Andrew Cothern / RVA Playlist @rvaplaylist.bsky.social Music writer. Part time radio DJ. Award-winning author of “RVA Playlist: Stories from the Richmond, Virginia Music Scene.” Vinyl collector. Lover of the RVA music scene and dogs.
https://linktr.ee/rvaplaylist
Betsy Ebsen @betsyebsentattoos.bsky.social ✨Art Nouveau Tattoo Artist✨
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Betsyebsentattoos.com
Betsyebsentattoos@gmail.com
WRIR-LP 97.3 FM RVA @wrir973fm.bsky.social 📍 Richmond, Virginia
📡 YOUR community radio station 📻
💯% volunteer-run + listener-funded since 2005
WRIRcampaign.org
Virginia Educators United @virginiaedunited.bsky.social #Red4EdVA In 2019 4,000 marched on the Richmond Capitol for better funding of Virginia's schools and better learning and working conditions for Virginia students and faculties. We continue as the determined Virginia Educators' grassroots.
WTVR CBS 6 News Richmond, Virginia @cbs6-richmond.bsky.social We share local news and other information in Richmond, Virginia. Watch videos and read articles at WTVR.com.
Dennis Clark @dennistclark.bsky.social Librarian of Virginia. Richmond VA. Alabama expat by way of TN, TX, AR, DC., library and archives advocate, middling choral singer, rider of rails, affirming Episcopalian, mediocre long-distance runner. Comments are mine.
https://linktr.ee/dennistclark
Mike Rabin @mikerabin.bsky.social Pollinators for Change • Reconstructing Richmond documentary • regenerative economies
📍Richmond, Virginia
Markus Schmidt @mschmidtrva.bsky.social Sr. politics reporter | deputy editor
Virginia Mercury (Richmond, VA)
mschmidt@virginiamercury.com
Mimi Simon || Commissions Open @mimisimon.com ☀️Illustrator and Background Artist
☀️Worked for Scholastic and King Features
☀️Richmond Virginia
🌐 https://linktr.ee/mimisimonart 🎨 https://vgen.co/mimisimon
Jeff @eminentprof.bsky.social Union guy in Richmond, Virginia.
Originally from New Orleans.
Host of Good Morning Comrade on WHIV 102.3 FM New Orleans.
Goodmorningcomrade.com
Jahd Khalil @jahd.bsky.social I’m a public radio reporter for @vpm.org in Richmond, Virginia. My website is jahdkhalil.com and my instagram is @jahdreports.
Charlotte Rene Woods @charlottewords.bsky.social Politics Reporter at Virginia Mercury.
Prev: Richmond Times-Dispatch, Charlottesville Tomorrow
Trying to use this site more!
Richmondside @richmondside.org Independent nonprofit news for Richmond. Part of Cityside Journalism Initiative.
Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
Underground Venues @undergroundvenues.bsky.social 'One of the best run venues of any Fringe anywhere' @FringeGuru Award-winning venue hosting theatre, comedy, music, spoken word and family shows at @buxtonfringe 9-27 July 2025
Stockholm Fringe Festival (STOFF) @stoffholm.bsky.social A multidisciplinary "boutique" fringe arts festival in the heart of Stockholm! #STOFF2024 (Edition Nr 16): 27th-30th Aug, 2025! Part of the Baltic Nordic Fringe Network (BNFN). #LibertyArtAndCake #FringeEncore 
Kevin Gossett @kgossett.bsky.social LA Reviews Editor @ No Proscenium | Marketing and communications elsewhere
Chris Wollman @chriswollman.bsky.social 
Parker @parkersela.bsky.social Fan of immersive and science fiction. Phone theater creator/curator. She/her
parkersela.com
Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social nyc-based storyteller, theatre nerd, writer, experience creator, history communicator, refugee from a red state. witch. opinions are mine and not shared by my employer, is a thing I should probably say. 🏳️🌈
Shelley Snyder @shelleysnyder.bsky.social 
Temple of the Forbidden Bri @brresler.bsky.social ER doc, theme park, Immersive Theater, travel. SF Bay Area curator for http://NoProscenium.com, he/him
Cindy White @writewhite.bsky.social Senior Editor at the Los Angeles Zoo. No AI, just hand-crafted artisan prose. Formerly: The A.V. Club, IGN, The Watercooler. WGAE, professional fan of cool stuff, mom of twins, work in progress.
