Shadi Petosky
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Born | Kalispell, Montana, U.S. |
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Years active | 2007–present |
Notable work | Danger & Eggs, Twelve Forever |
Shadi Petosky is a television show runner. She is best known for her work on Danger & Eggs and The Sandman.
Early life
Petosky was born in
Gender and sexuality
Petosky came out as queer prior to coming out as trans.[d] When she did start to identify as trans, gay men she was romantically involved with would ridicule her for it.[e] She started seeking therapy around age 24, primarily surrounding her transness.[f] She describes it as taking place at a time in the world when "it was a really popular....it was popular to think that if you were [a male to female] trans [person] and you liked men, you were just a self-loathing homosexual, so I believed that hard-core, that, like, I was just...I...I liked boys, I knew I liked boys but I couldn't imagine myself...I had to picture myself as a woman [...] to be able to have an intimate relationship with a boy."[g] Eventually, Petosky began subscribing to radical feminist ideology and "got really into trying to, like, break down gender and completely eradicate it from my mind."[h]
In September 2015, Petosky was detained at the
In 2017, Petosky stated that she is still learning and questioning everything about her gender, even divorcing herself from labeling herself as a woman: "In allowing flexibility and not having rigid thought is, like, a new concept that I'm working so hard on...to just let myself be flexible. But the world's not that flexible. Like, you know, every article is like, 'This is a show created by a transgender woman,' or, like...I don't call myself a woman. It's just assumed. I don't, but I also don't, like, call myself agender or non-binary or anything like that, because I am pretty binary in a lot of ways. I just say 'trans.' I just like 'trans.' It's just, like, a wide enough [label]."[i]
Career
Petosky was a computer programmer[12] before meeting Zander Cannon and helping Cannon to co-publish The Replacement God.[13] With Cannon and Kevin Cannon, Petosky formed the comic art studio Big Time Attic in late 2004.[14][15] The three illustrated the graphic novel Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards for science writer Jim Ottaviani.[16]
In January 2007, Petosky and Vincent "King Mini" Stall, along with the employees of Big Time Attic, formed a "convergence media" studio called Puny Entertainment,[17][18] half of which was bought by Chris Hardwick in 2015.[19] The studio went defunct around a decade later.[20] In 2016, Petosky stated that creating Puny Entertainment was her only option if she wanted to do "creative work."[21] Shadi was later described as the "cofounder and creative director" of PUNY.[22]
In the years that followed, Petosky and Stall created video games and animation for Cartoon Network and created animation for the Nickelodeon/Nick Jr. Channel television show Yo Gabba Gabba!. While acting as an animation supervisor on the show, she was "introduced to opportunities in kids’ animation."[23] She later described how animation came as a surprise after doing it on Yo Gabba Gabba![12] When she worked on Mystery Science Theater 3000 in 2007, Petosky talked about the financial cost of the show. She stated that she suspected that the show had problem generating revenue, selling t-shirts, post-it notes, and mouse pads to pay for the show's production because fans did not like the poorly designed and written animated characters.[24]
Then, in 2009, Petosky and Stall opened the Pink Hobo - Geek Art Gallery in 2009 to showcase art work inspired by pop culture, digital media, and lowbrow art.[25][17] In its first year, the art gallery, in northeast Minneapolis, had exhibitions on Barack Obama[26] and the art of Yo Gabba Gabba.[27] Later, Feral Audio was launched from her apartment in Franklin Village, near the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, with her, and other artists at PUNY, creating the brand identity, website, and cover art for Feral's first slate of podcasts. In 2010, Petosky developed the pilot for Danger & Eggs titled "Philip, the Safety Egg."[28] Petosky was interviewed at Amazon's request as a writer for Transparent but was rejected because she came from another part of the entertainment industry though she consulted on the show.[12] After public outcry that the show had no transgender writers, Shadi was part of a second season training program and competition to find a trans writer from six possible candidates.[29][30]
The following year, Petosky began working on Danger & Eggs even more, pitching the show, and later becoming the executive producer who was "responsible for everything."
