OUR TOWN 360°

March 9–11, 2017

The Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center

Studio 1—Goodman

Our Town: a New Media Theatrical Experience presents a new media re-imagining of Thornton Wilder's American theater classic. Using new technologies, this production incorporated a responsive gesture-based interactive system for actors to control commissioned artworks projected on a large-scale 360-degree immersive screen environment, and a new directional audio score.

filed under: lighting design

360° projection screens reflect an incredible amount of light, posing a major challenge to lighting designers—broad swathes of color, attention to color temperature, and lighting of the room's architecture balanced out the pull of the screen.

Direction: Rebecca Rouse
Producer: Nick Karalexis
Interactive designer: Marc Destefano
Visual artist: Clare Johnson
Scenic design: Erin Napier
Lighting design: Alex Zylka
Costume design: Micaila Dean
Hair & makeup: Jenna Schulman
Composer: Brendan Padgett
Sound design: Mark Florkowski & Jeffery Schwartz
Choreography: Jack Magai