LIVE DESIGN EXPERIMENT #4

Presenters: Brandon Crone, Daniel Thau-Eleff, Nicole Eun-Ju Bell, Ryan Webber

Host: T. Erin Gruber

*Please note that this presentation happened simultaneously in Zoom as well as in Discord as a text and image based experiment involving audience participation. The DIscord portion of the presentation is not available as part of this archive*

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About the Presenter

Brandon Crone (he/they) is a queer, multidisciplinary artist and administrator based in Tkaronto. They are the author of five plays (Turtleneck, Donors, Maypole Rose, Nature of the Beast, Contempt) and have participated in residencies and readings with Stratford Festival, National Arts Centre and Urban Stages (NYC). Most recently, they directed and dramaturged the Canadian and Australian premiere of For Both Resting and Breeding. Brandon works for the Playwrights Guild of Canada and is Artistic Director of the theatre collective safeword.

Daniel Thau-Eleff (he/him) is a Winnipeg-based playwright, performer, director, workshop leader and artistic producer of the Moving Target Theatre Company. He describes his plays as “personal-political” - they start with an issue, an idea, a big, haunting contradiction, and explore it through individual characters' struggles, mixing documentary and autobiographical elements into fiction. Daniel has performed his solo-shows across Canada, including at SummerWorks, Impact and Prismatic. He has also led over 30 community-based Theatre for Living workshops.

Nicole (she/her) is a Toronto based mixed-race multidisciplinary artist who is fascinated with cyborgs and Loïe Fuller. She is an actor, projection designer, technician, writer, and musician. More recently, she has branched out into producing podcasts and delving into the live-stream medium.

Ryan Webber (he/him) loves the intersection. Bringing light, sound and story together in unexpected ways. With more than 20 years of experience in interactive media and streaming technologies, he designs for both on-stage and off-stage, with a love for site-specific works. Building in the flexibility for improvisation is one of his favourite technical changes. Something he believes makes technology more transparent.