Roxx Populi: Episode 1
The Dead Body Makes It Kinda Gay
an episodic audio drama
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Captain Wraythe’s body is one of the government's most valuable assets. That’s why they’re holding the funeral in space. This doesn’t stops Roxxie, Deuter, Glowing Insurance Agents, and sundry funeral crashers from taking their shot at the heist of the century.
The Creative Team
Taylor Geu, Roxx Populi; Writer
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.
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 genre magazine Kaleidotrope, YouTube channel Gametoons from Newscape Studios, educational series SuperDville, and nerd new 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.
Petr Samoilov, Writer
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.
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.
Rishan 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.
Rina Dutta, Endling
Rina is a New York City based actress and graduate of 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.
Shomari Pinnock, John
Collaborative actor, pretentious bartender, native New Yorker, and silly goose. In no particular order.