Space Opera is an innovative and radical combination of tabletop roleplaying games, democratic organizing practice, and theatrical spectacle, testing your very ability to work together in order to thwart existential consequences. Planets revolt, wonders appear, governments crumble, and you roll the dice. The fate of the universe hangs in the balance!
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June 14th, 21st, and 28th of 2025 pull up a seat and see how, in adrienne marie brown's words, "science fiction is simply a way to practice the future together." Click below for important ticket info and we'll see you in orbit!
2025 Production Credits
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Director - Cat Ramirez
Stage Manager- Kel Fleming
Game Designers- John Bezark, Ari Gass, Daniel Park, Dain Saint
Performer/Facilitators- Joseph Ahmed, Matthew Armstead, KC Legacion, Sulu LeoNimm, Anthony Martinez-Briggs, Jackie Soro, Sam Rise
Production Designers- doug greene, Harbour Edney, Evelyn Langley, Taj Rauch, Dain Saint
Hospitality and Care Coordinators- Karen Orrick, Vanessa Ogbuehi, Uriah Bussey
Community Partnerships Manager- Marisol Rosa-Shapiro
Circles Administrator- Evelyn Langley
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2025 Production Info
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Space Opera will take place over three 7 hour play sessions from 12-7pm on June 14, 21, and 28, 2025.
LOCATION:
Arch Street Meeting House
302 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
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Premiere Ticket Information
Space Opera is one cohesive story that unfolds over three days of play. Each day moveds through three main phases - Societal, Galactic, and Individual.
Experience several types of play as the story zooms in and out!
Societal
Sitting at a round table with other players, take on the role of one Community within a larger Society. Argue for your community's desires and shape the Action your society will take that Round.
Galactic
An Emmisary from each society steps up to the Galactic Dais and rolls dice to find out the success or failure of their Society's Action, respond to sudden crises, and argue for their people.
Individual
Players move around the room, exploring and writing the story of an individual person affected by the galactic events, then draw a powerful Willpower card that can help them shape the events of the other phases by creating new resources, traveling to other planets, and more.
Collaborate, resist, betray, liberate, and survive alongside multiple player Societies as you tell a story that is truly galactic in scale.
A World Built by Your Choices
You lead...
...we follow
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Take planetary-scale actions that reshape the course of history
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Follow your community through danger, survival, and reinvention
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Create the people and cultures of an entire solar system​
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Experience unique group gameplay where every vote might mean the difference between life or death
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Choose how to play - collaborate towards a bright future, undermine your neighbors, or set out alone.
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Watch professional performers and designers bring your stories to life
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Rock out to a daily funk band "recap of the story so far".​
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Experience how each session's story and design builds on the last, with original costumes, sets, and performances inspired by your gameplay.
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Immerse yourself in a historic Quaker meeting hall transformed into a universe far, far away​
Do any of these apply to you? Then you might just be a Space Opera player.
You're figuring how we can work together to change the world
You love immersive, interactive theatrical worlds
You want to tell an epic story (but man scheduling a D&D group is hard)
You love the Parable of the Sower, The Dispossesed, sci-fi stories that hit hard
You're excited by original, innovative tabletop roleplaying systems
You're excited to play with a full room of people (future friends???)
Hospitality and Care Circle
Mechanics Circle
Executive Circle
Theatrical
Circle
Obvious
Agency
Space Opera is an experiment in democratic production management. In our “Circles Model”, artistic and producorial staff work with each other in a non-hierarchical system inspired by “holacracy,” a decentralized organizational structure that gives everyone involved in the production, including performers, a direct say in the high-level decisions of the piece, all the way up to budget allocation and hiring decisions.
Lead support provided by the William Penn Foundation.
Space Opera is made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Theater Project, with lead funding from the Mellon Foundation and additional funding from the Doris Duke Foundation.