Roger Wu

Art, Technology, Writing, and Everything Else

About Me
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Welcome to my website! I'm Roger Wu, I'm based in New York.I grew up in a town in Northern New Jersey called West Caldwell, which is known for being the birthplace of the only first non consecutive president Grover Cleveland, but more importantly is the home of the Sopranos. I graduated as valedictorian and went to the University of Pennsylvania where I received degrees in Finance and Computer Science from the Jerome Fisher Program of Management and Technology as well as a Masters Degree in Telecommunications. At school, I competed in the Mr Penn bodybuilding contest, rowed for the heavyweight crew team, was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, and worked at local bar, Smokey Joes, where I started a coat check.


I'm on the board of ChaShaMa, a non profit that connects artists to vacant real estate.I'm also on the board of Brooklyn Lakeside Curling. We are bringing curling to Brooklyn!I built Dogplane, an app that shows you all the art openings around you.I put on an art exhibition and its sequel, the Thought ExperienceI built DogStreets, an app that catalogues all editioned art since the 1900s I started Cooperatize, a platform to help you find sponsored post opportunities in the travel industry, which I sold to Famecast, an influencer's tool kit company, and worked for Famecast and 1of1 CustomDogplane was originally a site for Milo the dog of dog friendly places in NYC.I performed Off Broadway in Shanghai GestureI once ran the PR 2.0 and the Pinterest meetup.I started, organized, and sold the Stamford Tech Meetup even though I live in New York City.I was the bodyguard to the Prime Minister of Micronesia in Zoolander.Upon graduation, I worked at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.My first job was Taco Bell, my second job was Roy Rogers, and I've also delivered Domino's Pizza.I started KlickableTV out of a tea shop, Subtle Tea, in 2008.I taught myself how to code in Actionscript 3, Javascript and PHP.I shot a web series called My RoommatesI once was part of the AICE; the Association of Competitive Eaters.I'm a member of SAG-AFTRA.

Technology

Illustration

Some of the projects that I've put together

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Dogplane Labs

Born: 01/01/2025 New York

Dogplane and Dogstreets are two art related sites.Check em out!

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Cooperatize

Born: 09/05/2013 New York

Sponsored Content Marketplace for Travel BloggersSold to Famecast

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Giftfinder

Born: 03/01/2012 New York

E-commerce site for Gift GivingShut down

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Klickable TV

Born: 06/05/08 New York

Interactive video platformSold to HipHopShoppingTV

Art

Thought Experience: A Conceptual Art Show

Thought Experience Part 2: Think Again

Thought Experience

I won a Webby with this and exhibited it at the Soho Gallery of Digital Art 

I made these for a digital art show in TriBeCa 

sketches made during covid

Writing

Some mentions in the press
New York v San FranciscoWhat's in a Name? Story of my life How to get people to care Analysis of Tweets  re: NYCrowdfunds Video 2.0TV of Tomorrow - Bill NiemeyerFast CompanyHonored by the Webby's!Social Media Week My Binary Five Word Answer I love this
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Acting and Directing

FilmographyGingerbreed | Principal | Gingerbreed Productions, Jonathan Dorfman, Dir.Through Different Eyes | Lead | Free Lui Productions, Joe Fremont, Dir.The Golden Empire | Lead |Jersey Style Films, Jesse Jackson, Dir.Phish | Lead | One Way or the Other Prods., Princeton Holt, Dir.The Struggle | Lead | Artistes Films, Yee Yao Chang, Dir.TelevisionLaw and Order: SVU | Principal |Universal Network TV / David Platt, Dir.Cooking in Brooklyn | Principal | Delicious Pictures / Discovery Home & LeisureGuiding Light | Photographer | CBS TelevisionQueens Boulevard | Principal | Time Warner CableAs the World Turns | Bartender | CBS TelevisionTheaterThe Shanghai Gesture | Tsa | Bank Street Theater/ Dan Wackerman, Dir.The Shanghai Gesture | Servant | Mirror Repertory Co (Off Broadway) / Robert Kaflin, Dir.The Boat People | Kunan | Lower East Side Tenement Theater | Kiebpoli Calnek, Dir.You Can’t Take it With You | Tony Kirby | New Jersey Theater / Bill Kaufman, Dir.EducationNew York University | Story Analysis | Lisa KatselasStella Adler | Film and Television | Bill HopkinsT. Schreiber Studio | Technique and Scene Study | Mary BoyerBlack Nexxus Studio | Ex-er Actor | VariousSchool for Film and Television | Technique | Pam ScottUniversity of Pennsylvania: Wharton School, School of Engineering BS, BS, MS

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Random

This website wouldn't be complete if there wasn't a random section!game show Competitive Eating, Competitive Drinking, Marathon Running, Rowing, Curling, Stairclimbing

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