Susanne Vejdemo
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| Born | 1982 (age 41–42) |
| Nationality | Sweden |
Susanne Vejdemo is a linguist, larper, and larpwright. She's Swedish, but currently lives in New York, USA. She often writes games involving politics or ethical dilemmas.
Larps
- Frizon, 2010, Sweden. A mobile adventure/drama larp about the legacy of a past genocide. With Daniel Armyr.
- Once More with Passion, 2011, Sweden. A chamber larp about the nature of inter-human conflict. With Elli Garperian.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream - A Shakespeare larp. With Love Sjögren, Constance Bell Long, Stefan Björk.
- Granny's Great-granny's Tiara, 2012. A chamber larp about the Swedish female gender role and mother-daughter relationships. With Daniel Armyr. Available on DriveThruRPG.
- Suffragett!, 2014. A larp about the Women's Right to Vote movement in 1918, in collaboration with Hallwylska Museet. With Daniel Armyr, Cecilia Billskog, Siri Sandquist.
- The Ancestral Farm, 2014. A chamber larp about the Swedish male gender role and father-son relationships. With Daniel Armyr.
- So Mom I Made This Sex Tape, 2016 in #Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology, Different generations (waves) of feminists argue it out about sex, porn and what the main point of feminism really is. Available here https://feministnanogames.wordpress.com/ . Sessions of this game has been recorded in podcasts like: Gauntlet Run 1, Gauntlet Run 2 , She's A Super Geek #60. The game was also part of the "Theatre in Pandemic: An Experimental Syllabus" (by Stuart Candy (School of Design) and Nica Ross (School of Drama), Carnegie Mellon University).
- Now Listen Young Lady, a larp about intergenerational conflicts and gender roles. published in GameWrap#2 2017
- Athena's Chosen, 2017. A larp set in Arcadian Ancient Greece about power, empowerment, lust, love, faith, choice, drama, and Greek goddesses. With Anna-Karin Linder.
- Suffragette! International, 2018. An expanded version of the 2014 Suffragett! larp, with participants from all over Europe, playing characters based on their own countries' women's movement heroes in 1912. With Siri Sandquist, Rosalind Göthberg, Christina Bodling.
- Fight Like A Girl. 2018. An international post-ap larp "about the suffragette wars of the 22nd century." With Frida Gamero and Karin Fonnaland.
- Exodiplomacy. 2021. A research-based game about how we talk to each other. And aliens. With Marshall Bradshaw.
- Bad Omens. 2021. A larp about Angels, Demons, Apocalypses, Shenanigans. (Official script TBA )
Other events
Susanne has held several workshops on good ways (and bad ways) to use ciphers, puzzles and codes in larps. A small pamphlet is available here.
Susanne and Anna Westerling held a seminar and a workshop about collaborations between larps and museums at the Swedish State Museums yearly convention in 2015.
Together with Eva Wei, Susanne held a workshop on culturally and ethnically based discrimination in the Swedish larp scene, on Prolog 2016.
Susanne has held workshops on how to create fake magic rituals in larps at various larps and cons, e.g. Intercon 2020. See "Group improvisation of Larp Rituals".
Susanne has led sampler (play what you want) sessions of #Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology at several cons.
Susanne often facilitates run of an online version of So Mom I Made This Sex Tape,from #Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology, using this simple template (TBA), or this more advanced template (TBA; created by Gerrit Reininghaus.)
Susanne was editor of Arrtankar 2017–2018, a Swedish community blog about larp design.
Articles
- Anpassningsstrategier i lajvspråk (Adaption strategies in larp conlangs), 2004. Master thesis, Stockholm University. Available here
- Confessing, Gossipping and Confronting as conscious tools for a better larp, 2015. Available at The Larp Workshop Handbook.
- Design Strategies for Discussion-Heavy Larps, 2016, with Theo Axner. In Larp Realia - Analysis, Design, and Discussions of Nordic Larp and on nordiclarp.org.
- Group improvisation of Larp Rituals , 2018 (a workshop). (Susanne has facilitated this at various cons and larps.) Knutpunkt proceedings. With Elli Garperian.
- Play to Lift, Not Just to Lose, 2018. Knutpunkt proceedings and nordiclarp.org.
