López first ventured into the world of acting in grade school, and finds himself cyclically wandering away and coming home to it again. While his acting credits involve many many local theatre productions in Austin, Texas, Twilight Over Midgard is Elián's first foray into acting for audio dramas. His day job is to be a game designer, and he likes to play games just as much as he loves to make them: he particularly enjoys roguelikes, RPGs, and tabletop games. Elián is learning Danza Chichimeca, and finds strength and wisdom in his indigenous community. He and his partner have three cats and a three-legged bearded dragon.
Find Elián @elsweeten on Twitter and @lorefiend on Instagram and Tumblr.
A man with short black hair in a fauxhawk, he is wearing black lipstick, a white button up shirt and a black, floral bowtie. Behind him is a mirror and rainbow flag.
Cole Burkhardt | Voice of Frey; Sound Designer & Sensitivity Consultant
(He/Him)
Cole Burkhardt currently resides in Washington D.C and has tried everything from streaming tabletop games on Twitch to spelunking deep underground. He has been in a variety of podcasts including Godshead Incidental and Unplaced and is the creator of Null/Void and Ritual Six. When he's not voice acting or editing audio, he's going to conventions across the East Coast, discussing gender and sexuality in media.
Find Cole on Twitter @KingColeMiner and online at coleburkhardt.carrd.co/.
An African American woman with long curly black hair, a pale blue shirt, against a dark blue-green background.
Jordan Cobb | Voice of Thor
(She/Her)
Jordan Cobb is a New York City based actress and writer. Creator of No Such Thing Productions, Jordan wrote and starred in the sci-fi horror podcast series Janus Descending (Chel), the fantasy-comedy Here Be Dragons (Harper Bennett and Dr. Natalya Atlas), and the high seas adventure-thriller Primordial Deep (Dr. Marella Morgan). She has written for Fable and Folly's Alba Salix; Royal Physician, Long Story Short's Unseen, and The Paragon Collective's The Oyster. As an actress, Jordan has been featured on over four-dozen audio dramas.
Find Jordan on Twitter @inkphemeral and online at jordanvcobb.com and nosuchthingradio.com.
— Featured Characters —
In order of appearance…
A woman with long, curly, dark brown hair, a pale olive complexion, a simple grayish-green top, and sporting a slightly embarrassing sunburn along the top of her forehead.
Sena Bryer | Voice of Odin
(She/Her)
Sena Bryer is a trans voice actor and author from Louisville, Kentucky, now living in fiery Southern California. She is the creator of the audio drama Dreambound and performs in a number of other productions, including but not limited to Kalila Stormfire's Economical Magick Services, The Pilgrimage Saga, Seen and Not Heard, and Helvetii. Outside of her two greatest passions, acting and writing, she enjoys cycling, petting dogs, 3d printing, and any role-playing video game with a solid class system.
Find Sena on Twitter @senabryer and online at senabryer.com.
A Black nonbinary person with a septum piercing wearing a white button-up, black striped vest, black tie, and black fedora.
JV Hampton-VanSant | Voice of Heimdall
(They/Them)
JV Hampton-VanSant is a writer, actor, director, producer, cosplayer, costume designer, & Massachusetts based podcaster & Black Canary stan. JV is the creator of RedWing: The Audio Drama, host of JV Reads the T, and part of Paper Boats Productions. JV co-creates the fanmade microfiction podcast Birds of Prey: Outcry & will at the drop of a hat talk about mermaids, the women of DC Comics, race and gender for hours.
Find JV on Twitter @RedBlaqueGolden.
A smiling young white woman with long brown hair and thick bangs gazes at the camera whilst standing in front of a blurry greyish background. She is wearing a mossy green turtle neck top.
Marta da Silva | Voice of Freyja
(She/Her)
Marta is a multilingual actress who has been part of a wide array of stage, screen and voice over productions. Born in Madrid, raised between Spain and Portugal, and educated at a British school, she moved to the UK in 2012 to train at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She graduated with merit, worked for a while, trained some more at RADA, performed in 3 shows at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2015 (yeah, that was a lot) and moved to London shortly after, where she still lives.
Marta is a fluent speaker of several languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. She also currently studies Japanese and hopes to move there one day whilst somehow still being a professional actor. 頑張ります！
Besides acting, she enjoys gaming (console & PC, she ain’t picky), D&D, photography, music, baking, reading, and travelling (which she misses enormously).
Find Marta on Twitter and Instagram @nanaluvren and online at martadasilva.com.
A black and white shot of a Black woman with an afro fluffing her hair, looking off camera, and smiling slightly.
