About Retrieving Roadie

Anyone who knows Craig knows that he loves to tell stories.

Retrieving Roadie is the first of these to make it to screens. Craig's also written a comedy feature, Jay vs. The Parkway, a dramatic feature, Separate Services, a TV comedy pilot version of Jay vs. The Parkway and a dramatic short, The Stu Davis Story.

Craig's wildly nonlinear career in marketing, advertising and nonprofit research includes work with the New York Rangers, Macy's, AT&T Communications, Dartmouth College, The Nature Conservancy, Free Speech TV, Power and Light Workers Support Foundation and his own businesses, Newstaff, Audit Security Bags, Projoin Network and, now, Retrieving Roadie.  

Luke Stone and Maxine Carey-Gorey are lifelong best friends who bonded over their love of animation and the fortuitous bordering of their childhood homes in Brisbane, Australia. 

Luke studied Film and Television before moving to LA and beginning his career in the world of anime, working on such popular titles as Yu-Gi-Oh, Doraemon and One Punch Man. 

Meanwhile, Maxine became a literal Master of Animation at RMIT in Melbourne and began racking up credits on prime time shows like Solar Opposites, Good Times and Universal Basic Guys. 

In 2022, Luke and Maxine launched Studio Tahluk — a boutique animation studio that produces commercials, music videos and short films. It is a rewarding and creative business that funds the leisurely lifestyle of their respective dogs, Gus and Trudy.

A graduate of USC's Writing for Screen & Television Division, Blake Larson has no formal training WHATSOEVER in the art of storyboarding. And yet? The doofus persists.

As a lifelong admirer of the genre, Blake has held nearly every job you can have in animation -- from production assistant, to writer, to animatics editor, to development executive and finally, to producer. Past clients include: Disney TVA, DreamWorks Animation, Mattel and Fullscreen. (He's also been known to design a birthday card for your mother, when asked nicely.) 

In recent years, Blake has become a frequent collaborator of Studio Tahluk's... and he's loving every minute of it!

Blake lives in Sherman Oaks with his wife, Lacey, and his doggo, Bruce.