History

Judith Adele (Ada Radius in virtual worlds) and Iain McCracken (Sodovan Torok in Second Life) founded Avatar Repertory Theater in 2008, along with original members Kevin Lee (Kayden Oconnell), Jack Turner (dec) (Dolgoruky Umarov), Michelle Fowler (Mickie Nikolaidis), Tom Sullivan (Em Jannings), Bob Shurley (Thundergas Menges) and Rowan Shamroy, with the aim of creating a small, tightly knit group of players with a broad range of technical, artistic and organizational skills. Our debut production of “Tales from the Metaverse” was performed for Halloween 2008, and the company has explored live voice/real-time virtual performance since, through a variety of projects, small and large. The company has performed in Second Life®, OpenSim worlds accessible on the Hypergrid and in podcasts and machinima videos. Our current project is to read all of the works of William Shakespeare, from the original publications, starting with the First Folio, in the approximate order they were first played in London.

A.R.T. comprises a gifted company of actors, writers, graphic artists, programmers, musicians, sound engineers and production administrators. We are currently performing in opensim virtual reality platforms.