Emry Sottile (they/them) is an active role-player, musical theatre dramaturg, larpwright, and PhD Candidate. Their research focuses on role-play performance—e.g. table-top role-playing games, larp, and interactive theatre—and how these communal practices with queer utopian potentiality are vehicles for transformative play for their first-person audiences, albeit complicated ones, in the face of neoliberal capitalism. Their work can be found in The International Journal of Role-Playing, Studies in Musical Theatre, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Transformative Works and Cultures. Practice-wise, they specialize in musical theatre dramaturgy, and larp organizing, most notably via working with Grimmoire Productions.