The Team
FOUNDING ADVISORY BOARD
Actor & Scrappy Storyteller
Brendan has spent two decades obsessed with microbudget storytelling using new tools to reach new audiences. He founded The Integrative Technology Lab at New York University and has produced and performed in almost every medium and format of narrative storytelling.
@brendanAbradley
Creative Director & Co-Founder – Agile Lens
Architect turned XR-chitect, Alex and his studio builds real and virtual worlds as well as the spectacles within them.
@ibrews
Creative Director + Choreographer
Brandon moves people through space - creating seamless visceral experiences across physical and virtual worlds focused on embodiment.
@bpowtweets
Creative Technologist & Author
A former Disney Imagineer and Refinery29/Vice Media Experiential Creative Director, Stephanie has been bridging narrative and immersive technology for over two decades through ground-breaking projects across theatre, film, experiential and XR. She is the author of “The End of Storytelling.”
@immersiveriggs
Media Innovator
Emerging Tech | Digital Transformation
Adaora is an award-winning storyteller and executive with an expertise in emerging technology and media; she helps corporations build products, creatives understand how this new tech works and produces media across platforms: digital, video, film, radio, podcasts, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Currently, she is the Director of Corporate Innovation at New York City’s RLab.
@AdaoraUdoji
Samantha G. Wolfe
Founder PitchFWD
Samantha is the Founder of PitchFWD, an emerging tech strategic consultancy, and is an Adjunct Professor teaching "The Business of VR and AR" at NYU Steinhardt.
@samanthagwolfe
Kyle Wright
Digital Projects Director – Shubert Organization
Kyle works at the intersection of people, process, and technology to make Broadway the best it can be – from audience development to content distribution, he is passionate about building inclusive, relevant and delightful experiences for ALL.
David Rodriquez, honorary
2020 INAUGURAL MENTORS
CEO of Hexagram, Rob has worked as an experience designer for Disney, as a lead writer on major franchise games such as Gears of War and Battlefield, and formerly led game production for Fox supervising titles like James Cameron’s Avatar and the Aliens franchise.
Twitter: @RobAuten
Kiira Benzing is a multi-dimensional director crossing the mediums of theatre, hybrid cinema and virtual reality whose latest VR Theatre production Finding Pandora X featured Broadway actors and won Best VR Immersive User Experience at the Venice Film Festival 2020.
Twitter: @DoubleEyePro
Matt Britten is an entertainment entrepreneur, writer, and producer, who has been named to Variety's "Broadway Impact Report" influence list. He is CEO of Broadway Brands which publishes Broadway Briefing, Broadway News, and produces the Drama Desk Awards.
Twitter/IG: @MattBritten
Futurist, speaker, and author Cathy Hackl is a globally recognized augmented reality, virtual reality and spatial computing thought leader.
Twitter/Instagram: @cathyhackl
As co-founder of IT Mentors and of Apples and Oranges Studios/Arts Tim creates work environments where people with diverse artistic and technical skills unite to create innovative and entertaining products in business and the arts.
Twitter: @TimKashani
Henry Keyser is the lead XR journalist for Yahoo News and Senior XR Project Manager for Verizon Media.
Twitter: @hwkeyser
David has been leading creative teams across film, games and XR for over 10 years — he's excited by how meaningful connections beyond, around, and within the proscenium and screen are starting to play an increasing role across interactive entertainment.
Twitter: @thedak
Recently profiled as “Variety’s 2020 Top 10 Broadway to Watch”, Brian Moreland is a Two-time Tony Award Nominated creative lead producer for Broadway and beyond with a passion for universal stories that bring new narratives into the mainstream form of entertainment.
Twitter: @bmorenow2
Instagram: @therealbrianmoreland
Eva Price is an NYCLU/ACLU honoree for her commitment to works spearheaded by female creatives and people of color, and a Crain’s 2020 Notable LGBTQ Leaders and Executives Honoree. She is a three-time Tony Award-winning producer, with over 18 Broadway credits, including Jagged Little Pill (15 Tony nominations) and 2019’s Oklahoma!, winner of the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.
Twitter:@evaprice
Joanna Popper is a Hollywood and Silicon Valley media executive. She leads HP’s initiatives for Go-To-Market and Location Based Entertainment for Virtual Reality.
Twitter/Instagram: @JoannaPopper
Michaela Ternasky-Holland is an Emmy, Webby, and Sheffield Doc/Fest award-winning documentarian, who combines experimental content with traditional mediums and whose work has been featured by TIME, Forbes, The Guardian, Cannes Film Festival, New York Public Library, Tribeca Film Festival etc.
Twitter: @ImMichaelaTH
Broadway Director passionate about new and innovative storytelling.
Twitter/Instagram: @ScheleWilliams