True Indie Voice Art Launches Free, Community-Funded Audio Stories Starring Top Video Game Talent

Founded By Author Nolan Kelly and Game Veteran Alix Wilton Regan, The Creator-Owned Initiative Debuts with Audio Novel “Pax Romana”

LONDON, UK – November 4, 2025 – TIVA (True Indie Voice Art), co-founded by author Nolan Kelly and award-winning actress Alix Wilton Regan (Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Lies of P: Overture), today launched its first original audio novel, PAX ROMANA. The release marks the first in a series of storytelling projects designed to reshape the future of narrative audio, built on creative collaboration and transparent revenue sharing among all the cast members and creators.

TIVA has gathered a powerhouse ensemble of 17 female actors, who are known for some of their most iconic performances in modern-day gaming which includes co-founder and producer Alix Wilton Regan (Dragon Age, Cyberpunk 2077), Jennifer Hale (Mass Effect, Baldur’s Gate), Ali Hillis (Mass Effect, Dragon Age), Jennifer English (Baldur’s Gate 3, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33), Jane Perry (Returnal, Cyberpunk 2077) and Devora Wilde (Baldur’s Gate 3, Wuthering Waves).

Additional talent include; Anjali Bhimani (Overwatch Borderlands 4), Ashly Burch (Horizon Zero Dawn, Mythic Quest), Courtenay Taylor (Fallout 4, Destiny 2), Aliona Baranova (Lies of P: Overture, Baldur’s Gate 3), Melissanthi Mahut (Assassin’s Creed Odyssey), Emma Gregory (Baldur’s Gate 3, Divinity: Original Sin), Jo Martin (Doctor Who), Minji Chang (Cyberpunk 2077), Rachel Luttrell (Stargate Atlantis), Safiyya Ingar (Doctor Who, Dragon Age: Veilguard)  and Samantha Béart (Baldur’s Gate 3).

The female actors being interviewed for this project are: Alix Wilton Regan, Jennifer Hale, Ali Hillis, Jennifer English, Jane Perry, Devora Wilde, Melissanthi Mahut, Emma Gregory, Jo Martin, Safiyya Ingar and Aliona Baranova.

The launch includes two of Nolan Kelly’s original works: PAX ROMANA, a historical fiction audio novel imagining an alternate, technologically advanced Roman Empire, followed by SPARKS OF HOPE, an anthology series of science fiction stories inspired by modern life, debuting December 9, 2025.

I was lucky enough to be invited to this launch event and to interview the stars involved, including Nolan Kelly.

As the interviews were split into groups, the first group I interviewed were Devora Wilde, Jane Perry, Aliona Baranova and Jennifer English.

Q1) What inspired you to bring this story to life as an audio novel rather than a traditional book or film?

Jennifer English: Oh, that’s not a question we could answer.

Jane Perry: Yeah, I would say this is more of a question for Nolan and Alix because Nolan wrote the books and created this partnership with Alix Wilton Regan, who then decided to produce them and turn them into audiobooks. Nolan is a big gamer, and he is a dedicated fan of voice work, so I think he just liked the idea of his words being read aloud, and it’s a really great thing.

Devora Wilde: It’s also easier, logistically, to set up than creating a TV show or a film, you know, it’s just, they’re big stories and it’s much easier to get everyone involved. I think Tom just had all these people he admires in gaming, and it was his dream to put us all together in these audio novels, and he never thought it would happen. And today he is seeing everyone here, and it’s all happening. It’s magical to watch somebody see their dream come true, as well as being part of the project.

Aliona Baranova: I think with an audiobook, there’s this fascinating equal pay-structure that’s going on for this project, and I don’t think you can achieve that with film or TV at the moment. There are so many people behind the scenes in film and TV that the studios would be involved, and it’s a lot harder to achieve, but what Nolan and Alix have achieved is good.

 Jennifer English: I think a lot, Alix has done as well, to make sure that we get fair pay and it’s also wonderful to have a cast of women and non-binary, which again, might not happen in film or TV, so it’s magical that we are part of that change we want to see. Dovora Wilde: They’re really big stories, and a few of us play different characters. I have just really enjoyed, as well as voicing the characters, actually just reading the story, and it’s an interesting take on traditional Roman Empire style gives a different edge to it. What Nolan did by casting an all-female cast has made it very unique.

Q2) If you could voice another type of story, whether that be a thriller, romance, or Sci-Fi, as a few examples, what would you pick next?

