Felicia Day, actor, screenwriter (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Guild).
About this episode
Felicia Day discusses her influential career in internet-era geek culture and her return to The Guild.
Felicia Day is an actress, writer, producer, and entrepreneur whose work has helped define internet-era geek culture. After studying mathematics and music performance at the University of Texas at Austin , she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting, appearing in Buffy the Vampire Slayer . In 2007 she created, wrote, and starred in The Guild , the pioneering web series about a group of MMO players that became a cultural phenomenon and helped establish a new model for creator-driven digital storytelling. She later co-founded the online media company Geek & Sundry , expanding her influence across gaming, tabletop culture, and streaming entertainment. As well as starring in dozens of film and TV roles, she is the author of two New York Times- bestselling memoirs, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) and Embrace Your Weird . And now she’s bringing The Guild back, revisiting the series that helped launch a generation of internet storytelling in the form of a musical. Become a My Perfect Console supporter and receive a range of benefits at www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole Take the Acast listener survey to help shape the show: My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin Survey…
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