Episode 1
blogdaddy realizes that there’s more to life than playing games but finding a mate is much harder than dating.
blogdaddy - A modern man’s guide to fatherhood
created by Ryk Goddard
Ryk Goddard
'But I cant have a child today… I’m single.'
How does a bloke who’s 30, single, and wanting kids go about turning from man-child into dad-guy?
It’s not only women who have a biological clock problem. If a chap wants to be able to lift his kids he needs to be having them before he’s too old!
Blogdaddy is one man’s version of the Modern Dad’s Guide to Fatherhood, beginning right at the start with How To Find A Mate, exploring issues like When to Mate Once you Have a Mate, and the vital How to Stay In Touch With Your Mates once You’ve Mated.
In this first series blogdaddy is single and looking. But by the end of ten honest and funny episodes he will be holding a baby in his hands.
Episode 2
blogdaddy learns the secret to attraction, meets the perfect woman, cruels his pitch and wonders if he’s just the guy you date before you meet the guy you really want to be with.
Episode 3
blogdaddy realises that love is like cricket and bravely lets the woman of his dreams do all the work to make things come out right.
Episode 4
blogdaddy discovers that he has the emotional depth of a dog, that there is no ‘when to have kids’ driver in the evolutionary golf cart, and that making babies is harder than it looks.
Episode 5
blogdaddy is thrilled to realise that his sperm works, learns that not all secrets are the same, and discovers the truth about life and work.
Episode 6
The romantic comedy turns into one of those European films where no-one says anything for ages and a man learns to cry.
Episode 7
blogdaddy joins the Australian dream and the Austrian dream and avoids his true feelings by becoming obsessed with real estate.
Episode 8
blogdaddy is too frightened to expect again, and buries himself in work, starts to hate his job and is talked to by the voice of his future child.
Episode 9
blogdaddy discovers the definitive truth about men and women and realises birth is more dangerous than he thought.
Episode 10
A child is born, a doctor and a midwife fight and blogdaddy may be facing a future alone…
Credits
blogdaddy was written and performed by Ryk Goddard and features the voices of Melissa King, Jemma Gates and Les Winspear.
Theme tune by Cameron Deyell.
blogdaddy was produced by Joel Rheinberger with the support of 936 ABC Hobart.
blogdaddy was developed with the support of Sophy Greenlees, Andrea Ho, Cath Hurley, Sandi Rapson, Caleb Doherty, Craig Wellington and Robert Jarman.
Ryk Goddard - Writer
Triple J Raw Comedy national finalist, Ryk Goddard is an actor, director and writer working freelance in Hobart where he lives near the beach (which has a view of snowy mountains!) with his wife and two children. As an independent artist in Melbourne he wrote three plays that toured nationally before he went on to become artistic director of Is Theatre in Hobart, where he created and produced over 20 new Australian works. In seven years he established a performance venue, a training program for theatre makers, and transformed the company from a schools touring company to the basis for what is today, called the Tasmanian Theatre Company.
Awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2005, he left Is Theatre in 2007 because he thought freelancing would give him more time to spend with the family. He now works as an on-air presenter for ABC Local Radio in Hobart. He's also an event MC, corporate trainer, performs comedy hip-hop as middle-aged suburban geek Cecil Brown, and sometimes does acting (which is what he trained in at VCA). Then he does some laundry and walks the dogs. He has attended two AFTRS LAMP laboratories, learning to make digital media projects for a global market in the hope that he can continue to live somewhere really, really beautiful and tell stories to more than 100 people at a time.
Melissa King
Mel King has been working as an actor–puppeteer and now voiceover artist for over 15 years. She has worked in theatre, film and television and most recently performed in Bombshells, the Tasmanian Theatre Company's first production. She is a new voice on the award winning animation Pixel Pinkie but her biggest claim to fame is three boys under 5. Be careful what you wish for, blogdaddy!
Jemma Gates
Jemma has performed for Terrapin Puppet Theatre, The Australian Script Centre, is Theatre and, most recently, for Performing Lines/Tas Performs in the sell-out season of Beyond the Neck by Tom Holloway. Jemma has a number of character voiceover credits for award-winning animation company Blue Rocket Productions and recently finished recording for the TV series Pixel Pinkie, which will air in 2009.
Les Winspear
Les Winspear is an actor, playwright and director who has been instrumental in the establishment of four theatre companies, has written twentysomething plays, and has voiceover credits in animation, commercials and documentaries.
Joel Rheinberger
Joel Rheinberger has been in radio his whole adult life, starting as a promotional gorilla and working his way up to being an award-winning field reporter. He's currently a producer and presenter at ABC Hobart.
Cameron Deyell
Cameron Deyell is a guitarist, composer and restless soul who plays music with Katie Noonan and House of Orange. He has also played with Bertie Blackman, Mike Nock, Guy Sebastian, the catholics, the Resurrectors and the Japan Australia Jazz Orchestra.
