Jerome Wetzel

Jerome "Jim/Jimmy" Wetzel is the creator of *It's All Been Done Radio Hour*, and writes the vast majority of the show. He was director-by-default of early live shows, and still directs special shows outside of the monthly ones. He casts the show and sets the roles of others, overseeing the production as a whole. He is also the founder and head of the spin-off network, It's All Been Done Presents, overseeing all programming for the company.

He enjoys performing having done productions for OGP, and has served as an ensemble member and board member at MadLab theatre, as well as a board member for Boxland. He has only appeared in *Radio Hour* a few times as a guest star.

Jerome has long been a writer, having penned short stories and chapter books throughout his school years. His first big series, *An Actor's Nightmare*, has seen a couple of novels published, but is currently on hold while he focuses on IABD. He wrote the spin-off *Radio Hour* novel, *Love's Lust Lost*, and the four-season, text-only webseries *GOD is my BFF.*

He is also a television critic, having written nearly 3,000 articles in the past decade. Originally working for Examiner.com, he last served as the Chief Television Critic for Seat42F and contributor to Blogcritics Magazine.

Jerome also enjoys doing podcasts. An original co-host of *The Good, The Bad, & The Geeky*, he still appears on that show, most notably during live warm-ups for *Radio Hour*, including the Judge Jimmy segment. He is one of the founding co-hosts of *It's All Been Trekked Before*, and has served as a guest on numerous podcasts.

He is from West Jefferson, Ohio and currently lives in Westerville, a suburb of Columbus, with his wife, Morgan, his children, and a very old cat named Snugglebunny Fucktard.

## **Guest Appearances in Radio Hour**

Jerome usually hosts the *Meet the Cast* episodes of *Radio Hour*, but turned hosting duties over to Katie Boissoneault when he (reluctantly) did an episode about himself. It was released as podcast 125.

Jerome guest-starred as himself in an episode of *Georgie's Jabs* to promote *Love's Lust Lost*. He also played Prime in the *Mystery Dream Team* episode "Violet's Out-of-Body Experience, a role continued in *The Directors* and *The News.* The role was written for him by Samantha Stark, who urged him to guest star. He played himself in *The Nubes*. Jerome was a character in an episode of *Travels With T.I.M.*, but he was played by Sam Clements.

In *Daniel Kravitz, Chosen One* "Cult of B.O.B.," Jerome played Carter, and Jerome plays recurring character Kelly in *Morning Show,* as well as another dimension version of Kelly in the *Daniel Kravitz, Chosen One* episode"Conspiracy Theories." He also plays Jongo in *The Cutting Room Floor* commercials. He played the recurring character of Kelly in *Morning Show*. He guest narrated Show LI. He plays the recurring bartender, Jared, in *Universe Journey.*

He has also served as occasional narrator, foley artist, foley assistant, and substitute player of Who (once) and Carson.

## **Non-IABD** **Media**

Jerome has been interviewed about It's All Been Done Presents and his work on numerous occasions. Some of the appearances are linked below.

* *Canvas Rebel* website, August 2023
* *Speak Easily With Krista Stauffer* podcast (with Shane Stefanchik and Kristin Green), October 2022
* *The Protagonist Podcast* podcast, June 2021
* *Julie Whitney Scott Presents... Let's Talk Theatre* video interview, December 2020
* *U Mind* #39 video interview, April 2020
* *Gab Street Podcast* #50 podcast, January 2020
* *The Dallas Show* #2.04*,*  video series, September 2019
* *Whiskey Business* podcast and video interview, May 2019
* *2018 Columbus Podcast Festival* podcast, April 2018
* *The Chris Voss Show* podcast, January 2018
* *No Redeeming Qualities* podcast, November 2017
* *Yes But Why* podcast, October 2017