Petosky co-created a
Social and political views
Petosky is politically active. In 2002, she edited and animated the political videos for Bushboy.com, cited as pioneering Internet political parody videos pre-YouTube. The popularity of these video led to Petosky doing paid work for
Podcast appearances
Name of Podcast | Year | Source |
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The Bailey Jay Show | 2013 | [46] |
Conversations with Matt Dwyer | 2013 | [47] |
Go from There | 2013 | [48] |
Nerdist
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2013 | [49] |
Sugar and Spice | 2013 | [50] |
This Feels Terrible | 2013 | [51] |
Lady to Lady | 2013 | [52] |
The JV Club | 2014 | [53] |
The Dana Gould Hour | 2014 | [54] |
Baby Geniuses | 2016 | [55] |
Can I Pet Your Dog? | 2016 | [56] |
LGBTQ&A w/ Jeffery Masters | 2017 | |
QUEERY with Cameron Esposito | 2017 | [57] |
Forever 35 | 2018 |
Filmography
Film
Title | Year | Credited as | Role | Notes | |||
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Writer | Executive Producer | Animation/Art department |
Other | ||||
Super | 2010 | No | No | Yes | No | Animation supervisor | |
Dreamworld | 2012 | No | No | Yes | No | Animation supervisor | |
Big Miracle | 2012 | No | No | Yes | No | Animation supervisor | |
Movie 43 | 2013 | No | No | Yes | No | Animation producer for "Beezel" segment | |
Half Like Me | 2015 | No | No | Yes | No | Animation producer | |
Ugly Mutt | 2015 | No | Yes | No | No | Voice of Bully Poodle | Animation producer |
Ever After High: Dragon Games | 2016 | Yes | No | No | No | ||
Iris Opener | 2017 | Yes | No | No | Yes | Voice of Cornelius | |
Brightburn | 2019 | No | No | No | Yes | Illustrator |
Television
Title | Year | Credited as | Role | Notes | |||
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Writer | Executive Producer | Producer | Animation/Art department | ||||
Yo Gabba Gabba! | 2007–2019 | No | No | No | Yes | Animation supervisor | |
Mystery Science Theater 3000 | 2007 | No | No | Yes | Yes | Animation producer | |
Hard 'n Phirm's Musical Timehole | 2011 | No | No | Yes | No | Producer of pilot | |
Chris Hardwick: Mandroid | 2012 | No | No | No | Yes | Animation supervisor | |
Mad | 2012–2013 | No | No | No | Yes | Animation supervisor of 13 episodes | |
The Aquabats! Super Show! | 2013 | No | No | No | Yes | Animation supervisor of five episodes | |
Parks and Recreation | 2014 | No | No | No | Yes | Animation supervisor of "New Slogan". | |
Her Story | 2015 | No | No | No | Yes | Title designer | |
Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street | 2015 | No | No | Yes | Yes | Animation director on "Gortimer vs. The Terrible Touch-Up". | |
Chris Hardwick: Funcomfortable | 2016 | No | No | No | Yes | Title sequence & vfx producer | |
Slumber Party | 2016 | No | No | No | Yes | Herself | Appears in the episode "Shadi Petosky". |
Danger & Eggs | 2017 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Voiced six characters.[j] | Voice director for five episodes; casting director for four episodes |
555 | 2017 | No | No | No | Yes | Played Makeup Woman 1 | |
Twelve Forever | 2019 | No | Yes | No | No | ||
Forever Alone | 2020 | No | Yes | No | No | ||
Somewhere I Am | 2022 | Yes | Yes | No | No | Unproduced television pilot; Sold to and developed for HBO Max | |
The Sandman | 2022 | Yes | No | No | No | ||
Clean Slate | 2022 | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Notes
- ^ See 35:18 in the Queery podcast, which can be listened to here. All further references about the Queery podcast refer to the one linked in this reference.
- ^ See 43:40 in the Queery podcast.
- ^ According to the List of United States Air Force installations page, there are currently three military installations in Wisconsin, but none are close to Mason. Other bases, like Fort McCoy and Volk Field Air National Guard Base are also a far distance away. However, it is 214 miles from Gwinn, Michigan.
- ^ See 36:30 in the Queery podcast.
- ^ See 36:41 in the Queery podcast.
- ^ See 34:37 in the Queery podcast.
- ^ See 34:37 in the Queery podcast.
- ^ See 38:10 in the Queery podcast.
- ^ See 42:33 in the Queery podcast.
- ^ Pigeon Lady, Duncan, The Hugging Astronaut, Hot Dog Vendor, Flushing Guy, and Parched Runner
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External links
- Shadi Petosky on Twitter
- Shad Petosky at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Big Time Attic
- Shadi Petosky at IMDb
- Shad Petosky at the Grand Comics Database