Chijioke Williams | Voice of Sif
(She/Her)
Chijioke B Williams has loved stories for as long as she can remember. The ability to connect the author and audience fascinates her endlessly, and she suspects that nothing is more central to the human experience than storytelling. Chi has been hosting a live radio show, Status Quo, for the past five years, during which she has immersed herself in audio drama and begun to write her own. Chijioke seeks to combine her experience as a journalist with her work in radio fiction to bring depth to the characters she writes and the worlds she builds. Chi's hobbies are parkour, sound design, and subverting societal expectations. She now lives in Chicago, where she can be found engaging in all three.
Chijioke can be found on Twitter @Inner_Chi and on Instagram @Chi_Anansi.
A smiling dimpled woman with straight long black hair, pale complexion with a red sweater top against a white background.
Daisy Guevara | Voice of Brynhild
(She/Her)
Daisy Guevara is a Latina/Hispanic-American actress born and based in NYC; she grew up acting on the stage, stumbled upon voice acting, and hasn’t looked back since. She has lent her voice in various voice-over projects in anime, video games, and audio dramas. In the podcast realm, you can hear Daisy’s performances in Meteor City, Seen and Not Heard, Dreambound, & Life with Leo(h). Aside from being a lover of stories, Daisy totally dorks out on anime, theater, plants, and board games!
Find Daisy on Twitter @DaisyG_VA, on Instagram @daisymguevara, and online at daisyguevara.com.
A smiling bald white man in a café.
Jay Allen | Voice of Ánarr
(He/Him)
Jay is a Technical Writer and Engineering Manager currently splitting time between Tokyo and Seattle. He is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Unseen Japan, a Web site devoted to translating news about current events, cultural trends, and social justice issues in Japan.
Find Jay online at unseenjapan.com and jayandrewallen.me.
A white woman in her late 20s, with long black hair swept over one shoulder, wearing a reddish-orange sweater, a grey cable-knit beanie hat, and a pair of black-rimmed cat-eye glasses. She is sitting on a couch, resting her chin on her fist and looking into the camera with a slight smile on her face. Only the upper half of her body is visible in frame.
Dana Creasman | Voice of Frigg
(She/Her)
Dana is a California based actress who has previously acted for SCP Archives and Margaret’s Garden. Dana also serves as the GM and showrunner for the TTRPG podcast Meddling with Monsters, where, like her character Frigg, she spends much of her time trying to wrangle a bunch of larger than life personalities into behaving. Aside from voice acting, Dana is also working on completing her PhD in neuroscience, studying stem-cell based therapeutics for spinal cord injury. She is thrilled to be a part of this fantastic cast and crew!
Find Dana on Twitter @SkulGurlDana.
A smiling tan young adult wearing glasses with a blue flannel shirt and has short black hair.
Christopher Colón | Voice of Nanna
(He/Him)
Chris is an Orlando based voice actor who has always had a fascination with stories from works of fiction to retellings from the past. As a Lainx Performer (specifically Cuban, Puerto Rican and Domincian) that has strived to bring his heritage and culture into the genres he loves in order to bring proper representation into the industry and to give new takes on old and new stories alike.
When he is away from the mic he is usually writing and weaving his own epic stories/campaigns within dungeon and dragons
Find Chris on Twitter at @vo_colon.
An olive-skinned young adult stands outside, before a blurred background, gazing into the camera with her lips slightly parted. She has a relaxed short silver mohawk, multiple ear piercings, and a circular tattoo visible on her exposed right shoulder.
Lindsay Zana | Voice of Fenrir
(She/Her)
Lindsay Zana is an actor and singer with a love of Shakespeare, musical theatre, and audio dramas. You can hear her in podcasts such as Arden, Primordial Deep, Dining in the Void, Crit Squad and more! She has currently been hard at work on an upcoming dystopian podcast musical, Vacant Arcadia, and has just been cast in the horror audio drama The Hidden Heart.
When she’s not emoting behind a microphone, Lindsay can be found singing with the a capella group Top Shelf Vocal, bingeing true crime podcasts, or snuggling with her pup Winston.
Find Lindsay @LindsayZana on Twitter and online at LindsayZana.com.
A nonbinary person with dark hair and glasses smiling in front of a concrete wall. They’re wearing a sweatshirt with a skeleton on it.
