Roxx Populi – A Fiction Podcast Series
New York City, New York | Radio & Podcasts
Adventure, LGBTQ
Roxx Populi, a half-hour fiction podcast in the spirit of Lupin III and Venture Bros, follows Roxxie’s journey to rob the world’s shadow governments, superhero cabals, and insurance firms. All of it for one prize: the corpse of a superman and the secret behind the superpowers it contains.
Roxx Populi – A Fiction Podcast Series
New York City, New York | Radio & Podcasts
Adventure, LGBTQ
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Roxx Populi, a half-hour fiction podcast in the spirit of Lupin III and Venture Bros, follows Roxxie’s journey to rob the world’s shadow governments, superhero cabals, and insurance firms. All of it for one prize: the corpse of a superman and the secret behind the superpowers it contains.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
The creatives at Roxx Populi present: Roxxie, a transwoman master thief nearing a mid-life crisis. She decides to quit her job – playing the heel in the WWE-style superhero fights that cover for DARPA’s super soldier program. Angry at her employers, Roxxie outs the whole charade on live TV, causing beloved icon Captain Wraythe’s head to explode. Now actually public enemy number one, Roxxie faces off with DARPA, a dozen shadow governments, and a few secret cabals, in a scramble for Wraythe’s body – the only means to creating superheroes. She wants the body, mostly, so they can’t have it.
This campaign will help fund season one, consisting of 10 episodes. The pilot, “The Dead Body Makes It Kinda Gay,” premiered August 25th at the NYC LGBTQ Center. Episode 2 is complete and episode 3 is at the sound editor. Episodes 4 and 5 have finished scripts, and episodes 6-10 are in the writers’ room.
As Roxxie puts herself and her loved ones in one tight spot after another, she will be forced to ask herself the tough question: Is she willing to sacrifice her friendships for her own sense of authenticity?
We are creating a story that is weird, wild, and more varied than other dramas. One that centers on a trans character and her identity, how people perceive her, and what they want from her. In Roxx Populi, the superhero world is strange and inaccessible to ordinary people. All they can do is watch as forces beyond their control shape the contours of existence. It’s a world where the people who are meant to protect the populace instead squeeze labor and wealth for their own short-term pleasure. It’s a world that desperately needs shaking up. Why not at the hands of Roxxie?
Roxxie is a place where we can explore the topics that are important to us without intervention: We can be crass, gay, and angry in a way mass culture currently denies. We especially want the freedom to critique how corporate media obscures our material conditions. All of this is censorable content, starring a Queer protagonist as messy as any Difficult Man on TV.
The story of Roxx Populi is told through characters drawn from the movers and shakers of the American deep state, each uniquely deranged by the forces of capitalism. These characters include:
Roxx Populi
Before being recruited, Roxx made her name as a phantom thief. Silly clues, bombastic thievery, it was almost like she wanted to get caught. And in short order she was. But the government gave her a way out: use her flair for the theatric and her athletic skills as a star of the Superhero-Industrial complex. The money was good, and it was better than prison. Turns out celebrity is a prison of its own. In the face of her identity being commodified, Roxxie tantrums on a national scale, blowing the whistle on Superheroes and, accidentally, triggering the bomb in Captain Wraythe’s head.
Now, all that’s left to do is troll the Deep State for all it’s worth, starting with stealing the body of Captain Reginald Wraythe. But beneath the sardonics and nihilism, is there something she cares for more? Or is it self-destruction all the way down?
Mantaman, Son of Mantaman
You see a lot of messed up stuff in international waters, even before Mantaman Sr. pulls up in the party barge. Deuter’s birth name is Mantaman, Son of Mantaman, but his mother calls him Deuteronomy. After his father’s untimely death testing Power Armor, Deuter stepped up to take his place as America’s third favorite superhero. Between the green screens and the condos, Deuter lives in a floating world. This has, of course, made him a neurotic little schmuck.
The only thing he values that he never bought is his friendship with Roxxie. But now Deuter finds himself following Roxxie down the road to war against the Deep State and has to decide what defines him: his own choices, or Roxxie’s?
