Lizzie Stark
Lizzie Stark is an American journalist and author of the book Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-playing Games (2012, Chicago Review Press), which explains larp to a mainstream audience from a variety of angles. Although Leaving Mundania focuses primarily on larp in the US, the last two chapters deal with the author's trip to Knudepunkt 2011.
Lizzie Stark | |
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| Nationality | USA |
| Website | lizziestark |
In 2012 her presentation "Playing in Graveyards: When terror collides with larp" was part of the Nordic Larp Talks.
In 2013 she co-edited Larps from the Factory, a collection of Norwegian larp scripts with Elin Nilsen and Trine Lise Lindahl. In 2013 she co-edited #Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology.
Designer and Organizer
Stark's games include the freeform game The Curse, about decision making and hereditary breast cancer; In Residency, about life in an artists' colony; This Miracle (with Nick Fortugno), about the origins of religion; and "Manic Pixie Dream Girl Commandos," a contribution to #Feminism.
Along with many house cons, and the short lived Highland Park Players, in New Jersey, Stark served as the lead organizer of the US re-run of Mad About the Boy in Orange, Connecticut in 2012, and as a program lead for Living Games Austin 2016.
Honors
- Guest of Honor, Fastaval, 2012
- Industry Insider Guest of Honor, Gencon, 2013.
- Guest of Honor, Living Games NYC 2014
Articles on Larp
- We hold these rules to be self evident - article in States of Play: Nordic Larp Around the World in the Solmukohta 2012 Knutepunkt-books, an essay on American larp as emblematic of American national values.
- "Trampled by the Herd" in Crossing Habitual Borders for Knutepunkt 2013
- "Mad About the Techniques" in The Wyrd Con Companion Book, 2013
- Pocket Guide to American Freeform, a monograph, 2014
- "Writing a Larpscript" with Trine Lise Lindahl and Elin Nilsen, The Cutting Edge of Nordic Larpfor Knutpunkt 2014.