A Brief Explanation from the Creators

So, Mraz Inc...

How to explain...

Well, many of you have seen or been in a production of one of these, so that should make it easier, but basically, as with so many things, Mraz Inc. is the creation of slightly drunken minds. Mike Mraz and Mark Souza (you'll recognize them from the show!...more on that later) were out enjoying some slightly alcoholic brews when a sentence which has been uttered many times by many people was said yet again, "Your life should be a TV show." However, unlike most people, we're actors with too much time on our hands and imaginations which run wild if not held in check, so we actually started writing the TV show. We also decided real life needed some embellishment, so instead of two out of work actors taking odd jobs and going out for beers, we made ourselves powerful executives of an import/export company which covertly battles terrorist factions in the United States. Simple right?

And so Mraz Inc was born. We only planned on making a few episodes, but the first one we performed was popular enough that it kept us writing, then we had a season planned out, then a three season arc, and now we have almost 44 episodes of this thing fully written, and we're no longer performing. And so the Mraz Inc blog was born!

So before jumping in, a few technical notes. The episodes are set up with one teaser and four acts. This is meant to be in the style of a normal hour long drama on television. Every act break would be a commercial. There is no swearing, no nudity, and plenty of violence (so your average network show). We also set up sweeps schedules and other wackiness which, if I were to explain, may result in one of you deciding we need to be institutionalized against our will, so that's all I'll say about that.

The episodes appear to be long (most clock in around 48 pages). However, since they're in script format and they move relatively quickly they shouldn't take forever to read, so we hope the apparent length won't deter you. We plan on posting one episode every 2 weeks, so you can follow us graphic novel style (except no cool drawing on the blog, sorry). In theory then this should last for about two years (44 episodes to get up remember). The format of the scripts is a little strange. In copying from our scriptwriting programs to the blog, all our formatting is lost. We've tried to edit this in a fashion that makes it easy to read but if the spacing is sometimes off, forgive us, we're only two crazy men.

Also, you may recognize some of the character names (told you I'd get to this) since they're the names of real people. Take this with a grain of salt. If you recognize the name, great, consider it an inside joke that that character was based on that person, but every character is very much a work of fiction at this point (except Rudez, he really kills people).

So that's it. Read, enjoy, have fun. We worked on these because they're a blast for us to write and read, we hope you have a fraction as much fun reading them as we did creating them. Thanks.