John
The Syndicate of Sin’s manager/wrangler, John made his name in private school. A lot of very rich people have kids they aren’t too fond of, and John is the teen to solve their conundrum. He’s the bodyguard you send if you suspect the VIP will need to be disposed of. John thinks he’s won the jackpot; and has climbed to the top of the American Dream. So it’s a little odd he became good friends with Roxxie: a loudmouthed little punk who feels nothing for society. But it’s moot when she detonates Wraythe’s head.
Now the steadfast soldier finds himself in a political morass. He could come out as one of the most powerful people in America. But, does power ever come without a cost?
When I was a kid we were over superheroes. For better or for worse, the comics I grew up with came from the so-called “Dark Age of comics.” A generation of writers and artists who grew up with Batman and Spiderman suddenly found themselves—at least for an issue—the inheritors of these IPs. As people have done forever, they started telling stories with their cultural heroes. Perhaps clumsily, they proceeded to break these characters down piece by piece like a child with a radio. They deconstructed the object and looked in the guts. People like Grant Morrison found something beautiful in there. People like Alan Moore found something more troubling. But in either case, both camps were deeply interested in a question: What is a superhero and why do we read them?
I grew up with the superhero dissected, pinned to the wall. They were beautiful to me like butterflies, frozen slightly in a comic industry that had self-imploded years before. I grew up learning the guts of superheroism, and how easily it falls to conservatism. A new generation is growing up with softer, marketable heroes: Tech Moguls, Military Experiments, and Literal Monarchs punching the monsters who want to change the world.
Maybe it’s time we brought back the spirit of the Dark Ages.
Season One of Roxx Populi is written in the classic styles of Buffy the Vampire or Doctor Who. Each episode is meant to be a self-contained adventure that can be listened to in almost any order. However, each does contribute to an overarching story about living in the disaster of celebrity culture, and what it means to actually connect with one another despite it.
To make a radio drama worthy of our informed and frustrated audience, we need your financial support. We have been working on this show for two years: the pilot premiered at a listening party at the NYC LGBT Center on August 25th. Episode 2 is complete and episode 3 is at the sound editor. Episodes 4 and 5 have finished scripts, and episodes 6-10 are in the writers’ room. We work with amazing talent: writers, directors, sound designers, producers, and editors, but we need to make sure they are fairly compensated for their time and talents.
It is easy to get backers for established IPs, with their proven, built-in audiences. We are inviting you to partner with us in telling a story about our world and the people surviving in it.
Ready to help? Check out all of our “Incentives” at the right. Want more than one incentive? Just select a higher pledge, every pledge receives the incentive for that level and all the lower-pledge levels.
Another way you can support us is to share the link to this page with your friends and on social media. Do you have someone in your life who is sick of superheroes? Send them our way!
Here is a paragraph you can copy and paste, or use as inspiration for your own words:
“Hey friends, check out this radio drama being crowdfunded by the team at Roxx Populi! Roxx Populi, a half-hour fiction podcast in the spirit of Lupin III and Venture Bros, follows Roxxie’s journey to rob the world’s shadow governments, superhero cabals, and insurance firms. All of it for one prize: the corpse of a superman and the secret behind the superpowers it contains. You can watch their trailer, read all about the project, and support these amazing creators at https://seedandspark.com/fund/roxx-populi-a-narrative-fiction-podcast-series#story
We chose to make Roxx Populi a podcast because the format allows us the freedom to explore topics frankly, honestly, and homosexually without “Standards and Practices” meddling. That said, people need to eat, and we are dedicated to paying our collaborators.
nds raised above our initial goal of $6,500 will be used to financially support the core writing team and enable our team to focus our energies on making
Our pilot premiered at a listening party on August 25th at the NYC LGBT Center • New York, NY. Episode 2 is complete and episode 3 is at the sound editor. Episodes 4 and 5 have finished scripts, and episodes 6-10 are in the writers’ room. We are planning to officially launch the podcast with a regular release schedule by the end of June 2024.
Wishlist
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Marketing and Promotion
Costs $575
Roxxie's mission to stop the world from learning the superhero formula isn't done until everyone knows about the podcast!
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About This Team
Taylor Geu, Creator, Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Roxx Populi
Taylor Geu was born in Yankton, South Dakota. Her first publication was a weekly comic book they passed around the playground in 4th grade. They learned general audiences were philistines. Since then, she’s become passionate about gender abolition and social justice, centering them in her scripts for stage and screen. A surrealist and fantasist, she’s interested in using the weird and spectacular to aid audiences in reconsidering what it means to be human beyond the usual societal script and norms.
