PXR2026 Presenters

Adrienne Wong is a theatre writer, director, performer, and creator whose work straddles in-person and digital spaces. Adrienne’s aesthetic has been described as “life” and her preoccupations include participatory theatre, civic engagement, crafting, and whimsy. Her scholarly writing appears in various publications and journals, including the Canadian Theatre Review. She teaches extensively and contributes to the cultural sector as a board member for Playwrights Guild of Canada, a Steering Committee member for Balancing Act Canada, and an Advisory Committee Member for HowlRound Theatre Commons. Former Artistic Producer at Neworld Theatre, she is now Artistic Director of SpiderWebShow Performance and co-curates FOLDA, the Festival of Live Digital Art. Adrienne was a finalist for the 2025 Siminovitch Prize, Canada’s largest theatre award recognizing excellence in mid-career directors, playwrights and designers.

Evo Heyning is a visionary creative technologist, executive producer, and systems designer with over 20 years of experience pioneering the intersection of performance, digital art, and spatial computing. Building XRGuide as the CEO of Realitycraft Design Lab and Vice President of XRGuild.org, she is at the forefront of architecting and connecting people with participatory “protopian” futures—spaces where technology serves human agency, community resilience, thoughtful design and collaborative storytelling.

Screaming Color (Christopher Lane Davis) is a VRChat worldbuilder,
musician, and immersive storyteller. A core member of the award-winning Ferryman Collective
(Uncanny Alley: A New Day, Gumball Dreams, Welcome to Respite), his work blends surreal,
over-the-top aesthetics and emotional narrative. Based in Taipei, he creates cross-platform XR
experiences that fuse theatricality, code, and magic.

Juliana Loh is an award-winning immersive artist, creative director, and designer known for
pioneering spatial storytelling across XR, VR, AR, live performance, and interactive
environments. She blends emotion, imagination, and human-centric design to create
experiential projects that inspire awe, play, and wonder. Her work spans VR exhibits and
international festival showcases, live VR painting, educational workshops, and public art.
Juliana has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Women of the Future in emerging
technology and contributes to the field as an XR speaker, jury member, and mentor.

Tara Rose Morris is a mixed Desi new media artist with a practice that spans live performance,
immersive installation, and digital artifacts. They investigate the thresholds between spectacle
and embodiment, using technology as a site for speculative imaginaries where bodies,
ecologies, memory, and identity converge, flicker, and dissolve.
She has presented work both in Toronto and internationally, with institutions including Gray
Area, NEW INC, InterAccess, SXSW, VIFF, Superchief Gallery, and Nuit Blanche.

Tosca Terán (Nanotopia) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges bioart, sound, and
immersive media to explore more-than-human consciousness. Collaborating with fungi, she
transforms their bio-electrical activity into sound and spatial experiences, dissolving boundaries
between human and nonhuman worlds. Her current projects, Symbiosis/Dysbiosis and alterLife,
extend into VR as decolonial spaces that foster living environments. Recognized by NASA with
work showcased at Ars Electronica, A MAZE, Raindance Immersive, Vector Festival, MOCA
Toronto, and the Venice Film Festival, Tosca’s practice reimagines VR as a site of care,
mutualism, and quiet resistance.

DEIRDRE V. LYONS is a Los Angeles producer, director, and performer, she is a co-founder of Ferryman Collective, creating live theatre in VR, starting with PARA, Krampusnacht, the award-winning Welcome to Respite, the co-creator of Gumball Dreams, named Best Experience of 2022 and Creator of the Year by XR Must. She was a 2023 SXSW mentor, included in the 2021 list of Top 100 Original Voices in XR, honored with the 2023 Innovation Award from XR Women and included in Volume 2 of the Global Top 100 Women of the Future in Emerging Tech, produced by Women of the Future. She is a sought-after speaker and a member of Television Academy and the Producers Guild of America.

