COVID-19 led an L.A. troupe to reject Zoom theater for games
Print In 2016, Marlee Delia and Anna Mavromati started an independent theater group. In 2020, the pandemic turned them into game designers. With their small theater productions, a number that were connected to the Hollywood Fringe Festival, their Shine On Collective had seen the power of play through occasional scavenger hunts. Building upon the immersive theater movement popularized by the site-specific theatrical production “Sleep No More,” their intimate, budget-minded shows often required some form of audience participation. But Delia had never designed an actual puzzle, and game des...