In rehearsal for Alice in Bed. I still have that coffee mug, and I still have a tendency to set it down somewhere during rehearsal and spend a long time searching for it later.
Me after a long day out on the Mesabi trail, near the 1854 treaty line
I design experiences.
I'm Margo Gray, a Minnesota-based experience designer whose work invites audiences to make lasting changes in belief and behavior.
Now your turn. What else is important to you to know? Go to item 4 for personal info, 3 for credentials, 2 for current work, and 1 for practice.
1. Practice My interests include building empathy for unfamiliar experiences, designing situations that allow people to try out a different version of themselves, and creating meaningful experiences that can connect people across distance. My skills include writing, game design, working collaboratively, and crafting arg-style immersive worlds.
2. Current work. I’m crafting an interactive audio experience for the Mesabi Trail, a 135-mile paved bike trail on Minnesota’s Iron Range. The segment of the tour that runs from Hibbing to Virginia, MN is set to open to the public in summer 2023. I’m also in the process of developing Citizens Action Brigade into a play-by-mail experience for groups.
3. Credentials. I'm the Producing Artistic Director of Playable Artworks, former Artistic Director of Prologue Theatre Co., a current member of the Odyssey Works Experience Design Certificate Program, a former Fulbright Fellow at the Moscow Art Theatre School, an alumna of Grinnell College, and a graduate of the John Wells MFA Directing program at Carnegie Mellon University. I’ve received a Next Step grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, as well as grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, and Forecast Public Art.
4. Personal stuff. I spend a lot of time canoeing and snowshoeing in northern Minnesota, where it’s winter six months out of the year and goodbyes take 30 minutes minimum.
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