Английская Википедия:Brennan Lee Mulligan

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Brennan Lee Mulligan (born January 4, 1988) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and gamemaster. He has worked with CollegeHumor as a sketch writer and performer, and as gamemaster for their actual play web series, Dimension 20. He also wrote the superhero webcomic Strong Female Protagonist alongside artist Molly Ostertag.

Early life

Mulligan was born on January 4, 1988, in New York as the son of Elaine Lee and Joe Mulligan. He was introduced to the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons by his mother at age nine, first gamemastering at age ten.

Mulligan was introduced to theatrical gaming while attending the Hudson Valley Beltane Festival at age eleven. He started attending The Wayfinder Experience, a live-action role-playing summer camp, spending much of his teenage years working as a lead story writer, performer, and camp counsellor there. At age 15, Mulligan and his brother co-founded Bootleg Adventures, organising one-day live-action role-playing games to introduce children to theatrical gaming. In an interview with the Times-Herald Record, a 16 year-old Mulligan expressed conviction in theatrical gaming's potential to enable 'kids [to] come out healthier beings than when they first arrive.'

In 2005, at 17 years old, Mulligan graduated from SUNY Ulster with an associate degree, having majored in philosophy/humanities. In 2009, Mulligan graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in screenwriting.

Career

Writing

Mulligan and Molly Ostertag co-created the webcomic Strong Female Protagonist, which was named one of io9's Best New and Short Webcomics of 2012. In 2015, Strong Female Protagonist won an Autostraddle Comic and Sequential Art Award.

In 2017, Mulligan joined CollegeHumor as a writer for Um, Actually: The Web Series. In 2018, CollegeHumor's streaming service Dropout launched Um, Actually as a game show, with Mulligan continuing to write for the show until 2020. Mulligan was also a writer for several scripted shows on Dropout, including the space saga Troopers and the mockumentary Gods of Food.

In 2023, Mulligan was a writer for Foul Play, an interactive murder mystery series created by Andrew Barth Feldman and Alex Boniello.

Performing

In his twenties, he performed and taught comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB). It was working at the UCB that led Mulligan to working at CollegeHumor, (premiering on December 14, 2017, with Who's the Real Cop?).

Since 2018, Mulligan has been an executive producer, writer, and gamemaster for Dimension 20 on Dropout (which also hosts his video podcast, Adventuring Academy). In his capacity as a professional D&D gamemaster, he has been cited by Bleeding Cool, Comic Book Resources, Wired, and Wizards of the Coast's own Dungeons & Dragons podcast—Dragon Talk. Glen Weldon, in a review of Dimension 20 for NPR, commented that "Mulligan is such a good DM and he's got so many improv skills. He's such a close and responsive listener that no matter what the players throw at him, he can always roll with it, without breaking the game. And that is a very rare skill, so it's terrific stuff". Mulligan was the Dungeon Master for Exandria Unlimited: Calamity, a weekly, four-part actual play web series spin-off of Critical Role that premiered on May 26, 2022. In January 2023, it was announced that Mulligan with Erika Ishii, Aabria Iyengar, and Lou Wilson will star in the creator-owned actual play podcast Worlds Beyond Number. The show launched on March 1, 2023 and quickly became one of the top 20 Patreon accounts in the world.

Awards

He has received an "Excellence in Performance Award" from the New York International Fringe Festival, and won a 2019 Webby Award in the "Comedy: Shortform" category for his CollegeHumor skit, Tide CEO: You Gotta Stop Eating Tide Pods.

Personal life

Mulligan is the godson of acclaimed comics artist and writer, Michael Kaluta. In November 2015, Mulligan was a contestant on the American version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and won Шаблон:US$ after incorrectly answering the Шаблон:US$-question.

By 2020, he lived in Los Angeles. On January 21, 2021, Mulligan announced his engagement to his fiancée—Isabella "Izzy" Roland—via Instagram. They married on April 1, 2023.

In August 2023, during the 2023 Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes, Mulligan led a Dungeons & Dragons-themed picket day at Universal Studios where the final boss was AMPTiamat.

On January 23, 2024, Brennan announced the birth of his and Roland's first child, a daughter, on the Patreon for the podcast Worlds Beyond Number.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?	Himself	2 episodes
2018–2019	Adam Ruins Everything	Supporting roles	2 episodes; "Adam Ruins Music", "Adam Ruins Guns"

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Шаблон:Abbr
2015	Locke & Key	Tyler (voice)	Audio drama
2013	Teacher's Lounge	Matt
2017–present	CollegeHumor Originals	Various
2017	Fallen For You	Todd	Pilot released on YouTube
2018–present	Dimension 20	Dungeon Master, various	Also creator, producer
2018	Liverspots and Astronots	Lancery (voice), various
2019–present	Adventuring Academy	Himself
2019–present	Game Changer	Himself
2019-2022	Mission to Zyxx	Kor Balevore (voice)	318: "Malice in Chains", 501: "O Others, Who Art Thou?!", 503: "Good Spot Hunting", 505: "Being Jawn Malevolent", 507: "A Little Ditty ‘Bout Jakk and Shai’An", 512: "A Noob Hope", 515: "Gary’s Home Companion", 520: "The Whole Mufalata", 521: "The Ass End"
2019	The Adventure Zone: The Dadlands	Game Master
	Ultramechatron Team Go!	Galatax
2020	Rude Tales of Magic	Kreedis (voice)	Episode: "Mountaintop"
2021	Hello from the Magic Tavern	Kalhaxorus the Grim (voice)	Episode: "Death Knight"
	L.A. by Night	Adrian Clairmont	Episode: "Live on the Moon", Episode: "Reign in Hell"
	Battle for Beyond	Nikhil
2022	Critical Role	Brigidda	Episode: "Elden Ring One-Shot: O Ye of Little Faith"
	Legends of the Multiverse	Dungeon Master
	Roll20	Citizen Doctor Abraham Mehermblur	3 episodes; "D&D Strixhaven", "D&D Chaos", "D&D Chaos 3"
	Exandria Unlimited: Calamity	Dungeon Master
2023	Worlds Beyond Number: The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One	Dungeon Master	Creator-owned podcast
2023	Candela Obscura	Sean Finnerty	3 episodes

External links

• Шаблон:Official website
• Шаблон:Twitter
• Шаблон:Instagram
• Шаблон:IMDb name