Alma Mater
Run 3: 26th-29th March 2026
About Us
Design Philosophy
Alma Mater is a collaborative experience. The Team may write and design the larp, but it does not reach its final form and content until the participants have interpreted their characters and played the larp
Our Team are all feminist, socially liberal and left-leaning. The themes of our writing are inevitably influenced by that world view. Our feminism is not incompatible with the historical themes of sexism in the larps we write. The stories of historical women are all the more compelling when they are told in the context of the marginalisation which they experienced. We have found that ‘gender neutral’ settings often end up defaulting to telling male stories.
We want every participant at our event to take something useful from it, and we want the same thing! In fact we think it is the duty of everyone at a larp to try to both have fun and make sure the people around them have fun. We take the view that if every participant in a larp comes to it with that attitude, everyone benefits.
We are not profit making. We are volunteers helping people tell stories. We look forward to larping with you.
Meet The Team
Lizy
she/her
Lizy is the Creator of Alma Mater, having fallen in love with medieval monasticism, and larp - separately - at university 18 years ago. She considers herself catholic and atheist. She loves historical larps and has recently enjoyed playing (and being inspired by) Meeting of Monarchs (Charmed Plume), Goetia (OmenStar), Three Kingdoms (Jake Cyriax), and Heathen (Carver/Benyon). Her most recent organisation work was co-authoring Anarchy LRP.
In her spare time she’s a doctor.
Julian
he/him
Julian is a writer for Alma Mater. As the Token Man, he will be playing the King’s Commissioner, as well as other characters. After a history degree he now practices law, but still gets his buzz out of medieval history. He was the creator of Anarchy LRP. He's been larping for more than 20 years; and his favourites have been Odyssey (Profound Decisions), Outlaw (EyeLARP), The Quota (Avalon) and Strange (Laverty/Hall/Blackshaw).
Julian and Lizy have been married for 3 years. When he’s not working or larping, he enjoys being a Dad to their two kids.
Jessica
she/her
Jess is in charge of event management and participant wellbeing. She will be your first port of call if you need help or if something has gone wrong. She has trained as a teacher and been organising larps since 2006.
Jess and Lizy have been married for 13 years.