Audio drama Kickstarter live
Indie fantasy audio drama The Bells in Lilak launched a live Kickstarter this week and attracted attention from voice actors praising its immersive walla groups and production. Social posts called out cast details and urged supporters to back the project during the live campaign. (x.com)
An indie fantasy audio drama called *The Bells in Lilak* went live on Kickstarter on April 14, with producer Iridescent Acorn Productions pitching it as a multi-season series. (kickstarter.com) The project page describes the show as an “anime themed, high-fantasy podcast,” and the studio’s own site says the campaign launched on April 14, 2026. (kickstarter.com) (iridescentacorn.com) Iridescent Acorn says the series was written and created by Willem Neill and is being produced in association with Parker-Ross Productions and Simeck Entertainment. (iridescentacorn.com) The studio’s story summary centers on Iradei, a warrior believed dead after a war “that shattered empires,” who is pulled into a wider conflict involving gods, monsters, scholars, and mercenaries. (iridescentacorn.com) Audio dramas are fiction told through voice performance, music, and sound design rather than animation or live-action footage, and Iridescent Acorn markets its work as “immersive audio cinema.” (iridescentacorn.com) That production focus surfaced in cast promotion around the launch. A YouTube community post from voice actor Meggie-Elise said the Kickstarter was “now LIVE” and said she was part of the project’s walla group, the background ensemble that records crowd and ambient voices. (youtube.com) Iridescent Acorn has also been rolling out cast announcements on Tumblr. In one post indexed last week, the studio said Emma Sherr-Ziarko would play Iradei of Ajinor and cited her past credits including *Wolf 359*, *The Strada*, *Ars Paradoxica*, and *Two Thousand and Late*. (tumblr.com) The campaign arrives as smaller audio studios keep using Kickstarter to finance scripted fiction before recording and release, with creators leaning on cast reveal posts, trailers, and fan communities to turn launch-week attention into pledges. (kickstarter.com) (youtube.com) For now, the immediate next step is simple: Iridescent Acorn is asking listeners to back the live campaign while it builds out a fantasy series it says is planned to run across multiple seasons. (kickstarter.com)
