Adrian Hon
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Adrian Hon is a game designer, author, and former CEO and founder of Six to Start. He co-created the world’s bestselling smartphone fitness game “Zombies, Run!”, and is Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre specialising in immersive art. He is currently writing a book about the history and future of immersive experiences.
Alistair Aitcheson
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Alistair creates playable stage shows, alternative controller games and interactive livestreams. He loves encouraging players and audiences to get messy, be creative and break the rules. He formerly co-hosted IndieCade’s Beyond Screens Alternative Controller livestreams, and is currently performing interactive clown shows where the audience directs the action using their phones.
Amanda Meyers
– Party at Anna’s –
Amanda Meyers, an Emerson BFA graduate in Theater & Performance, specializes in Interactive Theatre and Production Management. In 2022, she founded Party at Anna’s, an LA-based company for queer, interactive storytelling. Her work blends guerrilla theatre with commercialized production, shaping a bold, adaptive artistic approach. Amanda also continues her performance training as a dancer and actor, always stoked for an opportunity to jump on stage!
Dr. Ari Gass
– Obvious Agency –
Dr. Ari Gass is a scholar-practitioner with a focus on feminist and queer theoretical approaches to computational media. They are an assistant professor in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University. Their research draws on methodologies and perspectives from media studies, videogame studies, queer and feminist theory as well as devised, ensemble-based performance and performance studies. They received their PhD from the University of Chicago and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Georgia State University.
Athomas Goldberg
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Athomas Goldberg is a multidisciplinary artist and creative technologist with a 40-year career spanning academic research, commercial interactive entertainment, and the arts. A pioneer in interactive and immersive media, he holds multiple patents and has consistently advanced the use of real-time digital technologies in storytelling. His work fuses live performance, animation, and XR, bridging traditional and virtual stages. Through award-winning projects, he explores how technology can serve as an instrument to deepen human connection and shared narrative experience.
Bernhard Drax aka Draxtor
– draxtor…and media for all! –
Bernhard Drax aka Draxtor- is an Emmy-nominated, Peabody Award winning documentarian. Since 2007 he has produced more than 400 mini-documentaries on the subject of creative diversity and inclusion through virtual worlds. In 2018 his feature documentary “Our Digital Selves” about disability and place-making in virtual worlds was released. Draxtor is currently developing a feature about the life of jazz great Toni Harper. After 23 years in California, he lives with his wife, son and dog in Munich, Germany.
Charles Coes
– Figure 53/QLab –
Charles has worked with Figure 53 to support users of QLab since 2018 and continues his work as a sound designer and engineer for theater and immersive events. He has worked on 28 Broadway shows, toured 6 continents and worked with composers and media artists to make their ideas achievable on stage.
Christopher Lane Davis
– Screaming Color/Ferryman Collective –
Christopher Lane Davis, known artistically as Screaming Color, is a musician, VR creator, and immersive performer crafting emotionally charged experiences at the intersection of theater, games, and film. In 2021 he joined up with Ferryman Collective to create award winning shows including, Gumball Dreams, which won the Grand Prize at the Kaohsiung Film Festival, leading him to move to Taiwan and co-create and direct the Mandarin version the following year.
Clytze Lee
– The Snack cart Studio（小吃车工作室） –
The owner of the snack cart Studio and a well-known author of LARP in China.The representative works “Love Actually” has achieved over 50 million yuan in box office revenue in the Chinese LARP market and has been translated into Japanese, with its release in Japan imminent.
Cuauhtémoc Vázquez
– Un Colectivo –
Artist in Un Colectivo where he has developed as production designer and director since 2015, his artistic practice lies on the threshold of the installation, the document theater and community theater combining design tools, editing video, audio and multimedia programming for the scene.
He is also part of Lxs de Abajo, a community art collective, formed from the Ruelas Project of the Cervantino International Festival.
Daniel Park
– Obvious Agency –
Daniel Park is a queer, bi-racial, theatre and performance artist, movement facilitator, and organizer for racial and labor justice in the cultural sector. His work brings people together to understand and experiment with their individual and mutual roles in bringing about the liberation of all people. Since moving to Philadelphia in 2014 Daniel has become a leader for radical thought in the local creative ecosystem and a trusted national source for guidance on the intersection between cooperatives and the arts.
