How do we create theater when we have to remain apart? How does live performance change when put into digital spaces? How do our online identities translate into personifications? The NJIT/Rutgers-Newark Theatre Arts and Technology Program sought to answer those questions with their production of EVERY_01: A Morality Play. Based on the medieval morality play Everyman, this production used digital meeting platforms like Zoom and mixed them with digital animation, a Microsoft Kinect Azure, and digital filming to bring the material into a Covid-19 world in which death surrounds us. See the full production here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVUzq-TrCjo
Louis Wells is a senior lecturer at NJIT and the artistic coordinator of the joint theatre arts and technology program with Rutgers-Newark. Louis has an MFA in directing from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. His artistic interests include interactive technology, improvisation, and digital animation.
