US-based immersive designer and Disney Imagineer
Sara Thacher is an American game and experience designer. She is one of the founders of the San Francisco-based immersive experience The Jejune Institute and works as a creative director and senior R&amp;D Imagineer at Walt Disney Imagineering, including creative leadership on the two-day immersive Disney experience.
Education.
Thacher studied glass at the Rhode Island School of Design and earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Social Practice at the California College of the Arts.
Career.
Thacher was one of the creators of the multi-chapter interactive experience The Jejune Institute in San Francisco, with Jeff Hull and Uriah Findley. She served as a lead producer and experience designer for Nonchalance after answering a Craigslist recruiting ad. She is featured in the 2013 documentary about The Jejune Institute, "The Institute".
She later worked for The Go Game and was a producer and designer on "FutureCoast", a future forecasting game by "World Without Oil's" Ken Eklund that ran in February 2014. "FutureCoast" was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation to Columbia University's Polar Partnership.
The game explored climate change, its effect on polar ice, and rising sea levels through a series of voicemails from the future. The game also used in-person experiences, geocached items, and social media to engage audiences.
Thacher works as a senior creative director and research and development Imagineer at Walt Disney Imagineering. Her work includes creative leadership on the two-day immersive Disney experience, the Themed Entertainment Association Award-winning Haunted Mansion: Ghost Post, and alternate reality game The Optimist, a game set around Anaheim, California and inside Disneyland that served as a promotional tie-in to the 2015 film "Tomorrowland".
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