Deirdre V. Lyons
– Ferryman Collective –
Deirdre V. Lyons is a Los Angeles-based producer, director, and performer, and co-founder of Ferryman Collective, known for pioneering live VR theatre. Co-creator of the award-winning Gumball Dreams and produced the Welcome to Respite and Uncanny Alley: A New Day. Honored by XR Women and XR Must, she’s been recognized as a Top 100 Original Voice in XR, a Woman of the Future in Emerging Tech, a SXSW mentor and a member of the Television Academy and PGA.
Diavkha Nokturne
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Graphic Designer and Animator by trade. I love creating worlds, characters and stories.
In Second Life I love to build spaces, decorate and create.
Diego Álvarez Castro
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Performing artist and researcher in training. Currently concluding bachelor’s degree in dramatic literature and theatre at the UNAM (National Automomus University of Mexico). He had taken workshops in the mexican interdisciplinary colective TransLímite [alternativa-escénica] and currently colaborates in the theatre school CADAC (Centro de Are Dramático A. C.) as teenager and child’s teacher, as well as in the Catedra Bergman and Teatro UNAM’s proyect “Apuntes”. He also colaborates as performer in the children’s theatre compañy “Los cantores del confín”.
E. B. Hunter
– Washington University in St. Louis –
E.B. Hunter is a critical theorist and digital maker exploring the future of live performance and emergent technologies. She is Assistant Professor in Drama and Director of the Fabula(b) Theater + New Media Lab in the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis. Before returning to academia, Hunter was head of development for an independent film company and the founding artistic director of an immersive Shakespeare company in a restored blast furnace in Birmingham, Alabama.
Geneviève Flati
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Geneviève has puppeteered with The Jim Henson Company, Disney+, Netflix, Disneyland, PBS, America’s Got Talent, League of Legends, The Aquarium of Long Beach, Fail Army, The Lakers, and countless live shows, TV shows, movies, and commercials. Geneviève is the youngest female puppet captain in the history of the Jim Henson Company. She was Puppet Captain for AJR’s “The Maybe Man” National Tour, performing in arenas all over the US, including Madison Square Garden and The Kia Forum.
Gian Carlo de Jesus
– Balaiwari Immersive and Gamified Experiences (BINGE XP) –
Gian Carlo U. de Jesus is a professor, theater director, playwright, LARPwright, and experience designer, and playmaker of Balaiwari Immersive and Gamified Experiences (BINGE XP) a creative studio that designs playable experiences for education, training, theater, tourism, and historical events, among others.
Hugh Davies
– RMIT –
With a history of leadership roles in media production, arts management and museum consultancy, Hugh Davies brings extensive knowledge and experience into tertiary education contexts. In addition to extensive university lecturing internationally, he has co-authored two books: Understanding Games and Game Cultures (2021) and Exploring Minecraft, Ethnographies of Play (2020). He is currently a research fellow with a focus on Chinese Platform Studies at RMIT in Melbourne. He is president of the Chinese Digital Games Research Association (CDiGRA).
James Hyett
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James (he/him) is a producer, performer, and translator from Kingston, Ontario. He has performed with the award-winning Ferryman Collective in live VR plays at festivals around the world including SXSW, the Venice Biennale, and the New Images Festival. He has produced audio dramas for children with his collective, First Ditch, the first of which, Through the Fairy Circle, won the Young Producer’s Award at the 2023 UK International Radio Drama Festival. He researches classical plays by women for Hedgepig Ensemble.
Jamie Harper
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Jamie Harper’s performance works have been produced for a range of arts organisations including Camden People’s Theatre, The Yard, Serpentine Galleries and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. His larp projects have been played at festivals including Grenselandet in Oslo, Blackbox CPH and Minsk Larp Festival. His performance research has been published in The Drama Review, Research in Drama Education and the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. He works as Lecturer in Drama at University of Plymouth.
Jeff Wirth
– Interactive PlayLab –
Jeff Wirth is director of the Interactive PlayLab and a founding member of the Association of Interactive Performance Professionals. He has consulted with Cirque du Soleil, Blue Man Group, Meow Wolf, and Disney Imagineering, with projects at Lincoln Center and SXSW. Jeff authored Interactive Acting, Interactive Performance 101, and the Encyclopedia of Interactive Performance. He taught at UCF’s Digital Media program for 10 years, and his eclectic background includes ballroom dancing, computer programming, and clowning with Ringling Bros. Circus.
