About

Theresa Loong is a director and producer who tells stories through film, games and interactive experiences using traditional methods and augmented, virtual and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR). She is currently directing Game On, profiling a video and board game designer. Theresa’s documentary, “Every Day Is a Holiday,” premiered on public television, showed at the Asia Society Hong Kong and the National Gallery of Art, and played at the Montclair and Black Maria Film Festivals.

Theresa produced ten games, including interactive games for AMC’s The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad. She co-created Feed Me a Story (sharing family memories and recipes) and is directing Bought/Broken (interactive work in VR highlighting intimate partner violence). Theresa received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She was an artist-in-residence at the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island National Monuments, a Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow, and exhibited work at the Brooklyn Museum, Triennale di Milano, Círculo de Bellas Artes and on Governors Island. Theresa mentored teams at POV Interactive and is a producer of Farmers for America, which debuted on public television.  She is chairperson of the non-profit film collective, the Filmshop (NY/New Orleans/LA) and is a trustee of the Thomas Edison Media Arts Consortium. A graduate of Harvard University with an MFA from Hunter College, Theresa teaches part-time at Parsons.

In the experience design realm, Theresa has worked with museums, companies and artists such as Kaki King, Jonah Bokaer, the New York Hall of Science, the Tech Museum of Innovation and Smithsonian Channel to create interactive experiences for children and adults.