Patrick McLean @pbmclean.bsky.social Writer and Supporter of the Arts
Hourglass Escapes - Seattle Escape Rooms @hourglassescapes.bsky.social Home of the Officially Licensed Evil Dead 2™️ and Arkham Horror Escape Rooms
Our award-winning adventures are unforgettable, whether it’s date night or a team building exercise. Visit us in Seattle or play from the comfort of home.
hourglassescapes.com
Andre • ROOM ESCAPE MAKER Creator | Papercraft Artist @andrejauneau.bsky.social Passionate indie game developer, game designer, and papercraft artist
• roomescapemaker.com → Web app to build and play escape rooms online 🔓
• puzzlecardshop.etsy.com → Game and escape room pop-up cards 🧩
• popupcardtemplates.etsy.com → Pop-up templates ✂️
Jey Biddulph @jeyb.bsky.social Immersive, games and narrative are some words I like. 
Neil Patrick Harris @nphstuff.bsky.social Actor, director, author, magician, juggler, husband, father, fixer, flirt, lover of circus, escape rooms, animatronics, mixology, and figuring out how things work. I seem to keep adding fun projects to my list, but rarely completing them.
It’s still Kellian. @itskellian.bsky.social Immersive, interactive, escapes, puzzles, game design and museums! Director of GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) for FableVision Studios. Mastermind of Green Door Labs and Club Drosselmeyer. Lindy Hopper. Vintage and history nerd-o.
David Spira @dbspira.bsky.social #EscapeRoom, #Immersive, #UXdesign, and fixing things. I fight for the user.
✍️ Room Escape Artist | https://roomescapeartist.com/
🎙️ Reality Escape Pod | https://realityescapepod.podbean.com/
🎉 Reality Escape Convention | https://realityescapecon.com/
Mark Larson @mrklrsn.bsky.social Freelance board game, puzzle, and interactive experience designer from Minneapolis. Design portfolio: mrklrsn.com 🏳️🌈🦆
Errol @elumir.bsky.social Puzzle design freak | Totoro fan.
Tim Monley @timmonley.bsky.social I make immersive and interactive experiences. Escape rooms for Project Immersive in Brisbane.
Theatre with Folly Games.
Projectimmersive.com
Follygames.com
Sandy Weisz @pzlr.org Puzzle maker. Commissioner of The Mystery League. Newsletter at http://signals.fun.
Play 🪜 RADDLE: https://raddle.quest/
Jamie Gibbs @armchairescapist.bsky.social 🧩Escape room puzzle designer
🎙️ Co-producer of @infiniteescaperoom.bsky.social
🔑 #escaperooms | 🎲 #boardgames | 🍯 #mead
https://www.theinfiniteescaperoom.com
Mairi Spaceship Nolan 🚀✨ (she/her) @mairispaceship.com 🕹️ Puzzle Game Designer #boardgames #videogames
✍️ Escape Industry News & The Escape Roomer
🧩 TERPECA & ER Champ UK Ambassador
🏢 Studio Manager @ Draknek, Director @ HEFT & others
mairispaceship.com
Kwissssssstopher @kryptidboi.bsky.social 👽he/him👻
Award nominated games designer
Escape room🗝, Puzzle🛠, and Game🎲 Designer
MFA from danmUCSC
🥄🥄🥄
Michael Andersen @mjandersen.bsky.social Stares at numbers at Simon and Schuster, runs ARGN.com - more ARGs, escape rooms, immersive theater, and puzzle stuff than you probably want to hear
Ddubya @ddubya.bsky.social CEO & Cofounder of Kinetic Energy Ent.
https://kineticenergyent.com/
PS: Been here for over a year. When are y'all coming over?