Jo Yardley
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Dutch historian, specialised in daily life in 1920s-1940s Europe and creator of virtual worlds
Joanna Lyu
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Joanna Lyu is a Chinese-Australian game designer and media artist creating site-specific games, interactive installations, audiovisual performances, and transmedia narratives that reinterpret systems, power, and the everyday.
She runs the Shanghai-based game collective “[rect]repair,” facilitating accessible, experimental public games, alternative game jams, and community interventions in collaboration with institutions such as A4 Art Museum, Rockbund Art Museum, Times Museum Guangzhou, and abC Art Book Fair.
John Krizanc
– Bread & Dreams Inc. –
John Krizanc is a founding member of the Necessary Angel Theatre Company, who helped pioneer site-specific work that broke down barriers between actors and audience. His play Tamara is widely regarded as inaugurating the immersive theatre movement, running for nine years in Los Angeles and four in New York while winning numerous awards including the Dora, Drama-Logue, and LA Theatre Critics prizes. The script was recently republished by Anansi as a Canadian Classic and is currently playing in rep in Portugal. His play Prague won Canada’s highest literary honor, the Governor General’s Award, and he concluded his political trilogy with The Half of It, winner of the Chalmers Prize.
Jorge Lopes Ramos & Jadé Maravala
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Professor Jorge Lopes Ramos is a multi-award-winning artist and producer who conducts world-leading creative research in the intersections of interactive performance, serious games, and disability arts.
Jadé Maravala is Artistic Director of interactive theatre/digital arts company ZU-UK and is committed to reclaiming public spaces to reduce barriers to audience participation.
Their artworks aim to challenge invisible privilege and lower barriers for participation. They believe in the harnessing depth of knowledge in lived experience to help create new models.
Karla Boos
– Quantum Theatre –
Karla Boos founded Quantum Theatre in 1990 and serves as Artistic Director, based in Pittsburgh. The company makes original work, creates adventurous productions of contemporary theatre, and stages updated classics in innovative performance sites all over the city. Boos often directs or acts for the company and has made many original works. Quantum has earned distinction nationally and has toured abroad. Boos is a Salzburg Seminar Fellow, a member of the National Theatre Conference, and the International Women’s Forum.
Lauren Ludwig
– Capital W –
Lauren Ludwig is a queer writer/director who loves interactive experiences, genre storytelling, jokes, magical realism, ceremony, discomfort, film, music, live performance, and creating communities for artists. Lauren writes and directs for the award-winning Capital W, a radical theatre collaboration whose work has won “Best Game Design” at IndieCade. A passionate educator, Lauren served as Director of the AFI Directing Workshop for Women and is a co-founder of Wayward, an artist retreat in the Canadian wilderness.
Lyndsie Scoggin
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In 2018, Lyndsie founded CoAct Productions- now Odyssey Adventure Co., successfully crowdfunding “The Sideshow” and creating the groundbreaking “Welcome to Respite”. Respite’s adaptation into a live-performance VR experience garnered international acclaim, winning Best Narrative Experience at Raindance, among other festival accolades. Recognized for innovative narrative-driven design, Lyndsie frequently shares her expertise on panels and in educational settings. She is currently focused on expanding Odyssey Adventure Co. with Nevermore (2024), a unique traveling murder mystery escape game & dining experience.
Mandy Canales
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Mandy performs and teaches physical comedy, improv, and jazz at the Virtual Reality Dance Academy based in VRChat. Her work has been seen at OnBoardXR, VRCon, Raindance Immersive, The Gray Area, The Virtual Reality Show, FIVARS, and PXR. She has spoken at SF Design Week, Raindance Immersive Festival, and VRTO. She is an Assistant Professor in the department of Digital Technology and Culture at Washington State University.
Mariah (Mo) Horner
– Queen’s University –
Dr. Mariah (Mo) Horner (she/they) is a adjunct assistant professor, theatre artist, musician, emcee, and educator based in Katarokwi-Kingston. Her research interests include abolition dramaturgies, site-specific performance, participatory performance, care work, and collaborative creation. With Dr. Jenn Stephenson she co-authored PLAY: Dramaturgies of Participation (Playwrights Canada Press, 2024) and co-edited Canadian Theatre Review 197: Participation. Other research and writing has been published by Theatre Research in Canada, Canadian Theatre Review, SpiderWebShow, The Skeleton Press, and Tourism Kingston.
