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"The Office" meets Marvel Studios in this backstage satire of the superhero industry. A homeless grad student finds herself and saves the studio, by calling on superheroes of the Ancient World! Pilot teleplay (one hour)

Jay helped Rat write "Ape Trouble." Watch it here!

Recent projects include:

A stage adaptation of Frank Capra's holiday classic, It's a Wonderful Life.
A series of sketches for the centennial of Chicago's WGN radio
Edendale Cyclorama, a blog about the earliest Los Angeles movie studios
Feed the Fish, a stage adaption of Tony Shalhoub's heartfelt cult-favorite feature
"Wonder Cow," a satirical comic strip
Lunch at Lucy's, a "could have been" play where iconic actors meet in the Desilu commissary while working on their various 1960s TV series
"No Deer in the Forest," a play about Chief Blackhawk and the last Native American war east of the Mississippi
And a novel, Man of the Cloth, a comic-thriller about cloning Jesus from the Shroud of Turin

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Jay Rath is a cartoonist and writer, known for his contributions to The Onion and MAD magazine. He's also worked in indie film and theater, notably his world premiere of Orson Welles' only stageplay, "Bright Lucifer." Besides special projects for The Onion, as cofounder of The Radio Pirates he's created comedy-variety series and countless sketches for public radio. Rath is a recipient of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.