Carly Dwyer
(She/Her)
Education
Intimacy Coordinators and Directors, SAG Certification (pending fall 2025)
SAG/AFTRA certified training program for intimacy coordinating for film/television/digital media.
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ed. M. Arts in Education
Interdisciplinary curriculum design, project-based learning and the performing arts in secondary and adult education.
Harvard University Extension School, BA Self Directed Major in Anthropology, Folklore, and Performance, cum laude
Self-directed major that combined coursework in folklore, mythology, anthropology and performing arts focused on storytelling and it’s role in cultural identity and development.
Professional Background
2022-Present Northeastern University, Boston MA
Adjunct Professor of Game Design
Leadership: Teach Foundations of Game Design to a mixed level of students from a wide range of backgrounds. The goals of the course are to teach creativity, collaborative storytelling, project management, product testing, workshopping', and delivery of unique and meaningful games.
Co-op: Oversaw a co-op between Intramersive Media and a Northeastern undergraduate student focusing on experimental 360 filmmaking in Unreal and interactive narrative media.
Dialogue of Civilizations: Lead Faculty responsible for developing Fighting Fascism in Denmark: Larp, Play. and Society for Summer I 2025. Conducted research regarding Danish cultural history and recovery after WWII occupation and built networks with the Landisfornign Bifrost, Osterkov Efterskol, and leading Danish games designers. Deepened the Northeastern connection to the LARPocracy research team at Uppsala University.
2017-Present Intramersive Media LLC Salem MA (www.intramersive.com)
Intramersive Media LLC is an immersive playable theater company committed to experiential theater that supports the audience transformation from observer to activist. In our 8 years we have reached thousands of audience members and expanded our reach to a global audience by going digital in 2020.
Founder, Narrative Director
Leadership: Identified a gap in the market for accessible experiential theater where the audience had real impact on the story. Maximizing market expertise and creative ability I created accessible, engaging, hybrid shows.
Writing and Devising: Hands-on writing with teams of writers, artists, historians and designers to cultivate a unique method of developing narrative flow, quest lines, and characters.
Directing: Helmed shows through experimentation combining theatrical devising technique, larp development and game design testing methods to create live, online, immersive audio and interactive film projects. Working on director training workshops to share the method with others interested in creating open world theater experiences.
2018 - 2020 Creative Collective, Salem MA (www.creativecollectivema.com)
For-profit community organization group that focuses on lobbying and industry support for creative businesses and artists.
Director of Interactive Affairs
Leadership: Worked with the Collective, Salem Public Arts Commission and City of Salem to create an annual Summer Performance Series funded through the Public Art Commission to activate public spaces with administrative support. Participated in planning and development to make public spaces more friendly to live performance and encourage more publicly accessible performing arts in the city of Salem. Organized the Creative Collective Livestream Network during the great pivot of April 2020 to give our members access to a livestream audience to enable artists to keep in contact with their audiences.
Producing: Produced two full scale Shakespeare productions with the Collective and supported another for the inaugural Performing Arts Series. On behalf of the Collective I produced multiple productions with local community theaters in partnerships with community organizations that had space they were underutilizing.
Creation: Creative Designer and Director of VIP Experiences for the Creative Collective Annual Winter Masquerade Ball 2017 - 2020. Worked on the leadership team to develop creative elements of this ball which hosted upwards of 600 people every January from theme selection to interactive elements and performances. Developed open world, drop-in RPG for VIP ticket holders to interact with characters from the world of the ball, where they can solve puzzles for prizes, rp for plot intrigues and play an evolving rpg where the game was at any level the individual ticket holder wanted it to be. These were very fun, low threshold, highly adaptive rpg’s to develop that lasted upwards of 4 hours and could be played on varying levels of intensity.
2005 - 2017 Concord Carlisle High School Performing Arts Department
Top performing public school in Concord Massachusetts. From 2005 - 2009 was the Assistant Director of the Theatre Program, from 2009 - 2017 was the Director of the Theater Program.
Instruction: Developed curriculum for a diverse range of performing arts courses ranging from Intro to Acting, to Design Workshop, Devising and Playmaking, Directing and Shakespeare From Page to Stage. Developed interdisciplinary courses that crossed over with social studies, STEM, ELA and music programs. Developed professional development training for creating more accessible methods of teaching public speaking in diverse classrooms.
Directing: Directed and Produced twelve seasons of afterschool productions. This included a Fall Shakespeare, competitive one act play, competitive musical, and student written and directed short play festivals. The after school program was invited to participate in the American High School Theatre Festival at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008 and won numerous awards with the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild’s Annual One Act Festival and won Best Overall Production in 2017 at the MET/Broadway in Boston Musical Theatre Awards
Extra Curricular Work: Founded and ran the CCHS Student Larp Society where I worked with the students to develop a larp system, established a plot committee and ran 4 events over three seasons with a vibrant online larp community. This was a dark ages, high fantasy LARP where students worked with various faculty and community members to develop narratives that reflected real world challenges. I worked with them to create a safe space to run challenging content in a productive and healthy way. The LARP often featured “guest stars” where community members and faculty would appear as NPC’s, even the school principal came and played. Ask me about the time the police showed up.