Mariana Gándara
– Colectivo Macramé –
Mariana Gándara is a Mexican theatre maker, curator, and researcher who leads Colectivo Macramé, an interdisciplinary group working between Mexico and Switzerland. Since 2009, Macramé has created playful, participatory experiences that invite collective imagination and re-enchantment of the everyday. Gándara designs immersive theatre, ephemeral cities, and interactive spaces where audiences co-create meaning. Guided by curiosity, joy, and the desire for transformation, her work celebrates fiction as a space to explore, connect, and invent new ways of being together.
Melanie Frances
– Freelance & Co-Artistic Director at Produced Moon –
Mel Frances is a games & experience designer, a writer and a creative mathematician. She makes interactive experiences – books, performances and games – that travel to unknown places, speculative futures and alternative realities.
Mel is Co-Artistic Director of Produced Moon: a Creative XR Theatre Lab based in Scotland who create mixed reality experiences, live performance and participatory projects. Mel is also a member of Mod, a collective of Playful Activists who use games and playable experiences to modify our world.
Michael Andersen
– Owner, ARGN.com –
Michael Andersen is the owner of ARGN.com, and has been writing about alternate reality games, escape rooms, immersive theater, puzzle hunts, Larp, and other forms of immersive entertainment for almost 20 years. He led the Events team as part of the 2024 MIT Mystery Hunt, where his Taylor Swift themed puzzle “Deep Conspiracy” was nominated for a Bravo Award and featured on r/GaylorSwift subreddit.
Michael currently heads up Audience Insights at Simon & Schuster, and helped launch Wired’s “Decode” blog.
Michael Fell
– Dungeons & Dragons The Twenty-Sided Tavern –
Michael is a director, improviser, actor and voiceover artist based in Brooklyn. His work has been seen on CBS and in cities such as New York, London, Minneapolis, Louisville, Little Rock, and more. He received a BFA from the Guthrie BFA Actor Training Program.
Mike Pohjola
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Mike Pohjola is a Finnish game designer, playwright, transmedia developer, novelist, and entrepeneur. He has founded three media companies, that together have won an International Emmy Award, two Interactive Rockies, and a Prix Europa. He has graduated as a Master of Arts in Screenwriting from Aalto University, where his Master’s Thesis dealt with participatory storytelling in Classical Greece. He has designed several tabletop RPGs, runs larps for children, and is the author of the Manifesto of the Turku School.
Morgan Russell
– AIPP –
Morgan, a founding board member of AIPP, applies her extensive experience in interactive performance—from Disney street shows to founding SAK Comedy Lab—to her current role creating immersive learning simulations for Fortune 500 companies with ETU. An innovative, empathy-driven team player, she specializes in designing and delivering high-stakes simulation applications, believing in the power of play to improve human interaction.
Nick O’Leary
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Nick O’Leary is a director, designer, and theatermaker. As a creator of everything from explosively reimagined classics to immersive spectacles and intimate participatory works, he is dedicated to exploring liveness and shared presence to inspire reflection, discourse and collective action. Nick has developed new work with organizations like Dacha Theatre, The Flea, Guerilla Opera, Dixon Place, and The Pittsburgh CLO. He holds an MFA in Directing from the UW School of Drama and a BA in Theater from Dartmouth College.
Nicole Eun-Ju Bell
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Hyewon Lee is a director and creative producer specializing in immersive storytelling across VR, AR, and location-based experiences. With a background in film, performance, and media art, she explores the intersection of technology and storytelling to craft unique, audience-driven narratives.Her producing works, have been showcased at leading festivals such as SXSW, Tribeca, Cannes, and NewImages. Through her work, Lee continues to redefine how audiences engage with stories in virtual and physical spaces, bridging technology with emotional depth.
