BROKEN GHOST IMMERSIVES
Produces theatrical events inspired by games.
Ian McNeely
Founder and Artistic Director
Ian McNeely is the Senior Editor for Mixi’s Crossroad Tales: Co-Op Stories app.
He was awarded the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2009 Rex Rabold Fellowship and delivered the keynote speech at their annual HIV/AIDS fundraiser The Daedalus Project. He taught immersive storytelling at the Parsons School of Design and is currently a Carnegie Mellon Fellow (Shall Be, Shall Make).
Ian holds an MFA from Brown University where he wrote and produced a series of original rock operas including Rumpadump, White Buffalo, Cow Boy Band, and The Ian McNeely Episode of Inside the Actor's Studio. Ian has composed original music and lyrics for the Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble, The Provincetown Williams Festival and the world premiere of Curt Columbus' Adaptation of Ivanov at Trinity Repertory Company.
Arnab Chakravarty
Arnab Chakravarty is a designer/technologist with a background in building interfaces for the digitally underserved and bringing the designer/maker tools to communities forgotten by the current technology platforms. Before he came to ITP to pursue a Masters in 2018, he has worked with Philips designing software/hardware for the unique needs of healthcare ecosystems of S.E. Asia, taught prototyping and design at one of India's prominent design schools, and was a part of a maker space that was established on the bedrock of community engagement and change. At ITP, using his newfound computational skills, he has worked on the immersive experience "Rogues Gallery", hardware interfaces with machine intelligence for new modes of discovery and collaboration, and has gotten pretty good at making hardware and software that reliably works for a lot of people. His work has been shown at places like FAB:Learn, No:Quarter, Google Tensorflow's "Show & Tell" and more recently NYC Media Lab.
August Luhrs
A West-Texan turned Big Apple city-slicker, August (he/him/they/them), has spent his whole life making wild and absurd art and bringing communities together through play. In their past life in Los Angeles, they wrote and produced immersive theater, designed and built escape rooms, fabricated interactive installations, worked with three art collectives, and ran a participatory art camp at Burning Man. Then, hoping to deepen his technical skills, he attended NYU Tisch’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where his masters thesis was on “Communal Transcendence Through Physidigital Play” — using connected devices in offline experiences to foster joy and connection in groups as they collaborate to overcome a challenge. Now in post-grad life, they are driven to further explore that idea and are doing so by making games in AR/VR, teaching workshops and hosting events, and building the future of group interactivity with Broken Ghost Immersives.
Austen Anderson
Collaborator on Bunker and Rogues Gallery.
Austen is a writer, performer, puppeteer, dramaturg, drummer, and kindergarten teacher. Austen was the founding artistic director of Animal Fire Theatre in Olympia, Washington, a company dedicated to producing free Shakespeare in the park. To date, Animal Fire Theatre has ticketed over 10,000 attendees, including many families and first time Shakespeare-goers, all for free. He has a BFA in performance from the University of Idaho and a Master's of Education from the University of Portland.
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