MEET THE PARTY

Curious Hedgehog

Producer

Curious Hedgehog is a story-driven live-stage entertainment game design company. A partnership between David Carpenter, Sarah Davis Reynolds, and David Andrew Laws, they are pioneering in-seat, interactive, experiential entertainment by building worlds that focus on RPG experiences for the live stage. Using the Gamiotics platform, they are providing agency and authenticity for audiences in their live experiences.

Curious Hedgehog Founders
(left to right) Sarah Davis Reynolds, David Carpenter, David Andrew Laws

David Carpenter

Executive Producer / Technology Designer

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David is proud to be a partner in Curious Hedgehog LLC along with Sarah Davis Reynolds and David Andrew Laws. David is the Founder and CEO of Gamiotics, Inc which is bringing gamification to the live entertainment experience. The platform allows for the next generation of live experience story-telling by putting agency into the audiences hands. A Tony-nominated Broadway producer, he was the lead producers of the 2019 Broadway run of critically acclaimed Slava’s Snowshow and the Off-Broadway hit comedy: Puffs, which ran in NYC for three years and is now the #2 most produced play in the country. Additional credits include: Executive Producer of Puffs: Filmed Live Off-Broadway, released nationally through Fathom Events. He produced Puffs in Australia for two years in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane and is the publisher of all four editions of the Puffs script.

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DAGL

Producer/Story Designer

DAGL has spent the past five years professionally running tabletop role-playing games for first time adults, veteran players, and adventurers as young as six years old. Exciting writing credits: Attack! of the Killer Man from the Sun!, a sci-fi b-movie comedy for the stage; Saving Wonderland, an award-winning interactive comedy produced by Seize the Show. Fun acting credits: over 400 performances as Macbeth in the off-Broadway hit Drunk Shakespeare. Silly social media places: IG – @davidnotandrew, TikTok – @thedagl, Discord – .dagl

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Sarah Davis Reynolds

Producer / Game Designer

Sarah is a multidisciplinary artist, manager, and facilitator who mains sorcerers on her days off and whose professional work has been seen on Broadway (Slava’s Snowshow, Oklahoma!), off-Broadway (Puffs, Rock of Ages, Get On Your Knees), Internationally (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Toronto Next Stage Festival), and on Tour (Cruel Intentions, The Stand In). She has been designing gameplay experiences in performance spaces for over a decade, providing extensive development and game design integration on over 25 productions, brand activations, and client experiences. She holds a graduate degree from NYU Steinhardt. IG: @sarah.d.reynolds; Discord: sdreynolds

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Showpath Entertainment

Producer

As the Live Stage Production arm of The Path Entertainment Group, Showpath pushes the boundaries of exceptional theater in order to reach a global audience. With a sharp focus on an innovative range of large scale live stage productions which span international markets including North America, Australia, Asia and Europe. Showpath works with both existing titles and IP, such as The SpongeBob Musical, to develop, nourish and push the boundaries of world class live stage Productions.

HASBRO

Hasbro is a leading toy and game company whose mission is to entertain and connect generations of fans through the wonder of storytelling and exhilaration of play. Hasbro delivers engaging brand experiences for global audiences through toys, consumer products, gaming and entertainment, with a portfolio of iconic brands including MAGIC: THE GATHERING, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, Hasbro Gaming, NERF, TRANSFORMERS, PLAY-DOH and PEPPA PIG, as well as premier partner brands.

Hasbro is guided by our Purpose to create joy and community for all people around the world, one game, one toy, one story at a time. For more than a decade, Hasbro has been consistently recognized for its corporate citizenship, including being named one of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens by 3BL Media, one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Institute and one of the 50 Most Community-Minded Companies in theU.S.by the Civic 50. For more information, visit https://corporate.hasbro.com.

Wizards of the Coast

Producer

Wizards of the Coast, a division of Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS), develops legendary games that inspire creativity, spark passions, forge friendships and foster communities around a lifetime love of games. Wizards delivers compelling experiences for gamers across tabletop and digital gaming through its best-known franchises MAGIC: THE GATHERING and DUNGEONS & DRAGONS and Hasbro’s unparalleled portfolio of approximately 1,500 brands.

With headquarters in Renton, Washington and studios in Austin, Montreal, Raleigh and Renton; Wizards is dedicated to fostering world-class talent to create unforgettable play experiences on all platforms. To learn more about Wizards, please visit our company website and social channels (@Wizards on Twitter and LinkedIn).

