Cast Performances and Videos!

Three juicy bits of news for Guild cast members and their other jobs!

BEING HUMANS, the improv group with Felicia Day, Jeff Lewis and Sandeep Parikh (Codex, Vork and Zaboo) has 3 performance dates in May! Watch Guild members do improv!

Dates: Friday May 2nd, 9th, and 16th

Time: 10:30pm

Where: Westside Eclectic Theatre
1323-A 3rd Street Promenade (In the Alley)
Santa Monica, CA 90401
310-451-0850
If you’re in LA or near here, come check it out!

Also alert Guild viewers have seen Viji Nathan (Avinashi) in a national Heineken commercial! Congratulations Viji!

And Robin Thorsen (Clara) has a clips with her best friend Michael on Movie Mob movie reviews and they need your votes every Tuesday through Thursday to keep reviewing each week. It’s also shown, cut-together with other reviews, on ReelzChannel Tuesday at 4pm. Check it out! You can vote as many times as you want and don’t have to register!

“Slate” Podcast Features “The Guild”!

Slate’s new Podcast on culture-at-large “Cultural Gabfest” (with critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner) feature many interesting topics today, April 9th, including “The Guild”.

Listen to it here! Mainstream culture likes us, yay! Thanks Gabfest! And fans Hogan and Dahlia for the email heads up!

Felicia Interview with Dynamic Forces

Felicia does an interview with Dynamic Forces, talking about The Guild, acting and Dr. Horrible (the Joss Whedon musical she’s in, out later this year. Check it out here!

Great Article on “The Guild”!

We’ve had our fair share of writeups lately, but we’re definitely flattered and pleased as punch at Tilzy’s write-up on our show here, as well as a great video interview from SXSW with Felicia and Sandeep. Check it out! Thanks Josh and Co. @ Tilzy.TV.  Keep up with their great New Media Coverage by subscribing to their feed.  They obviously have good taste. :)

“The Guild” Press for Tuesday

I’m sure all this will let up soon enough, but we’re lucky to be getting a lot of coverage on our show!

Last night at the New Tee Vee meetup in LA, we did a little interview you can see here!

And thank you fan Darth Angelus for alerting us to some physical magazine goodness about The Guild in PC Gamer UK!  Quote:

“The Guild is about a small but diverse group of people who play an unnamed (but suspiciously WoW-like) MMO. The story kicks off when one of these players crosses the boundary between in-game friendships and real life, and drags the rest along. Day’s writing (she also stars and produces) is sharp and often very funny. And rather than resorting to the outdated geek stereotypes conventional TV insists on, The Guild lampoons real MMO player archetypes: the stay-at-home mother, the over-enthusiastic, etc. It’s also refreshing to watch something that’s professionally produced, about games, and doesn’t wildly, wilfully, insultingly misunderstand them. It’s Day’s show, she’s been a hardcore gamer for 22 years, and it shows.”

Here’s a jpg he took of the page.  We don’t get that magazine here, but now we have a picture!  Thanks Darth!

And lastly, Eldorian, a huge supporter of the show since the wee days last year, did another lovely writeup alerting WoW Stratics readers to our Episode 8 upload!  Read it here!

Felicia’s Acceptance Speech from SXSW

Thanks for this link goes to hacksaway at Whedonesque! What a great link!

Gamespot’s Vlog entry about On Network/SXSW Greenlight Awards with Gamespot’s Homer Rabara includes interviews with Felicia and Sandeep and Felicia’s whole acceptance speech! Relevant parts are at 0:55, 5:00 and 6:24. Also has an interview with the whole crew after winning: Felicia, Sandeep, and producers Kim Evey and director/producer Jane Selle Morgan.

New Links about The Guild!

We’ve gotten a lot of cool press about our show lately, so we have some links we’d like to share with you, and some sites we want to give some love to for their support!

• The Los Angeles Times’ New Media Blog declares “The Guild” winner of overall “Best Tuby” from the YouTube 2007 video awards! Thanks LA Times! :)
• New Tee Vee has a SXSW interview posted with Felicia and Sandeep about the show here.
• Daisy Whitney’s “New Media Minute” has an interview with tips from online content producers, including Felicia’s tips on how to get your show seen.
• Shout out to Massively, the news site about MMO games that we at “The Guild” love, who posts about Episode 8 and our wins. They’ve been a great supporter of the show, along with Veronica Belmont at Mahalo Daily, and the Joss Whedon fans at whedonesque.com so check their sites out!
• Also Alert Nerd has a really great blog entry on the show. Sarah’s comments are really lovely, especially the ones about the character “Codex”. They really pinpoint why Felicia wrote the series in the first place. Girl nerds as lead characters FTW! Thanks Sarah!

Hooray! And one favor to ask ;)

We’re so proud to announce that tonight “The Guild” took home the On Networks/SXSW Greenlight Award for best web series! Check it out here. In attendance at SXSW were Guild members Felicia Day, Kim Evey, Jane Selle Morgan, Greg Benson, Sandeep Parikh and Leah Mann! (Jane wasn’t in this picture, but Felicia’s brother Ryon was, hah)

When Felicia accepted the award she dedicated it to all the Guild donors, because without each and every one of you, there would be no show at all. We look forward to making many new episodes, including shooting episode 10 on Friday!

We have one other favor to ask. Today, we were informed that the show is one of five finalists for the Yahoo series award! What a week! We noticed that the Guild is lagging in votes, so please, we would appreciate your vote. It seems there’s one per IP address. The prize is TBD, but every bit of publicity helps because we are an indie production so please take a second and vote, it would mean a lot!

“The Instance” Interview!

The Instance, the massively popular World Of Warcraft podcast, has posted a 30 minute interview with Zaboo and Codex..er, Sandeep Parikh and Felicia Day. Check it out here!

LA Times likes The Guild!

There’s a nice write up on our show by David Sarno for LA Times’ online content blog “Web Scout”. Check it out here!

The Guild Featured on iTunes!

We’re at the top of the podcast section today! Thanks to “Mike from Chicago” from Felicia’s blog for the screenshot!

Episode 5: Rather Be Raiding

Episode 5 of The Guild: Rather Be Raiding can be viewed here!

 

The Guild: Episode 5

Launch screening room

Thanks to all the people who made Episode 5 possible: The cast and crew, the many generous individual donors, Jinx T-shirts and all the people who do the work AFTER filming, like editing, post-sound etc. We are so appreciative of your help in making these last few episodes! We are so pleased with how they turned out, we hope you are too!

ALSO we have an IMDB page now! How legitimate and shiny! If you have an account there, please rate us!

Interview with Vork on The Older Gamer

Vork was able to take time out of his busy Guildmaster schedule, precisely 11 minutes between raid times, to do an interview with RogueSlayer over at The Older Gamer.

TOG: What is your real name?
Vork: My name is Herman Holden but I find it and my online identity, Vork, indistinguishable.

TOG: How long have you been playing this game?:
Vork: My online career started many years ago, in the early 80’s as a vocational college student. I ran a dial-up MUD called “Questing For Justice Always.” It wasn’t popular. Since then I’ve sampled many realms. My current career game is just over a year old.

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Read the whole interview here!