Age: 42
male
Joshua Mikel is an actor, playwright, and music video director from Conyers, GA, and a graduate of Florida State University's Theatre and Creative Writing programs. While at FSU, he worked closely with their acclaimed film school as an actor and storyboard artist for dozens of student shorts. During his undergraduate years and following graduation, he toured the U.S. extensively as a founding member and drummer for the indie rock band Look Mexico. After parting ways with the band in 2010, he returned to his home state to pursue a career in film and television. He is a six time published playwright known particularly for his theatre for young audiences works, "The Monster Hunters," and "Good Good Trouble on Bad Bad Island." As a music video director, he has created and animated videos for the acts Against Me!, Waxahatchee, Jake Bugg, Neon Trees, American Authors, and Fake Problems. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia where he is represented by J. Pervis Talent.
The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s.[4] Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in east Thailand near the border of Cambodia (somewhere in the Amphoe Mueang Trat district, likely on the mainland north/northeast of the Ko Chang island or on the island itself).[5] The city is home to the Japanese Yakuza, the Chinese Triad, the Russian mafia, the Colombian cartel, the Italian mafia, a wide assortment of pickpockets, thugs, mercenaries, thieves, prostitutes, assassins, and gunmen. The city also has a large Vietnamese refugee population following the Vietnamese refugees exodus after the Communist takeover of Vietnam in 1975. Lagoon Company transports goods for various clients in the American made 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat Black Lagoon. It has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. The team takes on a variety of missions—which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles—in various Southeast Asian locations, even going as far as Phu Quoc island of Vietnam. When they are not working, the members of the Lagoon Company spend much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapur which is often destroyed in firefights.
