PUBLIC EVENTS:

Upcoming:

• San Diego Comic-Con – facilitating a board game design workshop (EDU) and joining a panel of game designers discussing homebrew systems
• Running demos of Dreamland RPG

Prior Appearances, Talks, Games, and Presentations:

• Guest lecture for Duke Kunshan University on participatory experience design (EDU-L)
• Guest lecture for Baker University on working with government entities (EDU-L)
• Ran a Game Design workshop at WonderCon 2024 (EDU-L).
• Moderator of a panel on The Game Academy’s projects at San Diego Comic-Con@Home (EDU-L)
• Guest speaker at the Serious Play Conference, discussing implementation of The Great Phlogiston Debate edu-larp (EDU-L)
• Appeared on a panel for New York Comic Con on “Your Cinematic Universe: World-building for Fans and Franchises” (video here) (LARP, EDU-Larp)
• Moderated a panel on using RPGs for WonderCon@Home (RPG)
• Larp Design Jam #2 at NYFA (Burbank branch) with Kirsten Hageleit and Jenni Powell (LARP)
• Let’s Learn Through Live Action Role-Playing! San Diego Comic-Con panel moderator (EDU-LARP)
• LEIA Education Presents: Immersive Intensive – a full day immersive workout (LARP)
• Larp Design Jam at New York Film Academy (Burbank branch) (LARP)
• Let’s Learn Through Larping! Moderating educational larp panel at WonderCon® (EDU-LARP)
• Featured artist (with Kirsten Hageleit) at Little Death #4 experimental art show at The Mortuary LA, Sunday January 27 (LARP)
• Ran Beginning larp by Nina Runa Essendrop at The Mortuary (Nov 2018) (LARP)
• Ran Green Piñatas Delta Green larp at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival®-Portland October 2018 (LARP)
• Designed/ran Redefining Pi, a Delta Green larp at GenCon August 2018 (LARP)
• Moderated a panel on RPGs and larps for social-emotional learning at San Diego Comic-Con® – July 2018, (EDU-L), complete recording here, review article here (EDU-L, RPG)
• March 24, 2018 – Moderated panel “Learning Through Role-Playing Games” at Wondercon (EDU-L)
• 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)
• 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
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Ran “Bookworm”, an ARG for the San Diego Public Library (Central Library), July-August (Fox local news coverage here)
• Moderating the panel “Science and the Stories of H.P. Lovecraft” at San Diego Comic Con July 26 (HPL) (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 short presentation (EDU-L)
• Speaker at New Heights Charter School 8th grade graduation – June 11, 2013 (EDU-L)
• 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:

• No Proscenium, about Temp Cupid
• With The Game Academy co-founder Joshua Archer on using RPGs and larps for education on Lecture Breakers podcast with Barbi Honeycutt, PhD.
• Interview for Hollywood Gothique about immersive horror and Give Up the Ghost (LARP) and also here on the future of Halloween haunts.
• Quoted in this article by Sande Chen on edu-larps (EDU-L)
• Blog Talk Radio podcast interview/article (HPL)
• Everyone Question podcast interview (HPL)
• Story Forward Podcast – guest (LARP)
• Chillpak Hollywood Hour podcast guest (HPL/LARP)
• 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)
• Krypton radio’s “Event Horizon” show interview (HPL, EDU-L)
• Hour 25 interview on H.P. Lovecraft and the Film Festival (HPL)
• Dork Forest podcast (HPL& LARP)
• Stargazer’s World (EDU-L)
• The Geek Girl Project (EDU-L)
• The Eldritch Influence: The Life, Vision, and Phenomenon of H.P. Lovecraft (HPL)
• B+ Movie Making on Adrenaline Radio (internet broadcast) (film)
• Ridin’ Dirty (as LA Cocktails Examiner), AM Radio 830 in Orange County, California
• Time-Warner Cable Channel 101 and local CNN (larp piece)
• SoCal’s Best (as larp expert and H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival®-Los Angeles organizer) (HPL & LARP)
• Innsmouth Free Press (HPL)
• Screw It, I’ll Play Make Believe (LARP)
• Loyola-Marymount (LARP)
• “When Worlds Collide” for UCLA Alumni magazine (LARP)
• City on a Hill Press (LARP)
• Handshake (LARP)
• Neon Tommy (LARP)
• Kevin Avery’s Obsessed (LARP)
• Storyworld Conference and Expo panelist on LARPs, ARGs, and Transmedia (2012) (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

• 2023: The Outsider in a mini-HPLFF® at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles
• 2020: 130 Years of Lovecraft Show (The Outsider, a partially restored version)
• 2015: Year One block: H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival®, Portland, Oregon (The Outsider)
• 2014: Best of the Fest: H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival®, Portland, Oregon (The Outsider)
• 2008: Cthulhupalooza – Vancovuer, Canada2013: NecronomiCon -Providence. Rhode Island (The Outsider)
• 2001: Shock-O-Rama A  Go Go – Los Angeles, California
• 1999: Coup de Grace – Los Angeles, California; Honorable Mention on E! Online short horror movie contest (My Necronomicon)
• 1998: Night Visions – Helsinki, Finland; Monster Bash – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• 1997: NecronomiCon – Providence, Rhode Island; H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® – Portland, Oregon
• 1996: H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® – Portland, Oregon
• 1994: Chicago Underground Film Festival – Chicago, Illinois

Return to Innsmouth

• 2015: H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival®, Portland, Oregon
• 2014: H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon® (15th anniversary)
• 2013: Cthulhu Festival of Film – Seoul, South Korea
• 2007: The Cinema Wasteland Movie & Memorabilia Expo, America’s Drive-In and Independent Movie Show – Strongsville, Ohio
• 2006: Archon 30 – St. Louis, Missouri
• 2001: World Horror Con – Seattle, Washington
• 2000: Imagine Con – Virginia Beach, Virginia; Festival of Darkness – Baltimore, Maryland
• 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

Call of Tutu 

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

The Yellow Sign

• 2012: MiniCon 47 – Minneapolis, Minnesota; LosCon 39 – Los Angeles, California
• 2007: Belfast U.K. sf/game club—charity screening – Belfast, Ireland2012: MiniCon 47 – Minneapolis, Minnesota; LosCon 39 – Los Angeles, California
• 2006: World Horror Con – San Francisco, California; WorldCon (LACon IV) – Anaheim, California; Archon 30 – St. Louis, Missouri
• 2005: CthulhuCon One; MiskatoniCon – Stockholm, Sweden
• 2004: Blue November Microfilmfest – Tulsa, Oklahoma (winner: Best Lighting)
• 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
• 2002: NecronomiCon – Providence, Rhode Island; H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® – Portland, Oregon

Morning Commute

• 2018: Independent Cinema Showcase, Los Angeles, California
• 2018: San Diego Comic-Con® International Film Festival, San Diego, California