Geu’s play "Adolsy" was produced as part of the “Dream Up Festival” at Theater for the New City in September 2022. As a playwright, Geu is a semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (twice), Bay Area Playwrights Festival (three times), and Blue Ink Playwriting Award; a finalist for the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival One-Act Play Contest; and a Second Rounder in the Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition. Geu voices Roxx Populi.
Petr Samoilov, Creative Producer
Petr Samoilov was born in Moscow, Russia. He received his first MFA in Art History from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2018 and his second MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch in 2021. As a Creative Executive at Braven Films – an independent New York film production company – Petr supervised the development of several projects with partners like BBC and Viacom International Studios. In Russia, Petr developed a groundbreaking TV show, We Really Need to Talk, created and hosted by Yulia Akhmedova, a trailblazing Russian female stand-up comedian. The unique concept combined a scripted reality talk show, stand-up, and a roast to ensure that women’s voices were heard in their relationships. He wrote the screenplay for the award-winning short film “The Best Fairy for Cinderella”. Petr writes scripts for commercial video and digital projects for clients ranging from Coca-Cola to Volkswagen, and from World Expo 2020 Dubai to the government of Afghanistan and Mandarin Oriental.
Sean McDonald, Writer
Sean McDonald writes things sometimes. He is from Los Angeles but saw the sun once and ran away in fear to cower in the shadows of New York, where he picked up an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch that he found lying next to a dead rat in some standing water. The things he sometimes writes have appeared in the genre magazine Kaleidotrope, YouTube channel Gametoons from Newscape Studios, an educational series SuperDville, and nerd news outlet Comic Book Resources. You can feed him seeds and sugar water but DO NOT make direct eye contact or he may get confused and attack.
Andrew Moorhead, Mantaman; Writer
Andrew Moorhead is a writer and actor from Piedmont, California, currently based in New York City. Favorite acting roles include Karl/Wanda in Adolsy (Theater For The New City) and Polonius in Hamlet (Chapman University). Andrew’s plays include The Colonialists (play/ground theatre LA, Broke People Play Festival) and Loaded Questions (The Sherry Theater). His musical, Bravo, has received workshops and concert productions at New Musicals Inc., Ball State University, and Azusa Pacific University, which he also directed. His new play, This Purple F***ing Pot, will receive a workshop reading early next year. He is currently a Lead Creative at Hello SciCom and the Editorial Assistant for the upcoming book, The Unconquerable Game, which will be published in the fall of 2023. In addition to acting in Roxxie, he is also a staff writer. BFA Chapman University. MFA NYU
Fadi Khoury, Sound Designer
Fadi Khoury is a Los Angeles-based composer and multi-instrumentalist who blends orchestral and electronic influences. He is most known as a music supervisor on the Student Academy award/student BAFTA-winning film Making Waves and as a composer for the student BAFTA-shortlisted film Use Your Words. Fadi holds a master's degree in music theory and composition from New York University.
Julia Blauvelt, PA System
Julia Blauvelt is a writer and sometimes actor in NYC. She's performed devised works with Peak Performances at Montclair State, Creative Time, Culture Project, and Dixon Place among others. As a writer, she has had residencies at Orchard Project (Performance Lab) and the Athena Film Festival (T.V. Writers Lab), and her play F.I.R.E. received an NYC production last year through New Normal Rep. She is a 2021 graduate of the MFA dramatic writing program at NYU Tisch.
Rhishan Dhamija, Quarterbag
Rishan is an actor/writer based out of New York. Rishan’s parents were hyped to hear that after graduating from acting school (UNC, M.F.A. ‘19), he’d get to play Doctors and IT guys on TV. Something they couldn’t get him to do in real life. He wasn’t going to give them the satisfaction. And so, he got his second M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing (NYU-Tisch ‘21) so that he could create authentic South Asian content for himself and his friends. Select Theater Credits: Yoga Play, The Play That Goes Wrong (Syracuse Stage), Yoga Play (Geva Theater Centre), One Man Two Guvnors, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Chautauqua Theater Company) Life of Galileo, Leaving Eden, Sense and Sensibility, Tartuffe, Dot, The May Queen, The Crucible, Beasts on the Moon, Sherwood the Adventures of Robin Hood (PlayMakers Rep). TV Credits: Blue Bloods (CBS), New Amsterdam (NBC), We Crashed, Little Voice (Apple TV+). Rishan is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA.
