Welcome to Night Vale Creators & Guests

Cecil Baldwin is the voice of Night Vale and the narrator of Welcome to Night Vale. He works at Night Vale Community Radio as the announcer and self-proclaimed journalist.

Maureen Johnson is an author.

Mark Gagliardi is a Podcaster and Actor. He is the host of the podcast "We Got This with Mark and Hal".

Janet Varney is an actress and comedian.

Hal Lublin is an American actor, improv performer, and voice-over artist best known for his work on the Thrilling Adventure Hour and Welcome to Night Vale. He is the host of the We Got This with Mark and Hal podcast.

Jasika Nicole is an actress.

Mara Wilson is an actress, voice actress, and writer.

Dylan Marron is an actor, writer, and activist.

Symphony Sanders is a Chicago-based actor, aerialist, and vlogger. She voices Tamika Flynn on the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale, is a cohost on Good Morning Nightvale, and has been featured on My Fair City and Chuck Tingle’s Pounded in the Butt by my Podcast. When not recording for a show or touring she is an aerialist and fitness instructor!

Grant Stewart is an editor of Welcome to Night Vale Podcast.

Joseph Fink created and co-writes the Welcome to Night Vale podcast and touring live show. In his mid-twenties he started Commonplace Books, a very small publishing company, producing two collections of short works which he edited and laid out at his office job when his boss wasn't looking. Later Jeffrey approached Joseph with the idea of writing a play about time travel. They co-wrote and performed this play in the East Village in August of 2011. Soon afterwards, Joseph started brainstorming a new project he and Jeffrey could co-write and this led to the pilot episode of Welcome to Night Vale . He is from California but doesn't live there anymore.

Jeffrey Cranor cowrites the Welcome to Night Vale podcast. He also cocreates theater and dance pieces with choreographer/wife Jillian Sweeney. They live in New York.

Adal Rifai has been improvising in Chicago since 2007. He performs at iO with the house team Revolver, in the weekly show Whirled News Tonight (iO) and around the U.S. with Pudding-Thank-You and BagCat.

Jacquelyn Landgraf is the creator of the musical fiction podcast, It Makes A Sound, and the voice of Deirdre Gardner. She produced the original soundtrack album Wim Faros: the Attic Tape

Dessa (real name Margret Wander) is a rapper, singer, and essayist.Dessa has performed around the world as a member of the Doomtree hip-hop crew and as a solo artist.Dessa's work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota Monthly, and several literary journals. She has published two short collections of poetry and essays.