Adrienne Mackey
Adrienne Mackey is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the potential of performance and play. With her company, Swim Pony, she’s created works including SURVIVE!, a 22,000 sq-ft interactive science installation; The Ballad of Joe Hill, a production that uses song, storytelling, and movement to convey the events surrounding the life of the eponymous labour organiser staged at the historic Eastern State Penitentiary; War of the Worlds, an innovative mixture of site-specific live performance and games with Drexel University’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio; The End, a month-long mixed reality game exploring fears about mortality; and TrailOff, a mobile app using GPS to embed stories on Pennsylvania nature trails. Most recently Swim Pony premiered Aqua Marooned! a nature-based card game that used sensory awareness and personal memory to connect new audiences to 23 nature centers across the Delaware River Watershed. Mackey is an Independence Foundation Fellowship awardee and a two-time recipient of the Knight Arts Challenge. She is an Assistant Professor of Acting, Directing and Devising at the University of Washington’s School of Drama. Mackey holds an MFA in game/theatre from Goddard College, is a classically trained soprano, and former chemist.