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!
We return to Mutual Presents! This week we’re back with “The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen” and more classic old time radio from the Mutual Broadcasting System with the double feature of adventure with “The Fat Trader and the Sword of Apokaezhan” and “The Tattooed Beaver and Baby Food for Pare Pare”.
This week Jack and David feature Darkest Night, a binaural audio drama that places you, the listener, at the center of a recovered memory that sounds as though it’s happening around you in real time. Each chapter delves into the last memories of the recently deceased, slowly revealing a horrifying master plan. Who is weaving this master conspiracy, and what is their ultimate goal? It’s Audio Drama time!
From the far-flung silver age of science fiction, comes a new anthology by Sonic Cinema Productions. Retro Rockets fires off with “Spirit Drive”. A space ranger take the final report of a scientist on the death of his colleague on a far-distant moon. But, was it an accident?
Starring Joe Stofko, Tom Konkle, Jeffrey Billard and Lothar Tuppan, with production and editing by John Bell. Written by Jack J. Ward
This week Jack and David bring “S-Town” a podcast hosted by Brian Reed from Serial Productions, a New York Times company. The story follows a man named John who despises his Alabama town and decides to do something about it. He asks Brian to investigate the son of a wealthy family who’s allegedly been bragging that he got away with murder. But when someone else ends up dead, the search for the truth leads to a nasty feud, a hunt for hidden treasure, and an unearthing of the mysteries of one man’s life. This week we feature chapter 1. It’s Audio Drama Time!
This week the incredible “Two Dead Girls in Jubeliene” is a new audio drama brought to us by Ethan Wellin. Myra has spent a lifetime running from her past. But when her estranged father dies in a grisly “accident,” she comes home to take up his secret obsession: the hunt for her baby sister’s cold case killer.
“TDGIJ” is a serialized fiction audio drama, available free on all podcast platforms. New episodes drop every Tuesday. For transcripts, content warnings, and additional information, please find them on Instagram. @2deadgirlspod. It’s Audio Drama time!
It’s well into March and Jack is feeling the sentimentality of Spring. Time to look backwards before we spring forwards to Sonic Summerstock 2023. This week we bring a double-feature of fun recreations. First a very faithful one from No Soap Radio with “No One Remembers Jack’s Birthday” with thanks to Paul Kovit, and secondly we slip forward to Mindstream Players “The Reasonably Amazing Adventures of Flash Gordon- Episode 5” from the endlessly talented Tom Konkle!
Welcome back as Jack and David present another phenomenal feature from the fertile imaginations of John Barber, Marc Rose and Reimagined Radio with “A Mighty Span”. Re-Imagined Radio explores early examples of dramatized news events and uses this inspiration to create its own dramatization of the opening of the Interstate Bridge linking Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, across the Columbia River, 106 years ago, February 14, 1917. It’s Audio Drama Time!
We’re back with the latest from the Leviathan Chronicles. Lisette and Cluracan arrive in Paris! The young pair move into a borrowed maisonette in the 9th arrondissement to launch their fledgling cybersecurity firm. Together, with his computer skills and her abilities as a trained cat burglar, they are excited to start a new, and hopefully profitable, venture on their own terms.
Aftershock is a fast-paced thriller about a massive earthquake that destroys the West Coast, causing a mysterious island to rise up from the Pacific – with Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead), David Harbour (Stranger Things), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead), and Tati Gabrielle (The 100). This week our immense double-feature is Chapter 1: “This has nothing to do with McKayla?” and Chapter 2: “I think we have a live one.” It’s Audio Drama time!
Join Jack, Jeff and Lothar as they welcome in Sharon Grunwald and have a great time listening to and discussing the classic OTR series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, The Plantagenet Matter.
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