10/24/2026
11/10 6-9pm: EMMY-WINNING VR THEATER “UNCANNY ALLEY” TO
PERFORM LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES
The Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley chapters of ACM SIGGRAPH will jointly host a live staging of Uncanny Alley: A New Day, the Emmy-winning theatrical performance in virtual reality, on November 10. The production will perform simultaneously at Gray Area in San Francisco and Clubhouse.la in Los Angeles: one cast across two stages.
Brendan Bradley (San Francisco) and Whitton Frank (Los Angeles), members of the Ferryman Collective who originated these roles, transition seamlessly between improvisation and the scripted hour-long drama, portraying 15 characters. They are joined on each stage by two audience participants, in headset and fully embodied as characters in the virtual world, who can say or do anything to influence the story.
Each seated audience watches its live performers interact with the parallel stage 350 miles away. The production is written and directed by Stephen Butchko, with the world created by Rick Treweek, technical direction by Screaming Color, and artistic direction by Deidre V Lyon. The two-venue architecture was developed by Bradley, who also performs in San Francisco. It builds on his Edinburgh Fringe 2024 premiere, which ran on-stage, in VR, and livestream simultaneously.
After the performance, the cast will lead us on a “backstage tour” of the company’s groundbreaking techniques in virtual show control. They’ll discuss the technology being developed at Ferryman Collective, and how both locations projected the real-time VR experience at each other’s site. They’ll answer questions about real-time technology that they use for this hour-long performance.
We would be glad to have you join us.
Location: Gray Area (2665 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
Date: November 10
Time: 6pm doors open, mixer in bar area
----- 7pm performance in the Grand Theater
----- 8pm "backstage tour" and Q&A with performers
Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/ferryman-siggraph-sf
Press contact: [email protected]
About ACM SIGGRAPH: The Association for Computing Machinery's special interest group on computer graphics and interactive techniques has professional and student chapters around the world. The San Francisco and Silicon Valley chapters regularly host professional events and presentations of film, broadcast, game, motion graphics, interactive work and technology.
https://san-francisco.siggraph.org/
https://www.meetup.com/sv-siggraph/
About Gray Area: Gray Area is a San Francisco nonprofit applying art and technology for social and civic impact through education, incubation, and public events, operating the historic Grand Theater in the Mission District. https://grayarea.org/
About Ferryman Collective : Ferryman Collective is an Emmy-winning, non-profit theatre company world-renowned for live performance in virtual worlds. With Premieres at Venice, Tribeca, and SXSW, Ferryman Collective bridges live theatre and interactive tech. https://www.ferrymancollective.com/