Benjamin Doherty

Composer

Benjamin Doherty is a composer for film, TV and theatre based in Reading, England. Whilst freelancing as a composer, he also graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a First Class Honors in Creative Music Production. His work has been selected at BAFTA and Academy Award qualifying festivals including: Aesthetica, deadCenter, Norwich Film festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival and Bolton Film Festival. Recent work includes: BAFTA and Academny qualifying shorts Nosepicker and Bleep, Fields a short in association with Sky Arts and the Sundance Institute supported short film, The Original Shareholder Experience. Benjamin is excited to help bring the world of the TST alive through music. benjamindoherty.com // @bendohertymusic

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K.C. McGeorge

Scenic and Costume Design

K.C. is a production designer based in NYC and LA, working in theatre, film & television, and immersive experiences. They’ve worked with Sleep No More, The Public Theater, Theater For A New Audience, and live events such as Tom Ford for NYFW and The Brooklyn Artists Ball. They’ve filled a number of art department roles on projects with Netflix, WarnerMedia, White Castle, and Mattel. K.C. specializes in design for TTRPG media and has served as art director on several seasons of Dimension 20, including A Starstruck Oddessey, Neverafter, and Burrow’s End. They also design custom battle maps and character sculpts for home DM’s on a commission basis.You can learn more about all of their work at kcmcgeorge.com

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Noah Ruff

Character Artist

Noah is a concept artist and character designer for animation, games, and comics. Recently, he has designed for Marvel’s Hit-Monkey, Final Space: The Final Chapter, and Beavis and Butthead. He is grateful for the role he gets to play in bringing the characters and curiosities of TST to life, and to spend every day of his working life drawing pictures in his pajamas. Love to Kyra and his family. Proud member, The Animation Guild 839 // Instagram @ruff_sketches

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Mike Wood

Lighting Designer

An accomplished designer, educator, and technician, Mike’s work has been seen on countless stages, screens, and in classrooms throughout the United States. He was the theatrical lighting designer for Rogers The Musical on Disney+/Marvel’s Hawkeye TV series, and has been working with Dungeons & Dragons The Twenty-Sided Tavern since 2022. In addition to his design work, Mike has served on the design and technology faculties of Marymount Manhattan College, The Collegiate School NYC, Hillsborough Community College, and Howard W. Blake School of the Arts. He currently serves as the Director of Production & Resident Lighting Designer for City Springs Theatre Company. MFA: University of Memphis; BA: University of South Florida. Proud member, United Scenic Artists Local USA829. www.mikewoodld.com // @mikewoodld

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Derek Christiansen & Ruby OBrien

Projection Designers

Derek and Ruby are dpurpurea studio, a theatrical and interactive entertainment design partnership based in Los Angeles. They utilize their theatrical experience in projections, lighting and scenic design to enhance audience interaction with the narrative of theater and live performance, filmed and broadcast media, and interactive experiences. They are the projection designers for Dropout’s Dimension 20, where Derek has also worked as the director of photography. They are avid TTRPG players who are always ready to tell a story and roll some dice! Derek is a proud member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829. www.dpurpurea.studio // @dpurpureastudio

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M. Glenn Schuster

Sound Designer

Glenn is a sound designer originally hailing from San Francisco who exclusively plays Fighters and Barbarians. Recent productions include: A Raisin in the Sun (South Coast Repertory), This is Not a True Story (Artists at Play), Desert Stories for Lost Girls (Native Voices), American Fast (Constellation Stage and Screen), A New Brain (Celebration Theatre), Haunted Little Tokyo (Rogue Artists Ensemble/East West Players) and A Little Night Music (Greenway Court). Their work can also be heard in the games Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots and Foodimals (Sony), and in the Cottage Living and Dream Home Decorator expansions packs for The Sims 4 (EA). They obtained their BFA in Sound Design from the USC School of Dramatic Arts. Glenn also sits on the board of The Quinan Street Project, a theater education program that provides classes and camps to underfunded communities in The Contra Costa County of California, and has taught classes in Sound Design and Audio Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. When not in the theater, Glenn can be found tending to their passion fruit plants or LARPing in the desert. Hear more of their work at mglennsound.com

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Chet Miller

Show Control Designer

Chet is a new media engineer based in Chicago. They are specialized in media server workflows, problem solving, and training. As a programmer, Chet has worked on and off broadway, international concert touring, opera, large scale corporate shows, broadcast, themed entertainment, and fixed installs. What they are proudest of is education, teaching hundreds of people various media server platforms. Chet works full time as a project technology specialist for 4Wall providing pre-production guidance, on-site programming, and media server education and training. civdesigns.com

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Michael Fell

Performance Manager

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Michael is a director, improviser, actor and voiceover artist based in Brooklyn. His work has been seen on CBS and in cities such as New York, London, Minneapolis, Louisville, Little Rock, and more. He received a BFA from the Guthrie BFA Actor Training Program.


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