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“Many theatermakers struggled to rethink their art form this year, but the multimedia designer Jared Mezzocchi was immediately at ease — and showed leadership — in the virtual world. A May production of Qui Nguyen’s ‘She Kills Monsters’ at the University of Maryland, where Mezzocchi teaches, was among the earliest to glam up Zoom with imaginative filters. He is just as comfortable navigating digitally native waters, as in the online hit ‘Russian Troll Farm.’ We are curious to see where he takes theater next.”
"Many theatermakers struggled to rethink their art form this year, but the multimedia designer Jared Mezzocchi was immediately at ease — and showed leadership — in the virtual world." --
just use this in the first and cut from second."
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"[Jared Mezzocchi] is comfortable in the digital realm, can create a visual environment to tell a story, and has the technical know-how to handle virtual live performances — he is a whiz with Isadora, a software that allows users to mix and edit Zoom on the spot."
"{A}s Mezzocchi looks back at his life in theatre, it always circles back to that first time on the Andy’s stage. And if he can provide that memory for one of the Andy’s kids, it will mean all the time he’s put in over the last 20-plus years has been well worth it.
“Jared Mezzocchi has been systematically exploring what Zoom and the editing program Isadora can offer theatre practitioners during the pandemic.”
“It’s a mesmerizing marriage of technology and story that echoes the play’s projection-heavy Broadway and West End productions while using Mezzocchi’s distinctive animation (he doubles as the projection designer) to outline a path of its own.
“When Christopher processes an overwhelming revelation toward the end of Act 1, Bryan’s writhing performance blends with Mezzocchi’s pulsating projections and Andre Pluess’s savvy sound design. As those disparate elements work in harmony to devastating effect, it becomes clear that Rilette and Mezzocchi have cracked the formula, and this ‘“Curious Incident’” adds up to even more than the sum of its impressive parts.”
“ ‘It’s a showstopping moment that shows the potency of design, how design can play on the nuance level of perception,’ said projection designer Jared Mezzocchi of Qui Nguyen’s play ‘Vietgone.’ ”
AMERICAN THEATER, JULY 2016
TEDX PISCATAQUA RIVER
"The Technological Imagination"
“YOU ARE DEAD. YOU ARE HERE.” PRODUCED AT HEREARTS CENTER, WRITTEN BY CHRISTINE EVANS AND DIRECTED BY JOSEPH MEGEL.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND'S TERPVISION: VIRTUAL HEALING
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“YOU ARE DEAD. YOU ARE HERE.” PRODUCED AT HEREARTS CENTER, WRITTEN BY CHRISTINE EVANS AND DIRECTED BY JOSEPH MEGEL.
“The University of Maryland is one of the few schools to offer a class in a new art form called projection design. Jared Mezzocchi teaches the class and recently collaborated with other artists, as well as veterans organizations to help raise awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder.”
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