What is FrontRowVIP?
The innovation that Front Row VIP provides is to offer a live theatre experience from home, transforming the traditional passive user experience of TV, computers and movies into a live interactive real-time experience.
How does Front Row VIP (Virtually in Person) theatre achieve this? Using current web conferencing technology like zoom, skype or google meet, we transform a live audience into a virtual one. The FrontRowVIP (FRVIP) experience affords the patron the choice between two viewing options: VIP and Group. The VIP option is for a single person audience experience; these are the FrontRow seats. The FRVIP experience gives VIP audience members a dedicated 32 inch human scale screen which will allow a one-on-one interactive relationship with the performer.
The Group option consists of a large 110-inch screen, and larger screens that will capture the images of audience patrons of up to 300 people. The Group screen is comparable to a giant computer screen yielding a movie-like experience.
The FRVIP stage resembles a television studio in which a live show is being performed for a live audience except we are replacing that live audience with a virtual one. The audience is connected to the performance remotely.
The objective of VIP screens is to expand and enhance the current modality of a single-user interactive zoom meeting. Imagine you are on stage performing on zoom and you want to feel the presence of the audience. On your computer screen, you would see rows of heads in a grid too small to allow you to read their reactions. Now, imagine, that grid of audience viewers exploded into 3-D space that contains each audience member separately within a human scale screen.
Who will benefit from FRVIP Theatre?
– Persons with ambulatory and other health conditions, who have difficulties leaving their home or care facility.
– Persons with vision deficits such as: the elderly, Covid-affected vision, or diabetes impairment such as, distance or clarity
– People recovering from a flu or Covid may be well enough to watch a program but too weak to go out in public.
– People suffering physical injuries such as from a car accident or military-related injuries
– People feeling unsafe returning to public venues
THE TEAM
VINCENT MARCUS
FOUNDING PRODUCING DIRECTOR / CREATOR QUAZI THEATRE
Vincent attended the BFA program at the University of New Mexico. He is also a Graduate of the Dell Arte' International School of Physical Theatre, Blue Lake, California. Vincent studied Clown Through Mask Technique with Sue Morrison at the Theatre Resource Center, Toronto, Canada. He continued Theatre Studies at the Oxford School of Drama, Oxford, UK, and a year of Theatre Studies at Hull University, Hull, Yorkshire, UK. Vincent's primary focus has been working on the stage in principal roles such as: Edgar in King Lear, Dromio of Syracuse in Comedy of Errors, Pompey in Measure for Measure and Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream. He played multiple roles: Homer/ Side Show Bob/ Mo and Matt In the award winning Mr. Burns. His film credits include lead roles in: Plugged - winner Flicks on 66 and Audience Favorite Award; Wild Fire/ ABC; Drive By/ Digi-fest South West; The Longest Yard/ Paramount and Sony; and Arrest and Trial/ NBC Studios. His technical theatre experience includes work with Rhodey Theatre, Musical Theatre South West (formerly Albuquerque Civic Light Opera), Aux Dog Theatre, and Vortex Theatre. Awards: Actor Best Picture, Plugged, Flicks on 66. Producer Babof - triple award winner including Best Picture, Digifest South West.
VICTORIA J. LIBERATORI
ASSCOCIATE PRODUCER/MARKETING DIRECTOR
Victoria J. Liberatori founded the Princeton Repertory Company/Princeton Rep Shakespeare Festival (a professional Actors’ Equity theatre company in Princeton, NJ) and served as its Artistic Director for 25 years. In Princeton and New York, she worked in the industrial/corporate multi-media production field as Director of Staging, designing film sets, casting actors, and programming multi-image visual shows and presentations. She studied theatrical directing at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, NYC; Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC; the New School for Social Research, NYC, and is a graduate of Rutgers University with a major in English and a minor in Film. Directing credits include: Blood and Water, Mr. Burns; Boeing, Boeing; Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!; The Young Lady from Tacna; The Graduate; Savage in Limbo; Goblin Market; Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet); Recent Tragic Events; Vincent in Brixton; The Way We Get By; The Last Five Years, Farther West, and Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming Of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, and Measure for Measure, among many others. In NYC, she directed staged readings at the Women’s Project and the Cherry Lane Theatre, and full productions of new plays at Dixon Place and the Judith Anderson Theatre. Ms. Liberatori was a script reader for Broadway producers Anita Waxman and Elizabeth Williams, both multiple Drama Desk and Tony Award winners. She assumed the Producing Artistic Directorship of the Aux Dog Theatre for fourteen years. During that time, she transformed the Aux Dog into one of the top 5 theatres in Albuquerque, NM. Reviewers' Quotes:"A setting such as the Pettornello Gardens Amphitheatre, is the next-best thing to the Globe theatre." Bill Zapcic, Home news Tribune, New Brunswick, New Jersey
RUSSELL MAYNOR
VIDEOGRAPHER / PHOTOGRAPHER
Russell has worked in all aspects of the entertainment industry from New York, (photographing celebrities such as Robert Duvall, Judy Collins and Cicely Tyson), to New Mexico but he is especially known for his photographic work in the theater and film communities. You can see his work at RussellMaynor.com
Andy Lindercamp
Company Master Carpenter
We want to thank Andy for his problem-solving genius and brilliant hands. We are so fortunate to have him on the team and for his faith in FrontRowVIP and his generous support.
RONALDO BACA
SOUND ENGINEER
Ronaldo has been studying, composing, teaching, and performing music for 40+ years. For over a year, he studied and lived in Jerez de la Frontera, Andalucia, Spain, with a Moorish echo in the background, amongst the true Flamencos of the present day. He was reared amidst a family devoted to Flamenco, and his familiarity with its form and its culture is reflected in his passionate performances. He is a graduate of Alan Parson's ASSR Fundamentals of Recording & Music Production course. Ronaldo does home studio consulting and sound engineering in the local area. Since he blew his first amplifier at age 13, he learned to solder and wire essential parts of guitars, amplifiers, and other gear. Soon he was recording to four-track studio consoles using a classic Roland synthesizer, drum machine, guitar, and bass.