"Guess the Candidate"
Arts Politics student Andrea Ambam is an actor in a new online game which just had its first live iteration in NYC.
Guess the Candidate is a new game created by the Verbatim Performance Lab in NYU Steinhardt, made in conjunction with NYU-TV. The game presents users with eight videos featuring actors trained in verbatim performance who play current candidates Andrew Yang, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, and Pete Buttigieg, as well as former candidates Cory Booker and Kamala Harris.The actors deliver a one-minute policy statement on education pulled from the real candidates while referencing their speech and gestural patterns. Users are asked to guess which candidate each actor portrays, and then choose how they made their decision. The big question is: Can you guess a Democratic presidential hopeful when their message is separated from their identity?