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Robert Axelrod

Digital Storytellers Lab

2022-2023 Fellow

NICE JEWISH BOYS (Narrative Podcast)

A group of gay Jewish millennials in Los Angeles attempt to navigate their way through life, in a world where they find allegiance with both their rabbis and RuPaul. As they stumble through their careers, relationships, and religion, they’ll be met with goys, gays, and a whole lot of oy veys.

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Robert Axelrod is a gay Jewish writer based in Los Angeles, originally hailing from Michigan, whose work focuses on exploring the intersectionality of identity and culture. He is a past participant of the Warner Bros. Discovery Access Writers Program, Humanitas New Voices fellowship, CineStory TV fellowship, and is a previous winner of the ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition as well as The A-List, an annual competition honoring the best work by assistants in the entertainment industry.