Roach Trip is a true story

Roach Trip is inspired by a true event from writer/director Clare McNulty’s life. While driving from Los Angeles to Tucson after an acting job, she unknowingly picked up a cockroach at a gas station as night fell.

That moment became the foundation for a darkly comic short film about fear, grief, and the illusion of control. Roach Trip was funded by 183 backers on Kickstarter and completed in October 2025.

Clare McNulty is an actress, writer and director best known for her 5-season run as Chantal Witherbottom on the cult hit SEARCH PARTY. Film credits include SXSW Jury Prize winner FORT TILDEN, MEN DON'T WHISPER, and WWW.RACHELORMONT.COM. Television: THE CONNERS, NIGHT COURT, LOOT, PLATONIC and the upcoming MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED.

Eric Wright (puppeteer designer, performer)

Stephanie Drake (producer) is an actress, writer, producer, and audiobook narrator living in Los Angeles. A graduate of the University of Southern California’s School of Dramatic Arts, she is most known for her role as Don Draper’s ditzy but lovable secretary, Meredith, on the Emmy winning television show MAD MEN. Most recently, she appeared on ABC’s THE GOLDBERGS and indie feature SCRAP starring Anthony Rapp and Lana Parrilla. Other credits include horror comedy DEEP MURDER, acting alongside Katie Aselton and Jerry O’Connell and the Christmas anthology ALL THE CREATURES WERE STIRRING with Constance Wu. Drake also narrates the beloved children’s book series THE BABY-SITTERS LITTLE SISTER. Her first short film, AFTER MEREDITH, was featured on Elizabeth Banks’s female focused website WhoHaHa. And her second short, BABY FACE, which she co-wrote/co-stars with Caroline Bloom, is busy chugging along the festival circuit.

Caroline Bloom (producer) is a trilingual French-American actor, writer and voiceover artist in Los Angeles. She's appeared in HBO Max' THE STAIRCASE starring Colin Firth and HBO’s HERE AND NOW directed by Alan Ball. She'll next be seen opposite Nathalie Emmanuel in Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS. Her short films include DA CAPO, which screened at over a dozen festivals including Cleveland International FF and was distributed by Gravitas Ventures, and COMMON DECENCY, for which she was nominated Best Actress in a Short at FilmQuest 2021 and won a screenwriting prize at Pittsburgh Shorts. Her psychological thriller FURIES was a quarter finalist for ScreenCraft Drama and Finish Line competitions. She co-wrote/co-starred in the upcoming dark comedy short, BABY FACE with Stephanie Drake, and is thrilled to be co-producing Clare McNulty's directorial debut ROACH TRIP. BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch.

Kat Mueller, aka Kat Saturn (executive producer), is an Oregon-based artist, researcher, dancer, and all-around weirdo. Known for being the co-host of Rerun Theater, a monthly celebration of classic television at Portland's historic Hollywood Theatre (@hollywoodtheatr), she recently completed her first novel, "Elli Veil and the Constellation Prize," a meditation on humanity's relationship with the night sky. This is her first foray into the world of filmmaking and she is incredibly excited to be involved with the making of Roach Trip! 😄🪳