Join us this February, for our first Interactive Performance Summit in partnership with the University of Central Florida – to be held in Orlando.
The Interactive Performance Summit isn’t designed as a deep dive into any one topic—instead, it offers a wide-ranging exploration of ideas, formats, and approaches to interactive performance.
Think of it as a sampler or a creative buffet: a chance to encounter many perspectives, try out new forms, and get inspired by what’s possible.
While sessions are intentionally brief and focused, the real depth happens in the connections you make. Throughout the Summit, you’ll meet fellow artists, teachers, and collaborators who share your curiosity—opening the door to deeper conversations, ongoing projects, and resource sharing long after the event ends.
Get Your Tickets Today
General Admission: $150
(Includes a one-year AIPP Membership)
Special AIPP Member Pricing: $100
The event is taking place over the same weekend as the Orlando Immerse Festival and the Festival is partnering with us to provide free tickets to attendees. Your Summit ticket includes a Festival pass!
Feb 21 & 22, 2026
Orlando, Florida
UCF Downtown Orlando
Doctor Phillips Academic Commons
4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, Florida, 32816
What Can I Expect to See and Do at the AIPP Summit?
Standardized Patients present by UCF’s Clinical Skills and Simulation Center
A Standardized Patient (SP) is a person carefully recruited and trained to take on the characteristics of a real patient thereby affording the student an opportunity to practice and to be evaluated on learned skills in a simulated clinical environment.
This plenary activity will demonstrate the work of SPs and explain the process, techniques, and use cases
TeachLive presented by UCF’s College of Community Innovation and Education
A virtual environment providing educators and trainers the opportunity to interact with computer generated characters operated by inter-actors to practice real-time instruction and interpersonal skills
This plenary will allow attendees to step in as educators in working with the virtual classroom of children.
StoryBox Primer and technique instruction presented by AIPP
Often called a live-action version of Star Trek’s holodeck, StoryBox provides a system for live, improvised, interactive story that anyone can experience
Roughly 20 minute stories that place the audience participant in the protagonist position of their own story that is unscripted and co-created by their choices and a team of inter-actors
This plenary activity will demonstrate how the StoryBox works and the skills inter-actors use to achieve it
Exclusive screening of In Character, a reality TV interactive experience produced by Cloak Of Fiction.
Part scripted story and part improvised co-creation, IN-CHARACTER follows “regular people” as they play-pretend in a fully-realized, interactive, fictional narrative filmed for an at-home viewing audience. Alongside a supporting ensemble of professional Inter-Actors, willing Participants play protagonists of each episode’s story. Their unique choices, engagement, and character relationships propel the narrative to a final, dramatic choice. Why? Interactive stories empower participants to “walk in someone else’s shoes” – to live a life they would never otherwise – to experience the unbridled, ferocious, expansive feeling of play.
Join Cloak of Fiction’s core team for a private showing of the latest episode, discuss best practices for implementing filming interactive into your own project, and participate in discussing the future of IN-CHARACTER – we want you to FILM your projects!
Asynchronous Activities
Adventure Room
In this playtest of an escape room meets immersive theatre, discover the secrets behind the alchemy of time. Explore Mercury’s workshop, and experiment for yourself as you align the cosmos. When her owl, Chemy, invites you to leave your mark in the pages of the alchemist’s journal, your decisions could break Mercury free from a loop of her own creation. Join for a behind-the-scenes tour after your adventure concludes.
Tavern Experience
At the Tavern, guests will gather at the bar to co-create the shared, half-remembered history of a mysterious land, shaping its legends with every sip and story. It’s a space for spontaneous role-play, creative collaboration, and communal worldbuilding—no experience required, just curiosity and a thirst for fun.
True Story Theater
Experience Playback Theatre–a powerful way to empathetically embody people’s deepest feelings and concerns through a form of interactive improvised theatre practiced in over 70 countries. In the first half of the session, a few audience members will spontaneously share something significant from their lives in dialogue with the emcee. Then performers will respectfully reflect what they heard, using movement, movement, music and song. In the second half of our time, we’ll invite volunteers to join us on stage. Our 15-member Boston-based company, True Story Theater, has been serving hospitals, universities, civic organizations, activist groups, businesses for 25 years.
Minishops
Hands-on, 20-minute skill bursts led by peers. Sample a new technique, tool, or practice in a low-pressure format designed for maximum inspiration and quick takeaways.
Mentor Meetings
Connect one-on-one with experienced artists, educators, and producers. Bring your questions, share your work, and leave with personalized insights to fuel your next project.
… and more to be added
We are still looking for additional round-table topics and activities. One of our primary goals is to feature a wide range of different types of interactive work.