Ari Tarr, started his theater career starring off-broadway and regional theater as a member of the flying Karamazov Brothers. He attained a degree in multimedia Theater Acting/Directing, under Joanne Akalytis at Bard College, with physical theater mask training with NYU Tisch Grad Director Jim Calder and puppetry with Basil Twist. Tarr will be a guest field instructor at the NYU Tisch school of the arts Brendan Bradley Integrative Technology Lab teaching VR Theater this Spring. Tarr is the world's most experienced performer of live VR productions, and is currently the VR acting UI consultant, trainer, and lead host of the multi award-winning Adventure Lab (one of only two professional VR theatre platforms) In 2015 Tarr co-founded a startup for creating VR theater performance tools, working with clients like Occipital and Jaunt VR. He then joined River XR content Studios working with clients like High Fidelity, Bjork and Coldplay. Currently he is a full-time XR immersive theater actor and designer. His XR Theater projects have been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, NBC and Vice.