Blake Pfeil is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist.
His current project is All-American Ruins, a fantastical multimedia travelog in which Blake recounts his experiences exploring abandoned spaces through multimodal storytelling. The project has won dozens of awards and been featured in 12 countries and 17 states, most notably On Air Fest, SONOHR Radio & Podcast Festival, Berliner Hörspielfestival, Capital City Film Festival, ArchFilm Lund, Eugene Environmental Film Festival, Garden State Film Festival, Newburgh Fringe Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Oscar Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, and CineHealth International Film & Media Festival where it was awarded Best Podcast. All-American Ruins has been spotlighted in Business Insider, Forbes, People, Atlas Obscura, Colorado Magazine, and Noovie, among others, with highlight accolades from the Ambies, Signal Awards, NYC Podcast Awards, Press Gazette Future of Media Awards, and the American Writing Awards where it was named the Grand Prize Winner as Podcast of the Year. In 2025, the podcast arm of the project, abandoned, reached no. 1 on the Apple Podcasts Travel and Places charts.
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 two-time Ambie nominee The TMI Project Story Hour, winner of an International Women's Podcast Award. On Wednesday evenings, Blake co-hosts Cinema Kingston! 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 has also served as a speaker at SNF Nostos, Medium Day, Podcast Movement Evolutions, NC Museum of History, among many others. He is a SWF Michael Ajakwe Innovation Award Winner, Disctopia TruePlay Innovative Podcaster Award Finalist, and 2025 Green Box Resident Artist.
His current project is All-American Ruins, a fantastical multimedia travelog in which Blake recounts his experiences exploring abandoned spaces through multimodal storytelling. The project has won dozens of awards and been featured in 12 countries and 17 states, most notably On Air Fest, SONOHR Radio & Podcast Festival, Berliner Hörspielfestival, Capital City Film Festival, ArchFilm Lund, Eugene Environmental Film Festival, Garden State Film Festival, Newburgh Fringe Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Oscar Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, and CineHealth International Film & Media Festival where it was awarded Best Podcast. All-American Ruins has been spotlighted in Business Insider, Forbes, People, Atlas Obscura, Colorado Magazine, and Noovie, among others, with highlight accolades from the Ambies, Signal Awards, NYC Podcast Awards, Press Gazette Future of Media Awards, and the American Writing Awards where it was named the Grand Prize Winner as Podcast of the Year. In 2025, the podcast arm of the project, abandoned, reached no. 1 on the Apple Podcasts Travel and Places charts.
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 two-time Ambie nominee The TMI Project Story Hour, winner of an International Women's Podcast Award. On Wednesday evenings, Blake co-hosts Cinema Kingston! 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 has also served as a speaker at SNF Nostos, Medium Day, Podcast Movement Evolutions, NC Museum of History, among many others. He is a SWF Michael Ajakwe Innovation Award Winner, Disctopia TruePlay Innovative Podcaster Award Finalist, and 2025 Green Box Resident Artist.
- Alumni, SUNY Stony Brook's Audio Podcast Fellowship
- MA, Purchase College
- BFA, Emerson College
- Member, Actor's Equity + BMI