Writing

Mulligan and Molly Ostertag co-created the webcomic Strong Female Protagonist, which was named one of io9's Best New and Short Webcomics of 2012.^[9] In 2015, Strong Female Protagonist won an Autostraddle Comic and Sequential Art Award.^[10]

In 2017, Mulligan joined CollegeHumor as a writer for Um, Actually: The Web Series.^[11] In 2018, CollegeHumor's streaming service Dropout launched Um, Actually as a game show, with Mulligan continuing to write for the show until 2020.^[12] Mulligan was also a writer for several scripted shows on Dropout, including the Star Wars parody space saga Troopers,^[13] and the mockumentary Gods of Food.^[14][15]

In 2023, Mulligan was a writer for Foul Play, an interactive murder mystery series created by Andrew Barth Feldman and Alex Boniello.^[16][17]

Performing

In his twenties, he performed and taught^[3] comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB).^[6] It was working at the UCB that led Mulligan to working at CollegeHumor,^[3] (premiering on December 14, 2017, with Who's the Real Cop?).^[18]

Since 2018,^[19] Mulligan has been an executive producer, writer, and gamemaster for Dimension 20 on Dropout (which also hosts his video podcast, Adventuring Academy).^[2] In his capacity as a professional D&D gamemaster, he has been cited by Bleeding Cool,^[20] Comic Book Resources,^[21] Wired,^[22] and Wizards of the Coast's own Dungeons & Dragons podcast—Dragon Talk.^[3] Glen Weldon, in a review of Dimension 20 for NPR, commented that "Mulligan is such a good DM and he's got so many improv skills. He's such a close and responsive listener that no matter what the players throw at him, he can always roll with it, without breaking the game. And that is a very rare skill, so it's terrific stuff".^[23] Mulligan was the Dungeon Master for Exandria Unlimited: Calamity, a weekly, four-part actual play web series spin-off of Critical Role that premiered on May 26, 2022.^[24][25] In January 2023, it was announced that Mulligan with Erika Ishii, Aabria Iyengar, and Lou Wilson will star in the creator-owned actual play podcast Worlds Beyond Number.^[26][27] The show launched on March 1, 2023 and quickly became one of the top 20 Patreon accounts in the world.^[28]

Awards

He has received an "Excellence in Performance Award" from the New York International Fringe Festival,^[29] and won a 2019 Webby Award in the "Comedy: Shortform" category for his CollegeHumor skit, Tide CEO: You Gotta Stop Eating Tide Pods.^[30]

Television

Web