Nicole Rigo
– The MetaMovie –
Nicole Rigo is an actor/ singer/ immersive performer in both Virtual Reality and in real life. In the metaverse, she acted in the award-winning immersive and interactive production of The Metamovie Presents: Alien Rescue. This project has won awards at Raindance Immersive, the VRAwards, and the A.Maze festival. Previous productions in VR: A Very Old Mystery in New New York and The Heist. Nicole also assistant directs and hosts in VR. Nicole holds a B.A. from Yale University. www.nicolerigo.com
Rene Hyewon Lee
– Giioii Immersive Storytelling Studio –
Hyewon Lee is a director and creative producer specializing in immersive storytelling across VR, AR, and location-based experiences. With a background in film, performance, and media art, she explores the intersection of technology and storytelling to craft unique, audience-driven narratives.Her producing works, have been showcased at leading festivals such as SXSW, Tribeca, Cannes, and NewImages. Through her work, Lee continues to redefine how audiences engage with stories in virtual and physical spaces, bridging technology with emotional depth.
Sam Roberts
– University of California, Irvine –
Sam Roberts is a games educator, designer, and curator whose passion for collaboration and creativity was sparked by tabletop roleplaying games in 1988. He specializes in innovative development practice and building design communities. He is most widely known for co-founding and content directing IndieCade, the ‘Sundance of Games,’ and currently works at UCI Informatics, teaching classes on design, tabletop roleplaying games, and interactive media development. He writes about the design of tabletop roleplaying games at ludologicalalchemy.substack.com
Sara Vega
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Artista y gestora egresada del Centro Universitario de Teatro, UNAM. Actualmente forma parte de Apuntes, programa de la Cátedra Bergman y del Consejo Editor de La Barraca, revista de estudiantes del CUT, UNAM.
“An artist and manager, she graduated from the Centro Universidad de Teatro (UNAM). She currently works for Apuntes, a program of the Bergman Chair, and is on the Editorial Board of La Barraca, a student magazine at the CUT (UNAM University of Mexico).”
Shang Chiao Li
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Li Shang-Chiao is a film/comic writer/director with curating and cross-cultural experience. In 2023, she joined the Kaohsiung Film Festival XR team, managing immersive content and competitions, and handling international licensing. She focuses on film, publishing, and cross-cultural creation. Her script, Mayfly Island, sold French, Italian, and Spanish rights, and won Japan’s International Manga Award (Bronze).
Soner Barthoma
– Uppsala University –
Political scientist, migration scholar, recently joined larp community.
Stephen Butchko
– Ferryman Collective (Co-Founder) –
Stephen Butchko, a theatre graduate from Western Washington University, began producing and performing in independent stage and film projects in Los Angeles with his wife, Deirdre V. Lyons. In 2020, he co-founded Ferryman Collective, creating live VR theatre. His works include PARA, Krampusnacht, Gumball Dreams, and Uncanny Alley: A New Day, which premiered at the 81st Venice Biennale and won the Fanheart3 XR Fan Experience Award. Uncanny Alley has since been translated into French and received additional accolades.
Tamara Nassar
– Bait Byout: The Palestinian Larp Organisation –
Tamara Nassar is a LARPer, game designer, and youth worker based in Palestine. Since 2011, she has used LARP to tell compelling stories that address social and political issues. She co-founded Bait Byout, Palestine’s first LARP organization, where she now serves as Projects Coordinator and Creative Director. Her LARP Tiny Steps in Heaven, about the children of Gaza, won the 2024 Echoes of the Innocents competition and will be featured at the Immersion LARP Festival in Finland this August.
Trenton Wirth
– FreeMoCap, The University of Cincinnati –
Hi, I’m Trent! I’m a teaching professor at the University of Cincinnati where I’m spearheading technical education for PhD students in the Psychology Department.
During my post-doc working with Jonathan Samir Matthis at Northeastern University, I co-founded The Free Motion Capture Project (FreeMoCap). I received my PhD in Cognitive Science from Brown University in the Winter of 2021 under the direction of Bill Warren.
In my free time, I enjoy playing games with my friends and hiking with my family.
Whitton Frank
– Ferryman Collective –
Whitton Frank is a voice, film, television and theater actor from Los
Angeles. Her VR work includes directing the English premiere of Find
WiiLii, performing The Under Presents and The Tempest, as well as the Ferryman Collective productions PARA, Welcome to Respite, Gumball Dreams, and Uncanny Alley. She is a graduate of two prestigious acting universities, CMU and the LAMDA, and received CMU’s Tartans on the Rise award. She is a sought after speaker at tech and immersive events worldwide.
