A Christmas Carol VR
An annual live VR production of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, performed entirely in virtual space using real-time motion capture and streamed to audiences in-headset and online.
Initially conceived as a collaboration with Actors Theatre of Louisville, the production has evolved over multiple seasons to incorporate avatar switching, facial capture, gesture-based interaction, and fully diegetic stage management. The performance features two remote live actors portraying multiple characters over the course of a continuous 45-minute runtime.
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Official Selection, Raindance Immersive 2025
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Originally produced in association with Actors Theatre of Louisville
SIGGRAPH 2025
We will be presenting a paper at SIGGRAPH 2025:
“Seeing Yourself on Stage: Multi-Avatar Performance and the Evolution of Self-Monitoring in VR”
→ Link coming soon
Directed for VR by David Gochfeld
Originally Directed by Robert Barry Fleming
With: Ari Tarr as Dickens, Scrooge, and others & Debbie Deer as the Ghosts
Produced by Kevin Laibson and Alex Coulombe
Lead Developer: Yu-Jun Yeh
Stage Manager: Michael Morran
Cinematographer (Livestream): Jackie Roman
Developer Team: Yu-Jun Yeh, Dante Cameron, Marshall Nowak, Noah Bowers, Charles Alexander
Environmental Design: Dante Cameron
An Agile Lens Production
