Brennan Lee Mulligan

Brennan Lee Mulligan on set for "Elden Ring One-Shot: O Ye of Little Faith" (Sx65), by Chris Lockey.

## General Information

### **Profession**

* Actor
* Comedian
* Writer

### **Critical Role works**

* "Elden Ring One-Shot: O Ye of Little Faith" (Sx65)
* *Exandria Unlimited: Calamity*
* *Candela Obscura*, Chapter 2

## Internet Presence

###  **Twitter**

@BrennanLM

**Brennan Lee Mulligan** is an actor and writer. He is a member of the Dropout.TV (formally CollegeHumor) cast, and the creator and producer of the D&D real play show *Dimension 20*. While he usually acts as Dungeon Master on *Dimension 20*, there are several campaigns where he is a player, each of which is guest DMed by either Aabria Iyengar or Matthew Mercer.

## **Critical Role Productions**

Brennan is credited with Special Thanks in *Explorer's Guide to Wildemount* for playtesting the Hollow One supernatural gift with his character Deadeye on *Not Another D&D Podcast*, a year before it was published in the book.

He played in "Elden Ring One-Shot: O Ye of Little Faith" (Sx65). The blue dice bag he used during the game (seen in the photograph above) was one he's owned since he was ten. It was nearby when he watched the Campaign One final fight, in "Vecna, the Ascended" (1x114), which aired before he ever considered playing D&D before a camera. He felt it meaningful to be able to bring the bag with him to a Critical Role table.

Brennan is the DM for the Exandria Unlimited: Calamity series. He played Sean Finnerty in the second chapter, The Circle of Needle and Thread, on Candela Obscura.

### **Player characters**

* Brigidda, hero ("Elden Ring One-Shot: O Ye of Little Faith" (Sx65))
* Sean Finnerty, *Candela Obscura* Chapter 2

Sean Finnerty
## **Other work**

At *Dimension 20*, Mulligan has served as either Dungeon Master or fellow player for games played by *Critical Role* members Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Krystina Arielle, Aabria Iyengar, Ify Nwadiwe, Anjali Bhimani, and Erika Ishii. He has also DMed or played alongside *Critical Role* guests Lou Wilson, Ally Beardsley, Emily Axford, Carlos Luna (all core members of *Dimension 20*), Isabella "Izzy" Roland, Omar Najam, and Amy Vorpahl. He also played with Mica Burton for several Roll20 campaigns DMed by Iyengar.

Brennan and Molly Ostertag co-created the webcomic *Strong Female Protagonist* published online since 2012. It has been on hiatus since 2018.

## Personal Life

Brennan Lee Mulligan met Izzy Roland while the two performed improv, and began dating in 2017. They became engaged on January 21, 2021, and married on April 1 (April Fool's Day), 2023. On January 23, 2024, he announced that the two of them had had a daughter in a *Worlds Beyond Number* fireside chat. The two refer to their child under the pseudonym "Sunny" in order to protect her privacy.

## **Trivia**

* In November 2015, Brennan was a contestant on the American version of *Who Wants to Be a Millionaire* and won $50,000 (equivalent to about $61,000 in 2022, respectively).

## **References**

1. ↑ Murphy, B. (DM). (2019, May 5). Deadeye (No. 60). [Audio podcast episode]. In *Not Another D&D Podcast*. Headgum. https://headgum.com/not-another-dd-podcast/ep-60-deadeye-the-shadowfell-saga-with-brennan-lee-mulligan
2. ↑  Brennan Lee Mulligan (@BrennanLM) on Twitter: "Hey Kyle! Thanks so much! Hollow One is a racial template Matt Mercer designed and will be featured in his upcoming book I believe! He used it for Leiland on the last season of Dimension 20, and was kind enough to loan it to me for use in NADDPOD with Murph's permission!" (2019-06-09).
3. ↑  Brennan Lee Mulligan (@BrennanLM) on Twitter: "And, if I might be forgiven a dorky & sincere moment: This is my first and only bag of dice that I've had since I was 10 years old. The drawstrings went years ago, and it is threadbare and careworn. This was right by my side in Oct 2017 when like every other Critter I was going--" (2022-03-01). Continued in a second Tweet: "--absolutely feral watching the final battle of Campaign One, before I had ever even dreamed of playing D&D in front of a camera. I don't know how many years this faithful bag has left in him, but it meant & means the world to me that I got a chance to bring him to that table."
4. ↑ See "Cast" at the Dimension 20 wiki.
5. ↑ D&D Strixhaven Game | Brennan Lee Mulligan Aabria Iyengar Mica Burton Becca Scott Danny Quach at the official Roll20 YouTube.
6. ↑ Brennan Mulligan on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Wiki
7. ↑ The Buccaneer Buddies Reunite (subscription required)

**Art:**

1. ↑ Brennan Lee Mulligan on set for "Elden Ring One-Shot: O Ye of Little Faith" (Sx65), by Chris Lockey (source). This file is a copyrighted work. Its use in this article is asserted to qualify as fair use of the material under United States copyright law.
2. ↑ Fan art of Brennan as a DM, by Kaw (source). Used with permission.