Rory Willats creates theater that moves — physically, emotionally, and politically.

He composes hybrid systems across architecture, digital interfaces, virtual space, acoustics, narrative, and performance — systems that reorganise how people encounter one another. What emerges are unexpected moments of care, conflict, intimacy, and solidarity.

CURRENT RESEARCH:

Masculine social ritual in virtual communities; VR performance for audiences across virtual and contiguous space; Acting pedagogy for hybrid performance

Rory Willats is a former member of the UCSC Digital Arts and New Media: Future Stages Lab under the guidance of Marianne Weems.