Ashley Eckstein, known for voicing Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, will be co-creating and Executive Producing a new audiodrama for Disney Publishing aimed at young adults, featuring a full cast and part of a new original IP.
Collider is excited to exclusively reveal that actor Ashley Eckstein, best known to fans as the original voice of Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, will be starring in and co-creating a brand-new audiodrama for Disney Publishing aimed at a young adult audience, as well as serving as Executive Producer. While not much is known yet about the untitled project, the audiodrama will also feature a full cast.
The original YA audiodrama is set to kick off a new original IP for Disney, and while Eckstein is set to lead the first outing as part of the new initiative, Disney is looking to expand the IP into new publishing formats. The audiodrama is set to be produced by Jeff Gomez, a fantasy/sci-fi writer who has experience working across mediums, making him an ideal candidate to shepherd this new, original IP into its various publishing formats.
While it’s not clear at this time what exactly these other formats will entail, Disney is no stranger to the multimedia IP, with their films spinning off into novelizations. Disney Books also plays a role in Lucasfilm’s widely popular The High Republic publishing initiative as well, which itself spans books, comics, and audio dramas.
There is currently no title or release date for the new audiodrama, although we are aware that Ashley has been working on this for three years already.
