THE TEAM
Lyndsie Scoggin
Producer, Creative Director, Performer
One of the original creators of the immersive theatre production of Welcome to Respite, Lyndsie Scoggin is an experiential designer, director and producer. She has a passion for interactive storytelling and has helped create multiple projects ranging from escape rooms to intimate immersive theatre shows. She recently began working as the co-writer of a story podcast with Bamfer Productions. Her company, CoAct Productions, was created in 2018. Recent projects include The Sideshow (2018), The Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite (2019), and Cold War Lounge (2019).
One of the original creators of the immersive theatre production of Welcome to Respite, Lyndsie Scoggin is an experiential designer, director and producer. She has a passion for interactive storytelling and has helped create multiple projects ranging from escape rooms to intimate immersive theatre shows. She recently began working as the co-writer of a story podcast with Bamfer Productions. Her company, CoAct Productions, was created in 2018. Recent projects include The Sideshow (2018), The Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite (2019), and Cold War Lounge (2019).
Deirdre Lyons
Producer, Performer
Deirdre V. Lyons is a Los Angeles actress, her VR work includes two 180 films, she was a cast member of award-winning productions of The Under Presents, The Under Presents: Tempest from Tender Claws, and a principle in Finding Pandora X by Double Eye Studios. She has also produced and acted in the live immersive VR productions, PARA and Krampusnacht.
Deirdre V. Lyons is a Los Angeles actress, her VR work includes two 180 films, she was a cast member of award-winning productions of The Under Presents, The Under Presents: Tempest from Tender Claws, and a principle in Finding Pandora X by Double Eye Studios. She has also produced and acted in the live immersive VR productions, PARA and Krampusnacht.
Stephen Butchko
Producer, Performer
Stephen Butchko received his Bachelor of Arts degree in theatre from Western Washington University. After moving to Los Angeles, he began producting and performing in independent theatrical and motion picture productions with his wife Deirdre V. Lyons. Stephen recently made the transition to producing and performing in Virtual Reality in PARA and Krampusnacht as a member of the Ferryman Collective and looks forward to working with the team on Welcome to Respite.
Stephen Butchko received his Bachelor of Arts degree in theatre from Western Washington University. After moving to Los Angeles, he began producting and performing in independent theatrical and motion picture productions with his wife Deirdre V. Lyons. Stephen recently made the transition to producing and performing in Virtual Reality in PARA and Krampusnacht as a member of the Ferryman Collective and looks forward to working with the team on Welcome to Respite.
Braden Roy
Producer, VR Adaptation, Performer
Braden Roy, co-founder of Ferryman Collective, is something of a jack of all trades. He has a background in film production, illustration, marketing, web development, audio production, game design and development as well as 11 years in information technology. He previously served as the writer, a producer, co-director and performer for the live immersive VR productions PARA and Krampusnacht. His current productions include Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite and En Route, the former of which he serves as a producer, performer and is responsible for VR adaptation, the latter a producer, art director and lead of mechanical design.
Braden Roy, co-founder of Ferryman Collective, is something of a jack of all trades. He has a background in film production, illustration, marketing, web development, audio production, game design and development as well as 11 years in information technology. He previously served as the writer, a producer, co-director and performer for the live immersive VR productions PARA and Krampusnacht. His current productions include Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite and En Route, the former of which he serves as a producer, performer and is responsible for VR adaptation, the latter a producer, art director and lead of mechanical design.
Christopher Lane Davis
Special Effects & Animation Designer, Performer, Co- Audio Director
Christopher Lane Davis, aka Screaming Color, considers himself first and foremost a musician and is also passionate about writing, performing, 3D design, and rainbows. His theatrical acheivements include writing and performing a short one-man show about the life of Salvador Dali and autobiographical "electronic-dance-musical" called The Road to Dawn, which he first performed in 2017. He spent the greater part of 2020 designing and creating his first VR video game, Club Gumball, which can be found on VRChat. Welcome to Respite will be his first VR Theatre project, but certainly not his last.
