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Immersive game designer and theater maker creating participatory worlds where audiences shape narrative and outcome.

Taj Rauch is an immersive game designer, theater maker, and filmmaker whose multidisciplinary practice centers the audience as the protagonist. Blending interactive design, narrative systems, and performance, he creates participatory environments that challenge perception, agency, and authorship.

His work explores how individuals navigate constructed realities, often placing audiences inside layered narrative systems where their decisions directly influence the experience. Drawing from game mechanics, experimental theater, and cinematic storytelling, Rauch builds worlds that evolve in response to human behavior.

At the core of his practice is a fundamental question: across shifting environments and imagined realities, how do we recognize ourselves, and what defines who we are?