I'm currently doing a study that's very broad and therefore complicated to explain.
I'm studying to be an Interactive Performance Designer (IPD). We are part of a theatre faculty. But, when you go to the theatre, you sit down and receive info - the play - and that's all. You may internally reflect on it but other than that, audiences are only on the receiving side and it's a very linear communication.
IPD brings interactivity and audience participation to 'the stage'. And we do that in all kinds of forms; interactive plays, interactive experiences, art installations on festivals, real-life gaming events (like escape rooms) and transmedial storytelling (for example Alternate Reality Games). We both conceptualize and produce, so we get all the tools we need ranging from dramaturgy to 3D-modelling and scripting.
So there's loads of roads I can take with this study. The one I am on right now though, is horror events, as I'm sure hasn't escaped many of you. I'm quite literally on it right now, as I was just writing a research document with moodboards for our next edition. Through internship with the director and good friend, I'm now officially part of production team after I've acted there for 2 years and was a team supervisor the past year. This year, I'll be assisting the director creatively, coming up with theme ideas, storylines, costume and make-up design and during the event itself I will be standing next to him guiding and directing the actors.
I don't know what I like better - conceptualizing or producing. But with the abovementioned, I get to do both. I get to work on all kinds of different levels and subjects. It's varied. There's a large portion of it being me hauled up in my room scanning hundreds of pages and images and ideas, and there's a large portion where I'll be working with the people; judging auditions, training during try-outs, directing and evaluating during and after the event.
It's not making me money - yet - but I love doing it and I do see a profitable future in it with the rapid rise of Halloween popularity I'm witnessing all over Europe right now. (Don't forget that just 10 years ago Halloween was really an American-only sort of thing with some exceptions in Europe).