Blake Pfeil is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist. His current project is All-American Ruins, a multimedia travelog in which Blake fantastically recounts his experiences exploring abandoned spaces through multimodal storytelling. The project has been featured at On Air Fest, UK International Radio Drama Festival, Croatia Radiotelevision’s 27th Prix Marulic, North Carolina Museum of History, History Colorado, ArchFilm Lund, Eugene Environmental Film Festival, Peekskill Film Festival, International Media Festival of Wales, North Star Story Summit, SONOHR Radio & Podcast Festival, as well as New Jersey, Sydney, Melbourne, and New Zealand Web Fests. All-American Ruins has been spotlighted in Business Insider, People, Atlas Obscura, Colorado Magazine, with accolades from the 2024 Signal Awards (Best Experimental Podcast, Best Indie Podcast, Best Writing of an Individual Episode winner), 2024 Ambies (Best Indie Podcast nominee), Press Gazette Future of Media Awards (Regional Podcast of the Year nominee), Parapod Podcast Awards (Best History Podcast winner), and PopCon Podcast Awards (Best History Podcast winner).
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 collaborated on theatre and music 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. On Wednesday evenings, Blake hosts The Pfeil File, an intergenerational community dialogue program on Radio Kingston/WKNY (107.9 FM/1490 AM in the Hudson Valley, NY), and he recently worked as a guest producer for season 5 of History Colorado's Lost Highways, a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Blake is a Disctopia TruePlay Innovative Podcaster Award Finalist.