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Fans of “My Gimpy Life” practically demanded a second season when hundreds banded together to donate nearly $60,000 on Kickstarter, and creator Teal Sherer has followed through on her promise to deliver more episodes of the Los Angeles-based comedy with a rare perspective: The eyes of a disabled actress trying to make it in Hollywood. “Eight hundred eighty-three Kickstarter backers gave us the chance. It's great to find an audience, but it's even more exciting to have an audience that loves our show so much that they funded it themselves,” Sherer told TheWrap. “So happy to share the new episodes...

Teal Sherer, a paraplegic actress tired of waiting for Hollywood roles, created one for herself last summer when "My Gimpy Life" premiered to critical acclaim on YouTube. And thanks to a successful KickStarter campaign that ends Friday, the award-winning comedic web series will return for Season 2. "I was really frustrated because I wasn't auditioning a lot and wasn't working, so one of the reasons I wanted to create my own show was to have kind of a showcase for myself," Sherer (left) told TheWrap. "A second element is that I...

Teal Sherer is best known to online video audiences for her role as Venom, a member of the antagonistic Axis of Anarchy in The Guild. Recently, however, Sherer has made a name for herself with My Gimpy Life, a comedy based around her life as an aspiring actress who happens to be in a wheelchair. Sherer is hoping to make a second season of the award-winning show, so she's taken to Kickstarter, where she is hoping for $50,000 in crowdfunded support. In Sherer's pitch video, she explains the impact the first season of My Gimpy Life had, both on its audience and on the handicapped community. She notes that network sitcoms cost "a billion dollars per episode...probably" so she's really not asking for much. “People with disabilities are rarely seen and heard in TV and film, and it’s been so rewarding to take control and create my own show.

Fans of The Guild and Felicia Day and fans of individuals Felicia Day is a fan of will recognize Teal (technically like the duck, not like the color) Sherer from her role in the uber-popular original web series about what happens when gamers get off their computers and into the complicated world of real life. She plays Venom, who is part of the Axis of Anarchy (which is a rival guild led by Fawkes, who is played by Wil Wheaton) and a “total bitch on wheels.” Online video enthusiasts may also recognize Sherer from the pilot and/or trailer of My Gimpy Life, a comedic web series produced by Sherer’s Rolling Person Productions, directed by The Guild’s Sean Becker, and written by Gabe Uhr that’s inspired by her own sometimes awkward adventures of being a driven actor navigating through Hollywood in a wheelchair. But soon, consumers of...

From Sandeep Parikh to Felicia Day, The Guild has launched careers for a number of its actors, but it has also created work for the people behind the camera. Sean Becker, the series' Streamy Award-winning director since season two, is one such case. Becker is a rare but increasingly common case of a person who, for basically his entire career, has worked in new media. The Guild, whose fifth season officially premieres on the web on July 26, is probably his most high profile credit, but Becker has lots of plans and projects. "It’s been crazy lately," Becker said in an interview. "I'm keeping busy and couldn't be happier. And I'd rather have that then not be busy at all." Becker has been working on passion projects with a number of Guild actors, including Jeff Lewis (The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour, currently raising funds for season two), J. Teddy Garces...