Christopher Lane Davis, aka Screaming Color, considers himself first and foremost a musician and is also passionate about writing, performing, 3D design, and rainbows. His theatrical acheivements include writing and performing a short one-man show about the life of Salvador Dali and autobiographical "electronic-dance-musical" called The Road to Dawn, which he first performed in 2017. He spent the greater part of 2020 designing and creating his first VR video game, Club Gumball, which can be found on VRChat. Welcome to Respite will be his first VR Theatre project, but certainly not his last.
Whitton Frank
Marketing, Performer
Whitton Frank is a voice, film, television and theater actor from Los Angeles. Recent work includes the award winning horror short Seeing Green as well as groundbreaking work in the immersive VR experiences ;The Under Presents and The Tempest. She can be heard as a guest star in season 1 and 2 of RomCom Pods, and is an audiobook narrator and can be found on Audible and other sites. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and LAMDA in London, and is proud to have worked with many amazing theater companies in Los Angeles. In her copious free time she moonlights as a DJ specializing in vintage jazz, blues, and soul. Follow her on instagram @missredabouttown and Twitter @WhittonFrank
Whitton Frank is a voice, film, television and theater actor from Los Angeles. Recent work includes the award winning horror short Seeing Green as well as groundbreaking work in the immersive VR experiences ;The Under Presents and The Tempest. She can be heard as a guest star in season 1 and 2 of RomCom Pods, and is an audiobook narrator and can be found on Audible and other sites. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and LAMDA in London, and is proud to have worked with many amazing theater companies in Los Angeles. In her copious free time she moonlights as a DJ specializing in vintage jazz, blues, and soul. Follow her on instagram @missredabouttown and Twitter @WhittonFrank
Morghann Stevens
Voice of The Shadow
Morghann Stevens, primarily known for singing, music production and musical theatre, is so excited for her debut voice acting in the VR world and looks forward to venturing further in this line of entertainment with its new and vastly transformative ways of immersive theatre.
Instagram: @im50morghann
Morghann Stevens, primarily known for singing, music production and musical theatre, is so excited for her debut voice acting in the VR world and looks forward to venturing further in this line of entertainment with its new and vastly transformative ways of immersive theatre.
Instagram: @im50morghann
Brian Tull
Producer, VR World Builder
Brian has been immersed in the world of VR from the earliest days of the original Oculus development kits and has been an immersive theatre enthusiast since he began covering shows for Horrorbuzz.com in 2016. He is the founder of Ferryman Collective and served as one of the creative directors of their original show, PARA, and it’s follow-up, Krampusnacht, where he worked to develop the concept behind the shows and as the design lead crafting the worlds and characters. He also played the role of Krampus in Krampusnacht and has worked as an organizer of the Screaming Room short film festival presented by HorrorBuzz since 2017.
Brian has been immersed in the world of VR from the earliest days of the original Oculus development kits and has been an immersive theatre enthusiast since he began covering shows for Horrorbuzz.com in 2016. He is the founder of Ferryman Collective and served as one of the creative directors of their original show, PARA, and it’s follow-up, Krampusnacht, where he worked to develop the concept behind the shows and as the design lead crafting the worlds and characters. He also played the role of Krampus in Krampusnacht and has worked as an organizer of the Screaming Room short film festival presented by HorrorBuzz since 2017.
Danielle Levesque
Art Director
Danielle Levesque is an independent Art Director for Film and TV. She has worked in the art departments for shows such as FX's American Horror Story, Netflix's On My Block and HBO hits Euphoria and Insecure. Over the last few years, Danielle has found a new passion bringing her design skills to theater productions, specifically within immersive environments, allowing audiences to experience her designs intimately. Danielle produced and art directed CoAct's previous projects "The Sideshow" and "The Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite," both to critical acclaim. Danielle is excited to be bringing her experience for design and story telling to the VR Adaptation of "Welcome to Respite."
