Cover Story
Felicia Day
Queen of the Geeks
By Josh Jackson
Felicia Day knows she only has herself to blame for her schedule. When videogame company BioWare approached her with the idea to make a couple of webisodes to supplement its launch of some new downloadable content for Dragon Age II, she wrote, produced and starred in an ambitious six-episode adventure—nearly an hour’s worth of television. But she learned quickly that creating a fantasy action-adventure series was very different than her low-budget, highly successful comedy show, The Guild.
“I said, ‘Let’s make a huge, epic web series on almost no money,’ and I underestimated not only the work of managing the...