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Sophia DuJardot has built her career on a simple instinct: when something is missing, she creates it.
She is a voice actress, the founder of Belle Voix Studios, and the co-founder of AudioMazes®, an interactive audio publishing company redefining how stories are experienced. She is also the creator of StudioMazes, a next-generation storytelling framework designed for studios and streaming platforms to expand their intellectual property through immersive, audience-driven story universes. In addition, she is the co-founder of the Frank “Pistol Pete” Eaton Legacy Foundation, which provides scholarships to students pursuing college or trade school.
Each venture reflects the same through line: creating opportunities where none existed before.
But Sophia is no longer just building companies. She is building systems.
Rebuilding Storytelling from the Inside Out
AudioMazes® began with a clear observation. After decades of experience in audiobook production, narration, and sound design, Sophia and her co-founder Karl Haycock saw the limitations of traditional storytelling formats.
Audiences were passive. Stories were fixed. Creatives were often undervalued.
So they rebuilt the model.
AudioMazes® transforms listeners into active participants. Instead of following a single narrative, audiences make choices in real time, shaping character arcs, influencing outcomes, and unlocking multiple story paths. For example, a listener may decide whether a character trusts an ally or walks away, altering the trajectory of the story and leading to entirely different endings. Each experience becomes personal, immersive, and endlessly replayable.
The company’s rapid growth reflects a shift in what audiences want. In the past year alone, AudioMazes® released 38 publications and received two Society of Voice Arts and Sciences Award nominations for Best Ensemble in Audio Drama and Best Sound Design. In 2026, WomELLE named AudioMazes® Startup of the Year, while Sophia was recognized as Female Founder of the Year.
But for Sophia, the impact is not measured in volume. It is measured in who is included in the process.
From authors and narrators to editors, designers, and sound technicians, AudioMazes® was intentionally built to elevate voices that have historically been overlooked. The company does not just produce stories. It creates pathways for the people behind them.
Stories That Extend Beyond the Ending
Projects like Light, Hope and Stardust, a mental health and suicide prevention audio drama created in partnership with Emma White, demonstrate the deeper potential of this model. Listeners are not simply told a story. They step into it, choosing paths that lead toward hope, healing, and connection.
It is storytelling designed to meet people where they are.
Other projects extend impact even further, with proceeds funding scholarship programs and collaborative initiatives that reach beyond entertainment. For Sophia, storytelling is not confined to content. It is a tool for change.
Step Into the Maze with StudioMazes
Building on the success of AudioMazes®, Sophia expanded her vision into something larger: StudioMazes.
StudioMazes is a multi-division storytelling system designed to expand how stories are created, experienced, and sustained across mediums. Operating across film, audio, crafts, and animation, StudioMazes brings together creative disciplines into one unified framework, allowing stories to evolve beyond a single format into fully immersive, interactive universes.
StudioMazes serves as the overarching system for all Maze experiences, unifying multiple divisions under one scalable framework. Designed to integrate directly with film studios, production companies, and streaming platforms, it introduces a new way for stories to grow beyond their original format.
At its core is a powerful concept: story universe expansion through audience interaction.
In this model, a story does not end when the credits roll. Instead, it evolves.
Viewers can step inside a narrative, explore alternate pathways, deepen character arcs, and engage with branching storylines that extend far beyond the original film or series. What begins as a single production becomes a living, expanding ecosystem where audiences play an active role in shaping the experience.
In addition to partnering with studios, StudioMazes also creates and produces its own original Maze experiences, demonstrating the full capabilities of the platform while continuing to push the boundaries of interactive storytelling.
StudioMazes positions itself as a direct partner to studios seeking to extend the life and value of their intellectual property. A single story can now grow into a sustained universe, increasing retention, deepening audience loyalty, and unlocking new creative and commercial opportunities.
Ethical AI, Built for Creative Integrity
Central to StudioMazes is a deliberate and forward-thinking approach to technology.
The platform operates within a closed AI system, meaning it is not trained on or connected to open, shared datasets. This ensures that all creative work remains protected, original, and ethically developed.
AI within StudioMazes is not used to replace human creativity. It is used to support and scale it.
Writers, narrators, and creators remain at the center of every project, guiding the story, the emotion, and the experience. The technology enhances world-building, narrative structuring, and expansion capabilities, allowing creative teams to build richer, more complex story universes without sacrificing ownership or authenticity.
Sophia’s philosophy is clear: the future of storytelling is not human versus AI. It is human-led innovation, supported by ethical technology.
Building What Comes Next
Across every venture, the pattern remains consistent. Sophia identifies a gap, builds a solution, and ensures that others can grow within it.
Through Belle Voix Studios, she continues to support and mentor female narrators and authors. Through the Frank “Pistol Pete” Eaton Legacy Foundation, she creates access to education. Through AudioMazes®, she reimagines how stories are experienced. And through StudioMazes, she is building the infrastructure for how stories will evolve.
As the entertainment industry shifts toward deeper engagement, immersive experiences, and expanded universes, the ability to move beyond passive viewing is no longer optional. It is the future.
Sophia DuJardot is not waiting for that future to arrive.
She is building it.