Film and Theatrical Experience
Intimacy Coordinating
Same Time Next Week Dir. Ilana Kapra
Forever War Dir. Shanna Figueroa
L’Amour Dir. Shanna Figueroa
Directing Experience
Film:
Symbiote Intramersive Media LLC
Immersive/Devised/Live Action Games:
Daemonologies Sinew & Soul Intramersive Media LLC
Pass the Sugar, Please by Clio Yun-Su Davis Intramersive Media LLC
An Election of Thieves Intramersive Media LLC
Full Winds in Her Top Sails Intramersive Media LLC
Shadows of the Season Intramersive Media LLC
Runo in the Rock Intramersive Media LLC
Daemonologie: Smoke & Mirrors Intramersive Media LLC
Daemonologie: Blood & Bone Intramersive Media LLC
Magical Help Desk Intramersive Media LLC
Hawthorne Winter Intramersive Media LLC
Blackthorn Moon Intramersive Media LLC
Daemonologie: Oakham Intramersive Media LLC
Club Drosselmeyer
Conceived by Kellian Pletcher (Dec 2016) Green Door Productions
Riding Concord Carlisle High School
Shakespeare:
The Taming of The Shrew The Bard Brigade
Macbeth The Bard Brigade
Othello Concord Carlisle High School
Romeo and Juliet Concord Carlisle High School
The Winter’s Tale Concord Carlisle High School
Comedy of Errors Concord Carlisle High School
Much Ado About Nothing Concord Carlisle High School
Richard III Concord Carlisle High School
Macbeth Concord Carlisle High School
Midsummer Night's Dream Concord Carlisle High School
Tempest Concord Carlisle High School
Pericles: Prince of Tyre Concord Carlisle High School
Contemporary:
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) Slightly Off Broadway
Complicite’s Mnemonic, by Simon McBurney Concord Carlisle High School
The Veil, by Conor McPherson, Concord Carlisle High School
Nation by Mark Ravenhill
adapted from the novel by Terry Pratchett Concord Carlisle High School
Was the Dinner Good, Dear Sister? By Riad Ismat Concord Carlisle High School
Musicals:
Spamalot Concord Carlisle High School
The Phantom of the Opera Concord Carlisle High School
Chicago Concord Carlisle High School
The Pirates of Penzance Concord Carlisle High School
A Chorus Line Concord Carlisle High School
The Producers Concord Carlisle High School
Producing:
Film
Bronwen’s Harmonium, dir. Brandon Sichling Spectral Evidence Media
Audio
Hawthornes Shadow: an immersive audio tour Intramersive Media LLC
Passages of the Past: an immersive audio tour Intramersive Media LLC
Publishing & Reviews
“A Mirror of Dark Water” Make A Scene Festival 2024 - Official Selection
Bartley, S, Lewis W. Experiential Theatres: Praxis-Based Approaches to Training 21st Century Theatre Artists Routledge 2021,
Interview Imaginary World’s Podcast: Larping in Place,
Interview Dr Susan Bloch Show, Sex Positive Gaming During Covid (with Sharang Biswas)
Review No Proscenium,
Review Smoke and Mirrors,
Conferences & Consulting
2024 Make A Scene Larp Festival Official Selection “A Mirror In Dark Water”
2024 Intercon presenter “Consent Forward Narrative Design”
2023 Carnage Con Game Presenter
2023 DragonCon Online Shakespearean Comedies: Love, Mistaken Identities, and Social Satire
2019 Connecticut League of Historic Organization, Immerse Yourself in History
2019 American Alliance for Theater Education Conference, What Is Larp Theater?
2017 - 2021 Northeastern University Rolling With It; Creating Dynamic Game Architecture for LARPs Annual Guest Lecturer
2016 Green Door Productions, Club Drosselmeyer, Director, Game Designer, Devising, Writer
2000-2005 NERO Alliance - Syraandor, Narrative Designer, World Developer, Dramaturge
Training and Certifications
IDC Accelerator Program Certificate
Applications of Consent and Intimacy (Level 2) - IDC
Foundations of Intimacy and Consent (Level 1) - IDC
Diversity vs Inclusion vs Tokenism - IDC
Indigenous Intimacy - IDC
Mental Health First Responder (Adult) - National Council For Behavioral Health
Teacher Intensive on Devising - Frantic Assembly
Weekend Actor Intensive, Shakespeare and Company, instructor Dennis Krausnick
Community Organizations
Salem Public Arts Commission Member
SEIU Local 209 Member
Salem Public Schools Queer Family Alliance
North Shore Trans Protection Network
Creative Collective Member
NAGLY Volunteer