Monstrosity
Crew
Ryan Hart (he/him)
Designer | Lead Facilitator | Host
Ryan Hart is a larp designer in New York City. Design: Namahage Station (2005), Moorstepper Trilogy (2005 - 2009), Ship of Fools (2010), Ubi Sunt (2012 - 2014), Mournful Their Mood (2013), Beneath the Hangman’s Bridge (2017), Project Ascension (2018, 2022), Flashlarp! (2018 - 2025), Pandaemonium (2018), The Mortality Machine (2019), The Mortality Magician (2019) Scapegoat (2019), The Job Opportunity (2023). Production: Camarilla Fan Club (2008 - 2011), Escape From Marseille (2018 - 2019), Fade (2019), White Death (2019), Pub Crawl: Infinity Engine (2019), Basic Principles of Incantation (2019 ), Calculations (2020), Girl on the Phone (2020), We Are Necropolis (2020), Mars Raiders (2021), Sacrament (2023), Dystopia Rising New York (2021 - 2023), Honor Bound (2024), To the Bitter End (2024). Ryan has previously worked in traditional theater as the Creative Director of the US Air Force Academy Bluebards (2006 - 2010) and on the Board of Directors for The Barrow Group (2015 - 2020).
Kat Schonheyder (they/she)
Designer | Participant Advocate | Honored Guest
Kat is a larp designer based out of New York City, and originated the concept of participant advocacy as a design practice. They studied at the New School where they developed schema to integrate Critical Race Theory into psychology. Design: The Skin You’re In (2025), Almost Paradise (2025). Additional credits: Gen Con (2004) Camarilla Fan Club (2000 - 2012), Dystopia Rising (2010 - 2014), Project Ascension (2022), To the Bitter End (2024), Act II: Who Killed the Chauffeur (2024), The Dresden Files (2025), Eminent Domain (2025). Kat has been a member of the New York theater scene since 2009, and has sung professionally in churches as well as Ballet Arts showcases.
Arden Howells (any masc or neutral pronouns)
Participant Advocate | Attendent
Arden Howells is a mental health worker and LARP designer in Massachusetts. He has developed curriculum on gender affirming care used across public schools and statewide mental health nonprofits. Design: Whiteblind (2022), How the Cold Will Claim Them (2024 - ongoing), Crossing the Divide (2025). Facilitation: The Circle (2022 - 2024), Elysian Revel (2024). Arden also designs bespoke tabletop systems, including Underhill (2017), Verden (2018), Cardelia: City of Ruins (2022), and The Delving Document (2023).
Edward Mylechreest (he/him)
Lead Facilitator | Host
Originally from the United Kingdom, Edward is an experienced freelance Immersive Theater producer, performer, facilitator, and consultant based in Philadelphia. He has served as an East Coast Correspondent for NoProscenium since 2017, and hosted the first immersive panel at BroadwayCon. He loves writing about immersive theatre and celebrating the achievements of our industry, and he particularly enjoys helping to connect fellow creators. When not attending a show, his "real-life larp" is as a Director of Music for a large non-profit organization based in Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Freelance company credits include: Linked Dance Theater, Sinking Ship Creations, Broken Ghost Immersive, Theatre Uzume, Real Royalty, City Lyric Opera, On-Site Opera, Altera Productions
Dann Lynch (they/them)
Honored Guest
Dann is a definitely human storyteller based out of Philadelphia. They possess an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts where they focused on the intersections of Larp as art and community. Design: Sincerely, Formally, Me (2021), But Some of Us Are Brave (2022), Sex Drugs & Rock n Roll (2023), Feasting as Fellowship (2023 - 2024), ComptEffect (2024), Emmanation (2024), The Puddle’s Path (2025). Additional credits: Project Ascension (2022), Gala of Everlasting Change (2022 - 2023), Starfall Academy (2022 - 2024). Dann is also committed to other forms of embodied storytelling and sits on the boards of Powerhouse Blues, and the LARP Community Organizers Retreat (LARP COR), as well being the Head Archivist of Dark Luck Occurrences.
Amanda Rose Villarreal (they/she)
Consent Design | Swing
Amanda Rose Villarreal is an intimacy coordinator and choreographer based in the Los Angeles area; they serve as Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at California State University Fullerton. As an immersive performer, devising artist, and director, Amanda Rose has specific expertise in consent-based practices for devised, improvised, and immersive works, and along with their own research, they mentor other intimacy coordinators and researchers as the editor of the Journal of Consent-Based Performance.
Additional Credits
Lighting Design - Kate Conover
Production Design - Morphology Studios
Website Photography - timothy yuan
Special Thanks - Erica Breig, Ewa Bućko, Allegra Durante, Elizabeth Harvey, Orli Nativ, Terra Warman
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