Gustavo Sorola
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Gustavo "Gus" Sorola is a computer technichan for Rooster Teeth Productions
, and is also a voice actor in their machinima series, including Red vs. Blue
as Private Dick Simmons and in The Strangerhood
as the Computer, a role he shared with Geoff Ramsey
. He is married to Esther Sorola, who has been mentioned in several comics and podcasts from the Rooster Teeth website. His live-action credits include the Rooster Teeth Productions live-action shorts and Immersion. He is also an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church
and conducted the marriage ceremony of co-workers Geoff and Griffon Ramsey.
Gus was a founding member of Rooster Teeth Productions, coming from Drunkgamers with Burnie Burns
and Geoff Ramsey
. One of the videos produced by Drunkgamers was a live-action parody of the Apple Switch ad campaign
, which featured Sorola as the main actor, and used Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
" as background music, focusing on the lack of games available for the Apple Macintosh computer.
He is the primary IT professional at Rooster Teeth Productions, along with Ben King. He also runs the company's podcast called "The Rooster Teeth Podcast" formerly known as the "Drunk Tank Podcast".
Rooster Teeth Productions
Rooster Teeth Productions is a production group from Austin, Texas that specializes in the creation of live action shorts, animated peices and machinima, or films created using real-time, interactive engines from computer and video games. The name Rooster Teeth is a euphemism for Cockbite, an...
, and is also a voice actor in their machinima series, including Red vs. Blue
Red vs. Blue
Red vs. Blue, often abbreviated as RvB, is a set of related comic science fiction video series created by Rooster Teeth Productions and distributed through the Internet and on DVD...
as Private Dick Simmons and in The Strangerhood
The Strangerhood
The Strangerhood is a comedy series created by Rooster Teeth Productions. The series is produced primarily by using the machinima technique of synchronizing video footage from computer and video games to pre-recorded dialogue and other audio. The animation is created using the computer game The...
as the Computer, a role he shared with Geoff Ramsey
Geoff Ramsey
Geoff Lazer Ramsey, born Geoff Fink before taking his stepfather's surname, is a machinima producer and voice actor for Rooster Teeth Productions. Ramsey often posts under the handle geoff and is known for having numerous tattoos all over his body; his Red vs. Blue character, Grif, even promotes...
. He is married to Esther Sorola, who has been mentioned in several comics and podcasts from the Rooster Teeth website. His live-action credits include the Rooster Teeth Productions live-action shorts and Immersion. He is also an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church
Universal Life Church
The Universal Life Church is a religious organization that offers anyone semi-immediate ordination as a ULC minister free of charge. The organization states that anyone can become a minister immediately, without having to go through the pre-ordination process required by other religious faiths...
and conducted the marriage ceremony of co-workers Geoff and Griffon Ramsey.
Gus was a founding member of Rooster Teeth Productions, coming from Drunkgamers with Burnie Burns
Burnie Burns
Michael Justin "Burnie" Burns is an independent filmmaker living in Texas. His best known contributions have been in machinima, although he has also worked with live-action. In April 2003, Burns, along with several of his friends, created the Internet machinima series Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch...
and Geoff Ramsey
Geoff Ramsey
Geoff Lazer Ramsey, born Geoff Fink before taking his stepfather's surname, is a machinima producer and voice actor for Rooster Teeth Productions. Ramsey often posts under the handle geoff and is known for having numerous tattoos all over his body; his Red vs. Blue character, Grif, even promotes...
. One of the videos produced by Drunkgamers was a live-action parody of the Apple Switch ad campaign
Apple Switch ad campaign
Switch was an advertising campaign launched by Apple Computer on June 10, 2002. It featured what the company referred to as "real people" who had "switched" from the Microsoft Windows platform to the Mac. An international television and print ad campaign directed users to a website where various...
, which featured Sorola as the main actor, and used Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...
" as background music, focusing on the lack of games available for the Apple Macintosh computer.
He is the primary IT professional at Rooster Teeth Productions, along with Ben King. He also runs the company's podcast called "The Rooster Teeth Podcast" formerly known as the "Drunk Tank Podcast".