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Author: Cheryl

Breaking Up With Alexa: A Career Announcement

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Cheryl

My ability to acquire an augmented reality Pikachu is not the only reason July 2016 is a momentous month for me. Today marks my final day in just under 2 years at Amazon. I am genuinely grateful for the opportunity to work

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Biography, Design, Seattle, Technology, Work amazon, career, interaction design, Microsoft

Shadowrun #CorpSINs: Episode 20, Follow The Money

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Cheryl

Episode 20 was full of DRAMA and some unexpectedly relevant conversations about race relations in the 6th world. It also showed the full range of MMFEC’s abilities; from failure to possible triumph. And their considerable talent at inter-team strife. Read on for

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HyperRPG corpsins, improv, shadowrun, twitch

Shadowrun #CorpSINs: Episode 19, Hunting the Hunters

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Cheryl

MMFEC apparently believes the best way to repay the Draco Foundation’s confidence in them is to fail spectacularly! This was a fairly Ma1nfram3-light episode due to Cromwell’s fairly inept shadowrunner chaos, so a shorter recap than normal. We rejoin the runners as they

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

Laugh, Cry, Sigh: The Journal (2016)

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Cheryl

Laugh, cry and sigh with us! My next show runs this month – the return of Seattle Experimental Theater’s “The Journal”, July 14 – 23 at the Ballard Underground in Seattle. Advance tickets available for $18 at Brown Paper Tickets ($20 at the

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Acting, Seattle improv, performances, pop culture

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
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