Episode 21 - On Location: At Dreamation 2018! (Live)

This year at Dreamation 2018; yet another amazing event run by Double Exposure Inc., we recorded a live show with some amazing folks!

 

Shannon Fidler - Who you might remember from Lady in Threads and Destination Penis Island. She talked with us about why she attends Dreamation and she sits on the rest of the show as our special guest co-host! We also totally did not add a tid bit of Destination Penis Island into one of the breaks we took when setting up for a guest! (We totally did.)

 

Josie Kreil - Josie sat with us on For the Love of Tentacles and for some reason decided to sit with us again! She discusses some of her upcoming projects, her first time coming to Dreamation and some favorite gaming stories to boot!

 

Mark Sedlazek - Mark is new to the show and is the artisan responsible for Wolf & Raven Arts! He creates amazing pieces of costuming and pieces using foam! Looking at them, it's difficult to not think they are actually made of the materials they appear to be! He also discusses some of the games he loves and how they inspire his creations!

He is a freelance artist and propmaker from Central New Jersey. He has been larping for about a decade and has been a foamsmith for about five years, creating armor and weapons out of foam. He has started a youtube channel to bestow his knowledge onto others and hopes to inspire other crafters in the gaming community as well as make bigger and better props for games and cosplay. His main inspiration is scifi and fantasy with video games and tabletop RPGs being his main source of visual inspiration, and he hopes to bring more obscure characters to life from less visual games to give them a solid basis in reality. 

 

Ericka Skirpan - She is currently the head storyteller for Project Ascension and senior story staff for Dead Legends LARP. She's been running immersive, theatrical events for over a decade and intense, emotional LARPs for almost as long. She shares alot of these experiences with us in the show.

She has a BFA in theater from the University of Toronto where she was the artistic director for "In the Moment Productions," a theater company dedicated to audience interactive, classical theater experiences. She believes in bringing captivating, emotional, cathartic transformations to actors and audience alike through live storytelling.

After playing Gertrude in 2017's InsideHamlet, as well as participating in the groundbreaking Nordic LARP 1942, (which she discusses with us as well) she is highly looking forward to combining American Freeform storytelling with more Nordic-LARP inspired designs for future projects.