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X-WR-CALNAME:Roll for Tricksters: A Powwow Heist – A Live Play
GM'd by
  Brennan Lee Mulligan with an All-Native Table
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DESCRIPTION:Roll for Tricksters: A Powwow Heist\nA Live Play GM'd by Brenna
 n Lee Mulligan with an All-Native Table\n\nADMISSION:\nAdmission is free.\
 n\nRSVP\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nNative storytelling and Dungeons & Dragons combin
 e when legendary dungeon master Brennan Lee Mulligan (Dimension 20\, World
 s Beyond Number\, Critical Role) leads an all-star cast of Native D&D play
 ers through Roll for Tricksters: A Powwow Heist\, a brand-new tabletop one
 -shot to match wits with cultural tricksters who create mischief and chaos
  wherever they go and save a small-town powwow.\n\nIn this one-shot escapa
 de\, professional writers and performers Kelly Lynne D’Angelo and Joey C
 lift\; USC alum and TV writer Lucas Brown Eyes\; USC alum and game develop
 er Diego Galileo Melendez\; and USC professor\, comedian\, and module writ
 er Maddox Pennington will join forces to recover stolen artifacts\, protec
 t the powwow from corporate exploitation\, and keep the Grand Procession r
 unning smoothly.\n\nAfter the live-play event\, USC students will have the
  opportunity to participate in Play the Powwow Heist!\, a playtest session
  with professional and student GMs on Wednesday\, February 18. Student gam
 ers of all levels are welcome to get first-hand experience with the one-sh
 ot.\n\nBios:\n\nLucas Brown Eyes is an Oglala Lakota TV writer from the Pi
 ne Ridge Reservation. He was raised by his mother\, grandmother\, and aunt
  because\, according to his mom\, matriarchy is the Lakota way. Lucas’ l
 arge family also included his brothers\, cousins\, and sometimes an uncle.
  They all lived packed in one house because\, according to his mom\, stron
 g family values are the Lakota way. Also\, they were poor. But what his fa
 mily lacked in funds they made up for in support. And in 2003\, their supp
 ort reached absurd levels when they moved to California so Lucas could stu
 dy TV writing and acting at the Orange County School of the Arts. He then 
 graduated from USC with a BA in Cinema-Television Production. In 2014\, he
  was accepted into the ABC Disney Writing Program. Lucas would go on to st
 aff on eight TV series spanning multiple genres including comedy\, drama\,
  sci-fi\, and horror. He has written for both live-action and animated sho
 ws\, with over 100 episodes of television under his belt —working with t
 he likes of J.J. Abrams and Guillermo del Toro. He has also sold and devel
 oped multiple pilots\, including the autobiographical Native American fami
 ly comedy Reservations. Most recently his work can be seen on the HBO MAX 
 series Duster.\n\nJoey Clift is a Los Angeles–based comedian\, Emmy-nomi
 nated TV writer\, and enrolled member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. Growing
  up\, Clift aspired to become a local TV weatherperson because he didn’t
  see Native American comedians on screen and thought a career in comedy wa
 s off-limits. He has since proven otherwise\, with his comedy featured in 
 the Washington Post\, CNN\, Dropout\, Pitchfork\, NPR\, Dead Meat\, and Co
 medy Central. As a television writer\, Clift has written for shows such as
  Spirit Rangers and Cocomelon Lane on Netflix\, Molly of Denali and Alma
 ’s Way on PBS\, New Looney Tunes and LEGO Ninjago: Decoded on Cartoon Ne
 twork\, and Paw Patrol on Nickelodeon. Clift created\, directed\, and wrot
 e Gone Native\, a Webby Award–winning Comedy Central Digital series abou
 t weird microaggressions Native folks often experience\, and his short fil
 ms have screened everywhere from Just For Laughs to the Smithsonian Museum
 .\n\nDiego Galileo Melendez is a writer and game developer from Los Angele
 s. After an invitation from a friend in 2021 to join their campaign\, his 
 love for Dungeons and Dragons and Tabletop RPGs has blossomed into a passi
 on – or obsession\, if you ask his mother – for writing and game desig
 n. Since then\, Melendez has starred in the indie live-play web series\, A
 rcane Critsters\, and written for and developed several video games\, incl
 uding the innovative fps dating-sim DuoQ and the high-speed bowling-racing
  game\, Lanesplitterz: Bowling 2. He is also a recent graduate from USC wi
 th a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Dornsife School of
  Letters\, Arts\, and Sciences.\n\nKelly Lynne D’Angelo is a Two-Spirit 
 Tuscarora (Haudenosaunee) writer\, performer\, and seasoned dungeon master
