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Shipwrecked Comedy
Vaguely Historical. Loosely Literary. Stupidly Smart.
“The best and brightest of internet comedy in the last couple of years.” - Collider
About
Shipwrecked Comedy is a production company committed to creating dynamic, funny, and intelligent content for digital spaces and beyond.
Founded during the summer of 2013 by sibling writing partners and actors Sean and Sinéad Persaud and joined later by actress/producers Mary Kate Wiles and Sarah Grace Hart, Shipwrecked has attracted a very diverse, active and loyal audience by presenting stories in a way that is exciting and different from the usual digital fare.
Sean and Sinéad take inspiration from their childhoods, growing up around and working in historic Salem, Massachusetts. With Shipwrecked, they’ve managed to marry their fondness for history and literature with dry humor, broad comedy, and beautiful period costumes and then deliver the final package to the web with cinematic production values that are rare for indie content creators.
From the Clue-inspired murder mystery Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party, to their film noir short The Case of the Gilded Lily, to their streaming-quality half-hour series Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story, Shipwrecked has amassed over 6.5 million views, raised over $500K through crowdfunding, and solidified their place as the internet’s home for smart, historical, visually striking storytelling.
Total
Subscribers
53K+
Total
Views
6.5 million+
Combined
Social Media
115K+
Total
Crowdfunded
$500K+
Patreon
Patrons
300+
Podcast
Downloads
100K
Mary Kate Wiles
@mkwiles
Mary Kate Wiles starred as Lydia Bennet in the Emmy Award-winning, groundbreaking webseries The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, and her combined digital projects boast over 125 million views and over 1 million dollars in successful Kickstarters. She has since gone on to star in a slew of popular digital series, films, and has made multiple tv appearances, most recently appearing as the live-action version of iconic cartoon villain Vicky in The Fairly Oddparents: Fairly Odder. She is an accomplished producer, working with Shipwrecked and on her own - most recently creating a radio play podcast adaptation of Anne of Green Gables and running a highly successful Patreon. marykatewiles.com
Sinéad
Persaud
@sineadpersaud
Sinéad Persaud is an Indian American actor, writer, and proud Ouija Board owner from Boston, Massachusetts. While studying film and television production at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Sinead interned at SNL, The Colbert Report, and multiple film festivals. Post NYU, Sinéad moved to Los Angeles to participate in the NBC Page Program and soon after co-founded the popular literary/historical comedy YouTube channel Shipwrecked Comedy. Sinead co-wrote and starred in the series Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party, which received praise from AV Club, Nerdist, and Tor.com. It also made a splash at numerous festivals around the world. In 2018 Sinéad participated in the Sundance New Voices Lab where she workshopped a pilot about her and her brother's experiences working in a tourist trap museum in Salem, MA.
Sean
Persaud
@seanpersaudmd
Sean Persaud is a first-generation Indian American who studied pre-medicine at Boston University and then moved to LA to put his degree to work as a writer and actor. Sean co-founded Shipwrecked Comedy with his sister Sinéad and the two have continued to write and develop projects, including the award winning digital series Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party. In 2018, Sean and Sinead were selected to the Sundance New Voices Lab. As an actor, Sean has been in numerous commercials and TV shows, including Criminal Minds, Without a Trace (one more CBS procedural for the hat trick) and Gaslit. He can currently be seen alongside Gary Oldman in the David Fincher film Mank on Netflix.
Accolades
“Well this is delightful.”
- Rian Johnson, creator/director Knives Out
“Best comedy of the year. The acting in this is impeccable. And the scripts are brilliantly paced.”
- Seanan McGuire, author & Hugo-award winner
“It's a remarkably clever spin on the traditional tale”
“If you think you know the tale of the Headless Horseman, think again. Because you’ve never seen a Headless Horseman tale quite like the one that Shipwrecked Comedy has created.”
“I find the show very very charming…It’s pretty amazing to see what they did with I assume is not a whole lot.”
-Jeff Cannata, The Filmcast podcast (Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story)
Winner, Excellence in Production - 2022 Buffer Festival (Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story)
Winner, Gold - Webseries: Scripted - 2023 Telly Awards (Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story)
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