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Jack J. Ward, Bibliography

Re-Imagined Radio presents MORE information about Jack J. Ward, specifically his bibliography. Ward lives near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. His prolific output—he likes to call it "audio drama"—as an award-winning author, director, and producer of fantasy, comedy, horror, drama, classic suspense, and dramaturge of experimental theatre is extensive. And has been for decades. Many examples of Jack's work in audio drama are available on YouTube and other podcast platforms.

The Sonic Society

Jack Ward created The Sonic Society in September 2005, as a weekly podcast of new audio dramas. Ward has co-hosted The Sonic Society, with David Ault, since 2005, making it the longest running showcase of contemporary international audio dramas.

Ward's many, many other contributions to The Sonic Society include . . .
Sonic Speaks
Ward interviews the makers and shapers of the audio drama world.

Sonic Summerstock Playhouse
The summer season of The Sonic Society where producers from the modern audio drama community recreate old time radio scripts for fun with their contemporary acting troops!

Sonic Retrospectives

A tribute summer series for those who have left the modern audio drama community too soon Bill Hollweg
Mark Bruzee

Created and maintains The Sonic Society website.

READ Ward's autobiography at The Sonic Society webpage.

A frequent host of The Sonic Society

Also hosts Sonic Echo, a look back into classic radio drama with Lothar Tuppan and Jeffrey Billard.

Interviews innovators of radio drama in the show Sonic Speaks.

Ward took the famous NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) challenge of writing a 50,000 word manuscript during the month of November and has declared February National Audio Drama Writing Month (NADSWRIM)). Ward has created and continues to run the world's only fully Audio Drama yearly convention, MADCON, and works to provide the panel members to an audience of listeners and artists eager to learn the medium.

The Mutual Audio Drama Network

Ward founded The Mutual Audio Drama Network, in 2019, to expand the mission of The Sonic Society. As the CEO, Ward works with other audio drama writers/producers like Lothar Tuppan (The Ninth Tower Productions), Jeffrey Billard (Audio Groove Cats), John Bell (Bell's in the Batfry), Pete Lutz (Narada Radio Company), JV Torres (The Rise of King Asilas), Scott Mosher (CNY Table Reads), David Ault (Audio Drama's 6 degrees premium actor and co-host of the Sonic Society), Richard Frohlich (Texas Radio Theater), Tanja Milojevic (Lightningbolt Theatre of the Mind), and Richard Summers (Captain Radio).

The Mutual Audio Drama Network operates as the world's largest curated collection of active audio drama, audio fiction, and nerd culture podcasts, with more than 7,000 titles in its holdings. The group of founders work together—many host over a dozen podcasts on Mutual—and call themselves "The United Artists of Audio."

Ward personally programmed the entire Mutual Audio Network catalogue of plays and audio fiction for the last five years culminating in over 6,000 shows. Ward created the Audio Drama Ratings system using the movie rating system as a template.

Ward created and maintains The Mutual Audio Drama Network website.

Other Samples from Ward's Bibliography

The Sonic Cinema Production Classic Series, 2003-2005
Shadowlands Theatre
Ward's first original anthology series, combining suspense and dark fantasy. Shadowlands became the basis for the Deadly Sins Series and others.

The Seven Deadly Sins
A seven-part series of original tales from dark comedy to darker horror, exploring the turning parts of the soul. Six parts completed: "Pride: And Low, Thou I Walk," "Envy: Completion," Gluttony: Soul Survivor" (Ogile Award Honorable Mention), "Lust: Spin, Spin, Spin," "Wrath: The Hitchhiker," and "Greed: Ghosts of the Present." Listen to "Greed: Ghosts of the Present."

Graves' Shift
The noir tales of a female detective. Phillipa Graves stars. "Open for Business," the series pilot, was the first audio drama script written by Ward, when he was in University.

Spaceways
In the pilot episode, Ward's imaginary pulp hero Stephen "Biff" Straker parodies Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon as he takes part in a secret experiment to prove Albert Einstein's Theory of Relative Time. The experiment goes wrong and Straker is thrown from the 1990s into the 31st Century!

"Remotely Possible"
A single Shadowlands episode exploring remote viewing and the depths of fear.

Hill Manors
With the tagline "More Action than a Burma Railroad," this was a live tribute to the great Fawlty Towers series by John Cleese and Connie Booth.

Firefly: Old Wounds
The Internet's first fan fiction audio drama of the science-fiction television classic, Firefly. Ward and colleagues imagined the second season of the television show that never was. "Nothing's the Best Thing" (episode 1), "All Alone in the Black" (episode 2), "The Hub" (episode 3), "Religiosity" (epiode 4), "Faith" (episode 5), "Mail Job" (episode 6). More information and listening opportunties for all episodes at the Serenity Firefly website.

The Dead Line Anthology
Tales of crime drama inspired by Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The initial run included: "Goth Girl," "Jeremiah Crandal, Funeral Detective," "Messages," "Right Number Wrong Party," "The Replacement Show," and "Rule of Three."

The Dead Line Shorts Anthology
Short (less than a half hour) stories. Initial episodes included: "Anniversary," "Choice," "Deathbed Confessions," "Duel," "Fiend to the Old," "John," "Lighter," and "Night Driving and Sherry.

Electric Vicuna Productions, 2006-2021

Firefly: Old Wounds
The series continued with "Wedding Day Part 1," "Wedding Day Part 2," and "Wedding Day Omnibus." Listen to "Wedding Day, Part 1," below. Also available here at Libsyn. More information and listening opportunties for all episosdes at the Serenity Firefly website.

