Part 3: Glitchy
Vera’s mother always told her not to go into the lift on her own: who knows what could happen?
When 7-year-old Vera sneaks out of home to surprise her dad, she certainly did not expect to be whisked off into the future by a time-travelling elevator/lift. But, well, here we are.
A dynamic, funny, whacky audio adventure across time and space.
Glitchy is Part Three in our science-fiction anthology, Cloud 9.
Content warning: This piece contains robots, and time-travelling elevators. Threat of violence.
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Glitchy’s
Creative Team
Timur Algabekov
Writer
Timur Algabekov (born March 10, 1987) is a writer and director working in film, audio drama, and theater.
He began his career writing short animated episodes. Inspired by experimental music, he became interested in telling stories through sound and created his first audio drama, Glitchy, which was released in russan language 2015 on FabulaNova. This project started a long-term collaboration with the platform, where he went on to write and direct several audio series, including the psychological thriller Vtoraya Liniya (The Second Line) and the biographical sports drama Beliy Koldun (The White Wizard).
Since 2018, Timur has also worked in film. Glitchy was adapted for the screen, and Vtoraya Liniya became a streaming series listed on IMDb.
He is a military reservist and since 2022 he has been living in Argentina as a political refugee escaping the participance in Russia-Ukraine war. Corrently he is developing the biographical audio drama Racer Woman, a one-location feature film, and the stage production Children of Atlantic.
Sarah Golding
Director
Sarah Golding is in a wonderful array of groovy audio fiction and writes produces and acts in her own shows with Quirky Voices. She is Production Manager for Wireless Theatre and teaches young people LAMDA, runs workshops and is a founder of the Audio Drama Hubfest. She loves talking audio fiction craft on Indie AF with wonderful indie creatives. Her favourite thing tis to voice act and she has been in a myriad of shows.
Ed Saltzman
Sound Design
Ed Saltzman is a recording and post production audio engineer specializing in sound design and post production mixing for tv, film and video games. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and lives near Washington D.C. He currently works at the House of Representatives recording studio at the US Capital.
Simon J Li
Original Score
Simon J. Li is a composer and record producer known for his emotionally rich, harmony-driven music. He has worked on the music teams for the Academy Award-nominated films May December and Flamin' Hot, as well as The Equalizer 3 and Emancipation.
Most recently, Simon composed the funk and soul-inspired score for the feature film Down Town and contributed to the acclaimed 2026 films The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist and Tuner.
As a record producer and arranger, he has worked on pop artist CLAUDIA’s debut album Love, Again, the World Ballet Company’s The Great Gatsby Ballet, and the music video for Grammy-winning artist FKA twigs’ Childlike Things.
Born and raised in New Zealand, he now resides in Los Angeles where he writes music for film and television and collaborates with artists as a songwriter and producer.
ADDITIONAL CREATIVES:
OLOF ROCKNER - Artwork
ThunderBird - Opening Theme Music
Isiah Kendall - Audio Trailer
Tatiana Szewczuk - Visual Trailer
Jessica Carroll - Trailer Voice Over
Shaun Mendum - Lead Producer/Curator
Jun Noh - Co-Producer
Floodland’s Cast
Dotty Coates
Vera
Amanda Elliott
Older Vera
Michal M Krol
Glitchy
Polish voice actor, writer and game designer based in London, whose acting career started that one faithful day he created his first Dungeons and Dragons character and realized there is a loud gremlin living inside of him. To this day he claims that dropping out of law school was the best decision of his life.
Most of his VA experience comes from the Polish fandubbing scene, where he worked with such teams as VOX Record, Aru Record and Pawlikowe Fanduby. Currently spreading his wings to the English VO scene with dubbing movies (Commando Ninja 2) games (Phase Zero) and hopefully some really weird animations.
Shaun Mendum
Ultimate/Co-writer
Shaun is an actor/VA based in London. Originally a ballet dancer, Shaun now works as an actor, writer, and creative producer, in theatre and audio.
Audio credits include multiple video games, notably Baldur’s Gate 3, Wuthering Waves, Honkai: Star Rail, and Final Fantasy Tactics, audio dramas including Vergil: A Mythological Musical, Initiation, and The Other Side. Other credits include Sky Documentary Forced Out, Netflix Anime Love Through a Prism, Julia Donaldson’s theatre show Stick Man, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS The Musical, a touring adaptation of Jeeves & Wooster, and appeared in Noel Coward’s Hayfever at the Wyndhams, West End, alongside Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant.
Shaun was the lead producer and curator of this anthology, and co-wrote this play, as well as appearing as the antagonist, Ultimate.
Jessica Carroll
Answering Machine/Lift
Most recently she played Disciple Z’rell in the multi-award-winning video game Baldurs’ Gate 3. She also plays the hero’s mum in Dragon Quest XI and III HD2D Remake and Inayah in Inayah; Life After Gods. Other games include Divinity: Original Sin 2, CraftCraft; Fantasy Merchant Simulator and Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. Jessica is in Transformers Cyberworld and voices Darcy the Driller in Thomas & Friends (UK).
Theatre includes Fence (Finborough); Fishskin Trousers (Park Theatre); The Broken Token (Theatre Royal Bury, Lakeside, William Andrews Clark - Los Angeles); Quirks (Southwark Playhouse); Old Bag (Theatre 503); Ghosts (Battersea Arts Centre); Hellcab (Old Red Lion); Last Seen (Almeida); The Woman of No Importance, Taking Steps (Assembly Rooms Ludlow); Daisy Pulls It Off (Lyric Hammersmith)
Caitlin Rowe
Awards Announcer
Caitlin is an Actor, Singer and Scriptwriter based in Los Angeles, CA. She's thrilled to have worked with the wonderful team at Kobold Blue on this project! Prev. credits: Mela (Pokemon Masters EX), Dogpool, Audra (Marvel Move), Arctic Convoy (Magnolia PIctures), La Palma (Netflix).
Daniel Grimwood
Father
Daniel Grimwood, voice actor, performer and all round general show off.
Studied at Stratford Upon Avon College. Member of the National Youth Theatre.
Theatre Gym alumni.
Have narrated a selection of audio books and currently run a youtube channel focusing on true crime called Footprints In Blood.
Maryann Mendum
Mother
A very special thanks to Shaun’s mum, Maryann Mendum, for providing the voice of Vera’s mother. Maryann’s previous acting experience has been in amateur circles with Boundary Players in Hampshire, including Hayfever, Stepping Out, and The Vicar of Dibley.
It was a real treat working with Maryann in the booth!
Meet the Producers!
Shaun Mendum
Co-Producer and Project LeadWith a background in theatre and audio, Shaun’s work includes working as an actor in video games, animation, radio drama, and writing and directing a short for the BBC.
Shaun’s vision was to provide a platform that brought emerging and established artists together, and to create a body of audio drama that captivated audiences in fresh, exciting, and unsettlingly real worlds.
Jun Noh
Jun is a writer-director and actor, passionate about the blend of cinema, theatre, and philosophy. He enjoys tension in stillness, and storytelling that confronts belief and grief. A Leverhulme Arts Scholar, with an MFA in Professional Acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
Co-Producer