APPEARANCES

HPL = Lovecraft related

LARP = larp related

EDU-L = educational larp related

Upcoming

April 29, 2018 – Screening “Morning Commute” thesis movie at Independent Cinema Showcase

April 5-7 and 12-14, 2019 – Starship Selket: Wave One (LARP)

Priors

• April 2018 – Co-ran Limbo! larp, designed by Kirsten Hageleit (LARP)
• February 2018 – Ran “Easy as Robbing a Bank” at Intercon R (LARP)
• November 11, 2017 – Designed and ran second disaster preparation larp for City of Palo Alto neighborhood through Creative Crisis Leadership (EDU-L)
• October 2017 – Designed an educational escape room for Green Dot Charter School (EDU-L)
• October 28 – Co-speaker on designing disaster prep larps for Minsk Larp Conference – (slideshow available here) (EDU-L)
• Designed and ran official Delta Green larp at GenCon 50 (LARP)
• Moderated “Technology in Larp” panel at San Diego Comic Con (July 2017) (LARP) (video of the panel here)
• Directing and producing Fallen Stars at the Charity Sale for Hollywood Fringe Festival  (LARP) (June 2017)
• Designing/running Disaster Pop-up Event as part of Creative Crisis Leadership (grant funded, EDU-L), May 18
• Wondercon – solo presentation on blockbuster larps, March 31-April 2 (LARP)
• HSC DiscoveryCon – A homeschool convention; talk on edu-larps, March 24-26, (EDU-L)
• KoboldCon – talk on educational games/larps, March 18-19 (EDU-L)
• Crisis Aboard Starship Seshet – escape room larp at OrcCon, Feb 17-19, 2017 (LARP)
• Dead of Winter, December 9-11 (RPG/HPL) – review of my RPG called And Now for my Next Trick
• GMed games at GenCon, August 4-7 (HPL/LARP)
• Moderated panel on larp San Diego Comic Con, July 21-24 (LARP)
• Games for Change Festival, June 23-24, photos here  video of talk here. (EDU-L)
• Moderated panel “Describing the Indescribable: Adapting the Works of H.P. Lovecraft” at WonderCon (HPL)
• Ran the larp Dog Day Afternoon (working title) and fourth playtest of Songlines at Strategicon (LARP)
• Ran Watch the Skies in San Pedro (LARP)
• Helped run Watch the Skies, a Megagame, for free at the San Diego Public Library (LARP)
• Special guest for the 20th anniversary of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® in Portland, Oregon (HPL)
• Presenting a block of award winning short films from the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® for ScareLA (HPL)
• Moderated “Larp Hits the Big Time” panel at San Diego Comic Con (Larp)
• Moderated “The Science of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness” panel at San Diego Comic Con (HPL)
• Blog Talk Radio podcast interview/article (HPL)
• Everyone Question podcast interview (HPL)
• Story Forward Podcast – guest (LARP)
• Chillpak Hollywood Hour podcast guest (HPL/LARP)
• San Diego Public Library – Cthulhu Rising mini-fest and discussion (HPL)
• Wondercon Anaheim – 125 Years of H.P. Lovecraft (moderating panel) (HPL)
• Knudepunkt 2015 – presenting results of 2014 Larp Census (LARP)
• Playthink Art Salon at USC: Pervasive Games, LARPS, and Street Games (LARP, EDU-L)
• Krypton radio’s “Event Horizon” show interview (HPL)
• Hour 25 interview on H.P. Lovecraft and the Film Festival (HPL)
• Krypton Radio’s “The Event Horizon” show interview: (EDU-L)
• Ran “Bookworm”, an ARG for the San Diego Public Library (Central Library), July-August (video here, Fox local news coverage here)
• Moderating the panel “Science and the Stories of H.P. Lovecraft” at San Diego Comic Con July 26 (HPL) (video here, review here)
• Moderated “Everything You Wanted to Know About Larps” panel at Gam3rCon, July 24 (LARP)
• Attending the Reacting to the Past Game Development Conference, July 15-19 (EDU-L)
• Hosted a Seekers Unlimited Casino Night fundraiser at WyrdCon V on Thursday, May 22 (EDU-L)
• Ran “The Association for the Advancement of Fairytale Creatures (AFC)” at WyrdCon V on Friday, May 23 (LARP)
• Consulting seminar about implementing larp techniques to nursing simulations for Texas State University April 3, 2014 (EDU-L)
• Living Games Conference in New York = keynote speaker (LARP, EDU-L) March 14-16 2014
• Intercon N Chelmsford, MA = running games, talking on panels (LARP, EDU-L) Feb 28-March 2 2014
• Speaker for conference on “Modern Society, Larp methodologies, problems and perspectives” in Minsk, Belarus. Saturday, November 23, 10:30am Minsk time (GMT +3) Online only
• Background extra in episode of The Crazy Ones–aired Nov. 14, 2014, on CBS
• Wyrd Con IV – Presentation on edu-larps, and discussion with Jason Morningstar on tabletop RPGs and larps co-mingling (LARP & EDU-L)
• NecronomiCon 2013 – Celluloid Cthulhu panel moderator (HPL)
• NAMLE Conference (rap here) (EDU-L)
• Speaker at New Heights Charter School 8th grade graduation – June 11, 2013 (EDU-L)
• B+ Movie Making on Adrenaline Radio (internet broadcast) (film)
• Ridin’ Dirty (as LA Cocktails Examiner), AM Radio 830 in Orange County, California
• SoCal’s Best (as larp expert and H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival®-Los Angeles organizer) (HPL & LARP)
• Time-Warner Cable Channel 101 and local CNN (larp piece)
• Dork Forest podcast (HPL& LARP)
• GenCon (HPL)
• San Diego Comic Con (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) (HPL & LARP)
• MythosCon (HPL)
• NecronomiCon (HPL)
• Intercon (LARP & EDU-L)
• H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival®- Portland (HPL)
• Villain in Tales of the Green Hornet #1 (comic book)

