Toronado Entertainment

We build for the people who make television.

An entertainment company: we produce the American Reality Television Awards (founded 2012) and build apps for casting, awards, live production, and production operations. Co-founded by Andrew Ward, an Emmy-nominated reality TV producer, and Kristen Moss, a CSA casting director. Working out of Los Angeles, Dallas, and London.

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What we build & run

Production deservesbetter tools.

The awards show that celebrates the people who make television.

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American Reality Television Awards

Celebrating reality TV’s biggest year

The American Reality Television Awards (ARTAS) is the premier awards show for reality television. Founded by Andrew Ward and Kristen Moss in 2012 — when no one else thought reality TV deserved an Emmy of its own. Today: annual ceremony plus year-round editorial across casting calls, industry beats, and reality TV criticism. A home for the genre that shaped a generation of unscripted storytelling.

Founded by Andrew Ward and Kristen Moss in 2012
Annual ceremony plus year-round editorial
Industry-judged categories across reality TV

realitytelevisionawards.com

Software for the people who make television.

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Mythie

The casting OS for reality TV

Which side of the camera? Two sides, one platform. Talent registers free, builds a profile, and applies to shows — that is a permanent public guarantee. Casting teams (the paid side, invite-only beta) discover, evaluate, and pitch talent with modern, AI-assisted tools built for unscripted workflows.

Talent registration is free — and always will be
Casting teams pay; talent never does
Built for reality TV first, not retrofitted from scripted

mythie.app

beta

Aclamos

Run an entire awards show on one platform

Aclamos is an awards-show platform for awards programs, festivals, scholarships and industry awards: submissions, multi-round judging with weighted rubrics, voting with several methods plus an optional tamper-evident audit chain, a ceremony cue desk wired to OBS, and Open Badges winner credentials.

Public pricing at aclamos.app/pricing
Several voting methods, including ranked-choice (IRV)
Optional tamper-evident audit chain, off by default

aclamos.app

beta

Ballotis

Voting people trust

Ballotis is the standalone voting product from Aclamos, for organisations that do not need the full awards stack. Several voting methods, an optional tamper-evident audit chain with per-voter receipts, and Ballotis Live for live audience polling (itself labelled beta). Ballotis does not have its own domain; it lives on aclamos.app.

Single choice, multiple choice, ranked choice, star rating, approval, yes/no
Audit chain and per-voter receipts are optional, turned on before voting opens
Pricing is listed on the Ballotis page

aclamos.app/ballotis

BacklotHub

Run the production office from one place

BacklotHub is production-operations software for film, TV and unscripted production companies: crew roster, vendors and a vendor directory, projects and call sheets, crew hires with work terms, invoice approvals, email signatures and field media (some depending on plan). Studios pay one flat monthly price per company.

Crew roster and crew hires with work terms
Vendors and a vendor directory, projects and call sheets, invoice approvals (some depending on plan)
Studios pay a flat monthly plan

backlothub.app

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CueHound

Your show called. We picked up.

CueHound is run-of-show, teleprompter and cue software for live events. Today the free web beta is open: build rundowns, edit segments, call the show in Show Caller and invite your crew, with edits syncing in real time. A free web teleprompter runs in your browser with no account. The beta is free; CueHound has not announced launch pricing.

Rundown editor and Show Caller (in free beta)
Free web teleprompter, live now
Free during the beta; email-link sign-in, no card

cuehound.com

And two that have nothing to do with television.

Every studio should be allowed a couple of things it builds because it wanted to.

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Noelly

Find the best Christmas lights near you

Noelly maps Christmas light displays and holiday events across all 50 US states and the District of Columbia, then plans optimised multi-stop driving routes through the ones you pick. Live on the web, iPhone and Android. Browsing, favourites, reviews and listing your own display are free; Noelly Plus is an optional paid upgrade that adds unlimited smart route optimization, and it cannot be bought on the website yet.

Displays and holiday events in all 50 states and DC
Sleigh Routes: free up to 12 stops on the web and 3 stops in the apps
Listings can show the charity a display supports

noelly.app

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BooMap

Every Halloween event near you

BooMap is a Halloween event map for US cities. Every event is confirmed with 2026 dates on the venue’s or organizer’s own website. Free to download on the App Store and Google Play, and it also works free on the web. Browsing needs no account; BooMap Plus is an optional $2.99 one-time Season Pass that adds bigger route-planning tools.

Live on the web, iPhone and Android
Dates checked against each event’s own website
Event listings are free

boomap.app

About Toronado Entertainment

Built by producers, for producers.

