Ep. 38 - Thales Corrêa and Anthony Moore "Poly People"

Writer/director/actor Thales Corrêa (BATHROOM STALLS & PARKING LOTS—now streaming on Peacock; Cannes shorts MILVIO and PARENTS) was a member of the Second City Writing Program, where he co-developed the series concept "Poly People" with classmate Melissa Girard. Thales, in turn, engaged his fellow Brazilian production partner Anthony Moore, who, in the throes of a pandemic and unemployment-induced depression, saw the job as therapy and agreed to work on it right away. That was in August 2020. Two-and-a-half SAG-AFTRA safety protocol-following, coffee-fueled production days later, the team wrapped principal photography on Poly People, a seven-episode mockumentary about the daily life of four people in a polyamorous relationship. While each of the four main characters: non-binary-identifying Cuddelz (Corrêa); bisexual Abigail (Andrea Flowers); lesbian Lez (Ilona Kulinska): and hetero but curious Tucker (Moore) have different sexual identities, they fall in love and take one another as lovers and partners, and form a domestic unit. Poly People is available to view on YouTube and is qualified for the 2021 Primetime Emmy® Awards, eligible in Outstanding Short Form Comedy Series and Best Actor in a Short Form Comedy Series.