Blake Pfeil is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist. His current passion project is All-American Ruins, a multimedia travelogue in which he recounts his experiences exploring abandoned spaces all over the United States through fantastical multimodal storytelling. The podcast arm of the project, 'abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast,' was an Official Select at On Air Fest 2023, winner of the Top of the Rockies – Best of Podcasts (2023) and Best History Podcast at PopCon Podcast Awards (2024), and recently nominated for Best Indie Podcast at the Ambies (2024). All-American Ruins was also shortlisted for the Elevate Creatives Fund, the UK International Radio Drama Festival, and Hrvatska Radiotelevizija's 27th Prix Marulic.
Prior to his work with All-American Ruins, Blake co-founded Macabre Americana, wrote and performed the solo folk music piece The BBC: 1970, and worked as theatre and music maker in performance projects worldwide, with stints in The Netherlands, Mexico, South Korea, as well as professional stage credits at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Huntington Theatre Company, New Rep, Company One, and more.
During the week, he steps into the role of Operations & Programs Manager at the nonprofit storytelling organization TMI Project, where he also serves as a producer for The TMI Project Story Hour, winner of an International Women's Podcast Award. Additionally, he hosts the Wednesday evening intergenerational community dialogue program "The Pfeil File" on Radio Kingston/WKNY (107.9 FM/1490 AM in the Hudson Valley, NY). Blake also worked as a guest producer for season 5 of History Colorado's Lost Highways, a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
* Alumni, SUNY Stony Brook's Audio Podcast Fellowship
* MA, Purchase College
* BFA, Emerson College
* Member, Actor's Equity + BMI
Prior to his work with All-American Ruins, Blake co-founded Macabre Americana, wrote and performed the solo folk music piece The BBC: 1970, and worked as theatre and music maker in performance projects worldwide, with stints in The Netherlands, Mexico, South Korea, as well as professional stage credits at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Huntington Theatre Company, New Rep, Company One, and more.
During the week, he steps into the role of Operations & Programs Manager at the nonprofit storytelling organization TMI Project, where he also serves as a producer for The TMI Project Story Hour, winner of an International Women's Podcast Award. Additionally, he hosts the Wednesday evening intergenerational community dialogue program "The Pfeil File" on Radio Kingston/WKNY (107.9 FM/1490 AM in the Hudson Valley, NY). Blake also worked as a guest producer for season 5 of History Colorado's Lost Highways, a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
* Alumni, SUNY Stony Brook's Audio Podcast Fellowship
* MA, Purchase College
* BFA, Emerson College
* Member, Actor's Equity + BMI
