Born to Teachers and Amateur Audio Enthusiasts in the small rural community of Belwood, Jack's first love was stories- writing, reading, telling, and singing. He developed his acting skills through High School, University, and through film and community theatre.
Jack writes the lion's share of Sonic Cinema Production's (previously Electric Vicuna) Audio Drama scripts and has his own writing site at www.jackjward.com. Jack also is the middle of book writing, screenplay production, and is the CEO of the Mutual Audio Network- where he and the best people in the world Listen & Imagine, Together!.
He's thrilled to co-host the Sonic Society with his wonderful, talented, friend David Ault as they enter their second decade in the medium!
Christmas has its Claus. Halloween has its own incredible iconic figures. One of the most important of course is the eternal Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Hamilton-Gibson Productions brings their own Dracula adaptation for the audio drama. Get your tickets while you can and enjoy the frights!
Sibby Wieland, from Sound Stages Radio has been a long time advocate and champion of the amazing medium we all know and love- audio drama. Her seminal works along with those of Pete Lutz from Pulp-Pourri Theatre, Richard “Captain Radio” Summers, and our own efforts here at the Sonic Society have pressed to provide World Audio Drama Day on the 30th of October in fond remembrance of an age of panic during the initial broadcast of Orson Welles’ adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds.
In this article with Radio World the focus seems to be audio drama trying to reinvent itself. Is that really the case? Or hasn’t that happened over a decade ago now?
The phenomenal 40th anniversary love letter to War of the Worlds is written and produced by the brilliantly inventive Steve Bellinger and our feature tonight after its 1978 premiere on American Public Radio. With thanks to Captain Radio, Jack and David present this classic on the week of World Audio Drama Day. May we all live love and listen faithfully
Debuting on October 29th, just in time for Halloween, Petaluma Radio Players resurrect the iconic Shadow in a live performance of the old time radio series in a Petaluma barn. Go grab your tickets for the back to back performances of “Flames of Death” and “Death in the Tomb” by going to the Petaluma 360.
Little John (Peter Greenall) tells the backstory of Robin Hood and his merry men in this fantastic BBC Radio drama. As the Daily Post says:
Peter, inspired to become an actor thanks to his mother, Mary, who taught English and ran the drama group at Prestatyn High School, said: “For me, Little John was largely a victim of circumstance. A man who was an outlaw because he was honourable, yet living in a time and way of life where the law forced people to prop up an immoral establishment through crippling taxes, often to the detriment of their families.
So, listen to the original score by Samuel Pegg, strap on your best longbow, don your forest green and your merry laugh and join Mr. Greenall in the adventure!
Jack and David showcases an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s 2BR02B from Pulp-Pourri Theatre and The Adventures of Jack Nimble from Matt Leong!
The Macaulay Library at Cornell University, home of the world’s largest and oldest collection of nature recordings, just uploaded the whole, totally searchable, archive online for free. 9,000 species from across the world are documented in 150,000 audio recordings, totaling 10 terabytes and a run time of 7,513 hours.
The library has been building its holdings since 1929, amassing recordings from 75% of the world’s bird species (it operates within the Cornell Lab of Ornithology after all) and a growing collection of insect, fish, frog, and mammal recordings as well. It took the archivists a dozen years to digitize the whole kit and caboodle.
This represents just a small fraction of the estimated 8.7 million species living on earth, and still, it’s far and away the best catalogue detailing what life on earth sounds like.
So get downloading some of the best sounds for your next great African adventure in audio drama!
BBC4 is providing some unique opportunities to listen to plays this month. Check out the article at newsonnews:
BBC Radio 4 has announced that one of the plays would be the broadcast premiere of Arthur Miller’s unproduced screenplay The Hook. It has also announced that the series will also feature world premieres of Heart Of Darkness by Orson Welles, and The Blind Man by Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman – all sitting in the station’s drama slot on Saturday afternoon at 2.30pm across three weekends in October.
Jeremy Howe, Drama Commissioner for BBC Radio 4, says: “To discover an unmade screenplay of the calibre of any of these is a find in itself, but to unearth three is little short of a miracle. I hope our audience will agree that being offered these three masterpieces on consecutive Saturdays is a massive treat. Get yourself a long drink, a bucket of popcorn, and sit back and enjoy the cream of Hollywood in its heyday – three brand spanking new stories from Arthur Miller, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles.”
“Creative Writing is a vibrant subject area at The Open University, with courses from beginner and undergraduate, to MA and PhD level. We are thrilled to collaborate with BBC World Service in this important and unique competition, encouraging and supporting talent internationally.”
So says Doctor Derek Neale of The Open University Faculty of Arts in consideration of the call for scripts from the incredible BBC World Service and the British Council. The 25th global annual contest that is looking for two winners- one with English language as a first and another with English language as a second will take submissions for 53 minute plays until January 31st, 2016.
The International Playwriting Competition which has included entries from 83 countries in the past, looks forward to scripts from anyone outside the UK, whether established or new writers.
Look for all the details in The Eagle Online article.
Tom Meadows waxes absolute poetry in describing his love for the audio adventures of Hunt the Truth in his article at moviepilot.com.
Listening to HUNT the TRUTH provoked nostalgia in me, bringing back those memories of The Shadow. In some way, it felt as though I was a child again. Radio Dramas and Audio Series are more effective and popular than most people today would think. At times, if executed perfectly, can be just as much if not more entertaining than movies. I say that because unlike movies where it is unfolding before your eyes, Audio alone leaves visualization to you and you alone allowing your imagination to be mesmerized by the drama you’re hearing.
And I can honestly say, HUNT the TRUTH more than exceeded in delivering us a dramatic and thrilling tale about the Halo universe as we know it.
Are you sold? Time to go hunt for your own truth with Episode 0.
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