Jennifer English: I am listening to Michael Sheen reading the second book of Dust at the moment in preparation for the next version and I remember listening to his Dark Materials which has a full audio cast. I would love to do that for the book of dust, it’s a really special set of books.

Aliona Baranova: You’re listening to Michael Sheen’s audiobook and not my audiobook that just came out? How interesting…

Devora Wilde: Time to plug your audiobook, Aliona.

Aliona Baranova: My first audiobook came out a week and a half ago, its called The Last Wishlist from Jacqueline Sylvester, and I was cast for it as, like myself, I am from a Russian immigrant family without an accent, but all her family speak of an accent or speak to her in Russian, and for me to be a part of something that represented my life was amazing. The book is about loss, its also YA, so there’s some romance in there.

I know your question was about what we would like to voice next, but I loved voicing that audiobook because I never thought I’d be doing audiobooks and this one came along aswell as the one we have done now, but it was such a perfect fit that I had to do it.

Jane Perry: When I first started doing audiobooks, I for some reason, did exclusively Romance novels like the Mills and Boon thing and it never occurred to me to read a Mills and Boon and I kind of get why people love these books. Some if it gets a bit spicy and that’s when you get a bit embarrassed because the sound engineers recording it, so I have already covered that type of genre so don’t need to go back to romance novels. But really, anything because there is movement now of having multiple cast members and books. Audio books and podcasts have such a great trend now.

The second group I interviewed included Jo Martin, Nolan Kelly, Melissanthi Mahut, and Safiyya Ingar.

Q1) Were there any particular themes or personal experiences that shaped the story of your characters?

Safiyya Ingar: So, Printer House, which is a story that I play one of the leads in, Sashmita, um, it’s built around the idea of essentially like neo-colonialism and what happens when we allow the conglomerates to take over and hijack something as basic as housing which is what we are seeing happen in sways today, all over the world,  but especially in the west where i think people thought that they were better than that and they were protected from that when actually it’s everything that we’re seeing right now is people’s basic necessities are being robbed from them capitalized onto a point where it’s untouchable, unreachable. Someone from my generation can never even dream of buying a house. And that is such a horrible thing to think about. And with my character, it’s obviously the situations are slightly more desperate, but the reality is people are fighting every single day to even feed themselves and their families as they exist. Again, having children is an insane concept to someone like me right now. And it just sort of lent itself to that. It doesn’t feel like this far away third world thing. It’s happening right now and it’s tangible and it’s scary and it’s rough. And yeah, I wish I didn’t find so much in common with my character, but I really, really do.

Jo Martin, Nolan Kelly & Melissanthi Mahut all agreed and had nothing further to add to this question.

Q2: How to you imagine fans engaging differently with this story compared to watching it on screen or reading it?

Safiyya Ingar: I do audiobooks quite a bit, and I am part of the Doctor Who audio series as a companion, so I actually have like a really lovely loyal fan base of people who listen purely for my audio work and you know new people discovering my work which is always really lovely but yeah I just I’m right now I’m just trying to focus on the accessibility of this type of medium as well because that’s another thing that audio novels are they are accessible for people who maybe have suffered from literacy problems, or they have visibility problems or, you know, audio sensory problems. Like there’s a whole other untapped world out there of people who really actually, like, need this work to exist. And so it’s really exciting to know that we are also catering to people who can digest this work and understand how exciting and thrilling it can be because these stories are so epic.

Nolan Kelly: The threshold to entry has also never been lower, it used to be that all these devices were super expensive and now anyone can pick up a 15-year-old device off a scrapyard in theory. I have been to Kenya in South Africa and have seen what some people find in scrap heaps in terms of phones and its enough to play an audiobook.

It is very minimalist so we don’t need a strong computer to run it and you don’t need a log in or email address or anything to access these audio novels, you can just go there – type tivoice.art into your browser and start listening, so as a techy I try to keep the barrier as low as possible so that anyone can listen to it.  Something I’d like to encourage people is rip us off by all means in the sense of do similar projects like these I want to promote this because like getting talent of this calibre isn’t something that costs millions or anything or that all set you back like every time I bike around and I see people in massive cars driving by me i think anyone who can afford one of these cars can afford this project in its entirety and probably a lot more so please rather than burning it on a Porsche give it to more of these lovely people hopefully it’ll go the same way as podcasts.

I had the opportunity to interview Jennifer Hale on her own whilst waiting for my final group to finish in another interview, where I asked her the following:

 Q1) How did you prepare for voicing on your characters and making them feel real just through sound?

