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Stephen Alan Schrum (born June 24, 1957) is a theatre director and associate professor of Theater Arts at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.[1][2] [3]His most current research area being "“The Per­cep­tion of Pres­ence in Vir­tual Per­for­mance". [4] Schrum has created work on online based performance in virtual worlds, play writing and he has published a variety of books on theatre. Schrum currently teaches courses based on theatre and technology. Alongside lecturing over the past years Schrum has worked for Association for Theatre in Higher Education delivering conferences and workshops based on the topic Theatre and Technology.[5] Prior to this, Schrum attended the University of California. It was there that he received his PhD in Dramatic Art.[6] Alongside his PhD Schrum also has a MA in Theatre from Ohio University (1983) and a BA in Theatre from Temple University (1981).

Awards

2001-2005: Academic Advisor of the Year, University of Charleston.

1983: Calendar Magazine's "Best Theatrical Production" award for The Importance of Being Earnest, York, PA

Online performance

Schrum uses online virtual performance platforms to create performances one being ATHEMOO that "served as a virtual theatre for a fairly large number of online performances".[7] It allowed a new platform for performances to be based rather than in the conventional setting of a theatre space. Schrum created a performance in 1996 called Net Seducation this was one performance that was staged in ATHEMOO, the performance "is set in a internet chat room and meeting place, with a bar, dance floor, and people to meet".[1] Schrum talked about this performance at a recent online cyposium,[8] and this allowed for "cyberformers to discuss their online performances with other artists, researchers and interested participants"[9] speaking about this performance created in 1996 in relation to todays vast amount technology and new performance platforms that have been created to allow artists to further develop cyberformance's, that are no longer text based, but allow for the creation of avatars.

A new performance that Schrum is working on as of October 2012 is a performance in Second Life in which Schrum aims to "model Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty"[6] through the exploration of technology and performance.

Publications

The details of Stephen A. Schrum's publications have been taken from either cyposium.net or musofyr Schrum Biography retrieved 26/10/2012

  • Schrum, A Stephen. Theatre in Cyberspace: Issues of Teaching, Acting and Directing. Editor 2000 - One of his most widely held books held by 238 libraries worldwide. [10]
  • Schrum, A Stephen. The­atre in Sec­ond Life® Holds the VR Mir­ror Up To Nature, in Hand­book of Research on Com­pu­ta­tional Arts and Cre­ative Infor­mat­ics. 2009
  • Schrum, A Stephen. Teach­ing in the Vir­tual The­atre Class­room in Teach­ing Through Multi-User Envi­ron­ments. 2010

COLLAB-L

COLLAB-L is a listserv that Stephen A. Schrum is the owner of, it has purposely been built to help bring theatre artists together and help form collaborations with each other. [11] Also was created "in order to facilitate the creation of new texts and performance works directly through internet contact". [12]

Musofyr

Cymposium

University of Pittsburgh: Stephen A. Schrum

World Cat

References

  1. ^ a b Danet, Brenda (2001) Cyberpl@y: Communicating Online, page 151, Berg ISBN 1-85973-424-3 (paper)
  2. ^ "Stephen A. Schrum, PhD". Faculty. University of Pittsburgh, Greenburg. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  3. ^ "World Cat, Schrum Birth". {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |access= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ "CyPosium". CyPosium. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  5. ^ Schrum, A Stephen Theatre in Cyberspace: Issues of teaching, Acting and Directing pg 293 1999 Peter Lang Publishing
  6. ^ a b "Biography". Musofyr.com. 2010-05-22. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  7. ^ Sant, Toni International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Volume 4 Number 1 A Second Life for online performance:Understanding present developments through an historical context. Pg 74 Retrieved on 23-10-2012
  8. ^ "CyPosium". CyPosium. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  9. ^ [1][dead link‍]
  10. ^ "World Cat". Retrieved 28/10/2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  11. ^ Schrum, Stephen A Theatre in Cyberspace: Issues of Teaching, Acting and Directing, page 293, ISBN 0-8204-4140-6 (paper)
  12. ^ Template:Url=https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/jdtc/article/viewFile/1923/1886

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