Campfire

Tales

Horror, improv, tabletop gaming, and live music

Relive your favorite horror movie tropes with a live, unique soundtrack

You will laugh, cry, and possibly scream

Campfire Tales at a glance

What’s your favorite scary movie? What if the characters made different decisions, might they have been saved in the end? Join us for Campfire Tales, a theatrical live role-playing game based on popular horror and suspense movies crossing barriers between performance and gaming entertainment. You will relive these favored tales with a delightful twist as our cast of creatives navigate pivotal story points by pulling tiles from the Tower of Fate and balancing them precariously on top. Be wary if the Tower starts to sway, because bad things happen when it collapses! Ramping up the tension, our in-house bard performs interactive improvisatory music forming the soundtrack to each performance that will put a shiver down your spine. Each show is completely unique with a rotating cast, fresh but familiar stories, a new terrifying soundtrack, and that frightening tingle on the back of your neck that’s sure to have you coming back for more.

Check us out on QC Morning!

Since youth, Teil has been intrinsically drawn to stories of horror and suspense, from reading Goosebumps as a child through becoming a horror fanatic as an adult. Teil began playing tabletop games in grad school as her creative sanctuary. Soon she became a Game Master, weaving epic and immersive stories at the table. Both Teil and Dylan are long-time Game Masters, running games at annually sold-out festivals and in the community. They also compose and record tabletop gaming music (four albums ready for your table needs - visit our merch page!).

Campfire Tales is a completely new genre of performance art developed by Phoenix Down RPG which premiered in 2019 at Ohayocon as Camp Dread. Teil was recently named an Emerging Creative by the Arts and Science Council of Charlotte to further develop stories and bring this incredible show to our arts scene. Campfire Tales will have a Charlotte debut performance at VisArt in February.

Watch the Campfire Tales Podcast

  • Dylan Lloyd

    Cast

  • Makayla Binter

    Cast

  • Matt Darsey

    Cast

  • Dionna Bright

    Cast

  • Dr. Jessica Lindsey

    Featured Bard

  • Teil Taliesin

    Game Master & Weaver of Stories

Campfire Tales is supported by the Infusion Fund and its generous donors.