About Us

ROI GOLD PRODUCTIONS is an audio drama podcast producing group which is dedicated to creating high concept off beat fiction shows. They have previously produced THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF SUNSHINE - a serialized musical comedy podcast which ran for three season and won several award. It was called “manically incomprehensible” by the New York Times and listed as one of the 100 best podcasts by the London Sunday Times. Next they produced RADIO FREE MUSHROOM AMERICA the story of a lone survivor of a mushroom apocalypse.

Jonathan A. Goldberg (writer/producer): has written several podcast including Fall of the House of Sunshine and Radio Free Mushroom America. He also co-wrote Margaret’s Garden with Pacific Obadiah and wrote the first season of A Simple Herstory. He is also an internationally produced playwright with work seen across the country. Some works include: The Jew and the Demon (Rita and Burton Goldberg Prize), How to Shoot a Bull Moose (Israel Baron Award), Real Dead Ghosts (Jeffrey Mackey Award finalist), Sousepaw (Best of SF Fringe). He won the L Magazine Pocket Fiction Contest and has far too many cats. MFA Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.

Matt Roi Berger (composer/producer): is a New York City-based songwriter and the composer for films and stage works, including New York Musical Theatre Festival's Best of Fest Award-winning FAT CAMP, the indie cult fav SPIDERMUSICAL, and New York Neo-Classical Ensemble's TWELFTH NIGHT. They have written music for the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Old Vic's Arden Project and UC Santa Barbara, among others. Matt is the guitarist and songwriter for Teen Girl Scientist Monthly, and a graduate of NYU Tisch's Experimental Theater Wing.

James Oliva (director/associate producer): is the writer/creator/director of the psychedelic noir audio drama podcast What's The Frequency? In addition, he has appeared in many other podcasts as a voice actor. Most notably as the voice of Michael Tate on the audio dramapodcast Greater Boston, Robert Montague on Tides and Scott Sweet on 1994 and Azrael on Minefire. He's also had guest appearances on ars Paradoxica, The Strange Case of Starship Iris, Alba Salix, Lake Clarity, Big Data, Jim Robbie and the Wanderers, Oakpodcast, The Haven Chronicles, and Radiation World. He has also worked as director and sound designer for the podcast short Old Fashioned Hell House written by Jonathan Goldberg.

Kellie Fitzgerald (associate producer): is currently the director of operations at a large private university. She has produced and worked on several podcasts as well as theatrical productions across the country. She is currently working on her masters degree and wrangling a large number of cats with names like Nugget, Helen, Pizza, and Cambria. Also two feral cats that decided to decamp in her back yard

Martin D. Fowler (sound designer/editor): is a composer & multi-instrumentalist who composes and produces music for film, advertisements, & podcasts, records as Martin D. Fowler & WNNR, and writes, produces, & performs with many NYC-based artists.

Thaïs Miller (Yiddish language consultant): is the author of the novel Our Machinery (2008) and the short story collection The Subconscious Mutiny and Other Stories (2009). She is a PhD Candidate in Literature, pursuing a Creative/Critical Writing Concentration, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her MA in Creative Writing for Social Activism from New York University in 2011, and her BA magna cum laude with Honors in Literature and a minor in Music Performance from American University in 2009. She has taught literature and creative writing at UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley Extension, and the Gotham Writers Workshop.

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