PPS: formerly @silkyd67 on the bluebird
Sara Thacher @thacher.bsky.social Experience Designer, Social Practitioner, Imagineer, Explainer of Jokes, Adventurer, erstwhile Jejune Institute Co-creator, and former Vacation Surrogate
Nick Tierce @nicktierce.com Writer. Designer. Rabbithole cartographer. Immersive & interactive adventures.
nicktierce.com
UploadVR @uploadvr.com VR & AR news, reviews, and industry analysis.
https://www.uploadvr.com/
David Liu @thedak.bsky.social He/Him
Musings: noteveryth.ing
Work Stuff: davidshiyang.com
Alex Coulombe @ibrews.bsky.social architect turned XR-chitect crafting virtual spaces and the spectacles within | CEO, Agile Lens: Immersive Design, XR strike force | Unreal Engine Authorized Instructor & Toolmaker | Theatre is cool
Joey Sims @joeysims.bsky.social he/him. writing about theater. https://joeysims.substack.com/
Estella Tse @estellatse.com VR/AR Creative Director & Artist — among many other things. she/her.
🌲Oakland grown
🌸 Portland livin
Clients: Google, Oxford University, Adobe, AMD, Intel, Snapchat, Cartoon Network, Netherlands, more
https://estellatse.com/?utm_source=bsky
Brooke McDonald @brookegmcdonald.bsky.social Writer/editor covering Disney, Star Wars, Marvel, Universal, theme parks, travel • she/her
Ben Lang @ben.roadtovr.com Reporting on XR for a decade+, Co-founder of leading independent VR news pub RoadtoVR.com. Journalist & analyst, not evangelist.
Twitter https://twitter.com/benz145
Dave Cobb 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com Immersive Experience Design +30yrs -- theme parks, museum exhibits, attractions, MR/XR/AR; I connect people and stories in physical places.
Not the famous music producer.
GenX🤘
Queer & married 🇨🇦
Husky dad 🐶
Stay kind & curious ☮️
http://www.davecobb.com/
Jay Bushman @jaybushman.bsky.social Writer, Producer, Enterprising Fabulist
Scott Stein @scottstein.bsky.social CNET - future tech, VR/AR, wearables, games, immersive, existential dread/whimsy. Looking in weeds for little frogs. The Intertwixt is my free newsletter about strange overlaps https://intertwixt.beehiiv.com
Serenity Caldwell @settern.bsky.social Many-hat wearer, roller robot, and Apple design evangelist.
On social media these days mostly to help the Apple developer community, geek out about interactive storytelling and experience design, and say hi to friends.
And write. Writing’s good too.
Todd Martens @toddmartens.bsky.social Columnist for LA Times | I cover video games, immersive entertainment & theme parks. | I take a lot bad pics of Disneyland | I also like cats | Todd.martens@latimes.com
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Buy: https://PointReyesMyriorama.com
Watch: https://RealArtists.Film
Kent Bye (Voices of VR) @kentbye.com Voices of VR Podcast host: Insatiably curious, XR oral historian, & aspiring philosopher.
Exploring Tech Ethics, AI, XR, & Emerging Tech.
Patreon at http://patreon.com/voicesofvr
Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime @noahjnelson.com Founder of @NoProscenium.com: The Guide to Everything Immersive & co-founder of @immersiveexperience.org
Ex-public media. Current CalArts faculty.
Mapper of the Immersive Cosmos.
BlueskyUser #499 (Post count includes Twitter imports.)
