ABOUT US
LARP COR started in 2019 as a casual collaboration between the Luminary Roleplay Society and Cozy LARP. In 2020 Covid-19 dramatically changed our plans and what was originally intended as a small, in person retreat for maybe two dozen people turned into a 45 person, international, online event. Now we are excited to create more and different events with our expanded team.
What's in a name? LARP COR stands for "LARP Community Organizers Retreat." Since we started as an annual retreat for community organizers, and it's a catchy abbreviation, we've carried it forward beyond just our retreats.
ACATA FELTON
Luminary Roleplay Society
(She/her)
By day I work in Biotechnology, supporting companies developing individualized medicine. I’ve been writing LARPs and playing in them since 2012. I’ve been helping organize the community around LARPing more or less since I started. For the first 5 years, I organized with the Stanford Gaming Society.. Then in 2016, with Aaron Sunshine’s help, I assembled a board and we incorporated the LRS as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in California. LARP COR is a natural extension for me. What's better than a community? A community of communities!
OLIVIA MONTOYA
(She/Her; please don't use gendered nouns to refer to her)
Olivia Montoya is a queer, Autistic, chronically ill larper who has been larping since 2013, when she began playing games with the Stanford Gaming Society. She has since started writing LARPs, GMing LARPs, and is currently an organizer for an upcoming online Queer LARP Con. She also admins the Discord servers Queer Game Dev and Queer Indie TTRPG Scene, which both have spaces for LARP writers. She also has run two LARP-focused game jams. She also organizes a physical self publishing festival in Connecticut once a year, which taught her a lot about accessible event planning, and has been planning to create a LARP community in her part of Northwest Connecticut.
REBECCA ROYCROFT
Cozy LARP
(She/Her)
I'm a larper, roleplayer, and organizer based in northern New Mexico. I've been larping since college and have been on the organizing committee for Austin Larp Meetup and have organized community freeform larps in Austin, TX. I am currently on the organizing committee for CozyLarp. I am committed to using my organizing to encourage fresh creative voices.
ROSS CHEUNG
Cozy Larp
(He/Him)
I'm a recovering academic originally from the East Coast and based in Los Angeles. I've played and designed smaller-scale chamber larps since college, and enjoy traveling and experiencing larp cultures around the world. I'm on the organizing committee for CozyLarp and have run larps around the Los Angeles area.
KATE HILL
LARP Shack
(She/They)
I am a librarian during the day whose main passion is larping. I started larping back in what apparently is the Macalester College Scene in which we didn't know what we were doing but we apparently wrote very rules light secrets and powers larps. I really got into larping thanks to New World Magischola and since then have delved deep into community management of larping, larp writing, and larp running, mainly freeform games about feelings. My main group is Larp Shack in Durham NC, which I co-run with my partner in crime Jason Morningstar. We somehow have now existed running completely free larp gatherings on a monthly basis for four years. I care deeply about safety, creating communities of care, and working towards addressing the many issues around larp accessibility.
DANN LYNCH
(They/Them)
Dann Lynch (they/them) is a non-binary person that has more than a decade worth of Larp experience across North American battle games/full-contact boffer larps, various chapters of descriptive (parlor) larps, and the hybrid boffer larps that America loves so much — Dann is currently expanding their experience into Nordic and Nordic-inspired larps as they make their presence known in North America. Their experience spans these larps as a player, staff member, writer, and consultant. Along with all of that Dann also Founded MakeBelieve, a community based around centering marginalized voices, connecting folks to specific larps, and of course running them. If you ever wanted to hear someone unironically say “I Love Logistics” while wearing a pair of Crocs, and a patterned shirt, you've found the right person.
LUMINARY ROLEPLAY SOCIETY (LRS)
San Francisco Bay Area
The LRS is 501(c)(3) non profit operating in the SF Bay area. We run one-shot LARPs in the Bay Area and across the county as stand alone events and at conventions. The LRS provides continuity to our community so we can support our GMs (including financially so GMs and hosts don’t have to pay out of pocket to run their LARPs). This also gives us clear authority to protect space for player safety and comfort.
You can find our website here:
COZY LARP
Los Angeles, CA
CozyLarp (aka CozyLARP aka CozyLarpLA) is a community freeform larp gathering that has been held in Los Angeles since 2018. Cozy is also a collective of writers, organizers, and players who pop up at various local cons to run and play innovative larps, games, and other interactive experiences. Check out documentation from our events at https://cozylarp.wordpress.com/ .
LARP SHACK
Durham, NC
LARPSHACK is a group of amazing people interested in playing and promoting live action roleplaying in central North Carolina, with an emphasis on freeform, Nordic-inspired, and short-form parlor larp styles. We were founded in 2016 and have run monthly gatherings since then. Our goal is to be a safe, casual, friendly space to playtest, run, and experience the joy of larp. You can find more about us here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1187961677944050/
(please note we only admit members if they can be vetted by a current member).
PREVIOUS MEMBER- AARON SUNSHINE
Luminary Roleplay Society
(He/Him)
I’m a field biologist living in Oakland, California. My LARPing background is in secrets and powers games through the Stanford Gaming Society, but the past few years I have begun to explore and enjoy other genres as well. In 2016 I branched out into organizing when Acata invited me to help form the LRS, of which I’m now apparently the chairperson (term limits were involved). It’s been an interesting, rewarding, and at times challenging journey, and there is always lots more to learn.
PREVIOUS MEMBER - JOE LANDOLPH
Cozy LARP
(He/Him)
I'm a larper and roleplayer in the Los Angeles area. I have been larping since college, and I organize occasional parlor-larp events locally, as well as being on the organizing committee for CozyLarp. I have enjoyed learning about different larp styles and cultures, and I look forward to seeing what new things larp has to offer.