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LOVE'S WILL is a Valentine's Day (or any day of love) tribute to love, with four acts of selected classic love poetry, separated by short musical interludes. 

• PREFACE
• ACT ONE: INNOCENCE
• ACT TWO: ADAGIO
• ACT THREE: SCHERZO
• ACT FOUR: EXPERIENCE
• SCENE 1 --  CONSUMMATION AND LUST
• SCENE 2 --  TRUE LOVE
• POSTSCRIPT

LOVE'S WILL has been performed several times, including once at the Blue Heron Arts Center on Valentine's Day... with free champagne and chocolate covered strawberries for the audience. Obviously they enjoyed it.

LOVE IS MY SIN is a dramatic story of love, betrayal, and possible reconciliation, consisting entirely of Shakespeare's sonnets, rearranged to tell this story.

LOVE IS MY SIN has been performed twice.

LOVE'S FINE WIT expands the same dramatic story, adding the "dark lady of the sonnets", a narrator, and additional sonnets by Shakespeare, together with selected songs of Shakespeare accompanied by a theorbo or lute, to create a "classical musical" !

This was performed at the Cornelia Street Cafe, and featured the brilliant actress and singer, Katie Fabel.

DIONYSUS

This is a very short comic monologue, adapted from the opening of The Bacchae.  It was performed once, and people laughed.

XR (EXTENDED REALITY) AND HOW TO PREDICT THE FUTURE

This is a one-man show that provides a portal to the future. 

Many parts of this show have been performed for many types of audiences, but as the world keeps changing, the future evolves, and the show is different every time.

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ERIC ROFFMAN

QUICK BIO 

Eric Roffman is an eclectic developer of eXtended Reality (XR) content and technology.  He invented the term in 2015: (http://qporit.blogspot.com/2015/09/some-variations-on-reality-extended.html). 

He is the organizer of NYXR – the New York eXtended Reality Meetup, the StoryForward Meetup and the StoryCode Meetup. He regularly speaks on XR and its applications. 

eXtended Reality (XR) includes all the technology and content enabled by the exponential growth of digital computing, and the public issues that arise from this explosive machine for change.

He recently completed two short, fictional, dramatic videos: one which included characters interactively speaking with programmed synthetic voices; and a 3D 360 VR video with spatial audio.  

For QPORIT (Quick Previews Of Random Interesting Things), he has written more than a thousand articles on new technology (especially XR), film, theater, and other Interesting Things. Many stories also included Virtual Reality video interviews of XR executives, and film and theater performers and directors, such as Diane Paulus and Liv Ullmann. 

He is currently porting QPORIT to QPORIT XR, a fully 3D 360 webXR enabled site. 

Earlier, he founded and edited THE AMERICAN FILM MAGAZINE, later selling the title to the American Film Institute.

Eric studied acting and directing with AADA, LAByrinth Theater, HB Studio, Jill Clayburgh, Paul Sills, and Sam Waterston.

His earlier background includes work at Viacom, as a director of the affiliated channel websites, and IBM, where he created live demos that were shown around the world. 

He has appeared in, directed, and produced plays which he adapted from Shakespeare’s sonnets. 

Eric's technical background includes a PhD in theoretical physics, a book on Neutrino Astrophysics; stints at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Nobel laureate C N Yang’s group at Stony Brook; lectures around the world; one of the first ever computer generated videos for scientific visualization; running planetarium shows; programming for many financial institutions including a project with Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz; and the creation of an award winning video game, Millennium Auction.

Eric is currently writing a book: 

eXtended Reality and the Future of US All.