"Nermut Bundaloy" / Co-Creator / Producer / Editor
MISSION TO ZYXX is an improvised science fiction podcast following a team of ambassadors as they attempt to establish diplomatic relations with planets in the remote and chaotic ZYXX QUADRANT of the TREMILLION SECTOR. They work for the benevolent and harmonious FEDERATED ALLIANCE, which has recently defeated the evil GALACTIC MONARCHY. The Federated Alliance is definitely less evil.
The Alliance's newest recruit is AMBASSADOR PLECK DECKSETTER, a naive, gung-ho farm boy whose crew includes trusty, know-it-all droid C-53, and hulking, omnisexual security officer DAR. They travel aboard the outdated, sentient starship THE BARGAREAN JADE - aka BARGIE - who has as many ex-husbands as stories about her glory days. Their mission is nominally overseen by JUNIOR MISSIONS OPERATIONS MANAGER NERMUT BUNDALOY, a striving, entry-level bureaucrat yearning for respect.
I make the show alongside six other co-creators: Jeremy Bent, Alden Ford, Allie Kokesh, Shane O’Connell, Winston Noel and Moujan Zolfaghari. Performances are improvised and then edited and sound designed to become sitcom episodes for your ears. Each episode features a special guest comedian playing a character with the unlucky fate of receiving the team of ambassadors on his or her home planet. Season 3 is airing now!
Illustrations by Owen Freeman, Eric Geusz, Steve Dressler, Etgar Torne and Michael Murdock. Photographs by Arin Sang-Urai.
