One Shot Creators & Guests

James D'Amato is one of the creators of the One Shot Podcast Network. He is a Chicago-based podcaster and improvisor and is involved in a number of podcasts as the host of One Shot Podcast.

Senda Linaugh is known for her un-spellable twitter handle and contagious giggle.She is one half of She’s a Super Geek, the actual play podcast highlighting women as GMs; and one half of Panda’s Talking Games, where she and gaming mogul Phil Vecchione tackle GMing advice for one shots and campaigns. Add those together and she is one whole podcaster!Senda has published her first game with Encoded Designs, Love and Justice as well as co-authoring Turning Point, a collaborative game of difficult life decisions, and developing for the upcoming Hydro Hacker Operatives. Senda is also a staff gnome (writer) at Gnome Stew.

Tim Meredith also known as Stellar Tim and Captain Bigtime, is an actor, improvisor, professional podcaster, writer, and comedian. He is the showrunner for the podcast Stellar Firma. He is Senior Performing Arts Technician for the Institute for Contemporary Theatre.

Méabh de Brún is an actor, playwright and writer who explores difficult subjects through black comedy and dark fantasy. She has acted onstage from an early age, and has been a voice actor in video games, radio plays and commercial voice-over work.de Brún's fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly, Banshee Press, and Neon Hemlock, and has been collected in anthologies. Her first one-act play, "Dead Man’s Bells," won eight festival awards in its first tour and the DCLI/ACDI Playwriting Award. She has also written the screenplays for the short films "Saint Sisters and the Sea," "Locked," and "The Pillar." She has also written for the audio dramas "A Dark Night In Dublin," and "The Town Whispers."

Naomi Clarke is a prolific scriptwriter most well known for her work on The Secret of St Kilda. The audio drama has garnered over 100k listens, 12 AudioVerse awards (including Best Writing), and festival nominations worldwide. With over 100 podcast credits, there’s very little she can’t do. Whether its production, performance or promotion, Naomi always commits to the bit 100%.

Ben Meredith is a game designer and voice actor.

Michelle Kelly is a stage and voice actor based in Yorkshire, England.

Drew Mierzejewski is an actor and performer. Currently, he works at a theme park.Mierzejewski is co-creator of the RPG actual play/audio drama/fiction podcast "Warda."Mierzejewski received his M.A. in Acting from Northern Illinois University.

Adal Rifai has been improvising in Chicago since 2007. He performs at iO with the house team Revolver, in the weekly show Whirled News Tonight (iO) and around the U.S. with Pudding-Thank-You and BagCat.

🇵🇪 Latinx Game DesignerAuthor of Pasión de las Pasiones Host of @stophackandroll and @proteancityGM of #LatinXplosion#PasionRPG (he/him)

Has been playing RPGs since going in halvsies with his best friend on the the Mentzer Red box at 12 years old. Despite being involved in RPGs for almost 30 years he’s played very little as he is mostly the forever DM – but don’t worry, he loves it! As a DM Michael tends to be more story focused and has been known to fudge a die roll or two if it serves the greater story. He craves immersive role playing and dramatic character moments. Michael rarely does combat in his games, unless he does. And likely you’ll find a magic dagger at some point (and likely that’s it for magic items) and it’s best to never rule out time travel as the answer to the campaign’s central mystery. Besides RPGs, Michael is also growing into a Boardgame geek and is already a Movie Geek. And if you didn’t already know – he wants to be a writer. Michael is married to his high school sweetheart and has two minions that he hopes to bring up loving RPG’s as much as he does.