Shomari Pinnock, John
Collaborative actor, pretentious bartender, native New Yorker, and silly goose. In no particular order.
Rina Dutta, Endling
Rina is a New York City-based actress and graduate of NYU.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
The creatives at Roxx Populi present: Roxxie, a transwoman master thief nearing a mid-life crisis. She decides to quit her job – playing the heel in the WWE-style superhero fights that cover for DARPA’s super soldier program. Angry at her employers, Roxxie outs the whole charade on live TV, causing beloved icon Captain Wraythe’s head to explode. Now actually public enemy number one, Roxxie faces off with DARPA, a dozen shadow governments, and a few secret cabals, in a scramble for Wraythe’s body – the only means to creating superheroes. She wants the body, mostly, so they can’t have it.
This campaign will help fund season one, consisting of 10 episodes. The pilot, “The Dead Body Makes It Kinda Gay,” premiered August 25th at the NYC LGBTQ Center. Episode 2 is complete and episode 3 is at the sound editor. Episodes 4 and 5 have finished scripts, and episodes 6-10 are in the writers’ room.
As Roxxie puts herself and her loved ones in one tight spot after another, she will be forced to ask herself the tough question: Is she willing to sacrifice her friendships for her own sense of authenticity?
We are creating a story that is weird, wild, and more varied than other dramas. One that centers on a trans character and her identity, how people perceive her, and what they want from her. In Roxx Populi, the superhero world is strange and inaccessible to ordinary people. All they can do is watch as forces beyond their control shape the contours of existence. It’s a world where the people who are meant to protect the populace instead squeeze labor and wealth for their own short-term pleasure. It’s a world that desperately needs shaking up. Why not at the hands of Roxxie?
Roxxie is a place where we can explore the topics that are important to us without intervention: We can be crass, gay, and angry in a way mass culture currently denies. We especially want the freedom to critique how corporate media obscures our material conditions. All of this is censorable content, starring a Queer protagonist as messy as any Difficult Man on TV.
The story of Roxx Populi is told through characters drawn from the movers and shakers of the American deep state, each uniquely deranged by the forces of capitalism. These characters include:
Roxx Populi
Before being recruited, Roxx made her name as a phantom thief. Silly clues, bombastic thievery, it was almost like she wanted to get caught. And in short order she was. But the government gave her a way out: use her flair for the theatric and her athletic skills as a star of the Superhero-Industrial complex. The money was good, and it was better than prison. Turns out celebrity is a prison of its own. In the face of her identity being commodified, Roxxie tantrums on a national scale, blowing the whistle on Superheroes and, accidentally, triggering the bomb in Captain Wraythe’s head.
Now, all that’s left to do is troll the Deep State for all it’s worth, starting with stealing the body of Captain Reginald Wraythe. But beneath the sardonics and nihilism, is there something she cares for more? Or is it self-destruction all the way down?
Mantaman, Son of Mantaman
You see a lot of messed up stuff in international waters, even before Mantaman Sr. pulls up in the party barge. Deuter’s birth name is Mantaman, Son of Mantaman, but his mother calls him Deuteronomy. After his father’s untimely death testing Power Armor, Deuter stepped up to take his place as America’s third favorite superhero. Between the green screens and the condos, Deuter lives in a floating world. This has, of course, made him a neurotic little schmuck.
The only thing he values that he never bought is his friendship with Roxxie. But now Deuter finds himself following Roxxie down the road to war against the Deep State and has to decide what defines him: his own choices, or Roxxie’s?
John
The Syndicate of Sin’s manager/wrangler, John made his name in private school. A lot of very rich people have kids they aren’t too fond of, and John is the teen to solve their conundrum. He’s the bodyguard you send if you suspect the VIP will need to be disposed of. John thinks he’s won the jackpot; and has climbed to the top of the American Dream. So it’s a little odd he became good friends with Roxxie: a loudmouthed little punk who feels nothing for society. But it’s moot when she detonates Wraythe’s head.
Now the steadfast soldier finds himself in a political morass. He could come out as one of the most powerful people in America. But, does power ever come without a cost?