  with a passion for storytelling across multiple mediums\, including telev
 ision\, stage musicals\, and tabletop role-playing games (TTRPG). Her writ
 ing credits include Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina\, Miracle Wor
 kers\, and Final Space\, as well as Candlekeep Mysteries for Dungeons & Dr
 agons. With over a decade of experience in improv\, she took her first pro
 fessional dungeon-mastering role with Girls Guts Glory in 2015\, launching
  a career that has since made her a staple in the TTRPG community. Additio
 nal game-mastering credits including Geek & Sundry’s Tales From The Loop
 \, D&D Live\, D&D in a Castle\, and D&D Annual Celebration events. Beyond 
 the table\, D’Angelo has shared insights on storytelling in interviews o
 n shows including Dragon Talk\, Geek & Sundry’s GM Tips\, and Game Maste
 rs Hall. In theatre\, her parody musical Les Millenniables had a sold-out 
 run at Edinburgh Fringe in 2023 and her show Starry is set to debut on Lon
 don’s West End in 2025–26 through Ameena Hamid Productions. She is als
 o a selection committee member for Outfest’s Screenwriter Lab and serves
  as a mentor and coach for Creative Lab Hawai’i’s Ideation Program for
  Indigenous Storytellers.\n\nBrennan Lee Mulligan is an award-winning acto
 r\, writer\, creator\, and producer. As a cast member of CollegeHumor\, he
  wrote and starred in the sketch “Tide CEO\,” which won a 2019 Webby A
 ward and received over 8 million views. He is executive producer\, writer\
 , and game master of Dimension 20\, a series produced for the CH streaming
  service Dropout\, and also hosts Dropout’s fantasy gaming vodcast\, The
  Adventuring Academy. Mulligan is author and co-creator of the popular web
 comic and graphic novel series Strong Female Protagonist\, which was selec
 ted as an Autostraddle Favorite\, and was on io9’s list of Best New and 
 Short Webcomics. He received an Excellence in Performance Award from the N
 Y Fringe Festival\, playing the lead in …And Then She Dies at the End. M
 ulligan has been a head storywriter for The Wayfinder Experience\, a direc
 tor and performer for Story Pirates\, a member of the UCB Touring Company 
 and Harold Night\, and has taught and performed improv for years at the Up
 right Citizens Brigade Theater on both coasts. You can see his face on Ada
 m Ruins Everything\, sketches for CollegeHumor\, Funny Or Die\, and Above 
 Average. Mulligan’s voice can be heard in the animated series Cartoon He
 ll and Liverspots + Astronots\, and he voiced the character Tyler Locke in
  Audible’s 14-hour\, Audie-nominated occult thriller\, Locke & Key.\n\nM
 addox Pennington is a nonbinary comedian\, professor\, and playwright. A c
 itizen of the Cherokee Nation\, originally from Tulsa\, OK\, they received
  an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University\, and their debut 
 bibliomemoir\, A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me About
  Life\, Love\, and Women’s Work was published by Hachette Books in 2017.
  Previous writing has appeared on Electric Literature\, The Toast\, and Th
 e American Scholar online. Pennington has performed at DC Nerd Nite\, FemX
  Improvised Monologues\, the DC Drafthouse\, the DC LGBTQ Comedy Festival\
 , and other comedy venues. After teaching college and creative writing in 
 New York and Washington\, D.C.\, they moved to Los Angeles to join the wri
 ting faculty at USC\, where their teaching interests include Native studie
 s\, disability studies\, empathy\, and monsters. Their work for the stage 
 has been developed with the Native Voices series at the Autry Museum of th
 e American West and the La Jolla Playhouse\, NYC’s FRIGID Queerly Festiv
 al Off-Off Broadway\, the Theatre Viscera Podcast\, L.A.’s Moving Arts M
 ADLab\, and the 2023 T/GNC Reading Festival. They’ve written\, directed\
 , and produced award-winning plays with majority-nonbinary/trans casts\, i
 ncluding Love Chicken\, Annex\, and A Third Space at the Hollywood Fringe.
  They completed the Native American Media Alliance TV Writer’s Lab in 20
 23.\n\nRelated Event:\nPlay the Powwow Heist! – A One-Shot Playtest Sess
 ion\nWednesday\, February 18\, 2026\, from 4 to 7 p.m.\nFriends of the USC
  Libraries Lecture Hall\, Doheny Memorial Library 240 & DML 233 \nFor more
  info\, click HERE.\n\nPresented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by M
 addox Pennington (Writing) and Laser Webber.\n\nArt: Paige Pettibon
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LOCATION:Bovard Auditorium (ADM)
SUMMARY:Roll for Tricksters: A Powwow Heist – A Live Play
GM'd by Bren
 nan Lee Mulligan with an All-Native Table
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