Tal Minear | Voice of Týr
(They/Them)
Tal is a SoCal based podcaster who cannot be stopped from making things. A Mechanical Engineer by day, they can be found working on audio fiction by night. Tal is the producer of Sidequesting, What Will Be Here?, Light Hearts, and Someone Dies In This Elevator, and is working on several upcoming projects for Parazonium Podcasts and The Shadow Network. Their voice can also be heard in audio fiction shows such as Novitero, The Path Down, Deconstructive Criticism, Arden, and Inn Between. Tal does sound design for Seen and Not Heard, Surreal Love, their own podcasts, and more. They occasionally write for other audio fiction shows, including The One Stars and The Ace Audio Archive.
Find Tal on Twitter @starplanes and online at talminear.com.
A slightly smiling pale young adult with brown eyes and short auburn hair against a dark grey background
Ava Maag | Voice of Jackie Davis & Ensemble Roles
(She/Ze/They)
Ava Maag is a Bay Area based nerd with a love for all things acting from children’s theatre to Shakespeare to performance art to medical narration. Ava also delights in contact improv (when safe), making music, and messing around with craft supplies.
Find Ava online at avamaag.com.
A smirking pale white adult man with stubble and short, dark brown hair; wearing a purple-brown button-up shirt over a dark grey t-shirt.
J.K. Robbins | Voice of Ensemble Roles
(He/Him)
Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, J.K. graduated from MTSU with a B.S. in Radio/Television Production. Years of working in college radio provided the necessary tools to kickstart what ended up being a lifelong passion in voice-acting. A brief stint in Atlanta, GA inspired J.K. to step out of the vocal booth and in front of the camera.
When he’s not auditioning, watching soccer matches or taking scene-study or VO workshops, J.K. keeps three cats with his wife, and consumes food considered too spicy for most mortal beings.
Find J.K. on Twitter @jk_robbins and online at jkrobbins.com.
Crew
A smiling nonbinary person with short hair wearing a button-up, a dark jacket, and a purple tie.
A.R. Olivieri | Director
(They/Them)
Anthony is a writer, actor, director, producer, French fry addict, and podcast creator who resides in Sarah Rhea Werner's brain. They’re honored to act in the podcasts Girl In Space, Janus Descending, VAST Horizon, and The Subjective Truth.
They make too many podcasts and they hope to upload their consciousness one day.
Find Anthony @AROLIVIERI on Twitter and online at AROLIVIERI.com.
A young white woman in a forest playing a trombone.
Lavender | Composer
(She/Her)
Lavender is an Olympia-based composer and voice actor who has been involved in music and performing since playing the head of the crocodile in a Peter Pan play in the 4th grade.
She began writing down her own music in Garageband in 2018, and she now composes regularly as a hobby. She also enjoys collaborating on projects with friends.
When not composing or using her vocal cords, she works as librarian assistant, cooks, and tries to brainstorm ideas for a video game.
Find Lavender on Twitter @soundslikeroses and on Bandcamp at aroseisarose.bandcamp.com.
A photo of Kofi, a mixed-race person with dark, curly hair, glasses and a short beard. They are wearing a red check flannel shirt and smiling at the camera.
Kofi Young | Violinist
(They/Them)
Kofi Young is a musician, writer and actor best known for their work with queer space-folk concept band The Mechanisms, who put their own twist on Norse mythology in their final studio album, 2017’s The Bifrost Incident. Having killed their character off last year, Kofi continues to produce folk music as a solo artist, releasing their first solo album, The Wassailant, in December 2020. They are currently developing a Celtic rock album about giant mecha!
Find Kofi on Twitter @neitherabaron, on Bandcamp at kofiyoung.bandcamp.com, and online at kofiyoung.com.
A curly-haired person is standing with their back to the camera, in front of a window. There is a mask-and-mantle cat standing on their shoulders, and a tuxedo cat standing next to them in the windowsill. All three are looking out at a bright sky and green trees.
Ke’alohi Akeakamai | Poet & Sensitivity Consultant
(He/She/They)
Ke’alohi Akeakamai is a small-sized wild creature indigenous to the tide pools of O’ahu, Hawai’i. They are a poet, homemaker, and self-taught clown. Ke’alohi has a lifelong interest in animal training and enrichment, and hopes to one day train her own circus dog (to swear). He also enjoys textile arts, worms, and spreadsheets. Physically, Ke’alohi is an invasive species to the American Midwest. Spiritually, they are rolling around in the dirt in the middle of a large forest. Professionally, they are currently writing their first audio drama, The Neon Sanctuary, with their co-creator and spouse.
Find Ke’alohi on Twitter @MyNeonSanctuary.
Additionally, we would like to thank the following people for their work as sensitivity consultants on the show:
Morgan Maxwell (she/her)
Chiaki Hirai (she/her)