Adrienne Mackey

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With her company Swim Pony, Adrienne Mackey has created works like SURVIVE!  - a 22,000 sq-ft science installation; THE BALLAD OF JOE HILL at Eastern State Penitentiary; WAR OF THE WORLDS, with Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio; and THE END – a month-long ARG exploring mortality. Most recently, she's created THE STUPIDEST, SCARIEST TIME, an interactive comedy about American workaholism; TRAILOFF, a mobile app that embeds immersive audio onto nature trails; and OMNIA BREAK ROOM, a movement play critiquing mass consumerism. Mackey serves as Head of Directing at UW and is the recipient of two Knight Arts Challenges, an Independence Foundation Fellowship, and a Global Innovation Fund Award.