May 2015 - Present
Ned Donovan
- @neddonovan
- Actor • Tech Founder • Multi-Hyphenate
- New York, NY
- He/Him
Resume
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Board Member, New Jersey Web Festival
Jun 2018 - Present
Co-Founder, Audition Cat
Sep 2020 - Present
Co-Founder / Producer, Play Plus One
My 2021 Highlights
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Jenni and I moved to The Bronx, starting our new chapter in New York City. We'd love to host you if you're in the neighborhood! Here's the view from our terrace at sunrise :)
Jenni and I bought an apartment in New York City! We're moving to the Bronx!
I married my absolute favorite person on the planet, Jenni Tyliszczak. Truly the highlight of the year :)
We finished a very successful 4 day New Jersey Web Festival with our world-renowned awards gala (for the first time featuring Fiction Podcasts!). Two awards galas meant a heck of a costume change, ...
Advising Startups
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Had a great chat with Anais Leon about Konnected, an upcoming social audio platform. One of the hardest conversations I end up having with audio startups is "how are you planning on differentiating...
Had a fantastic talk with Wojciech of the podcast startup Hintech. I created a financial sponsorship model for Encounter Party that fundamentally changed how we were able to monetize during Season ...
I had a followup call with Bhargav Kantaria about Shortcast, as he builds an entirely new way to interact through audio. We connected late last year and I'm thrilled to hear how much progress has c...
Sometimes I chat with a startup and instantly start sending their product to my team because it solves a problem I actively have. Today I chatted with Matt Roll and Canopy Charts who absolutely fit...
Podcast Guest Appearances
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I sat down with Newton Schottelkotte to chat about the New Jersey Web Festival and WebFest awards for Fiction Podcasts as a whole on their podcast Mini Marconis. I hope this is insightful for you a...
Myself and Brian David Judkins joined Sarah Babe and her team at Plot Points to talk about Encounter Party! and how we're making something different for the D&D entertainment landscape.
I joined the podcast Hashtag Single with a dear friend (and ex-romantic partner) Taylor Coriell to talk about that time in our lives and how goddamned weird it was.
I joined my absolute favorite podcast, Song Salad, to talk about The Hunted: Encore which podcast hosts Shannon and Scott wrote 2 songs for! Also, I contributed vocals to their song about the Miami...
Freelance Content Work
As a Polynaut Advisor to Polywork, I've been helping to guide the platform for artists and creatives everywhere. Here's an article about why Polywork is overtaking Linkedin for my professional netw...
I'm very proud to have played a very small post-production editing part in A Place For Us, this incredible concert celebrating trans and nonbinary performers in Musical Theatre. Preston Max Allen a...
As maybe the textbook community member for Polywork, I am constantly working on multiple projects with multiple contributors. The sharing of passwords and 2FA codes has constantly been a nightmare ...
I was asked by Dashlane to join forces with Shannon Deep and write as many Phishing Pun title cards as we could to join our resident Phishing Philosopher, JD Sherman for Go Fishing No Phishing Day ...
New Jersey Web Festival
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Opening Doors at the New Jersey Web Festival
Introducing the New Jersey Web Festival Scholarship Program
After an incredible weekend of networking, panels, workshops, and screenings; we are proud to announce the 2022 Award Winners for the New Jersey Web Festival as selected by our incredible judges!
Announcing the 2022 Award Nominations for the New Jersey Web Festival!
Producing
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Hell yeah buddy! The Hunted: Encore’s second season has been selected to return to the Gen Con LLC #FilmFestival! Our #Action #Comedy #Rock #Musical #Mockumentary #webseries about #NYC #Vampire #Sl...
Anthony Rapp (Star Trek: Discovery, Rent [Original Broadway Cast]) joined the cast of Encounter Party! for a two-shot event live on Twitch. Watch part 1 here!
Released my single "New Words" originally by Maury Yeston for the musical "In the Beginning" in honor of my father, William Michael Donovan, who passed away in February of 2016.
Partnered with Nathan Richardson to produce an acoustic cover of "Toxic" by Brittany Spears.
Acting Appearances
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Encounter Party Joins the Official D&D Channel
I was a part of an Actors' Equity Association 29-Hour Reading of a new all ages musical adaptation of Rumplestiltskin. The reading was directed by Madsie Flynn and featured cast members from Broadw...
I worked with longtime collaborator Crystal Arnette to film an Industrial for internal use at a tech company. My first time on a film set in nearly a year due to the pandemic! https://twitter.com/n...
My longtime collaborator Marcus Thorne Bagala wrote an incredible horror Fiction Podcast piece called Stone Island for Gimlet/Spotify. Working with him to bring the role of Harper to life was a dre...