Avatar Repertory Theater teaches Shakespeare
Our latest project: Open readings of Shakespeare’s plays from transcriptions of the First Folio and Quartos. No auditions, no commitments, anyone can read. We meet every Friday 5PM in Kitely. Come for the theater, stay for the community!
History of the company
– Theater tech
– GitHub link, Discord link, avatarrepertorytheater.org link in Chat
– Workshop format, no auditions, people can come read regularly, or drop in now and then.
– The plays we’ve done so far: Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, Romeo & Juliet, Henry VI part 1
– Casting issues
– Why the First Folio and original quartos, transcription issues
– Why doing them in the original performance order matters
– Directing, coaching. Teaching acting and virtual world theater
– Collaboration with Kitely Events Center
– Development, with Kimm Starr, of a virtual world theater compatible replica of the Globe stage
Speakers
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Judith Adele / Ada Radius (Poster Booth #5)Crayons and Silly Putty!
Metaverse traveler since 2006.
Avatar design and costumes.
Co-founder of Avatar Repertory Theater 2007-present
Co-founder: Arcadia Asylum Archive: https://arcadiaasylum.org/ Recovery and restoration of the works of Arcadia Asylum and her alts, in OpenSim. A work in progress.
Developer of Max, a new free mesh body. 2023-present
Co-developer of Ruth and Roth, free mesh bodies. 2017-2023.
Co-founder of AnonLiterary Magazine 2007-2008
Founder and Treasurer of New Media Arts Inc, a nonprofit foundation tax exempt under IRC (501(c)(3) 2010-present.
CPA, retiredRuthAndRoth
Organization Members:
Ada Radius (3D CGI artist, avatar design & rigging);
Ai Austin (professor emeritus The University of Edinburgh, software engineer, tester);
Serie Sumei (resource management, scripter, graphics).https://discord.gg/cwZCShN2Z3
https://github.com/NewMediaArts-CTO/Avatar-Repertory-Theater
https://www.pinterest.com/adaradius/
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Iain McCracken / Sodovan Torok (Poster Booth #6)Iain is the co-founder of Avatar Repertory Theater, and has worked on theater tech in Second Life and Opensim for many years. Currently he is working on finishing the WebRTC voice implementation for Opensim. In RL, he is a software and firmware developer in several languages.
