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!
Sonic Society alumni, Jay Sykes who brought us the awesome Seaburn, has just won the gold for Best Student Radio Drama at the New York Festival’s International Radio Program Awards for The World’s Best Radio Programs. Wow! Congratulations Jay, from all of us here at the Sonic Society, you entranced us with your entry, it’s only fair that you seduce the rest of the world with your work. All the best to the future, and send us more shows!
Want to really chip away the icy resistance you get when you talk about your love of Audio Drama? Feeling snowed under when you try to get a radio station interested in putting on your favourite audio series? Well, maybe it’s time to go north!
According to this Radio World article by James Careless, Radio is Essential in the Canadian Arctic. Careless details the real challenges of those who live in the Arctic Circle. Isolation and limited entertainment might just be a playground for a new segment and generation of audio drama enthusiasts. So strap on those snow shoes or mukluks and get mushing your way to a new audience!
It’s been a slow ride through the RSS feeds and the gentle eddies of subscription space, but as we wind down our tenth season of the Sonic Society and a pretty busy one with three shows a week (Sonic Echo, Sonic Speaks and of course the Sonic Society) it’s important to see how far we’ve gone and where we’re actually going to be.
Witness in case of point, the article in the New York Times by Farhad Manjoo entitled Podcasting Blossoms, but in Slow Motion. Podcasting is very much like gardening. You have to constantly tend to your feed, weed out the flubs in your recordings, and let the listenership bloom. Manjoo says that after ten years the growth is still slow, but it is continually growing. We’ll get there, together.
Jack catches up with David for the penultimate battle against the Videk. But first let’s fly with the conclusion of Brad Lansky and the Rogue Era from Dieter Zimmerman!
More fantastic zombie news! The dead walk again! Or at least, the unliving monsters from KC Wayland’s zombie epic We’re Alive. Wayland’s back, and in this article with Army Times describes what he’s already revealed to Sonic Speak listeners last month that his new parallel tale from the post apocalyptic nightmare- Lockdown will be coming to a podcatcher near you!
Support KC Wayland and the We’re Alive Podcast at its Kickstarter campaign where YOUR donation may be just what is needed to finish this fantastic new voyage into terror.
From the amazing studio that brought you Powder River, The Martian Chronicles, Captain Blood and other thrilling tales- now adapted from the pure zombie nightmare comic- Dead Ahead! Written by Mel Smith and adapted for radio by Jack J. Ward, this terror-filled blood bath will keep you away from the water, and safely aboard while the moans from the unliving remain.. Dead Ahead. Listen to this trailer and look for the summer release from Colonial Radio Theatre in August!
Radio Drama OTR and new skits will be performed live tonight! The Floyd Town Jubilee is in Floyd!
“The Town of Floyd presents The Floyd Town Jubilee featuring the popular Floyd Radio Show tonight (June 20) at 7:00 p.m. in the Warren G. Lineberry Community Park.
The Floyd Radio Show with hosts Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle is an old-timey variety show with original radio plays, comedy bits, ads, jingles, music and more. The show will feature special musical guests: Minton Sparks with John Jackson, The New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters and Town Mountain.”
Mark Bruzee returns with the conclusion of “Please Come with Me” a Darker Projects and LEAP Audio joint collaboration as the two Davids in the clutches of the Videk try to save all of Audiospace!
Conor Malone is one of the latest recipients of the PJ O’Connor Awards. If the name of the awards sounds familiar, O’Connor was the late head of RTE Drama and represents the latest in best new Irish writing for Audio Drama. Malone, who manages the Balor Arts Centre in Ballybofey, won third place for his forty minute play entitled “The Fund”. Inishowen News has all the details here.
What keeps Jerry Robbins going? The very thought of being able to sustain a powerful series, let alone a fun action-oriented, grounded in history western such as Powder River for eleven seasons is mind blowing to us at the Sonic Society. But, we’re grateful he does and like many other fans, never want it to stop!
Here’s the latest wrap up news from the CRT Blog:
This week was a milestone for our POWDER RIVER series, as it wrapped production on its 11th season, and recorded it’s 150th episode! Not bad for a show that was a summer replacement program for THE NEW DIBBLE SHOW with a 15 episode run. However once it went on the air the listeners wanted to hear more, thanks in part to the three episode arc that concluded the first season, and several month later we were back recording RETURN TO POWDER RIVER – planning on ending after our 15th episode. But, that didn’t work out either, and here we are 11 years later still in production.
In celebration of our 150th episode, CRT would like to thank the cast and crew who have brought this show to life over the years.
Keep an eye open and your powder dry for the next release from Colonial Radio Theatre!
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