Did you enjoy the immersive sonic theatre of
All-American Ruins?
During your down time at Newburgh Fringe Festival, join host Blake Pfeil as he takes you on more spooky, fantastical audio adventures to explore other abandoned spaces in New York.
Scroll down to listen. Just don't forget your headphones. 👻
season 3: an abandoned drapery shop in Niagara Falls
Niagara County
season 2: an abandoned cosmetics factory in Port Jervis
Orange County
season 1: an abandoned drive-in movie theater house in Kingston
Ulster County
Does the Delmar Inn and Day Camp from "Busted"
look anything like you imagined?
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About the ShowInspired by the award-winning podcast abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast from Ambie winner Blake Pfeil, this immersive audio theater experience at the 2025 Newburgh Fringe Festival unfolds inside a revitalized shipping container. Wearing noise-cancelling headphones and seated in total darkness, Blake guides the audience through an intimate sound voyage that transports them to an abandoned children’s camp nestled deep in the heart of the Catskill Mountains.
What begins as a sonic adventure through faded and forgotten architecture transforms into a dreamlike meditation on American history, democracy, and faith. As the lines between reality and imagination blur, All-American Ruins invites you to linger in the stillness of what’s been left behind—and to discover how the simple act of listening to the ruins of our past, present, and future can become an act of rebellion, connection, and healing. Following every performance of All-American Ruins: Busted, audience members receive access to an exclusive “on-the-go” audio theater playlist featuring additional fantastical sonic journeys through America’s ruins—designed to accompany them from the comfort of their own smartphones as they wander between other performances at the Newburgh Fringe Festival. |
About Your GuideBlake Pfeil is an Ambie Award-winning multidisciplinary artist.
His latest body of work, All-American Ruins, has been the recipient of numerous awards for its genre-bending, multimodal storytelling, including recent UK Press Gazette Future of Media Awards nominations for Podcast of the Year (Regional) two years in a row. The project has won dozens of awards and been featured in 11 countries and 17 states, most notably On Air Fest, SONOHR Radio & Podcast Festival, Medium Day, Berliner Hörspielfestival, Capital City Film Festival, ArchFilm Lund, 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. In 2025, the podcast arm of the project abandoned hit no. 1 on Apple Podcasts’ Places & Travel charts. Outside All-American Ruins, Blake most recently served as a guest producer for season 5 of History Colorado's Lost Highways while also working his "day job" as the Operations & Programs Manager at TMI Project and "night job" as co-host of Cinema Kingston! on Radio Kingston/WKNY. Blake is an alumni of SUNY Stony Brook's Audio Podcast Fellowship, a SWF Michael Ajakwe Innovation Award Winner, a Disctopia TruePlay Innovative Podcaster Award Finalist, and 2025 Green Box Resident Artist. |
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