Critical Role Productions

Critical Role Productions, LLC

Industry	Web series production Film and television production Tabletop games Streaming service
Founded	2015
Founders	Travis Willingham Marisha Ray Taliesin Jaffe Ashley Johnson Liam O'Brien Laura Bailey Sam Riegel Matthew Mercer
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California , United States
Key people	Travis Willingham (CEO) Matthew Mercer (CCO) Marisha Ray (creative director) Ed Lopez (COO) Rachel Romero (SVP of marketing) Ben Van Der Fluit (SVP of business development)
Subsidiaries	Darrington Press Metapigeon Scanlan Shorthalt Music
Website	critrole.com darringtonpress.com beacon.tv

Critical Role Productions, LLC is a multimedia production company incorporated in 2015 by the members of the creator-owned streaming show Critical Role. The first two shows from the company, Critical Role and Talks Machina, originally premiered on Geek & Sundry. The company moved to their own studio space in 2018, and began putting out new shows on their own Twitch and YouTube channels. A split from Legendary Digital Networks was completed in early 2019, at which point Critical Role Productions took over production responsibility and since then has continued to launch new shows independently.

Critical Role Productions uses several trade names for various forms of media production such as the gaming imprint Darrington Press, the record label Scanlan Shorthalt Music, and the film and television production banner Metapigeon. They also launched a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Critical Role Foundation, in 2020 to manage various charity projects by the company. In 2023, Critical Role Productions signed a film and television first-look deal with Amazon Studios. Then in 2024, they launched a boutique subscription streaming service called Beacon.