Brennan Lee Mulligan
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 (2018–present). He also wrote the superhero webcomic Strong Female Protagonist alongside artist Molly Ostertag, on hiatus since 2018.
Brennan Lee Mulligan
January 4, 1988
- Writer
- performer
- gamemaster
2012–present
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- Joe Mulligan (father)
- Elaine Lee (mother)
Webby Award (2019)
Early life[edit]
Brennan Lee Mulligan was born on January 4, 1988, in New York[1] 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,[2] first gamemastering at age ten.[3]
Mulligan was introduced to theatrical gaming while attending the Hudson Valley Beltane Festival at age eleven.[4] He started attending The Wayfinder Experience, a live-action role-playing summer camp,[5] spending much of his teenage years working as a lead story writer, performer, and camp counsellor there.[3][6] 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.[4] 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".[4]
In 2005, at 17 years old, Mulligan graduated from SUNY Ulster with an associate degree,[1] having majored in philosophy and humanities.[3] In 2009, Mulligan graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in screenwriting.[7][8]
Personal life[edit]
Politically, Mulligan is a socialist.[31]
Mulligan is the godson of comics artist and writer Michael Kaluta.[32] In November 2015, Mulligan was a contestant on the American version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and won $50,000 after incorrectly answering the $100,000-question.[33]
By 2020, he lived in Los Angeles.[21] On January 21, 2021, Mulligan announced his engagement to his fiancée—Izzy Roland—via Instagram.[34] They married on April 1, 2023.[35]
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.[36][37]
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.[38]