Stephanie Riggs works at the intersection of storytelling and emerging technology, developing projects across theatre, themed entertainment, film, immersive media, and experiential environments for more than twenty-five years.

She began her career as a Disney Imagineer and later served as Experiential Creative Director for Refinery29/Vice Media. Her work has included augmented and virtual reality experiences, immersive installations, and spatial narrative environments developed with creative studios, technology labs, and research institutions. Her projects and research collaborations have involved organizations such as Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, NYU’s Future Reality Lab, and Yale, where she co-founded the Blended Reality Lab.

Riggs speaks internationally at conferences and industry gatherings including SXSW, SIGGRAPH, IEEE, AWE and Frankfurter Buchmesse, and regularly guest lectures at institutions such as Harvard, Yale, USC, Carnegie Mellon, and NYU.

She is the author of The End of Storytelling: The Future of Narrative in the Storyplex, which reached #1 on Amazon’s Virtual Reality category and is listed among the Best Mixed Reality Books of All Time and the 100 Best Selling Augmented Reality Books of All Time by BookAuthority. Her latest book, Quantum Narratives, continues her exploration of narrative and experience in emerging media.

Riggs studied directing at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama while simultaneously earning a degree in Human–Computer Interaction from the School of Computer Science. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and an Andrew Carnegie Society Scholar.