Interviews

• Quoted in this article by Sande Chen on edu-larps (EDU-L)
• LarpBook (LARP Census)
• Diary of a Croatian Larper (Larp Census)
• The Event Horizon on Krypton Radio (EDU-L)
• Fascinating Nouns (LARP, EDU-L)
• Mythologica #2 (on Lovecraft, in French)
• Chicago Tribune (on Lovecraft)
• Game Knight reviews (EDU-L)
• Stargazer’s World (EDU-L)
• The Geek Girl Project (EDU-L)
• The Eldritch Influence: The Life, Vision, and Phenomenon of H.P. Lovecraft (HPL)
• Innsmouth Free Press (HPL)
• Screw It, I’ll Play Make Believe (LARP)
• Loyola-Marymount (LARP)
• When Worlds Collide (LARP)
• City on a Hill Press (LARP)
• Handshake (LARP)
• Neon Tommy (LARP)
• The Benefits of Live Action Role Playing (LARP)
• Märklighetstroget (LARP)
• Kevin Avery’s Obsessed (LARP)
• Nerd 101 (LARP)
• Storyworld Conference and Expo panelist on LARPs, ARGs, and Transmedia (2012) (LARP)
• Rolle|Spil (LARP)
• Wired.com (EDU-L & LARP)

A few of the people I have interviewed for a publication or video: Neil Gaiman, Guillermo del Toro, John Carpenter, Terry Rossio, Greg and Colin Strause, Alex Ross, Jill Thompson, Bernie Wrightson, Poppy Z. Brite, Roberta Williams, Jay Bonansinga, and many more.

Screenings

The Outsider and/or My Necronomicon

• 1994: Chicago Underground Film Festival – Chicago, Illinois
• 1996: H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® – Portland, Oregon
• 1997: NecronomiCon – Providence, Rhode Island; H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® – Portland, Oregon
• 1998: Night Visions – Helsinki, Finland; Monster Bash – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• 1999: Coup de Grace – Los Angeles, California; Honorable Mention on E! Online short horror movie contest (My Necronomicon)
• 2001: Shock-O-Rama A  Go Go – Los Angeles, California
• 2008: Cthulhupalooza – Vancovuer, Canada
• 2013: NecronomiCon -Providence. Rhode Island (The Outsider)
• 2014: Best of the Fest: H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival®, Portland, Oregon (The Outsider)
• 2015: Year One block: H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival®, Portland, Oregon (The Outsider)

Return to Innsmouth

• 1999: MisCon – Bozeman, Montana; CineMuerte – Vancouver, Canada; Necon – Bristol, Rhode Island; GenCon – MIlwaukee, Wisconsin; NecronomiCon – Providence, Rhode Island;  GenCon UK – Loughborough University, England; H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® – Portland, Oregon; OryCon – Portland, Oregon; HPLFF®-North – Vancouver, Canada
• 2000: Imagine Con – Virginia Beach, Virginia; Festival of Darkness – Baltimore, Maryland
• 2001: World Horror Con – Seattle, Washington
• 2006: Archon 30 – St. Louis, Missouri
• 2007:The Cinema Wasteland Movie & Memorabilia Expo, America’s Drive-In and Independent Movie Show – Strongsville, Ohio
• 2013: Cthulhu Festival of Film – Seoul, South Korea
• 2014: H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon® (15th anniversary)
• 2015: H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival®, Portland, Oregon

Call of Tutu 

• 2006: H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® – Portland, Oregon; Blue November Micro Film Fest – Tulsa, Oklahoma; Seattle Fest – Seattle, Washington
• 2007: A Night of Horror – Sydney, Australia

The Yellow Sign

• 2002: NecronomiCon – Providence, Rhode Island; H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® – Portland, Oregon
• 2003: University of Kentucky Film Society – Louisville, Kentucky; New Filmmakers at Cinespace – Los Angeles, California; New Orleans Media Experience – New Orleans, Louisiana; Dr. Morbius’s Movie Mausoleum (pubic access television) – Los Angeles, California
• 2004: Blue November Microfilmfest – Tulsa, Oklahoma (winner: Best Lighting)
• 2005: CthulhuCon One; MiskatoniCon – Stockholm, Sweden
• 2006: World Horror Con – San Francisco, California; WorldCon (LACon IV) – Anaheim, California; Archon 30 – St. Louis, Missouri
• 2007: Belfast U.K. sf/game club—charity screening – Belfast, Ireland
• 2012: MiniCon 47 – Minneapolis, Minnesota; LosCon 39 – Los Angeles, California