Mark Wagler is a game producer and project manager for the University of Wisconsin—Madison’s local games lab. He studied cultural and intellectual history, comparative literature, creative writing, and theatre at Universität Bern in Switzerland, the University of Chicago, Kent State University, and the University of Wisconsin. A fulltime storyteller, folklorist, and consultant from 1979 to 1987, he documented local culture in many communities, and performed narratives he collected from traditional storytellers. More recently Wagler has been a fourth and fifth grade teacher at Randall School in Madison, Wisconsin, where equity, inquiry, local study, and networking shaped his curriculum.