We are a team of Entertainment Technology students with backgrounds in digital media, computer science, software engineering and computer graphics art. In our semester-long project, we explored the issue of giving guests meaningful agency in live theatre with technology through creation of prototypes and development of an analytical tool. We worked closely throughout the project with our instructors, and with our project partners Sam Turich and Gab Cody from Long Bodied Mouse Productions, who provided an opportunity to share their experiences in immersive theatre. Our project was focused on improving our understanding of the issue, so we did not create a theatrical production. In this article, we focus on our discoveries while discussing and learning about what constitutes meaningful agency for our project. We propose that our diverse backgrounds help add a new point of view to the conversation around agency in theatre.
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