Client: National Theatre
Role: Assistant Producer
About The Project
Draw Me Close blurs the worlds of live performance, virtual reality and animation to create a vivid memoir about the relationship between a mother and her son charting twenty-five years of love, learning and loss . Weaving theatrical storytelling with new forms of technology, the individual immersive experience allows the audience member to take the part of the protagonist, Jordan, inside a live, animated world.
The experience is by award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill, and is a co-production between the National Film Board of Canada and the National Theatre’s Immersive Storytelling Studio (ISS).
About My Process
As part of the ISS team, I guided this project from early ideation to a completed theatrical experience, which premiered internationally at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017. In my role as a junior producer, I immersed myself in the essentials of digital performance and seized every opportunity to deepen my understanding of the underlying technologies. I actively volunteered to operate and troubleshoot the equipment, gaining hands-on experience and contributing to the project’s success.
