Omar Najam is multifaceted in the world of film and video. A filmmaker, producer, and director, Najam is known for co-hosting the YouTube channel 2 Broke Geeks and several podcasts.
Najam’s content often centers around games, movies, pop culture, and Dungeons & Dragons. He appears in several episodes of the Jurassic Park fan podcast See Jurassic Right. He also co-hosted the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan podcast Sunnydale Study Group.
His latest RPG show, A Court of Fey and Flowers, came out in August 2022.
Omar Najam co-hosted 2 Broke Geeks
Najam moved to LA after college with close friend Mia Resella to pursue directing. Resella was pursuing a career in writing. Together, they started the 2 Broke Geeks YouTube channel, active 2012-2017.
“…when we moved to L.A. we had to cancel our cable and we had no T.V., and we were just watching a lot of Netflix Instant Watch all the time,” Resella told New Media Rockstars. “We started our channel 2 Broke Geeks in terms of it was just going to be for Netflix Instant Watch reviews and then maybe add stuff later.”
The early success of 2 Broke Geeks earned them a feature on Geek & Sundry Vlogs in 2013.
While Resella went on to pursue screenwriting, Najam took on projects in creating and hosting shows, films, and podcasts.
In 2017 Najam edited for the Disney XD summer gaming program Parker Plays. He also wrote, edited, and hosted for HyperRPG interactive roleplaying shows and webseries Fictional Fares.
in 2019 Najam hosted for TBD Network’s new original series TBD Bytes. The episodes covered a variety of trending topics including news, music, food, and pop culture.
Najam co-produced and appeared in the TV series El Rey Nation (2019-2020). Each 30-minute episode features a panel of geeks discussing games, films, and comic books.
Omar Najam co-hosted ZyteHeist’s Sunnydale Study Group from 2015-2020. The podcast explored in depth all things Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from characters and setting to music and plot. Najam also worked on ZyteHeist’s improv RPG podcast, Thank You For Questing (2018-2020) as producer and cast member.
In 2022 Najam joined Pixel Circus’ new Actual Play show The Borros Saga: Banesbreak. He plays the swashbuckling Gybe Taffrail.
Omar Najam studied film
Najam grew up in Half Moon Bay, California. As a kid, Najam made movies and parodies with his brothers and friends.
“Literally my home town is where Birdemic [2010] takes place,” Najam said on the See Jurassic Right podcast. He earned his BA in Film and New Media Studies from UC Santa Barbara alongside the show’s host, Steven Ray Morris.
Omar Najam in A Court of Fey and Flowers
The newest season of Dimension 20: A Court of Fey and Flowers. The regency-inspired fairy-themed game show uses systems from Dungeons & Dragons (5th Edition) and the Jane Austen-inspired RPG Good Society.
“I have always been interested in the art of games like Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder because it’s just this intense fantasy where you’re like ‘Oh yeah! Let’s 100% just all jump at a dragon,’” Najam said on the Let’s Learn About… podcast.
Najam plays Andhera (He / They), an asexual prince with a British accent. Najam is asexual himself and explores that character aspect in depth in the show.
“I wanted to have fun and was like, ‘What would a regency prince character want to appear as? I think they would want to appear as Chris Hemsworth,’” Najam said about creating Andhera. “And it was just like dropping that register, boxing up the shoulders, and from that it kind of built out. In playing the character, I started to be like, ‘this is a for sure ace character.”
“[Omar and I] were in a campaign together called Banesbreak, and that’s where we first met. Literally Session One of that game, I realized Omar is incredible, and I knew I was going to drag him to Dimension 20 as soon as I could,” Game Master Aabria Lyengar told CBR.
The 10-episode season premiered August 3, 2022 and is available to watch on Dropout TV. New episodes air on Wednesdays.
Iyengar also leads campaigns on the Critical Role podcast. Omar Fadel composes.
Watch Omar Najam in A Court of Fey and Flowers on Dropout.
