Jack Kincaid is a writer, voice actor, actor, sound designer, musician, filmmaker, and audio drama producer, among other things. He is perhaps best-known as the founder and sole post-producer of ‘Slipgate Nine Entertainment’. Through Slipgate Nine, he produced the modern audio drama ‘Edict Zero – FIS’, a science fiction/cyberpunk audio series, which launched in 2010 and completed in 2024. Fifty-two feature-length episodes that have an average running time of an hour and twenty minutes each, the FIS series was released for free with no ads as a noncommercial work under the Creative Commons. In 2023, he produced a spin-off series called ‘Captain Afterland’ which is six features with almost nine hours of content. New projects are under development in audio and other mediums with stories in the shared Edict Zero Universe, or EZU as it sometimes called.
A diverse voice actor with theatre and acting for the screen in his background, Jack has played a multitude of roles in his Slipgate Nine endeavors, as well as in other audio dramas such 19 Nocturne Boulevard, Campfire Radio Theater, Lightning Bolt Theater of the Mind, and other shows.
His story narration can be found in such places as Lightspeed Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, and in the first two volumes of The Apocalypse Triptych audio book series, which he post-produced. His music has also been used in the before-mentioned podcasts, as well as in ‘The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy’, various book trailers, and other promotions.
From 2012 to 2021, Jack was the host of the Nightmare Magazine podcast. There he worked with award-winning anthologist John Joseph Adams, post-producer Jim Freund (Host of Hour of the Wolf on WBAI-FM in New York), and Skyboat Media, the most respected independent audio production team on the west coast, with the Grammy and Audie-award winning Stefan Rudnicki. He also served as temporary host for Lightspeed Magazine and Fantasy Magazine in their early years.
As a writer, he has had short stories published in such venues as Insidious Reflections Magazine, Surreal Magazine, the paperback anthology ‘Exit Laughing’ from Hellbound Books, and Nightmare Magazine. A former novelist, he will once again be returning to writing books, among other things, in the future.
His background extends through a diversity of disciplines. Among the creative ones, he has also been a programmer, sound designer, and animator in his earlier years. He spearheaded The Nehahra Project (1999-2000) which was a multi-episode addon to id software’s Quake, among the first to utilize a modified game engine after the release of the source code. Relevant to this project, he is also known — under the handle “Mindcrime” — as an early machinima luminary and pioneer with The Seal of Nehahra (2000). This four-hour companion “quake movie” to the Nehahra game made the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records.
He has a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Communication – Video Production/Digital Film Production with a minor in Film Studies with an additional capstone in the Visual Arts & New Media department at The State University of New York at Fredonia, where he previously studied English and Philosophy in the 1990s. He has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Media Production from the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo, which culminated in a final project ‘Only Afterland’ and a methodology-based thesis: ‘KAIROS: A Fulcrum for Composing Audio Drama’. His research interests centered on film composition, spatial audio/stereo imaging, sound design, psychoacoustics, postmodernism, expressionism, noir, psychology, neuroscience/cognitive science, music composition, musicology, emulated synesthesia, and film theory. He is presently a graduate student in the Human-Computer Interaction masters program at The State University of New York at Oswego.
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