When I was a kid we were over superheroes. For better or for worse, the comics I grew up with came from the so-called “Dark Age of comics.” A generation of writers and artists who grew up with Batman and Spiderman suddenly found themselves—at least for an issue—the inheritors of these IPs. As people have done forever, they started telling stories with their cultural heroes. Perhaps clumsily, they proceeded to break these characters down piece by piece like a child with a radio. They deconstructed the object and looked in the guts. People like Grant Morrison found something beautiful in there. People like Alan Moore found something more troubling. But in either case, both camps were deeply interested in a question: What is a superhero and why do we read them?
I grew up with the superhero dissected, pinned to the wall. They were beautiful to me like butterflies, frozen slightly in a comic industry that had self-imploded years before. I grew up learning the guts of superheroism, and how easily it falls to conservatism. A new generation is growing up with softer, marketable heroes: Tech Moguls, Military Experiments, and Literal Monarchs punching the monsters who want to change the world.
Maybe it’s time we brought back the spirit of the Dark Ages.
Season One of Roxx Populi is written in the classic styles of Buffy the Vampire or Doctor Who. Each episode is meant to be a self-contained adventure that can be listened to in almost any order. However, each does contribute to an overarching story about living in the disaster of celebrity culture, and what it means to actually connect with one another despite it.
To make a radio drama worthy of our informed and frustrated audience, we need your financial support. We have been working on this show for two years: the pilot premiered at a listening party at the NYC LGBT Center on August 25th. Episode 2 is complete and episode 3 is at the sound editor. Episodes 4 and 5 have finished scripts, and episodes 6-10 are in the writers’ room. We work with amazing talent: writers, directors, sound designers, producers, and editors, but we need to make sure they are fairly compensated for their time and talents.
It is easy to get backers for established IPs, with their proven, built-in audiences. We are inviting you to partner with us in telling a story about our world and the people surviving in it.
Ready to help? Check out all of our “Incentives” at the right. Want more than one incentive? Just select a higher pledge, every pledge receives the incentive for that level and all the lower-pledge levels.
Another way you can support us is to share the link to this page with your friends and on social media. Do you have someone in your life who is sick of superheroes? Send them our way!
Here is a paragraph you can copy and paste, or use as inspiration for your own words:
“Hey friends, check out this radio drama being crowdfunded by the team at Roxx Populi! Roxx Populi, a half-hour fiction podcast in the spirit of Lupin III and Venture Bros, follows Roxxie’s journey to rob the world’s shadow governments, superhero cabals, and insurance firms. All of it for one prize: the corpse of a superman and the secret behind the superpowers it contains. You can watch their trailer, read all about the project, and support these amazing creators at https://seedandspark.com/fund/roxx-populi-a-narrative-fiction-podcast-series#story
We chose to make Roxx Populi a podcast because the format allows us the freedom to explore topics frankly, honestly, and homosexually without “Standards and Practices” meddling. That said, people need to eat, and we are dedicated to paying our collaborators.
nds raised above our initial goal of $6,500 will be used to financially support the core writing team and enable our team to focus our energies on making
Our pilot premiered at a listening party on August 25th at the NYC LGBT Center • New York, NY. Episode 2 is complete and episode 3 is at the sound editor. Episodes 4 and 5 have finished scripts, and episodes 6-10 are in the writers’ room. We are planning to officially launch the podcast with a regular release schedule by the end of June 2024.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Marketing and Promotion
Costs $575
Roxxie's mission to stop the world from learning the superhero formula isn't done until everyone knows about the podcast!
Share this update!
About This Team
Taylor Geu, Creator, Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Roxx Populi
Taylor Geu was born in Yankton, South Dakota. Her first publication was a weekly comic book they passed around the playground in 4th grade. They learned general audiences were philistines. Since then, she’s become passionate about gender abolition and social justice, centering them in her scripts for stage and screen. A surrealist and fantasist, she’s interested in using the weird and spectacular to aid audiences in reconsidering what it means to be human beyond the usual societal script and norms.
Geu’s play "Adolsy" was produced as part of the “Dream Up Festival” at Theater for the New City in September 2022. As a playwright, Geu is a semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (twice), Bay Area Playwrights Festival (three times), and Blue Ink Playwriting Award; a finalist for the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival One-Act Play Contest; and a Second Rounder in the Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition. Geu voices Roxx Populi.
