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, Garden State Film Festival’s Cinema for the Ears, International Media Festival of Wales, North Star Story Summit, SONOHR Radio & Podcast Festival, as well as New Jersey, Sydney, Cusco, Melbourne, and New Zealand Web Fests. All-American Ruins has been spotlighted in Business Insider, People, Atlas Obscura, Colorado Magazine, and Apple Podcasts, 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). 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.