Danielle Levesque is an independent Art Director for Film and TV. She has worked in the art departments for shows such as FX's American Horror Story, Netflix's On My Block and HBO hits Euphoria and Insecure. Over the last few years, Danielle has found a new passion bringing her design skills to theater productions, specifically within immersive environments, allowing audiences to experience her designs intimately. Danielle produced and art directed CoAct's previous projects "The Sideshow" and "The Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite," both to critical acclaim. Danielle is excited to be bringing her experience for design and story telling to the VR Adaptation of "Welcome to Respite."
Jeff Heimbuch
Co-Audio Director, Voice of Kyle
Jeff Heimbuch spends most of his time either writing & editing. He currently produces fiction podcasts for iHeartRadio, and writes for HorrorBuzz.com. Jeff has written a number of produced and unproduced screenplays, fictional and talk show podcasts, and for various publications (both online and in print) on a variety of subjects, such as theme park history, horror, and social media.
Jeff Heimbuch spends most of his time either writing & editing. He currently produces fiction podcasts for iHeartRadio, and writes for HorrorBuzz.com. Jeff has written a number of produced and unproduced screenplays, fictional and talk show podcasts, and for various publications (both online and in print) on a variety of subjects, such as theme park history, horror, and social media.
Andy Aloisio
VR World Building, Programming
Andy Aloisio (aka Joker) has built VR worlds since 2018. He recently supported Rec Room's Orange Bucket Acting Troupe in its production of Back to the Rec Center, a VR theater homage to Universal's Back to the Future. Andy has a graduate degree in law, and is currently studying Unity development and programming.
Andy Aloisio (aka Joker) has built VR worlds since 2018. He recently supported Rec Room's Orange Bucket Acting Troupe in its production of Back to the Rec Center, a VR theater homage to Universal's Back to the Future. Andy has a graduate degree in law, and is currently studying Unity development and programming.
Beaux Cooper
Character Design
Beaux Cooper is a self taught freelance 3d artist from Washington state. Sonnet has been creating 3d art in Blender for 2 years now and is best known for creating models for VrChat and Vtubing programs. He is currently enrolled at Washington State University pursuing a bachelors in Digital Culture and Technology with plans to create assets professionally for video games after graduation. You can find examples of his work here on his website.
Beaux Cooper is a self taught freelance 3d artist from Washington state. Sonnet has been creating 3d art in Blender for 2 years now and is best known for creating models for VrChat and Vtubing programs. He is currently enrolled at Washington State University pursuing a bachelors in Digital Culture and Technology with plans to create assets professionally for video games after graduation. You can find examples of his work here on his website.
Eliot Addams
Performer
Eliot Addams is an actor, LARPer, and creative, who started immersive theater working in haunted houses, then writing Live Action Role Play stories for the Wayfinder Experience. With a background in improv, musical theater, puppetry, and burlesque, Eliot most enjoys the wonder of virtual reality experiences. They became part of Ferryman Collective in their first show PARA, where they performed various roles and fell in love with bringing characters to life through VR. They were one of the tight team of five in the wonderful holiday horror, Krampusnacht.
When not in a headset, Eliot spends their free time creating mixed media art, frolicing in nature, and being something halfway between a mushroom faerie and a mystical mermaid.
Instagram @Smeliot.Addams
Eliot Addams is an actor, LARPer, and creative, who started immersive theater working in haunted houses, then writing Live Action Role Play stories for the Wayfinder Experience. With a background in improv, musical theater, puppetry, and burlesque, Eliot most enjoys the wonder of virtual reality experiences. They became part of Ferryman Collective in their first show PARA, where they performed various roles and fell in love with bringing characters to life through VR. They were one of the tight team of five in the wonderful holiday horror, Krampusnacht.
When not in a headset, Eliot spends their free time creating mixed media art, frolicing in nature, and being something halfway between a mushroom faerie and a mystical mermaid.
