Jo Cattell
Jo Cattell (theatre maker) is a leading voice in the convergence of live theatre and immersive technologies. Her work has appeared at Sundance Film Festival, the BBC, Sky Television, Cirque du Soleil, and multiple US and London theaters. She is a member of the LightPoets digital and immersive theatre collective, whose immersive graphic novel, SPEED OF DARK, recently opened in downtown Las Vegas. LightPoets also created the opening performance for TED 2022 demonstrating an onstage metaverse where the audience witnessed a world-first syncing of AR over 1400 devices and live streamed AR with performance around the globe. Cattell adapted Shakespeare’s KING LEAR into an AR immersive theatrical experience in collaboration with San Francisco State University's Fabula(b). She is a 3Arts awardee, a Joan Mitchell Center Fellow, a 2021 Illinois Artist Fellow and a Perkins Coie awardee. Cattell was the Maggio Directing Fellow at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, with whom she is currently collaborating with the world-renowned Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois to create HUMMINGBIRD, an immersive theatrical experience with VR. Cattell is head of content and cocreator at Kaleidoco, an innovative technology company blending digital with physical experience, and is currently building an AR mobile adventure that will be launched in 2023.
Profile image by: Joe Mazza/Brave Lux
Featured Artworks
- TED2022: A New Era Projection mapped performance
- TED2022: A New Era
- SPEED OF DARK, Particle Ink in Las Vegas An immersive graphic novel
- KING Photo by Christopher Marston An adaptation of Shakespeare's KING LEAR
- Don Chipotle music videos Photo by Joel Maisonette Based on Juan Villa's DON CHIPOTLE
- EPIC TALE OF SCALE at Chicago Children's Theatre Immersive theatre performance
- THE DISPLACED by Isaac Gomez, Haven Theatre Psychological Horror