B R E N D A N B R A D L E Y @ A W E
Brendan Andolsek Bradley is a multi-award winning actor and creator, known internationally as "America's Scrappy Storyteller" (AR Post) with 100+ film, television, and video game credits, and 50M+ online views. He established The Integrative Technology Lab at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and co-founded The 5th Wall Forum and #OnBoardXR, a seasonal sandbox supporting over 35 immersive, live performances within a web browser. He is currently recognized for his work in hybrid virtual reality performance, touring live storytelling experiences all over the world to festivals, theaters, cinemas and IMAX venues; including lead roles in Non-Player Character, Welcome To Respite, Gumball Dreams and Jettison, for which he was a Finalist for The Producer Guild of America’s Innovation Award. [ CV | Wikipedia | IMDb | LinkedIN ]
Live Musical Theatre Tour
NON-PLAYER CHARACTER
AN ORIGINAL MUSICAL FOR YOUR WEB BROWSER, HEADSET, THEATRE OR IMAX CINEPLEX
When a video game hero dies, the audience must guide a non-player character (performed by a live, singing actor) through five virtual worlds of grief, either as “Participants” in VR headset on stage or “Spectators” watching on the big screen. Brendan Bradley has toured this live, interactive musical from his living room to St. Louis, Boston, London and beyond, inviting theater and gaming fans to control the adventure.
This scalable solution allows remote workshopping of new technical and story elements that integrate into any venue’s existing infrastructure for projecting cinematic content and invites audiences to engage and interact at their preferred level of participation and immersion. The browser-based environments, music and secondary livestreams also allow the project to capture audiences and revenues beyond niche of early adopters of VR/XR hardware.
A Free Theater in your Browser
THE FUTURE STAGES
A 3D PLAYHOUSE RELEASED DURING THE PANDEMIC FOR ANY ARTIST / INSTITUTION TO GET BACK “ON STAGE”
Since 2017, Brendan worked with Unity3D for interactive and animation pipelines to compliment digital and cinematic storytelling experiences. During the shutdown, he responded to the “Zoom Theatre” trend by designing and releasing a free virtual venue with click-to-customize branding and interior layouts. The Future Stages provide a cloud-based, device-agnostic solution for hundreds of creators and institutions to host live events where performers and audiences were embodied as avatars with permissions for microphone, video, and chat.
The Future Stages revealed live storytelling as a perfect use case for the early tools and community of the metaverse given the existing rituals of onboarding attendees into a shared space and content experience.
The Trifecta of 21st Century Entertainment
THEATER AS THE “KILLER APP”
The blend of accessible, interactive, appointment-driven experiences to scout new talent and crowdsource attention for original storytelling.
XR Venues
THE STAGES OF THE METAVERSE
Reality can “extend” in a variety of modalities and platforms, however to honor Tony Parisi’s 7 Rules of the Metaverse, the immersive web provides the only current framework as a singular, global, open-source, hardware-independent online community. Currently Google, Microsoft, PICO and Firefox offer an immersive mode on their web browsers with rumors of Apple’s WebXR integration releasing this year.
OnBoarding New Artists & Audiences
ONBOARDXR THINK-TANK & SEASONAL SANDBOX
Shortly after the release of The Future Stages, the one-act play, Jettison, was presented with three actors from three different cities performing in real-time on the same stage in web-based virtual reality. OnBoardXR soon became a celebrated community of open-source standards and knowledge-sharing for WebXR performance, hosting a seasonal sandbox inviting anyone in the world to build their first virtual reality prototype, presented in single evening showcase and open to the general public. Pay What You Want Tickets directly fund the participating artists and previous prototypes have been used to secure grants, funding, production, partnership and employment for past participants.
OnBoardXR has presented over 35 world premieres across 6 seasons, with partnerships and awards from FIVARS, The WebXR Poly Awards, AWE’s Auggie Awards, XR Must, Mozilla Festival, ACM-SIGGRAPH, The Producer Guild of America’s Innovation Award, PXR, QLDXR Festival, Open Online Theatre Festival, NYVR, and No Proscenium’s Here Festival.