Instagram @Smeliot.Addams
Brendan Bradley
Perfomer
Brendan Andolsek Bradley is a multi-award winning actor, writer, director and producer known internationally as "America's Scrappy Storyteller" (AR Post) with 100+ IMDb credits, 50M+ views online and a leader in the virtual theater movement leveraging groundbreaking XR/VR tools for live performance. He established The Integrative Technology Lab at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts to foster the next generation of multi-disciplinary live storytellers. During the pandemic, he released case-studies of ubiquitous streaming tools for live performance, including a customizable virtual theater in your web browser that allows anyone to get "on" stage for free.
More at brendanAbradley.com/futurestages
Brendan Andolsek Bradley is a multi-award winning actor, writer, director and producer known internationally as "America's Scrappy Storyteller" (AR Post) with 100+ IMDb credits, 50M+ views online and a leader in the virtual theater movement leveraging groundbreaking XR/VR tools for live performance. He established The Integrative Technology Lab at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts to foster the next generation of multi-disciplinary live storytellers. During the pandemic, he released case-studies of ubiquitous streaming tools for live performance, including a customizable virtual theater in your web browser that allows anyone to get "on" stage for free.
More at brendanAbradley.com/futurestages
Kelly Jones
Performer
Kelly B Jones is a Thai-Welsh actor born in Singapore, raised in Hong Kong and Bangkok.. Kelly began her acting career on screen, on stage and with voiceover work after finishing her studies in film. Based out of Bangkok, she has worked in films such as The Marine 2 and Death of Me and works extensively in different genres of voiceover from video games to various Netflix animations, one of which she was also the voice director. Kelly’s most recent standout roles was Madison, a recurring character from US/UK TV series ‘Strikeback’ (Leftbank Pictures) and Paulina from Ariel Dorfman’s play, ‘Death and the Maiden’ at Peel the Limelight’s theatre, a company she was an active member of before the pandemic struck. Kelly also completed an independent film “The Letting Go", as the leading lady last year and has since dedicated her time to VR hardware/software company, Megadodo Games as the head of VR content and communications.
Kelly B Jones is a Thai-Welsh actor born in Singapore, raised in Hong Kong and Bangkok.. Kelly began her acting career on screen, on stage and with voiceover work after finishing her studies in film. Based out of Bangkok, she has worked in films such as The Marine 2 and Death of Me and works extensively in different genres of voiceover from video games to various Netflix animations, one of which she was also the voice director. Kelly’s most recent standout roles was Madison, a recurring character from US/UK TV series ‘Strikeback’ (Leftbank Pictures) and Paulina from Ariel Dorfman’s play, ‘Death and the Maiden’ at Peel the Limelight’s theatre, a company she was an active member of before the pandemic struck. Kelly also completed an independent film “The Letting Go", as the leading lady last year and has since dedicated her time to VR hardware/software company, Megadodo Games as the head of VR content and communications.
Jonathan David Martin
Performer
Jonathan David Martin is a performer and creator of VR/XR, theater, and documentaries. VR Acting credits include Finding
Pandora X (Best Immersive Experience-Venice Int. Film Fest VR;
Audience Award-SXSW) and Loveseat (Venice Int. Film Fest) for Double Eye Studios. Other credits include Believe (NBC),
Unforgettable (CBS), Hunter Gatherer (Method & Palm Springs Film Festivals), War Horse at Lincoln Center Theater (original Broadway cast) and numerous off-Broadway and regional
theaters. He is the Producing Co-Artistic Director of Smoke &
Mirrors Collaborative, a new media and theater production company focused on contemporary social issues. SMC’s work
has received multiple festival awards and its productions have
toured internationally to South Africa, the UK, and Europe. He is a Lecturer in XR at Univ. of Maryland’s Immersive Media Design
program and an Annenberg Fellow for the Arts. MFA: NYU Grad for Acting.
