Industry Guest

Jay Gellerman

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Jay Gellerman/ @Neofett3 (on the Socials) is an American GM, content creator and twitch streamer. He's most notable for his the Shadowport Adventures series with the Star Wars RPG created by Fantasy Flight Games. He is the CEO of The Emporium of the Wayward Gamer LLC and Twitch Channel. He can be found running many different genre games as a Pro-GM for several publishing companies as well his own games at several conventions around the United States including Gary Con, Gamehole Con, Gen Con, PAXU and many more.

Shenuque Tissera

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Shenuque Tissera is a stand-up comedian, actor, writer, director, and AP performer. He is a co-founder of Many Sided Media, the team behind the award-winning podcast 'My First Dungeon.' Shenuque has performed stand-up across the country, featured in the New York Comedy Festival, and has also written for Someecards and HBO Max.

Lauren Bryant-Monk

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Lauren Bryant-Monk (she/her) is dedicated to making the Tabletop Industry safer, more diverse, and full of smooches. She is a game designer, safety consultant, and a co-curator of the TTRPG Safety Toolkit. Her work can be found in DIE RPG, Starforged, and Fight, Item Run. Her self-published games centre emotional intimacy, meaningful relationships and important choices and have been featured in Dicebreaker and Gizmodo. She can be found on most places on the internet as starvingsoubrette and on twitter as @jl_nicegirl

Brian Flaherty

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Brian Flaherty (he/him) is a New York City-based executive producer at the TTRPG podcasting company Many Sided Media. He is a producer, editor, and sound designer as well as the host of the award-winning actual play podcast My First Dungeon and the co-host of the TTRPG conversation show Talk of the Table. He is also the layout artist for the solo time-travel roleplaying game Project ECCO. You can listen to all the shows from Many Sided Media wherever you get your podcasts.

Kris Siddiqi

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Kris Siddiqi is a comedian, actor and writer from Toronto! Recipient of the 2015 Canadian Comedy Award for Best Male Improviser and the 2014 “Best Of” Now Magazine Awards. Trained in sketch and improvisation since a young age, Kris studied with the world-renowned Second City, joined the Mainstage cast in 2009 and wrote 3 revues with them. From there he went to voice work, becoming the Network Voice of Country Music Television, principal roles on many cartoons as well as becoming a series regular on the Comedy Panel Show on CBC Because News.

Jason Ox

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Jason Ox is a Game Designer and comedian who has a deep love of every type of gaming. He's the co-creator of Sine, a new TTRPG that aims to bring your own ideas to the established lore of the world. Stay tuned for more projects coming from Jason's mind as he enters into the gaming world as a designer.

Tatiana Gefter

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Tatiana Gefter is an indie podcaster who haunts the audio drama and ttrpg spaces. Currently she is the writer, producer, and voice actor for 'Soul Operator', an actual play-narrative fiction blend focused on highlighting incredible solo ttrpgs! She can be heard as the voice of Violet Lull in 'The Department of Variance of Somewhere, Ohio', Marigold in 'Tales from the Fringes of Reality', and many more places if you dare to look!

Elliot Davis

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Elliot Davis, aka "moreblueberries", is a Brooklyn-based game designer, podcaster, and artist who loves all things weird and wonderful about the TTRPG industry. He is known for such releases as Project ECCO and the upcoming Orbital Blues: The Wanderer. When he's not losing sleep over a new game idea you can hear him play, host, GM, and more on the podcasts My First Dungeon and Talk of the Table which he produces as part of the Many Sided Media team.

Samantha Leigh

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Samantha Leigh (aka, GoblinMixtape) is a TTRPG designer from Virginia and the owner of Blinking Birch Games. She is best known for her ENNIE-nominated solo game, Anamnesis, and her short-form TikTok videos on indie TTRPGs. Sam's writing credits include Cloud Empress, The Zone, and Project ECCO. They were a judge for the 2023 Indie Groundbreaker Awards, and a source artist for BalletCollective's 2023 season during which their TTRPG was transformed into a ballet in NYC.