Blake 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, and a Disctopia TruePlay Innovative Podcaster Award Finalist.