Photo by Cynthia August

WORKing WITH Carly

credentials

SAG/AFSTRA Certification (pending Fall 2025)
Intimacy Coordinator Certification Course Intimacy Directors and Coordinators

EdM, Arts in Education
(focus in Interdisciplinary Education)
Harvard Graduate School of Education

BA, Self Designed Major in Anthropology, Folklore, and Performance
Harvard University

Learn more

Hi! I'm Carly (she/her), and I am a narrative designer, intimacy coordinator, educator, and producer.

I have a robust skillset and a desire to connect people through powerful play and wild storytelling. My education in folklore and activisit theatre, combined with over fifteen years of producing, directing, teaching, and designing games and intimacy, has prepared me to show audiences the wildest time.

I build trust through empathy, communication, and dependability strengthened by my training as a consent-forward designer. I can take a room full of people with disparate backgrounds, skills, ideas, and opinions and turn them into a diverse, collaborative team.

You can usually find me playing TTRPG’s, relaxing in a sauna, doing odd jobs for local queer performers, or visiting a bog. I live with my family (and harshly judgmental cat) in Naumkeag, the traditional summer fishing lands of the Massachusett people.

Interests

Community Development in Online Gaming

Experimental Archeology

Intimacy Design in Interactive Digital Media

LARPing and Democracy

Open World Design

Covert Learning in RPG design

Games

Four people dressed in historical clothing standing under a wooden shed at night, with a dark sky and trees in the background.

Games to entertain a crowd, rally a community, and enchant a party

With over a dozen games shipped, as a solo designer, and with my studio, Intramersive Media, I am an experienced independent game designer. My specialty is rpgs, larps, and open world design and I am eager to work with you on whatever world you can dream up and let players loose in it for boundless adventures.

Intimacy Design and Consulting

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Is your sex scene just not coming together?

Spice things up

As a certified Intimacy Coordinator, I enhance the intimacy in your project by creating a fun and efficient environment. An Intimacy Coordinator is like a Fight Choreographer with funnier props.

Video Game producers

Most video game sex is awkward: impatient players speeding through dialogue, hilarious collision points in animation, failures in capturing subtely in mo-cap. It’s not easy to make video game sex sexy.

Education and Consulting

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Consulting and workshops to teach creative processes

With over 15 years teaching students and professionals—from high school theatre kids to computer science undergrads, from scientists to engineers—my unique background in devising, theatre making, game design, and cooperative leadership enables me to teach any group to creative problem solving.