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Dylan S. Roberts is an independent actor and director living in the Chicago area. A company member with Midsommer Flight since 2013, he most recently directed Twelfth Night and played Antonio in The Tempest in 2019. Other recent directing credits include Hamlet with Fleeing Artists Theatre, Love’s Labour’s Lost with Invictus Theatre Co. and Private Lives, by Noel Coward, with Metropolis Performing Arts Center. Additionally, he co-founded the Framework Theatre Collective. With the Framework Dylan adapted King Lear as a radio play, and adapted and directed The Marriage Proposal: A One Act in Three Acts by Anton Chekhov, and a modern retelling of Antigone, which he also directed. Dylan proudly graduated with a degree in directing and theatre arts from the University of Wisconsin at Parkside. A debonair menswear enthusiast, he can usually be found with a glass of single malt in his hand. www.dylansroberts.com
Dylan S. Roberts
Phil's been in Chicago for 13 years, performing on various stages and behind various microphones in that time. He's been an actor, a teacher, a tour guide, a scientist, but his biggest and most important role right now is father to a six year old. Like Dylan, Phil also graduated from UW-Parkside with a theatre degree and can't wait to use it to dig into the world of children's programming. www.thevoiceofphil.com
Phil Zimmerman
Episode 2: The Little Mermaid
Disney's Little Mermaid provides the backdrop for an exploration of parenting while angry, sexy cecaelia, and where baby mermaids come from. Hint: it's weird.
Episode 4: YouTube
Children's Media lives in the sunlit world of what we believe to be reality. But... there is, seen by most, an underworld, a place that is just as real, but not as well produced... YouTube. (Bonus points to anyone who gets this reference)
Episode 1: Pete the Cat & Paw Patrol
In this first episode Dylan shares the chill, musical world of Pete the Cat with Phil. Phil then shares the dystopian, capitalism fueled nightmare that is Paw Patrol with Dylan.
Episode 3: Aladdin
Ever wonder why Genie in Return of Jafar sounds like Homer Simpson? Or if when he made Aladdin into Prince Ali did Genie also will into existence an entire kingdom and royal family to make the wish legit? These are the burning questions our children never asked us when watching this movie.