Mortuary Chronicles auditions closing

A volunteer audio drama with 20 open roles already has 638 submissions on Casting Call Club, and the deadline is Friday, May 1, 2026 at 11:30 p.m. Central Daylight Time. That gives new voice actors a fixed window instead of the usual “open until filled” uncertainty. (castingcall.club) The project is called The Mortuary Chronicles, and it is built as a mystery told in two lanes. One lane follows a blogger investigating the abduction of 13 young adults, and the other lane unfolds through audio files recorded inside an underground bunker. (castingcall.club) That structure is why this casting call is wider than a single narrator job. The listing says the production has 20 roles and lets people audition for as many parts as they want, which is useful for actors still figuring out where their voice fits. (castingcall.club) It is also clearly an unpaid project. The page calls it a volunteer production, says casting decisions will be based on performance and audio quality, and says no one will be cast before the deadline. (castingcall.club) The material is not light. The project page labels it for mature audiences and lists death, violence, suicide, mental illness, disturbing imagery or audio, and crude language among the subjects in the story. (castingcall.club) For people trying to build a reel, there is one unusually concrete detail: the creators say the first draft of the inside story is already finished at more than 290,000 words across a prologue and five chapters. That suggests this is not just a concept post with a logo and a promise. (castingcall.club) The listing also says actors will receive lines directly after casting and that Discord will be the main communication tool. In plain terms, that means applicants need both a usable recording setup and the ability to answer messages like a teammate, not just upload one audition and disappear. (castingcall.club) There is one hard gate before any of that: applicants must be 18 or older, although the page says people who will turn 18 by May 1, 2026 can still apply. For newer actors, that makes this less like a broad public open call and more like a specific entry point with adult-content boundaries already spelled out. (castingcall.club) The project page also includes a direct policy line that it does not use or condone generative artificial intelligence and says the story and art are completely human-made. In a voice acting market crowded with synthetic voices and automated art, that is now part of the pitch as much as the plot is. (castingcall.club)