Game and Experience Designer
Northeastern University, Playable Theatre, IndieCade
Celia Pearce is an award-winning game designer, researcher and Professor at Northeastern University. She is co-founder of IndieCade, the independent game festival, and Co-Executive Director of Playable Theatre, which supports creators of participatory performance. Her first play, (F)UNFAIR, co-created with director Nick O’Leary and Dacha Theatre, premiered in Seattle in 2022. Her work has appeared at Living Games, and The Smoke, London, Come Out and Play, the Smithsonian, and Boston FIG. Her books include Communities of Play (MIT Press 2009), and Ethnography and Virtual Worlds (Princeton 2012). Her latest book, PLAYFRAMES (MIT Press), builds Goffman’s Frame Analysis and performance studies scholarship to explore the ways in which we distinguish between play, ritual and everyday life.
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