www.jonathan-david-martin.com
Jonathan David Martin is a performer and creator of VR/XR, theater, and documentaries. VR Acting credits include Finding
Pandora X (Best Immersive Experience-Venice Int. Film Fest VR;
Audience Award-SXSW) and Loveseat (Venice Int. Film Fest) for Double Eye Studios. Other credits include Believe (NBC),
Unforgettable (CBS), Hunter Gatherer (Method & Palm Springs Film Festivals), War Horse at Lincoln Center Theater (original Broadway cast) and numerous off-Broadway and regional
theaters. He is the Producing Co-Artistic Director of Smoke &
Mirrors Collaborative, a new media and theater production company focused on contemporary social issues. SMC’s work
has received multiple festival awards and its productions have
toured internationally to South Africa, the UK, and Europe. He is a Lecturer in XR at Univ. of Maryland’s Immersive Media Design
program and an Annenberg Fellow for the Arts. MFA: NYU Grad for Acting.
www.jonathan-david-martin.com
Lee Erdman
Perfomer
Actor, dancer, choreographer and filmmaker, Lee attained her MA (Distinction) from Staffordshire University’s Film and Media Studies program and is an academic mentor for Raindance’s post grad program. Possessing a solid background in theater and film, Lee is focused
on merging her love of both the visual and performing arts by exploring and creating short format content with VR and 360 media. Lee advocates for the inclusion of diverse collaborators from the arts as crucial to the humanistic and equitable development of immersive technology. She is also one half of Van Rooi Productions which creates cinematic content that seeks to tell visual stories that illuminate the concept of identity in our postcolonial culture. Lee is currently developing a narrative dance series in
cinematic VR that centers around reconnecting with the earth as a pathway to healing, and landscape as a metaphor in the stages of self-realization.
Actor, dancer, choreographer and filmmaker, Lee attained her MA (Distinction) from Staffordshire University’s Film and Media Studies program and is an academic mentor for Raindance’s post grad program. Possessing a solid background in theater and film, Lee is focused
on merging her love of both the visual and performing arts by exploring and creating short format content with VR and 360 media. Lee advocates for the inclusion of diverse collaborators from the arts as crucial to the humanistic and equitable development of immersive technology. She is also one half of Van Rooi Productions which creates cinematic content that seeks to tell visual stories that illuminate the concept of identity in our postcolonial culture. Lee is currently developing a narrative dance series in
cinematic VR that centers around reconnecting with the earth as a pathway to healing, and landscape as a metaphor in the stages of self-realization.
Brandon Bales
Performer
Brandon Bales is an actor with a wide variety of credits. In immersive theatre, he has worked on multiple productions of Delusion (including the VR version of Lies Within), as well as two productions with The Speakeasy Society. In digital immersive, he's worked with Tender Claws on The Under Presents... and tUP: Tempest, though he has had plenty of digital credits so far: he has appeared in numerous video games, with a long-running role in the online RPG Guild Wars 2. Among straight plays, he has worked in Los Angeles with Sacred Fools, Moving Arts, and Open Fist. Brandon has also appeared Off-Broadway with 13P in Have you Seen Steve Steven?, and was in the world premiere of Terrence McNally's Some Men at the Philadelphia Theatre Company. Film and TV credits include : Adam McKay's Vice, For All Mankind, American Crime Story: Impeachment, and many more.
Brandon Bales is an actor with a wide variety of credits. In immersive theatre, he has worked on multiple productions of Delusion (including the VR version of Lies Within), as well as two productions with The Speakeasy Society. In digital immersive, he's worked with Tender Claws on The Under Presents... and tUP: Tempest, though he has had plenty of digital credits so far: he has appeared in numerous video games, with a long-running role in the online RPG Guild Wars 2. Among straight plays, he has worked in Los Angeles with Sacred Fools, Moving Arts, and Open Fist. Brandon has also appeared Off-Broadway with 13P in Have you Seen Steve Steven?, and was in the world premiere of Terrence McNally's Some Men at the Philadelphia Theatre Company. Film and TV credits include : Adam McKay's Vice, For All Mankind, American Crime Story: Impeachment, and many more.