Los Angeles · Dallas · London

Toronado Entertainment is an entertainment company, co-founded by Andrew Ward and Kristen Moss — an Emmy-nominated reality TV producer and a CSA casting director who, between them, have spent twenty-five years inside the unscripted business.

We build the tools we wished existed when we were running shows: a casting OS that respects talent, an awards platform that judges trust, a backstage system that the control room actually wants to use. Every product comes from a real production problem, not a pitch deck. The American Reality Television Awards has been running since 2012; the apps came later, when we kept noticing the same workflow gaps across every show we touched.

Boutique by design. Feature requests reach the founders. Email gets answered. Roadmap moves with our customers, not against them.

25+

years combined in unscripted

2012

Reality TV Awards founded

cities · LA · Dallas · London

Co-founder · Builds the platforms

Andrew Ward

Emmy-nominated, Tribeca-premiered reality TV producer who has worked on both sides of the casting table. Produced FRAMPTON for the Tribeca Film Festival and a Katy Perry concert film shot in Paris. Built casting workflows out of Google Sheets, Dropbox, and wishful thinking — because there was nothing better.

Andrew leads the engineering side of the studio. Founder of Mythie. Co-founder of Toronado Entertainment.

"I built Mythie because I kept losing great people in the inbox. That is not a technology problem — it is a priority problem. And I decided to make it one."

producinghollywood.com

Co-founder · Casts the talent

Kristen Moss

CSA member and reality television casting director, casting since 2010 across reality competitions, documentary series, and branded content. Three-time Artios Award nominee from the Casting Society of America. Founder of KMoss Casting, which connects real personalities with major networks and brands.

In 2012 — when no one else thought reality TV deserved an awards show of its own — Kristen co-founded the American Reality Television Awards with Andrew Ward.

"The trick to casting reality TV is searching far and wider than anyone else thinks reasonable. The right person is rarely the obvious one."

kmosscasting.com

FAQ

Questions, answered.

What is Toronado Entertainment?

Toronado Entertainment, LLC is an entertainment company that produces awards shows and builds apps for film, TV and live events. It builds Mythie, Aclamos (with its standalone voting product Ballotis), BacklotHub and CueHound, operates the American Reality Television Awards, and also makes two consumer apps, Noelly (a Christmas lights map) and BooMap (a Halloween event map). It is based in Los Angeles, Dallas and London.

Who founded Toronado Entertainment?

Andrew Ward and Kristen Moss. Andrew is an Emmy-nominated, Tribeca-premiered reality TV producer who has worked on both sides of the casting table, and leads the engineering side. Kristen is a CSA reality television casting director, a three-time Artios Award nominee, the founder of KMoss Casting, and a co-founder of the American Reality Television Awards.

What is Mythie?

Mythie is the casting platform for reality TV. Talent build a profile and apply to shows; casting teams discover, evaluate and pitch talent. Talent registration is free and always will be. Casting teams are the paid side, currently an invite-only beta. mythie.app

What is Aclamos?

Aclamos runs an awards program end to end: submissions, multi-round judging, voting and the ceremony. Pricing is public at aclamos.app/pricing. Ballotis, its sister product, handles standalone voting and lives at aclamos.app/ballotis. Both are labelled beta. aclamos.app

What is BacklotHub?

What is CueHound?

CueHound is run-of-show and teleprompter software for live production, with a free web beta open today: a rundown editor, Show Caller and a free web teleprompter. It is free during the beta. cuehound.com

What are Noelly and BooMap?

Noelly (noelly.app) maps Christmas light displays and holiday events across all 50 US states and DC and plans driving routes through them. BooMap (boomap.app) is a Halloween event map: every Halloween event near you, with dates checked against each event’s own website. Both are live on the web, iPhone and Android, and neither is software for television.

Who runs the American Reality Television Awards?

The American Reality Television Awards (ARTAS) were founded by Andrew Ward and Kristen Moss in 2012 and are part of Toronado Entertainment. ARTAS is an annual awards show, not a software product.

Which of your products are free?

Mythie is free for talent; casting teams pay. BacklotHub is paid by the studio on a flat monthly plan. CueHound is free during its web beta. Noelly is free to browse and free for display owners to list; Noelly Plus is an optional paid upgrade that cannot be bought on the website yet. BooMap is free to browse and list events on; BooMap Plus is an optional $2.99 one-time Season Pass. Aclamos pricing is public at aclamos.app/pricing, and Ballotis pricing is on its own page.

How do I get in touch?

Email andrew@toronadoentertainment.com. Feature requests and questions go straight to the founders.

Contact

Building something for production? Let's talk.

Press, partnership, investment, or you have a production-tooling problem we should know about — reach out. We read everything.

andrew@toronadoentertainment.com

Phone: (310) 461-4360