Petr Samoilov, Creative Producer
Petr Samoilov was born in Moscow, Russia. He received his first MFA in Art History from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2018 and his second MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch in 2021. As a Creative Executive at Braven Films – an independent New York film production company – Petr supervised the development of several projects with partners like BBC and Viacom International Studios. In Russia, Petr developed a groundbreaking TV show, We Really Need to Talk, created and hosted by Yulia Akhmedova, a trailblazing Russian female stand-up comedian. The unique concept combined a scripted reality talk show, stand-up, and a roast to ensure that women’s voices were heard in their relationships. He wrote the screenplay for the award-winning short film “The Best Fairy for Cinderella”. Petr writes scripts for commercial video and digital projects for clients ranging from Coca-Cola to Volkswagen, and from World Expo 2020 Dubai to the government of Afghanistan and Mandarin Oriental.
Sean McDonald, Writer
Sean McDonald writes things sometimes. He is from Los Angeles but saw the sun once and ran away in fear to cower in the shadows of New York, where he picked up an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch that he found lying next to a dead rat in some standing water. The things he sometimes writes have appeared in the genre magazine Kaleidotrope, YouTube channel Gametoons from Newscape Studios, an educational series SuperDville, and nerd news outlet Comic Book Resources. You can feed him seeds and sugar water but DO NOT make direct eye contact or he may get confused and attack.
Andrew Moorhead, Mantaman; Writer
Andrew Moorhead is a writer and actor from Piedmont, California, currently based in New York City. Favorite acting roles include Karl/Wanda in Adolsy (Theater For The New City) and Polonius in Hamlet (Chapman University). Andrew’s plays include The Colonialists (play/ground theatre LA, Broke People Play Festival) and Loaded Questions (The Sherry Theater). His musical, Bravo, has received workshops and concert productions at New Musicals Inc., Ball State University, and Azusa Pacific University, which he also directed. His new play, This Purple F***ing Pot, will receive a workshop reading early next year. He is currently a Lead Creative at Hello SciCom and the Editorial Assistant for the upcoming book, The Unconquerable Game, which will be published in the fall of 2023. In addition to acting in Roxxie, he is also a staff writer. BFA Chapman University. MFA NYU
Fadi Khoury, Sound Designer
Fadi Khoury is a Los Angeles-based composer and multi-instrumentalist who blends orchestral and electronic influences. He is most known as a music supervisor on the Student Academy award/student BAFTA-winning film Making Waves and as a composer for the student BAFTA-shortlisted film Use Your Words. Fadi holds a master's degree in music theory and composition from New York University.
Julia Blauvelt, PA System
Julia Blauvelt is a writer and sometimes actor in NYC. She's performed devised works with Peak Performances at Montclair State, Creative Time, Culture Project, and Dixon Place among others. As a writer, she has had residencies at Orchard Project (Performance Lab) and the Athena Film Festival (T.V. Writers Lab), and her play F.I.R.E. received an NYC production last year through New Normal Rep. She is a 2021 graduate of the MFA dramatic writing program at NYU Tisch.
Rhishan Dhamija, Quarterbag
Rishan is an actor/writer based out of New York. Rishan’s parents were hyped to hear that after graduating from acting school (UNC, M.F.A. ‘19), he’d get to play Doctors and IT guys on TV. Something they couldn’t get him to do in real life. He wasn’t going to give them the satisfaction. And so, he got his second M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing (NYU-Tisch ‘21) so that he could create authentic South Asian content for himself and his friends. Select Theater Credits: Yoga Play, The Play That Goes Wrong (Syracuse Stage), Yoga Play (Geva Theater Centre), One Man Two Guvnors, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Chautauqua Theater Company) Life of Galileo, Leaving Eden, Sense and Sensibility, Tartuffe, Dot, The May Queen, The Crucible, Beasts on the Moon, Sherwood the Adventures of Robin Hood (PlayMakers Rep). TV Credits: Blue Bloods (CBS), New Amsterdam (NBC), We Crashed, Little Voice (Apple TV+). Rishan is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA.
Shomari Pinnock, John
Collaborative actor, pretentious bartender, native New Yorker, and silly goose. In no particular order.
Rina Dutta, Endling
Rina is a New York City-based actress and graduate of NYU.