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= Stephen A. Schrum =

Stephen A. Schrum is a theatre director and an academic his work ranges from online based performance in virtual worlds, play writing and he has published a variety of book on theatre. Schrum is currently a theatre lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh where he lectures courses based on Theatre and Technology. Alongside lecturing over the past years Schrum has worked for Theatre in Higher Education delivering conferences and workshops based on the topic Theatre and Technology. Prior to this Schrum attended the University of California it was there that he received his PHD in Dramatic Art alongside his PHD Schrum also has a MA in Theatre from Ohio University and a BA in Theatre from Temple University.

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" 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" Schrum talked about this performance at a recent online cyposium this allowed for "cyberformers to discuss their online performances with other artists, researchers and interested participants" 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 most recently working on is a performance in Second Life in which Schrum aims to "model Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty" 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. Editer 2000

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