Erica McCay
– Association of Interactive Performance Professionals –
Erica is a creative director, writer, and designer of stories that connect people and place. For over 20 years, she has crafted live theatre productions, play-based educational experiences, and large-scale, physical interactive experiences for theme parks around the globe, including the Wizarding World and Thea Award winning Super Nintendo World. Erica is Editor-in-Chief of the AIPP journal and has an MFA in Creative Writing. Erica captured her design process in the article “7 Principles for Creating Immersive Worlds.”
Manning Qu
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Shanghai-based theatre maker and cross-disciplinary artist specializing in audience-driven narratives. As creator of the award-winning musical “The Butterfly on the Bond” and multimedia percussion theatre “Moon Buddha”, he merges theatrical traditions with interactive design (Tencent Tech Tree, Shanghai Sci Museum). His interactive artworks exhibited at NY Sci Gallery explore LGBTQ rights (“Marriage Machine”) and Movement as Play Through Interactive Design (“AFLOAT”).
Nadja Lipsyc
– The Oslo School of Architecture and Design –
Nadja Lipsyc (PhD) is a game designer, artist, and researcher with an education in neuroscience and audiovisual production. She works with videogames, film, larp, VR, experimental theater, installation and teaches at the Oslo school of Architecture and Design. Her work often stages surreal and symbolic universes tied to contemporary questions
Sara Pinedo
– Un Colectivo –
Performing artist, manager, feminist, artivist, and scavenger. Her work explores critical, documentary, participatory, and community artistic practices from intergenerational and gender perspectives.
She holds a Master’s degree in Theater and Performing Arts from the National University of the Arts, Argentina (2022) and a degree in Communications (2008). She has been part of the National System of Art Creators since 2023.
She has shared her work in playwriting, directing, and research in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Germany, Spain, and England.
Tianding He
– University of California, Irvine –
Tianding He, an international experimental theatre director, performer, and multidisciplinary artist from China, is the founding artistic director of B·O·N·D International Virtual Performance Festival. Rooted in anthropology and performance, her work merges object theatre, physical performance, and interactive technology to challenge anthropocentric views and amplify marginalized voices. Her productions have been presented at leading venues and festivals worldwide, earning critical acclaim and positioning her as a distinctive voice in contemporary, intercultural, and technology-driven performance.
Yulin Tian
– Tongji University –
Yulin Tian works at the intersection of HCI, game play, and digital health. With a PhD in Digital Media Art and international research experience, she designs VR games and interactive works exploring game-based rehabilitation and parasocial intimacy. Her publications and award-winning projects have been presented at CHI, CSCW, Dutch Design Week, Tokyo University of the Arts, and more.
Zoyander Street
– Intrapology –
Zoyander Street is a neuroqueer and disabled artist, creating interactive media based on social and historical research. Their contributions at the arty fringe of indie games go back to 2011, and include documentary, critical writing, independent publishing, and original solo games projects
Braden Roy
– Playable Theatre / Ferryman Collective / XR LIVE –
Braden Roy is a narrative designer, writer, producer, director, performer and co-founder of Ferryman Collective. He has a background in film production, illustration, marketing, web development, audio production, game design and development as well as over a decade of experience in information technology. He previously served as the writer, a producer, co-director and performer for the live immersive VR productions PARA and Krampusnacht. His most recent productions include The Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite and En Route, the former of which he serves as a producer, performer and is responsible for VR adaptation, the latter the creative director, producer and lead of mechanical design.
Celia Pearce
– Playable Theatre/IndieCade/Northeastern University –
Celia Pearce is a game designer, curator, researcher and Professor at Northeastern University. She is co-founder of IndieCade and Co-Executive Director of Playable Theatre. Her first play, (F)UNFAIR, co-created with Nick O’Leary and Dacha Theatre, premiered in Seattle in 2022. She is the author of Communities of Play (MIT Press 2009), and PLAYFRAMES (MIT Press 2024), builds Goffman’s Frame Analysis and performance studies scholarship to explore the ways in which we distinguish between play, ritual and everyday life.
Evan Torner
– University of Cincinnati –
Dr. Evan Torner is Associate Professor of German and Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where he directs the undergraduate program in German Studies, the UC Game Lab, and the curriculum for the BFA in Games and Animation. He co-founded and still helps coordinate the journal Analog Game Studies and the Golden Cobra Challenge. He is Secretary of the Playable Theatre Organization and an IndieCade Committee Jury Member.
