Elysian Revel is a project conceived and directed by Joseph Mastantuono,
edited by assistant director Samara Metzler & produced by Sammy Stone.
It is being produced in association with The LARP CO-OP
Joseph Mastantuono
Director
Joseph Mastantuono (He/Him) has been an avid larper for over a decade. He has facilitated for Project Ascension, Drachenfest US, and Velvet Noir. He's written and run several smaller scale LARPs, and this is his first large project as director.
When Joseph isn't involved in LARP's he produces independent films.
His first film as a producer As You Are won the Special Jury Prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and his latest film Our Father, The Devil, premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for Best Feature Film at the 2023 Independent Spirit Awards, and hit theatres in August. He also teaches post production & color grading for film at NYU.
Sammy Stone
Producer
Sammy Stone (They/Them) is a pioneer in bringing emergent LARP to the mid-Atlantic region and is a founding member of the LARP CO-OP, an organization dedicated to growing LARP in the North American Region.
Sammy's credits include but are not limited to co-writing and producing the night-market festival game Twilight's Oasis, acting as a producer, designer and faction lead for Malleus LARP, directing the Dark Ages fantasy game Dammerung, and producing well over a dozen boutique larp experiences across the mid atlantic. Sammy is also the operations director and on the board of directors for Drachenfest US.
As a consultant working in the field of organizational psychology and development, their focus is on creating pro social behaviors and incentivizing action through thoughtful and careful design. Streamlining access to larp experiences and helping individuals unlock their inner story teller is not only their passion, it is everything they strive for in these spaces and it is their greatest hope and dearest wish to one day become obsolete.
Samara Metzler
Assistant Director
Samara Metzler (She/Her) is a New England-based performance artist, event producer, educator and gamerunner who has been helping make LARPs happen across the Northeast since 2008. Her creative credits include Alliance LARP New Hampshire, Velvet Noir, Changeling: Waking Dreams, Project Ascension X, Drachenfest US, Concord Olympus and many smaller games in varying formats.
Samara holds a Bachelor's in Theatre Arts and a Master's in Theatre Education, and has been fortunate enough to channel her background into a career in arts education administration. Independently, she studies Jewish history and folklore and Middle Eastern dance.
She is also the founder and leader of Chavurah Hineinu, a nondenominational virtual home for nerdy, alternative Jews. An accomplished variety show MC and recently minted wedding officiant, she uses her public speaking skills to never shut up about her cats.
Ericka Skripan
Facilitator / Savvy Workshop Runner
Ericka Skirpan (she/her) is part experience designer, writer, actor, and instructor. She's been in the LARP and interactive theater trenches for over 20 years. She has an Honors BFA in theater from the University of Toronto where she was the artistic director for an immersive theater company, “In the Moment Productions."
She firmly believes in bringing emotionally cathartic transformations to actors and audiences alike through live storytelling; then providing the safety mechanisms to ensure a healthy return to reality after such experiences. She has been the Run-Time Director for Inside Hamlet, Project Ascension, Scapegoat as well as being design staff for Dead Legends LARP, Velvet Noir, and Dammerung. She currently sits on the board of directors for Jazz Attack, Philadelphia's Lindy Hop dance community.
Arden Howells
Player Advocate
Arden Howells (he/him) is a LARPer with almost a decade of experience both designing and playing in immersive and interactive art spaces. As a designer, he specializes in intimate, emotional, and ephemeral experiences. As a player, he enjoys sarcasm, reading people for filth, and chaos. By day, he is a social worker with a focus on transgender advocacy, and has developed and led training on gender affirming care across southern Massachusetts.
He champions roleplay as both a method of self expression and a tool for exploration, and loves nothing more than to marry his passions of social work and interactive storytelling to help everyone get the best out of their experience.
Janaya Kizzie
Facilitator / Savvy Workshop Runner
Janaya Kizzie (any pronouns) is a player and a writer of larps and experimental roleplaying games living and working in Providence, Rhode Island. Most recently the larp they cowrote, Assassin's Teapot, ran at Intercon T in 2020. Kizzie is also an archivist and historian. They served on the board of the Wedding Cake House; a historic mansion in Providence, Rhode Island, and they were named the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities Rhode Island Public Humanities Scholar in 2020.
As a bookbinder and performance artist, their performances and installations have been featured at the Rhode Island School For Design's Museum, FringePVD and the New Bedford Art Museum. They are currently studying social practice art and its applications in larping at the School for Computational Poetics.
Meghan Kincaid
Faciliator / Dance Workshop
Meghan Kinkaid (she/her) is a multifaceted dancer, larper, and educator based in Connecticut. Since 2002, she has been deeply involved in both dance and live-action role-playing (LARP). As a dancer, Meghan performed with the lindy hop group Crazylegs and learned from dance legend Frankie Manning. She co-founded the Albany Chill Organization, organizing events like the Albany Chill, Smorgasbord, Albany Lindy and Blue Exchange.
In LARP, Meghan has managed and facilitated events for multiple chapters of Alliance Larp and enjoys crafting intense stories and supporting an inclusive play environment. By day, she is a science educator with master’s degrees in space science and science education. With over a decade in education, Meghan focuses on equitable and accessible science education, curriculum development, and promoting racial justice in schools.