• The Stream

A Science Fiction Mystery Podcast

  • Story

By 2285, human civilization looks very different. Most humans have left their corporeal bodies for an all digital existence in a hive mind, The Olorem. They maintain their complex computer systems and physical world with "M’Khani"— robots inhabited by human consciousness . Some humans, "The Metropoli," use high level machines and cybernetics in daily life, stopping just short of irrevocably joining the hive mind. Lastly there are "The Pure," those humans who have rebuked all computerized technology. Decades ago, differences in philosophies led many to leave earth and build colonies throughout the Sol system. This is Olorem: The Stream.

Weary of the snobbery of the Martian upper crust, a cybernetics engineer heads to Venus to bury her uncle; but when she discovers he’s been murdered, she must learn to rely on something other than her technology before she herself is arrested and deported.

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Casting Details

Executive Producer: LaSean Smith

Credits: Fearless, Venus as A Boy

Director: Dume Forwan

Credits: Eat to Live

Music Composer: Kym Williams

Credits: Central Intelligence, Eat To Live

  • How To Participate

Send an email that contains a link to your reel, and what character you'd like to play to -> Hello At Olorem Dot Com.

Recording windows take place on June 19th, 2021 from 9am till 5pm.

The location is Emerald Street Studios in central Seattle inside Historic Washington Hall.153 14th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Actors will record separately. Waiting is available outside, or inside with chairs six feet apart. The Producers, Dume Forwan and Kym Williams are both fully vaccinated. Masks are required in the stand by room.

Pay is $25 per hour with minimum time guarantees per character. Even characters with onlya few lines.

  • Script Side

Right click and download this Script Side to see how this audio-only script works and feels.
Underlined words in the script indicate sound effects.

Technology

  • Blue Liners

Telepaths who exchange thoughts with cranial devices by transmitting MindForm data through blue lasers. This technology is outlawed by most governments and its practitioners are to be tracked down and prosecuted. For those who have chosen not to join The Olorem, they don’t want Olorem like technology spilling out into the physical world. 

  • Builders

A builder has the technological training to control and program Bund, transforming the prerequisite amount of Bund (nanite bundle) into any substance or molecular structure requested.

  • The Olorem

Non corporeal mind stack connected by all the Metropoli. They speak in a single voice similar to the Borg. No one outside of it quite understands what it’s like to be part of this mysterious group.

  • The People’s Movement for Life

A group of self styled heroes who genuinely have the best interests of all sentient life in mind. This group is not opposed to or enamored by technology. It just exists, as any other tool does, to serve the purposes of sentient beings. They follow the laws of the places they live, and do their best to help individual persons and the state to maintain order. Imagine hippies who will resort to violence when necessary or Jedi.

Characters We're Still Casting

  • Alonzo "Shorty" Jiao-Long. Male. Victim’s business partner. Secretly the biological father of Sam. Chinese, 50s. 2 hours pay guarantee.
  • Ebo, male, 29. Brother of Zoya. Ethiopian or Eritrean. Secretly the killer. Compassionate but willing to toss that aside for his technological revolution. Eventually ends up with his mind moved inside a combat robot during the finale. 9 lines. 1 hour pay guarantee.
  • Trinh, female, 60s. Vietnamese. Cam’s mother. Runs a family restaurant on the inner habitat rings of Venus. 1 line. Line is in Vietnamese. 1 hour pay guarantee.