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 a variety of festivals and events, most notably On Air Fest, SONOHR Radio & Podcast Festival, Capital City Film Festival, ArchFilm Lund, Eugene Environmental Film Festival, Garden State Film Festival, North Carolina Museum of History, History Colorado, and Melbourne WebFest where it was named Best Nonfiction Podcast. All-American Ruins has been spotlighted in Business Insider, People, Atlas Obscura, Colorado Magazine, and Apple Podcasts, with accolades from, the Ambies (2025 Best DIY Podcast winner, 2024 Best Indie Podcast nominee), Press Gazette Future of Media Awards (Regional Podcast of the Year nominee), 2024 Signal Awards (including Best Experimental Podcast winner), Parapod Podcast Awards (Best History Podcast winner), and PopCon Podcast Awards (Best History Podcast winner). 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 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 is a Disctopia TruePlay Innovative Podcaster Award Finalist and 2025 Green Box Resident 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 a variety of festivals and events, most notably On Air Fest, SONOHR Radio & Podcast Festival, Capital City Film Festival, ArchFilm Lund, Eugene Environmental Film Festival, Garden State Film Festival, North Carolina Museum of History, History Colorado, and Melbourne WebFest where it was named Best Nonfiction Podcast. All-American Ruins has been spotlighted in Business Insider, People, Atlas Obscura, Colorado Magazine, and Apple Podcasts, with accolades from, the Ambies (2025 Best DIY Podcast winner, 2024 Best Indie Podcast nominee), Press Gazette Future of Media Awards (Regional Podcast of the Year nominee), 2024 Signal Awards (including Best Experimental Podcast winner), Parapod Podcast Awards (Best History Podcast winner), and PopCon Podcast Awards (Best History Podcast winner). 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 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 is a 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