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Category: Creativity

Shadowrun #CorpSINs: Episode 18, Into the Underpark

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Cheryl

In Episode 18 “Into the Underpark”, MMFEC has been separated from their tank and faces a more “traditional” dungeon crawl laced with physical traps along the way to their goal: bringing the technomancer who’s been terrorizing the park out alive. Read on

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Acting, HyperRPG, Seattle corpsins, improv, shadowrun, twitch

Shadowrun #CorpSINs: Episode 17, The Underworld

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Cheryl

Week 17 humbled me, completely. Our second week of shadowrunning at “Sunset Island”, a Horizon theme park that is about to open – except for the murderous technomancer seeking revenge for the corp’s past actions. But the live taping of the episode

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Acting, HyperRPG, Seattle corpsins, improv, shadowrun, twitch

Shadowrun #CorpSINs: Episode 16, It’s A Little Planet After All

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Cheryl

Trying something new this week – moving recaps to my blog for easier reading. These recaps are from Ma1nfram3’s perspective, largely, and may not completely represent the episode. 😉 Episode 16 VOD Leaving London We rejoin MMFEC at the Under 10 Championships

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Acting, HyperRPG, Seattle corpsins, improv, performances, shadowrun, twitch

Theatre Life: “I Saw U”

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Cheryl

Tonight is my final performance for this run of “I Saw U” at Unexpected Productions. This is actually the second run for this show – I very much enjoyed the first production in May/June 2014. Unlike some of our shows, this one

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Acting, Seattle

Ma1n-splaining To Do: Shadowrun CorpSINs Week 6

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Cheryl

Welcome, chummers! Hard to believe we’re already done with 6 episodes of “Shadowrun: Corporate SINs” at Hyper RPG. Last week, my character Ma1nfram3 made a major reveal of one of her secrets to the rest of MMFEC. It’s kind of her own

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Acting, HyperRPG corpsins, improv, performances, shadowrun, twitch

Welcome to the Twitchbowl: Hyper RPG

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Cheryl

Rebroadcasts of Shadowrun: Corporate SINs are available on-demand at HyperRPG’s YouTube channel. I joined the Twitch universe recently in a big way. In January, several of my friends from NERDprov and I were approached by a producer, Zac Eubank, who had just

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Acting, Games, HyperRPG, Seattle corpsins, improv, performances, shadowrun, twitch

Improv Life: Hot Tin Streetcar

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Cheryl

Tonight was opening night for my latest show, “Hot Tin Streetcar”, at Unexpected Productions. One of my favorite exercises in improvisational theatre is genre long form improv – building improvised one-act plays or television-style episodes in tribute to an existing theatrical style,

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Acting, Seattle improv, performances

A Life Lived Long and Prosperous

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Cheryl

I am very sad to hear about Leonard Nimoy’s passing. My path only crossed briefly with his – when I moderated his panel at the Emerald City ComicCon 2010 (just days after my knee injury and surgery) and briefly again in Calgary

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Acting, Biography, Seattle pop culture, star trek

Many Years on the Final Frontier

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Cheryl

It is a ritual we have nurtured over the course of over three years. The curlers must start heating no less than 90 minutes prior to showtime. The rollers must be in by 7:10 PM, so that we can join the others

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Acting improv, performances, star trek

Memories of Game Dev: Playtest Notes #1

Posted on January 2, 2015 by Cheryl

Every once in a while, I come across a notebook with a series of scribbles from my past in game development. Playtesting one’s own game and taking notes was a daily occurrence, but the notes provide a little burst of humor when

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Games career, game development
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