Roxx Populi: Episode 5
Populi's Pal
an episodic audio drama
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Decades ago, DARPA abandoned the research vessel USS Horus somewhere in the Atlantic. All information on the ship, and its role in the creation of superheroes, was erased. Except for the memories of one Captain Crowe.
A Hail Mary at the end of the line, Roxxie asks Crowe to take her to the condemned vessel. Quarterbag Life Insurance was on the ship, and any trace of them could lead her to Captain Wraythe’s body.
Instead, she finds a military drone, and is welcomed with a missile barrage.
Roxxie awakens on the USS Horus, Captain Crowe nowhere to be found. Her only company is a voice on the ship’s PA system. And that voice is Roxx Populi’s biggest fan.
For the first time in years, Roxxie is truly on her own. Now she’s forced to face not just a manic fanboy, but the fallout of her own celebrity.
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 Warner, Boatie
Andrew Warner is an actor, comedian, VO and podcaster based out of New York City. He has trained at the UCB theatre and The Annoyance in comedy, and most recently in acting at HB Studio under Mercedes Ruehl and Jonathan Lynn. You can see him performing regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NYC as a member of the house team Mugshot!. You can also see his comedy podcast Cranium Infinitum on TikTok and other socials. Please talk to him about cinema; he would like nothing more. https://www.andrewtwarner.com/
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!
Roxx Populi is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement,
a regrant program supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in
partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC.
