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Who is Jack Ward in the Audio Drama World Anyway?

| February 2, 2019

Today is my birthday. Birthdays have a unique power- like Christmas and New Year celebrations- to force us to look back through our lives and consider some goals, high points, low points, lessons learned, lessons still to be learned and, if we turn around, the horizons yet ahead of us. Seventeen years ago, my friend […]

SyFi’s Uncharted Regions Gets A Familiar Face

| August 21, 2018

SyFy is getting into the Audio Drama game with Uncharted Regions and bringing in some familiar faces- John Billingsley from Star Trek- Enterprise joins the cast for an upcoming episode. Billingsley speaks with great reverence in this article from SyFi about his love of listening to audio drama growing up. His favourite was Bradbury-13 and […]

Good Acting from Bad

| December 26, 2016

I’ve been telling many actors that audio acting is pretty unique. Unless you’re acting for comic effect, you’re not playing large like you would on the stage. I remember Grace Lee Whitney talking about her cameo on Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. She explained how Leonard Nimoy was describing to her what was happening […]

Happy Birthday Bill!

| March 22, 2016

Whether its taking a flight in the Twilight Zone, radio drama’s The Zero Hour, through the acrobatic fight scenes of TJ Hooker, up the elevator to the roof in Boston Legal, or through the skies as the Big Giant Head, or in the many incredible roles, not least of which as Captain James Tiberius Kirk […]

The Man Behind the Ears

| March 26, 2009

The uber-talented Leonard Nimoy celebrated his birthday March 26th, and with the upcoming Star Trek movie, it’s important to look back at this giant of a man. Mr. Nimoy can do it all- Act, Write, Direct, and shoot amazing photos. I’ve hadone of his books of poetry for years. As intellectually curious as his alter […]