Sandy Whittem

Sandy Whittem (she/her) is a co-founder and Creative Director of MedusaRPG.

Her practice combines elements of live-action role-play, social deduction games, and responsive theatre to explore and expand the boundaries of immersive experience.

Her academic background is in literature and history, with a focus on the history of emotions in English literature and theatre.

Sandy’s passion is to realise live-action role-play’s potential as a community-building tool, and as an embodied, emotional engagement with the past.

Sandy Whittem is speaking at the Museums, Games & Play Summit 2024 :

Welcome to Hell: Finding Hades at the Hellenic Museum

Do you have what it takes to join a secret society and meddle in the affairs of the gods? Come with us to learn about Mysterion: Descent into Hades, a responsive theatre experience by the Hellenic Museum and MedusaRPG. Blending history, mythology, interactive storytelling, and game design, we transformed our museum into the Greek Underworld where players encountered figures from ancient history; embarked on quests; and solved puzzles. We share an example of how a cultural institution can engage new audiences through play… and whether the players managed to reunite Hades and Persephone, trick Hermes, and discover the secret of immortality.