GeeksOut Presents: A Pride TTRPG Panel

Panel Members:

SHANNA GERMAIN

Shanna Germain is an award-winning queer author, editor, teacher, and game designer, as well as the co-founder of Monte Cook Games. Over the years, she’s published hundreds of poems, essays, short stories, novellas, novels, games, articles and more. Her recent works include Predation, The Devil's Dandy Dogs, Tomorrow’s Bones, We are All Mad Here, and The Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game. Follow her down the rabbit hole at shannagermain.com.

TAYLOR FAGINS

Taylor Fagins (he/him) is a Queer, Black Professional GM, musical theater writer, and singer-songwriter based in NYC. His current business, Story Taylor, started in 2022 and officially launched in 2025. He specializes in creating immersive TTRPG experiences that include your favorite movies, books, video games and more. Taylor’s current musical works include Sunken Cathedral and Living: A Now Musical. His latest album is Midnight Daydreams, available everywhere you find music. Taylor hopes he can help support other voices in the creative space and till rich soil for new communities to grow.taylorfagins.com

PERCY HORNAK

Percival Hornak (he/him) is a dramaturg, podcast producer, writer, and professional GM based in Brooklyn, NY. His research and creative work explore trans play, anarchism, collaborative authorship, and impossibility. He proudly serves as Literary Manager of Stroller Scene, a new play development and advocacy organization, and co-produces the Dungeons + Drama Nerds podcast, which features theater artists in original TTRPG campaigns. You can find his academic writing in HowlRound Theatre Commons, the Analog Game Studies journal, Theater magazine, and the Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Vol. 2. Percy's favorite tabletop role-playing games are Kids on Bikes, Our Haunt, and Sleepaway. https://www.percivalhornak.com

TERI YOSHIUCHI

Teri Yoshiuchi is a science teacher at a public middle school in Brooklyn where he runs neuro-inclusive D&D games for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students. Before becoming a teacher, Teri worked in the DEI field as a Program Manager at The New York Times. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband and their 4-year old son.

MODERATOR: KYLE BURTON LEE

Kyle grew up all around the United States and and lived in Kenya throughout high school. He earned his Bachelors in English at the University of Virginia and is a spoken word artist, podcast host, and producer having worked Media and Marketing for the hospitality industry and Non Profits alike. Kyle’s passion is to help people help people and to do so through digital storytelling, thought leadership, and strategic partnerships, working to create more intentional human-centered spaces in the digital age.

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