The Wave Front Anthology
"I've always loved speculative fiction," Ward says. "The ideas and questions that the world of possible futures presents humanity. In that regard, I grew up listening to, and have remained a long-time fan of, old time radio science fiction classics such as Dimension-X, X-Minus One, 2000 Plus, Exploring Tomorrow, and so many more. As homage I created a modern science fiction anthology, The Wavefront Anthology."

The Wave Front Anthology explores futuristic societies, distopic nightmares, technological travesties, and bleak tomorrows. Initial episodes included: "Borrowed Time," "Black Knight," "Alone in the Night" (Mark Time Silver award winner), and "Voting is Anonymous."

The Wave Front Shorts Anthology
Short (less than a half hour) stories. Initial episodes included: "Acquisitions," "Alien Invasion Cancelled," "Distant Voice," "Galaxy Master versus the Varn," "Name Please," "Nanites," "Pets," "Reservations," "Spring," "Trans-Humanity," and "Voices."

The Dead Line Anthology
Series continued. Episodes included: "Faith" also as the final Deadly Sins script for "Sloth," "Daybreak," "Coach #6," "Clay Pigeon Shooting."

The Dead Line Shorts Anthology
Series continued. Episodes included: "I'm Home."

Darker Musings Anthology Series
An anthology series of fantastical mystery and terror. Inspired by Rod Serling's Twilight Zone, each episode included an air of fantastical mystery, terror, another world that may be an alternate universe, or a terrifying nightmare, one in which the characters can not wake up. Initial episodes included: "Breathing Space" (one-man show), "Muse of Madness," "One by One," and "Phil Morris: Celestial Lawyer."

The Darker Musings Shorts Anthology
Short (less than a half hour) stories. Initial episodes included original and original adaptations of "Barney," "Bravery," "Plague Studies," "The Chaser," "The Monkey's Paw," and "Tulpa."

Gate
A coming of age fantasy series in ten parts. Gate McNeil, a young girl, discovers she is the one person who can challenge the darkness and demons threatening to take over the world.

The Jack and Shannon Show
In an homage to great sit-coms of old, two hosts of The Sonic Society fictionalize their life and friends. Ran for three seasons.

Spaceways
The amazing adventures of Stephen "Biff" Straker continue. No longer a parody of Buck Rogers and Flash Gorden, this reboot is a fun action series. Initial episodes included: "Year Zero: The Future is Now," "The Haunted World," "The Fallen Angel," The Pool of Death," and "The Man Called Methuselah" (still in production). Listen at the Google podcast page.

Consortium Comics Anthology
A series of superhero shorts by Jack J. Ward. Initial episodes included: "Blue Defender" and "Any Man" (still in production).

Action Adventure Audio Theatre
Pulp-pounding adventures inspired by the Old Time Radio series Escape. Initial episode: "The Most Dangerous Game" in production.

The Sonic Cinema Productions Returns Series: 2022-present

Retro Rockets Anthology
According to Ward, "In 2024 I wanted to write and produce science fiction audio stories that returned to those exciting years of pulp magazines and the novels of Ray Bradbury, Alfred Bester, Theodore Sturgeon, Fritz Leiver, Clifford D. Simak, John Wyndham, and others. So I created Retro Rockets Anthology, 1950's radio science fiction from a modern day perspective. Stories that focus on the excitement of space exploration and the dangers of reaching beyond our grasp as a species."

From the Golden Age of Science Fiction to the undiscovered worlds of the future ... through time and space ... The Mutual Audio Network brings you the original stories of parallel planets and alien adventures ... regular episodes of the Retro Rockets Anthology podcast produced by Ward's production company, Sonic Cinema Productions.

The Wave Front Anthology
The series continues with "Market Crash" (still in production).

The Christmas Wreath
Seasonal stories to touch the heart and delight the ear. Initial release: "The Gift of the Magi" is in production.

Series Currently in Production (Unreleased)
Spaceways
Starring Stephen "Biff" Straker (New World). Episodes 6-10 of Year Zero. More seasons to follow.

Prairie Fire
A Weird Western 10-part audio drama series.

Flight of the Airmen
At the turn of the 20th century who are the protectors of the skies for this strange modern age? The Airmen of Canada!

Wingman
Ripped from the archives of the fictional radio theatre of the 1930's. Wingman and Fly Boy save the world from Nazi infiltrators and evil criminals in America!

Adventures by North!
In the early 1920's in Canada, a group of adventurers explore every mystery the vast country conceals!

The Fates of Mace Windu
What happened to Mace Windu at the end of George Lucas' Star Wars prequel? This fan fiction 6-part series explores answers.

John Carter and A Princess of Mars
The first full-audio drama adaptation of the best-selling novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs! Explores the original Science Romance of the first of the pulp space heroes.

Adapted Scripts Produced for Colonial Radio Theatre
Dead Ahead
On a restless ocean, a group of weary survivors contemplate their grim fortune: What had started out as a fun little fishing trip soon turns into a nightmare of damnation, trapped on a floating prison. Available at Amazon.

Vincent Price Presents Volume 3
"The Best in the Universe." Dramatized by Jack J. Ward, from a story by Paul J. Salamoff. Assignments on frontier planets always irritated intergalactic mob hitman Randall Stiles and his partner Jake Mackey and this mission would soon prove why. Available at Amazon.

Throughout this body of work, Ward considers Rod Serling (1924-1975), American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator/on-screen host, to be his spiritual writing mentor. These examples of Ward's original works, and more, are collected and available at the Apple podcasts website under the banner of Sonic Cinema Productions, previously Electric Vicuna Productions.