Ari Tarr, Active Replica, Adventure Lab, Heavenue, FlipsideXR, NYU, York University, University of Leeds

Ari Tarr is an immersive actor/director/designer trained in physical theater, french mime and mask, puppetry, and multimedia theater, and toured as an actor/director/host regionally and off broadway. He has worked as an immersive designer and performer for brands including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Disney. In 2015 Ari co-founded a startup creating tools for live XR production. He continued as an XR content producer for several media studios with clients including High Fidelity, Bjork and Coldplay, and also created MedTech VR for live therapy. Ari is currently the VR acting consultant and lead host for the multi-award-winning Adventure Lab and the WebXR event company Active Replica. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes and Vice. He has taught XR theater at NYU and will be teaching at both York and Leeds University next year.