Audio Drama Podcasts featuring Asian & Middle Eastern Characters

Most mainstream Western media is already sparse on Asian/Asian American characters, let alone queer Asians. Sadly so are podcasts. I decided to make a list of the ones that I’ve listened to. I also included Middle Eastern characters because they’re also quite sparse too. If anyone happens to know more, feel free to add on or let me know!

Last updated: Nov 2021

Canon Asian/Asian American/South Asian/Middle Eastern as leads or majority of main cast:

Single or minor characters, or fanon/unconfirmed:

Additions from others that I haven’t listened to yet!

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Thank you for the shout!

Our main and recurring cast members include multilingual people with different cultural backgrounds, including Filipino (Motzie as Mari, plus many others), Mauritian Indian (Adil as Ashvin), Mixed Chinese Canadian (Ed as Murphy) and Jamaican Canadian (Leon as Donner).

A lot of this was by accident, but also as a result of getting to know fellow creatives who are also BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour).

Also, here’s some languages we speak here on Hi Nay!

A HAUNTING : a story about my childhood home

I think arts funding should be infinite and easily available to everyone. I think 13 year olds who only draw anime should receive funding to buy giant sets of copic markers and shitty local punk bands should receive funding for instruments and practice spaces and performance artists should receive funding for their weird and nonsensical projects

Liars & Leeches, Episode 9- "Prepared for Anything" available now.

He's here. There's nowhere else to run.

"Liars & Leeches" is a supernatural horror audio drama that explores grief, terror, and the overwhelming power of both.

This was definitely one of the hardest audio drama episodes I've ever worked on, but directing it was an absolute blast.

i think the aesthetic echo chamber created by tumblr is more dangerous than the political one bcs im self aware enough to kno my politics r radical but then me and the girlies are on here reblogging body horror and very weird erotic poetry and i get offline and interact w a real person and jokingly say something like fungus is tangibly divine in the way it facilitates the eternal dance of creation and destruction which is really creation as or by destruction and theyre like what the hell are you talking about freak. the aesthetic barrier between me and a girl in a vineyard vines tee is literally insurmountable. i find the trout to be a very nietzschean fish

ID: A small cross stitch that reads "The horrors persist/but so do I" in blue, bracketed above and below with simple stylized florals.

I love you (many of you!) and hope you're safe, internet people.

omg imagine being born and you are on a spaceship and everyone aboard is sooo so mad at you just because you burst out of some guy's chest to be born. like um sorry i've not been alive before i didn't even know that's not allowed please be nice to me um the spaceship floor is cold is no one going to knit me some little booties i am calling child protective services

Since cozy horror seems to be a topic of discourse today, hello! A reminder that Death by Dying is in fact a grade A cozy horror comedy fiction podcast, packed full of small town mysteries, adorable man-eating cats, the power of friendship, queer rep, & a healthy dose of spooky!

Check us out wherever you find your podcasts! Season 1, a gauntlet of bonus episodes and specials, and the first two episodes of Season 2 are out now!

[video description: a man playing saxophone in front of a large pipe. everything he plays echoes back through the pipe, resulting in a call-and-response type song. the person behind the camera claps along to the beat. end description.]

a reasonable society would base their entire economy around this

GUY BUILDING THE OTHER END OF THE PIPE: the jazz ghost is back

Yall just ignoring that he set the tempo so perfect that the echo comes back ON TEMPO!!!

Unfortunately it appears I have imprinted on The Spot like a baby duckling

we all must get weirder and more queer. i am completely serious and genuine and this is urgent. please get weirder and gayer now. if you see me acting weird and gay mind your business a little bit.

House On Haunted Hill (1959)

if you're not obsessed with anything weird and niche please try harder. stop going outside for a while. consider getting weirder about the things you already like

"You know as well as I do that I have to do this. But, not only do I have to, I very much want to."

"Liars & Leeches" Episode 8- "Waiting for the Worst"

Liars & Leeches Episode 8- "Waiting for the Worst"

Now shush. I want to enjoy this.

"Liars & Leeches" is a supernatural horror audio drama created by that explores grief, terror, and the overwhelming power of both.

This was probably one of my favorite episodes of the series to edit (so far).