Roxx Populi: Episode 2
God Gave Me the Finger
an episodic audio drama
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Full Episode
Episode 2: Doll Museum Teaser
Episode 2: Roxxie & Deuter Teaser
With Wraythe’s body stolen, Roxxie and Deuter are left searching for clues and scraps in Nebraska. While scanning the radio, they’re given a break: Gas station entrepreneur Gilbert Gutman has found a single finger from Captain Wraythe. Believing it a portent, he’s opened applications for his new cult based in Gumptious Gil’s Gas Station and Seminary off Country Road 54. Roxxie is game, leaving Deuter to find out how far he’s willing to go to help a friend.
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.

Steven James Schmidt, Sound Designer
Steven Schmidt is a writer, composer, and educator born and raised outside of Los Angeles, currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. He loves theatre, songwriting, and watching Drag Race reruns with his wife. But most of all, he has a passion for art that makes this world into a kinder, more just place to live. Feel free to check out Ghostlight: A Musical or Bravo: A Musical on your preferred streaming platform to listen to some of Steven's work!

