Erik Blair
Artistic Director at They Played Productions
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolErik Blair is an experienced Artistic and Creative Director based in Los Angeles with over a decade leading large-scale immersive entertainment projects across theater, haunt events, and interactive media. He has directed and authored complex multi-hour narratives—most notably a 250+ page script suite for Nightfall at Old Tucson—and transformed traditional actors into immersive performers for productions serving 60,000+ guests post-pandemic. Skilled in end-to-end production management, fundraising, and marketing, he has a track record of selling out events and creating new revenue streams while overseeing teams of 25+ creatives. His background spans academia (top-rated adjunct instructor at Cal State Fullerton), project management of digital initiatives, and hands-on stunt, set, and character coordination. Notably, he architects long-form ARGs and linked narrative universes, demonstrating a rare blend of theatrical craft and systems-level storytelling. He seeks opportunities to invent new forms of audience engagement that fuse live performance, game design, and cinematic production.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Film/Video Production, Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Film/Video Production at USCBachelor's degree, Directing/Acting, Bachelor's degree, Directing/Acting at Northwestern University
Github Skills (91)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
birbe/jvm-old
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Pure Rust implementation of the JVM 7 specification
Contributions:70 commits, 4 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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Birbe/screengrabber
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
Nice and easy screengrabber with built in clipping/crop utilities
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 3 months
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