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Previous Project
Jewel Theatre Company is the only professional theatre company that works the entire year based in Santa Cruz county. They are a company that centres around equality. J.T.C. stands out for only using professional actors, bringing a certain quality to all works they create. They pride themselves on trying to bring unknown performances to it audience, to show off the unrecognized potential.

J.T.C. (Jewel theatre company was founded in 2005,they are in collaboration with Actors' Equity Association which is a union which represents American stage managers and professional actors. They have argued their work engages their community and caters for intimate performances for each viewing only having an eighty eight person seating arrangement. They are a diverse theatre company, producing productions such as; Musicals, comedies, dramas, historic plays and covers all aspects of performance from writing to design.

Reference

James, J. (2012). Live theatre thrives in Santa Cruz: at centre stage. Available: http://www.jeweltheatre.net/. Last accessed 16th Oct 2012.

New Project
Treet.Tv (founded March 2007) is a Second life based company, in collaboration with PrimPerfect Publications which makes news feeds that relate to the designing of realms within Second life, they call this programme 'Designing Worlds'.

Designing Worlds
Designing worlds is a video recording from within Second life which is presented by Saffia Widdershins and Elrik Merlin, They host their news show in different regions of the Second life world, gathering interviews from creators, designers and wardens of different places of interest within Second life.

Designing worlds previously Meta Makeover, is a show that looks at the design of worlds and the people who make them. The show which is regularly posted on their website, gives fresh interviews from different sources in each take. The group have now branched out to magazine which looks at the most stunning buildings and designs within the virtual world.

The programme consists of mainly interviews on the creations people have made, generally within Second life, this is conducted by what could be considered the news anchor Saffia Widdershins, Elrik Merlin also plays a large part in the interviews conducting them generally from the centre of the action, whereby Saffia will generally speak to the designers from a position in the creation where we can appreciate the setting we are in. Treet.tv is viewed by a large number of views and has it's own page on a popular social network, where it posts new episodes and have discussions on new upcoming events.