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon 📖
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games
shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social Award-winning (2x Indiecade, Eisner, Ignatz, National Book Award finalist, etc) game designer, cartoonist, and puppet filmmaker in the practice of marionettes, fortune cabinets, kind rabblerousing, and Paul Bunyan facts. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
The Real Steve Peters @stevepeters.bsky.social Exploding Kittens Special Ops | Experience Designer | Puzzle Ninja | VR & Escape Room Tinkerer | OG ARG Maker | Professional Shenaniganizer | Ornamental Hermit | Los Angeles
stevepeters.org | explodingkittens.com
Troy Heard @troyheard.bsky.social Director - Immersive Creator - Las Vegas / Majestic Repertory Theatre / SCREAM'D / SCAD MFA
Anthony @antoniusrex.bsky.social Kind Guy, Dad, Survivor: Fiji Alum, Immersive Connoisseur, Interdimensional Swiss Army Knife, the other Black guy you know. To be clear: “I Ain’t Your Wookiee.”(He/Him)
Kathryn Yu #OpenToWork @kathrynyu.com Former Sr. Technical Game Designer at on Marvel’s Deadpool VR. @noproscenium.com Senior LA Reviewer & former Executive Editor. @immersiveexperience.org co-founder.
Los Angeles. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/kathrynyu
Jessica Brillhart @brillhart.bsky.social Filmmaker and designer working in emerging tech. ECD at Hecho Studios | Founder and Director at Vrai Pictures (vrai.pictures)
Lance Weiler @culturehacker.bsky.social A storyteller/media artist working with code. Professor of Professional Practice Columbia University, founding member and director of the Columbia DSL
https://lanceweiler.com
Defunctland @defunctland.bsky.social The Official Bluesky Account of the Defunctland YouTube Series. Posts by Kevin Perjurer.
Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social Made Zombies, Run! and Perplex City, wrote You've Been Played and A History of the Future in 100 Objects.
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art.
Blog: mssv.net
Larp: strandfall.com
Video: youtube.com/adrianhon
Doug North Cook @dnorco.bsky.social Currently: Creative Director & CEO at @creaturedotpage.bsky.social .
Scholar is residence at NYU, running immersive Design Residency at the Fallingwater Institute.
Former: Robot Teddy, Chatham University + more
Ian @ianhamilton.net Chronicling VR makers and discoveries in virtual reality. https://www.goodvirtualreality.com
https://linktr.ee/hamiltonian
Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA
linktr.ee/cassrmorris
Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social Foresight x Forecasting for Polycrisis.
I write realitystudies.co & host the Urgent Futures Podcast @urgentfutures.bsky.social.
Comms @metaculus.com. Adjunct Prof, NYU.
Bylines: Flash Art, Forbes, NBC News, The Verge, WIRED
Bryan Bishop @bcbishop.bsky.social Imagineer / Writer / Experience Maker.
Formerly: The Verge / ILM Immersive.
Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪 @rorymitchell.bsky.social Producer & Director of AR, VR and XR, volumetric video. Director of "The Tent" an Augmented Reality volumetric narrative that premiered at SXSW 2024.
Https://themercantile.agency
Kevin, as a robot @kevinasarobot.bsky.social Mixed reality artist: XR experience director @ Agile Lens, improvisation teacher @ Atlantic Theater Company and NYU Tisch, vegetarian. I wanna be a boat.
E McNeill @emcneill.bsky.social Indie game designer. Mostly VR. Maker of Ironstrike, Ironlights, Darknet, Tactera, Astraeus, Skylight, and Auralux.
Jedidjah Julia Noomen @jedidjah.bsky.social Game director, writer, narrative experience designer - videogames, VR, (immersive) theatre and everything in between. BAFTA member, co-host of The Nirvana Podcast. European born but now in BC, Canada.
www.jedidjahjulianoomen.com
Nancy Baker Cahill @drawing.bsky.social Artist, Director, founder 4th Wall App 🪩, Expanded filmmaker
Substrate at LACMA
Current: CENTO at the Whitney Museum
SEEK at Cosm Los Angeles & Dallas
Emily Carding @emilycarding.bsky.social Actor, author, artist, mystic. Mostly made of Shakespeare, magic, immersive theatre and Tarot. Nerd.
#keyofdreams
#transparenttarot
#richardiii
#returntosilenthill
www.emilycarding.com
Saschka Unseld @saschka.bsky.social Eats breakfast #pinkispunk (also Director of Pixar’s Blue Umbrella, Studio SOI & Oculus Story Studio founder, now ...)
