Megan Reilly

Megan M. Reilly is an Assistant Professor of Lighting Design at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also a freelance lighting and projections designer, working for theaters in Minneapolis, Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Fayetteville AR, Newburyport MA, Portsmouth NH, Dublin, and Edinburgh. She has received international recognition for her design-driven performance work and researches the ethics of immersive theater and technologies such as virtual and augmented reality. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media and ADA: A Journal of New Media and Technology.

Essay

My Tension Experience, Part 2

2 November 2016

In this second installment, Megan Reilly discusses her participation in Ascension, the second phase of The Tension Experience, and reflects on agency for audience members in this immersive experience.

Essay

My Tension Experience, Part 1

Exploring Extreme Immersive Theatre

16 September 2016

In this first installment, Megan Reilly shares her experience with the first phase of The Tension Experience, a project that’s a cross between immersive theatre and an Alternate Reality Game.

Essay

When the Gods Choose a Different Play Each Night

Designing for Interactive Theatre

5 April 2015

Lighting designer Megan Reilly outlines the process of designing for production with twelve possible iterations.

Essay

Learning from the Gamification of Theater

18 June 2014

Megan Reilly sheds insight on the gamification of theatre.

Essay

The Right Chair

18 April 2013

A call to designers to carefully consider the details of their work, no matter what budget size they have, as it is in the details that show deliberate care of the design.

Series

My Tension Experience

Designer Megan Reilly writes on her experience as part of a piece of immersive horror theatre.

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