The Space Cadets
…are on a mission to chase you through enchanted portals and rocket you beyond the midnight-blue frontier, toward games, theater, prose, and music, conjured with wild pen-strokes and breathless movement—all to reveal the very real despair-defying magic of friendship, love, and ceaseless wonder.
Aaron Fischer
Co-Artistic Director
Aaron Fischer is a game designer, director, performer, writer, composer, and consultant whose work seeks to bring more wonder, collaboration, community, and play into the world.
He earned his master’s degree at the University of the Arts, where he investigated the intersections of game design, cinematic theater, and collaborative team dynamics. He previously taught theater performance, cross-media storytelling, creative collaboration, and team-based conflict resolution at the University of the Arts.
Past collaborations have taken place at institutions like LA’s Will Geer Theatre, New York’s Sinking Ship Productions, and Dublin's Beckett Theatre Lab.
When he isn’t creating his own work, Aaron consults on thought leadership, team dynamics, and creative ventures. Past clients have included Unity Games, Universal Studios, Microsoft, NASDAQ, Abbey Road Studios, and the US Olympics Committee.
Raphael Stigliano
Co-Artistic Director
Raphael Stigliano is a writer, director, and performer with a passion for the surreal, fantastical, spooky, absurd, and human.
He completed his B.F.A in Creative Writing at Brandeis University. Since then, he has been hard at work on Space Cadets ventures What Happened to Becky Acorn? and Murder Gently.
Outside of The Space Cadets, recent directing credits include That Sinking Feeling (2019), a sketch comedy take on history’s favorite shipwrecks, and Taleggio’s Last Unveiling (2022), a brand new musical.
His short fiction will appear next in the summer 2023 issue of Qu.
Captain's Logs
Rewind to a bygone stardate when The Space Cadets fought mind-controlling conspirators and time-travelling cultists.
Murder Gently
Gather your most murderable friends for a game of secrets, lies, and deadly ambitions. In Murder Gently, the butler didn't do it. You did.
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