Shane Nilsson @shanenilsson.bsky.social XR developer and educator. Cofounder of Coal Car Studio. www.coalcar.ca
Immersive Denver @immersivedenver.bsky.social Founded in 2018, we're an arts non-profit working to support the Denver & Front Range immersive industry through education, resource-building, networking & community, and arts advocacy.
Toshi Anders Hoo @toshihoo.bsky.social Light lover. Myth mapper. Future curious.- B Brett @bkuehner.bsky.social Fan of playing and creating puzzles and escape rooms. Lots of escape room design links here:
http://thatguywiththepuzzles.com/
Christine Woods @diegeticartifacts.bsky.social book hoarder | aea sm | director immersive denver | adrenaline enthusiast
Espii @ladyespii.bsky.social multimedia director & composer/sound artist.
Mar Ferreri @sakuyal.bsky.social Self-proclaimed pretty boy || Former Imagineer || I try to do cool things with my time on this planet || 日本語OK! || Contact: mar@marferreri.com
itchy-O @itchyo.bsky.social Your next pan-daemonic baptism.
Agog @weareagog.bsky.social We're Agog. A new kind of institute helping creators and nonprofit leaders harness the power of extended reality to imagine a more just and sustainable future.
Agog.org
@markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social 
Immersive Fiction @immersivefiction.com we create story-driven multimedia experiences that exist on the web and in the real world. always behind the curtain.
web
immersivefiction.com
currently working on
fieldstudiesinstitute.org
https://bsky.app/profile/fieldstudiesinstitute.org
Terence Leclere @terenceleclere.bsky.social Immersive person 🎭 | TEDx speaker 🎤 | Founder of #metaforyou #️⃣
Designing human connection at live events + in life.
✨ Presence. 🎭 Play. 💬 You matter.
linkin.bio/terenceleclere
David Fox💙🫘🇺🇦 @davidbfox.com Lead game programmer: ThimbleweedPark2 ReturnToMonkeyIsland
Designer/Project Lead at LucasfilmGames/LucasArts: Fractalus Labyrinth ZakMcKracken Indy3
ManiacMansion
VR XR EV GameDev
Handpan newbie
❤️ @anniefox.com
@RubeWorks.com
https://linktr.ee/davidbfox
Ash Eliza Smith @ashelizasmith.bsky.social Storytelling, Bodies and Emerging Technology. Speculative Devices Lab, Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, Edgeworks. Visiting Fellow Central Saint Martins, Narrative Environments, UAL
Chelsea Sutton @crsutton.bsky.social Theatre/Fiction/Other Stuff
she/her Clarion '22
Chapbook from @wrongpublishing.bsky.social
Upcoming novella from @splitlippress.com
TC Conway @impossibleworks.com Bringing the impossible to life through immersive experiences. Passionate experience designer blending technology and art to create unforgettable moments.
ARGNet @argn.bsky.social ARGN.com - covering alternate reality games, immersive theater, escape rooms LARPs, and more.
Sabina Graves @livelikethemovies.bsky.social First time mom, longtime journalist, filmmaker in progress
Gaurav D Kale @gauravdkale.bsky.social I build things
Currently focused on:
indexstream.org - Media server
universalverify.com - ID & age verification tools
Earlier:
digitalbacon.io - 3D website builder
sliceofmusic.com - XR saber-like game
Former Startup CTO & Amazon Engineer
私は日本語が下手です
Emmett Furey @emmettfurey.bsky.social Writer and narrative designer for Silent Hill, Ingress, and Dungeons & Dragons.
Immersive designer of Larps, TTRPGs, and ARGs.
Player of Magic the Gathering and Marvel Snap.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmettfurey
Magnopus @magnopus.bsky.social Experience Engineers uniting the physical & digital. Using #spatialcomputing, #AI, & #cloudtech, we imagine, create, & execute impactful immersive solutions.