GEEK SAGA ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDER & OWNER, TARA LYNNE
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Tara Lynne is an author, event planner, fandom and geek culture expert, and public speaker. They founded Ice & Fire Con, the first ever Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones convention in the U.S., The Geek Saga Show, and the genre lit webcast/podcast Sagas and Sass. Additionally, they were co-administrator of the popular geek media website The Geekiary from 2014-2020, and continue to co-host the Geekiary’s webcast “The B*tching Dead“.
In 2018, they starred as Daenaerys Targaryen and Margaery Tyrell in the workshop of Westeros: An American Musical, and they reprised those roles in the full-length Westeros Musical at Ice & Fire Con 2019. Most recently, they starred as Cersei Lannister in Queens: The Musical at Ice & Fire Con 2022 and 2023.
Tara has spoken about fandom and geek culture at San Diego Comic-Con, Dragon Con, C2E2, MegaCon, Ohio State University, TedX Sarasota, and more; you can find some of their more recent panels on The Geek Saga Podcast.
Their debut novel, The Way of Reckoning, was published in December 2014; Their second novel – entitled How to Start Living (in the Zombie Apocalypse) – was released in February 2017. They currently have several written works in progress.
You can contact Tara via email at ageeksaga [at] gmail [dot] com.
GEEK SAGA SHOW CO-HOST, MANNY
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Manny Roman is a world class introvert conversationalist. Raised in Miami by way of New York through the late 70s, the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, he then moved to Atlanta. He has spent many years going to Dragon Con and other conventions in the cosplay circuit. Finding himself growing stagnant, he took to the microphone, joining the Geek Saga Podcast’s “Hot D Takes” series in 2022 and thereafter becoming Tara’s ride-or-die co-host for 90s & Noughties Cringe Factor, Media That Made Us, and more!
