Who We Are
Meet our team of worldbuilders.
Carly Dwyer - Founder, Creative Director
Intramersive was born out of a fascination about what was possible at the intersection of immersive theatre, LARP, social activism and cultural history, and the results have been wonderous explorations of humanity with our actors and audiences.
My parents were thrilled when I was admitted to Harvard University but since they didn’t have a theatre degree I designed my own major, Storytelling and Performance by combining Folklore, Anthropology and Performance. After spending some time in the world I went back to get an Ed.M. in Art in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Campaign larping found me in college and for the past two decades I have run larps, developed larps, and played larps. It seemed silly that larp and theatre didn’t integrate in a way that played up both their strengths so I decided to give it a try. And because life is a cycle and college turned me into the nerdy gamer I am today, I am closing the circle and am now back at college, this time Northeastern, teaching game design to the next generation.
If you would like to learn more about what we do contact us about interviews and workshops through this website.
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Paige Besse - Marketing and Design
Paige Besse is a historian, photographer, designer, and writer based in Salem, Massachusetts. Curious, tenacious, and creative by nature, Paige holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Suffolk University and a Master of Arts in History from Salem State University, with a concentration in Early American and Maritime history. She is a licensed City of Salem public guide, a museum professional, a volunteer with her local community arts organizations, as well as a member of Phi Alpha Theta – the National History Honor Society. Paige has been attending Intramersive shows since Daemonologie: Oakham, and collaborating with us ever since (even promoting our work on the Peabody Essex Museum blog). Currently, she works with us on productions as well as helping tackle any of our graphic design woes!
Kristin Harris - Dramaturg
Kristin Harris is a Public Historian from Salem, Massachusetts. She holds a B.A. in American Studies, specializing in early American History from Penn State University. In 2013, Kristin moved to Salem from Philadelphia to pursue her M.A. in American Studies from UMASS Boston, and completed her studies in 2015. Kristin has been a public historian for 7 years, first starting her career working at the Witch House, and the 1630 Pioneer Village in Salem as a museum educator/historical interpreter. She later went on to give public walking tours of Salem for a while, until she started full time as Historical Interpreter, and Lead Actor at the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum, where she currently works. It was in this role both with Black Cat Tours as a public historian and tour guide (specializing primarily in paranormal tours), and as a budding academic in the Master's program at UMass, that Kristin first connected her love for the paranormal with public history, and realized that the two could mesh as a field of academic study. While researching for her Master's thesis, Kristin met and joined with the Mass Ghost Hunters Paranormal Society as an investigator in training, and served as an investigator and researcher with the team from 2015-2017. Her time with MGHPS informed much of her continued research into the paranormal, and paranormal history. Currently, Kristin uses her academic training to host a podcast, Life After Midnight: Strange History, Salem Style. All episodes can be found on iTunes and on
The relationship between the paranormal and historical research, and it’s importance to public history have been Kristin’s main research interests, along with the Anthropological Study of Death and Dying in American Culture, and popular culture. Other interests and specialized areas of study include 19th century American History, Early American History, Modern American History and Popular Culture, Folklore studies, and Medical History. Kristin started with Intramersive LLC as the Dramaturge, and co-writer of Daemonologie: Smoke and Mirrors, the third installment in the company’s Daemonologie series, and is thrilled to have become a permanent member of the team, and has the goal of continuing to teach through art, and connecting folklore and public memory with public history, theater, and historical interpretation to help people gain a deeper understanding of our past, and how it can connect both emotionally, and practically to the present.