We are the NerdDoms Universe
passion for Joy & laughter
NDU is committed to creating high quality and nerdy comedy & tribute content, that is both uplifting and thought provoking while maintaining integrity and our mission to positive entertainment. We work hard to embed messages of empowerment, consent, growth, and self-love into our wacky fandom universe. It’s nuanced and meticulous as it comes across subtly in our works but has been described by audience members simply as, "I feel better about myself and the world after seeing the NDU."
We are a queer, gender diverse, and neuro-varied womxn owned company, with widely varied socio-economic backgrounds and professional experiences. Jac is the creative visionary force, Tif is the social liaison who leads the artistic vision, and Red is the administrative director and integrator who keeps the paperwork up to date and budgeting in mind. This well-balanced trifecta was formed from years of successful friendships, business ventures, and the conclusion that our passion for positive entertainment lies in nerdy genres. In order to experience similar entertainment to the NDU, fans need to be able to travel to the coasts or Canada. Being located in the Midwest helps us to bride the nerdy gap in the US and bringing the NerdDoms Universe to the world of online opens the door for more people across the country to experience the healing of community.
In order to serve our community, our collaborative process for writing and directing welcomes and encourages participants’ opinions on socio-political aspects of our works, and actively seeks out opinions from cast when making decisions about representation. NDU participates in age blind and integrated casting. Additionally, we participate in color conscious casting when considering roles that traditionally represent underprivileged demographics. We intentionally consider the performer's race and ethnicity and the character they play to oppose racism, honor and respect cultures, foster stronger productions, and contribute to a more equitable universe.
NerdDoms Universe (NDU) rose from the ashes of the pandemic’s forced closure of many live arts spaces. We gathered the best of our creations and forged ahead, translating our content to a primarily digital market. The opportunity to expand our reach opened up worlds of new possibilities to continue our craft, and sharpened our focus. We chose to turn this hardship into a new opportunity to widen our accessibility and reach by moving our art from exclusively local productions to the inclusion of online components including music videos, streamed performances, indie film productions etc. This allows us to serve an audience limited in their engagement in live shows due to health, pandemic and accessibility considerations.
We are proud to be a part of redefining the boundaries between fiction and fanfic, live and digital, fans and fandom, transporting nerds to a joyful fandom universe where you can Embrace Your Adventure.
Founder - Jac Fatale
Known as “The Jac of all Trades and Master of Fun”
Jac Fatale has been entrancing and romancing audiences across the world for over 25 years. As a true entertainer with a passion for creating joy, Jac has performed professionally as an actor, singer, dancer, MC, circus artist, and drag king all with the mission to make people laugh, love and thirst.
She is the founder of the award winning pop culture parody troupe the Wicked Wenches, founder of the nationally traveling vaudeville performance troupe The ExperTeasers, and creator of the NerdDoms Universe. She is also a professional parody script and song writer, producer, director, and cosplayer. Making the audience laugh is credited as one of the fundamental actions of her life.
"I have have had the privilege of creating over 300 productions in my career. I have a degree in physical acting and film. I love to make the audience laugh. Being an entertainer is in my blood; I am forever a grateful servant to my audience. I feel so honored and privileged that they let me make a living doing what I love. Thank you from the bottom of my heart." - Jac
Founder - Tif Dynamite
“...the Lucille Ball/Carol Burnett of our age. Like if those 2 were combined on steroids and an acid trip...amazing.” -my friend Dana
TifDynamite (Tiffany Parks Roberts) is a multifaceted stage performer and super hot-ass. She has been entertaining the great people of the United States of America since 1982 with the opening of her first production, “Excessively Long Driveway Productions presents, Murder in Strawberry Shortcake Land."
Since that day she has tirelessly begged for attention through emcee prattle, improv, comedic ecdysiasm, acro and aerial circus, pole dancing, costuming and cosplay, sharp or flat chanteusery, stage and film thespianism, interminable screen and sketch writing, fancy dancing and questionable choreography, despotic direction and prolific production, pageant judging, dominatrixing, mimery, bingo calling, and semi-naughty calendar and magazine modeling. She has produced numerous drag and girlee shows and is the co-creator of The North High Beaverettes, Genderf*kation: A Gender Emancipation, Pi Idol, PiCathalon, Queer Speed Dating is Hard and the nationally infamous Dildo Bingo®.
Tif is the former Artistic Director of Minnsky Theatre, and co-founder and Artistic Director of NerdDoms Universe. She can be seen in "Q: A Documentary" about GLBTQ Twin Cities-based performers, chattering as the Compère Extraordinaire of The NDU ExperTeasers, and generally drawing attention to herself wherever she can. She is a member of Cirque de Lune theatrical circus troupe, Elite Entertainment, and a Minnsky Players core company member appearing in nearly everything she can shimmy her way into. Her very favorite thingy is writing for and directing The NDU Wicked Wenches Parody Troupe as they create their original Amuseicals™ including “The Strip Wars Holiday Special,” “Cherry Hotter and the Hallowed Order of the Half-Blood Prisoner’s Secret Stones of Fire,” and “Pan’s Peter A Totally Tubular Adventure!”
In her spare time Tif enjoys dogs, novelty, and leaping before she looks.
TifDynamite is The Boom in the Room!
Favorite quote “I’m probably going to regret this, but…” -TifDynamite
Founder - Red Rider
Get ready for the ride of your life!
Red Rider has been dancing on the stage and on the pole since 2015. She is the co-captain of the NDU ExperTeasers performance dance troupe and captain of the ChromAtics, the Twin Cities preeminent pole team.
Red has taught pole dance and floor work since 2017 as the head pole instructor at ExperTease Fitness. She currently works with Pole and Performing Arts and teaches private lessons as co-owner of Villainy Alternative Dance Studio.
Red traded in her wall of marathon medals to take home the bronze medal in Advanced Performance Theatre in 2018 and the silver Medal in Advanced Classic Exotic in 2019 at the Minnesota Pole Competitions.
Red has performed in Minneapolis at Minnsky Theatre, at Bryant Lake Bowl with Geek Slink, on Main Stage at Convergence, as a go-go pole dancer at Kinkque Social Society events, and in other states around the nation.
Red Rider is one of the co-founders of The NerdDoms Universe.