Friend Dog Studios

In August of 2015, as soon as I left my job at Hallmark, I paired up with Ben Auxier and Seth Macchi to begin making online content on a regular basis. We set up a Patreon page, bought a camera and got to work. Our second video went viral and for the last three years we've made videos and podcasts and slowly built our following.

Hits like “2016: The Movie” and “GOP Jesus” earned us features in AV Club, Funny or Die, Snapchat, Entertainment Weekly, Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Daily Mail, Independent and others.

We wrote two musicals and a one-act play together, which scored half a dozen productions and seven Jeff Award nominations in Chicago. At our peak, we had nearly 70,000 followers across Facebook, Youtube and Instagram, and nearly 100 fans contributing funding to each release on Patreon.

Friend Dog Studios went on indefinite hiatus in 2021, but the musicals continue to be produced.