Whitton Frank is a voice, film, television, and theater actor based in Los Angeles. Her VR work
includes directing the English premiere of Find WiiLii and performing in immersive VR
experiences such as The Under Presents, The Tempest, PARA, Welcome to Respite, and
Gumball Dreams. A Ferryman Collective member since 2020, she now also produces and
directs. She trained at Carnegie Mellon University and the London Academy of Music and
Dramatic Art, received CMU’s Tartans on the Rise award, and frequently speaks at global tech
and immersive events worldwide conferences today.

Nicole Eun-Ju Bell is a Toronto-based Korean-Canadian multidisciplinary artist passionate about
performance and technology. Her work spans XR experiences, projection design, and
production management. She has performed in Single Thread Theatre Company’s Collider and
currently serves as Venue Producer for the PXR conference. Beyond XR, she collaborates with
Toronto theatre companies and curates work for international festivals, including Prague
Quadrennial 2019 and 2023, Summerworks 2022, Luminato 2022, and the Venice Biennale.
Upcoming designs include The Little Prince and Kim’s Convenience. Her practice emphasizes
collaboration, innovation, accessibility, and cross-disciplinary storytelling worldwide.

James Hyett is a performer and linguist currently living in Toronto. Having dabbled in
immersive theatre with Single Thread Theatre Company’s The Library Chronicles, and entered
the VR performance world through his work on the PXR conference, he first joined Ferryman
Collective for the English translation of Find WiiLii at SXSW 2023, PXR 2023, and A MAZE. /
Berlin 2024. He also makes audio dramas for young audiences with First Ditch Collective.
A close-up studio portrait of a male presenting person facing the camera against a smooth, dark
gray background. He has short, dark brown hair parted slightly to one side and fair skin. His
expression is calm and neutral, with a subtle, relaxed mouth and direct gaze. He wears a dark,
textured knit sweater in a deep reddish-brown color. The lighting is soft and even, highlighting
the face without harsh shadows, creating a quiet, composed, and professional mood.

Dustin Harvey is an experimental theatre maker based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia, and
the Creative Director of Secret Theatre. His work blends live performance, participation, and
immersive technologies, and has been presented across Canada and internationally, including in
the UK, Iceland, Denmark, Ireland, and the United States. His recent project, Alone Together,
was curated by MIT for its innovative use of technology, and AWAKE & STILL DROWNING
received the Best Immersive Experience Award at the Guanajuato International Film Festival.
Dustin is a graduate of LAMDA.

Bio: Ove Holmqvist is an artist and technologist working in participatory music, auditory AR and
XR performance, as well as interaction design based on affective, spatial and physical
computing. Ove develops deterministic, bio-informed music engines that translate movement,
spatial relationships, and biosignals into live improvisational structures. His work focuses on
interactive scores for dance or everyday listening scenarios, augmented musicianship and
audience co-creation. Ove’s work is characterised by perceptual clarity, reproducibility, and a
desire to improve the social dimensions of listening.

Sarah Hin Ching U 余衍晴 (she/her) is a Chinese-Canadian dance artist who moves between
contemporary dance, breaking, hip-hop, and emerging technologies. Her work is rooted in lived
experience and personal curiosities, attentive to the desires and contradictions that shape human
life. She often experiments with digital tools and mixed-media environments. My work has been
presented by Dancing on the Edge (Vancouver), National Arts Centre, Capsule: Video series
(Ottawa), The Dance Centre (Vancouver), NewWorks (Vancouver), REvolver(Vancouver),
DanceWorks (Toronto), Toes For Dance (Toronto), Skampede (Victoria), Free Flow Dance
Theatre (Saskatoon), Good Women Dance(Edmonton) among others. I have been awarded
residencies at Circuit est (Montreal), Dance Arts Institute (Toronto), Mocean Dance (Halifax),
Impulse Theatre (Victoria), City of Port Coquitlam, ArtStarts (Vancouver), and Plastic Orchid
Factory. Other notable performing/creation credits include 10GatesDancing (BBoy Crazy
smooth/ Saffron Saxon), Danse Carpe Diem/Emmanuel Jouthe (Montreal) ,Jackie Latendresse
(Saskatoon). I graduated from Simon Fraser University in 2021 with a BFA in dance and
kinesiology