“One of the guiding themes of the series is that gamers can be normal cool people, too. I often find in gamer targeted media, that gamers and geeks are presented as odd or stereotypical with little to no social skills”
The five leads in LARPs: The Series are all classically trained theatre actors. The key point, here, is that they’re theatre actors, and that means that there are some unique challenges when performing for a web series.
It’s all a sort of mix of acting, role-playing, sporting and highbrow nerdiness. It’s very much akin to a Civil War reenactment, but more like reenacting the battle of Helm’s Deep, or the latest battle you fought in DnD.
Spending years developing a series about Live Action Role Playing, co creator Julian Stamboulieh couldn’t get the project off the ground until he made some industry contacts, and most importantly convinced long time LARPer Jon Verrall to pen the series.