I was really thrilled that Alix asked me to be part of this project and one of my favourite things to do is jump into a project with a voice director who is deeply steeped in the piece and understands how to communicate with actors well and that was the absolute experience here. Alix was phenomenal and Tom’s piece is wonderful, and really for me, it’s all about the writing just jumping into good writing is a dream.

Q2) If you could voice any other type of story, such as thriller, romance, Sci-Fi etc, what would you pick and why?

I’m a sucker for Sci-Fi, because anything is possible in the Sci-Fi universe. You can be anything, you can do anything, you can bring in all kinds of stories and there’s a universality to it and a hope to it because it’s the future. We don’t know what’s coming so we can project out all kinds of fantastic things.

The final group I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing with were Alix Wilton Regan, Emma Gregory, and Ali Hillis.

Q1) What made you decide to do this particular audio novel?

Alix Wilton Regan: Nolan Kelly, who wrote the books, approached me through my voiceover agent, as we normally get approached in life and he gave me these stories to read. And after a few months of recording, I realised it was probably too much work for one woman to bite off alone. So I said, hey, Tom, what do you think about getting some other actresses in? And we first approached Jane Perry, who’s a friend of mine, and Jane said yes. And once that was established with Jane voicing one of the male roles, and we kind of put Jane’s voice in opposite mine, and it worked incredibly well. I actually think the next person we went to was Ali, because Ali’s a very good friend of mine. So I said, hey, babe, do you want to do a book for me? Please.

Ali Hillis: I said, yes, absolutely yes. Anything you ask, Alix. No hesitation.

Alix Wilton Regan: And then we went to Emma, because Emma also knows Jane through Bouldersgate, and then we expanded, and yeah, I’ve gotten to work with like the best of the best in the video game business, basically.

Q2) Were there any particular themes or personal experiences that shaped the story and characters?

Alix Wilton Regan: Emma got given a kind of titan of a character. I would say Emma’s voice very much lent itself to the character and the character lent itself to Emma’s voice.

Emma Gregory: Yeah. Well, it helped that Nolan was a big Bouldersgate 3 fan. And the character I play I have quite a  deep resonance, which I very much used in Bouldersgate 3. And because he was a fan of the game, he felt that that would be good for Legate Cassius, who I play in Pax Romana. So, who is a man, which is great. So I love that, and that made no odds to me. I was just happy to play the character. So, yeah, that’s how I became involved.

Alix Wilton Regan: And I think with Ali, we’ve got you voicing like an annoying computer-generated voice, house hospital thing.

Ali Hillis: Yes, I think so. Yeah, I believe it was very typecast.

Q3) Was there a particular scene or chapter that was especially fun, or challenging, to record?

Alix Wilton Regan: it was incredibly fun to put friends opposite each other. So we’ve got Jennifer Hale playing opposite Anjali Bimani and they’re also opposite Emma. And Emma and Jen are like the kind of titans of, you know, voiceover, and just hearing these two voices together in post, we were like, oh my God, they sound incredible. And then we’ve got some books where we’ve got Ali, myself, Courtney Taylor, all back together, and we’re the Mass Effect crew.

Q4) If you could voice another type of story, such as a thriller, romance, sci -fi or comedy as examples, what would you pick next and why?

Ali Hillis: Ooh, I’d go for comedy. I could use a little light-heartedness in this world. Although I did love how Nolan included a lot of levity in his stories and a lot of comedy and some very heartfelt things that made me happy that it wasn’t all drama and there’s comedy to it.

Alix Wilton Regan: There are some really funny bits, maybe not in Pax Romana so much which is mainly your stuff, Emma.

Emma Gregory: Well, I do so many audiobooks anyway that I get to do all of those sorts of things all the time. But in games, I would like to do horror.  I would really like to do the sort of Sam Lake, Alan Wake kind of thing. That’s what I’m really like to do. Horror in games, I think, works exceptionally well, I mean like spooky horror  not slash horror.

Alix Wilton Regan: I tell you what I’d like to do. I would ike to be a Doctor Who just because we’ve got Jo Martin in the projects and I think that’s a bit cool. It’s a bit cool to be Doctor Who over here. Do you know what I mean? I think being a Doctor Who would be quite cool. That would kind of rock.

END OF INTERVIEW

Upon interviewing everyone involved in TIVA, I enjoyed this press experience very much, and I enjoyed meeting everyone involved, including the co-founders Nolan Kelly and Alix Regan Wilton.