Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
Welcome to Being Immersed, a monthly live Q&A series hosted by Erin Reilly, Founding Director of the Texas Immersive Institute. This series features boundary-pushing voices in immersive media who are reshaping the future of storytelling, design, and innovation.
🌌 In this episode, we’re joined by Elizabeth Jarrett, an award-winning Experience Designer and Creative Director known for crafting richly layered, emotionally resonant environments. Elizabeth’s work spans immersive theater, interactive media, and spatial design — blending narrative and space in ways that move and transform audiences.
She was the Scenic Designer behind the TEA-Award winning experience The Nest and Just Fix It's haunting production of Creep (Hollow House). Her creative expertise has touched global brands like Netflix, Prime Video, and Redbull, and she currently serves as the Experience Design Creative Director for Meow Wolf’s highly anticipated Los Angeles exhibition.
✨ Tune in as we explore how environments can become storytellers, how immersive spaces shape emotion and meaning, and what it means to design for memory and impact.
TIMESTAMPS
02:00 Introductions
03:34 Imagination as Emotional Architecture
19:48 Imagination for Social Design
38:47 Let's Discuss
39:30 Imagination Across Platforms
48:00 Imagination in Collaborative Worlds
01:08:28 Q&A
01:13:34 Thank you!
💛 Help support future immersive work: https://give.utexas.edu/?menu=OGPTII
#BeingImmersed #ElizabethJarrett #ExperienceDesign #ImmersiveTheater #TXI #EnvironmentalStorytelling #CreativeDirection #MeowWolf #TexasImmersive
Welcome to Being Immersed, a monthly live Q&A series hosted by Erin Reilly, Founding Director of the Texas Immersive Institute. This series features boundary-pushing voices in immersive media who are reshaping the future of storytelling, design, and innovation.
🌌 In this episode, we’re joined by Elizabeth Jarrett, an award-winning Experience Designer and Creative Director known for crafting richly layered, emotionally resonant environments. Elizabeth’s work spans immersive theater, interactive media, and spatial design — blending narrative and space in ways that move and transform audiences.
She was the Scenic Designer behind the TEA-Award winning experience The Nest and Just Fix It's haunting production of Creep (Hollow House). Her creative expertise has touched global brands like Netflix, Prime Video, and Redbull, and she currently serves as the Experience Design Creative Director for Meow Wolf’s highly anticipated Los Angeles exhibition.
✨ Tune in as we explore how environments can become storytellers, how immersive spaces shape emotion and meaning, and what it means to design for memory and impact.
TIMESTAMPS
02:00 Introductions
03:34 Imagination as Emotional Architecture
19:48 Imagination for Social Design
38:47 Let's Discuss
39:30 Imagination Across Platforms
48:00 Imagination in Collaborative Worlds
01:08:28 Q&A
01:13:34 Thank you!
💛 Help support future immersive work: https://give.utexas.edu/?menu=OGPTII
#BeingImmersed #ElizabethJarrett #ExperienceDesign #ImmersiveTheater #TXI #EnvironmentalStorytelling #CreativeDirection #MeowWolf #TexasImmersive
