The Red Thread Bulletin is the story website associated with The Institute, a 2 year long project by University Theatre (UT) at NC State University.

This project started in Fall 2020, by Jayme Mellema and Michael White, as a way of engaging students in different ways while remote during the Covid-19 pandemic year. This is an original story developed by students and staff members of UT over the course of the 2020-2021 academic year. Scripts were written starting in Summer 2021, the first flyers and signups went out to the NC State Community October 22, 2021, and the first experience started November 4, 2021.

Over the course of the end of the fall 2021 semester and the entire spring 2022 semester; student, staff, and faculty participated in 11 different unique experiences that culminated into this grand story.

From this point on, this website is told from the perspective of Goodspeed, one of the leaders of The Cadre, the counter movement to The Institute...