Anywhere Festival - Panelist
Three international visionaries - Violeta Ayala, Deirdre V. Lyons, and Siobhan O’loughlin - discuss the future of storytelling online and in virtual reality.
Voyage LA
Magazine interview about acting in Virtual Reality.
No Proscenium - Panelist
VR Theatre All-Stars join No Proscenium to talk about acting in, directing, designing, and producing live theatrical production in virtual reality. A three part series moderated by Stephanie Riggs, Kathryn Yu and Noah Nelson.
Scot Nery - Blog
Interview about theater during a pandemic, interview with Scot Nery.
XR Women - Talk
Talk about producing and performing in VR, with a focus on the personal. XR Women is part of the Immersive Learning Research Network.
Horrorbuzz Live for Krampusnacht
Hosted by Norm John Gidney and joined by Brian Tull we did an interview about Krampusnacht and VR theater.
ZeroEvent: Performing in VR - Panel
Panelist with Stephen Butchko, Michael Bates, Jonathan David Martin moderated by Michael Barngrover, the senior researcher and designer of immersive experiences at Koç University's KARMA Lab.
Global XR Bootcamp - Talk
Acting in Virtual Reality, an emerging new skill that Directors and Actors who want to be apart of this exciting new field must become more adept at as this platform for storytelling grows.
Global XR Bootcamp - Panel
Panelist on “Ask the experts - Future of XR” with Bryan Chris Brown, Alen Paul Silverrstieen, Sean Ong, Alexandria Porter and Paige Dansinger.
Institute of Creative Technologies - Panel moderated by Sophy Smith
Panelist on “Live Performance in Virtual Environments” with Alex Counsell, Asha Jennings-Grant and Kerryn Wise.
Career Dispatches essay for Backstage
"So if you are brave enough to wander into the world of virtual reality, welcome, there is a home for you! Come help us figure out the potential of this brave new world."
A Moment of Your Time - CurtCo Media
Episode 141 - The Power of Virtual Contact: "We are social creatures. We hunger for touch and community" -Deirdre Lyons
American Theater
For her part, Lyons recommends that actors venturing into VR anticipate things not going right all the time. “You may lose your internet connection, you may push the wrong button or trigger something, you may even fall off of a building, but of course you won’t die!” she says with a laugh. “And that is where the fun starts—you have to troubleshoot your way out of it.”
Spectrum News 1 Segment by Tara Lynn Wagner
Lyons has witnessed it, even been a part of it, and explained that “when we see something in VR and we reach out to hug someone, part of our brain recognizes what it felt like to do it and it supplies that emotion, that feeling of hugging.”
The Actors Choice interview with Ron Brewington
Actress, Producer Deirdre V. Lyons and Writer, Producer, Director Koji Steven Sakai joins host Ron Brewington on "The Actor's Choice."
Spectrum News 1 Segment by Tara Lynn Wagner
Lyons has witnessed it, even been a part of it, and explained that “when we see something in VR and we reach out to hug someone, part of our brain recognizes what it felt like to do it and it supplies that emotion, that feeling of hugging.”
Good Nerd, Bad Nerd
Good Nerd Bad Nerd talks with Deirdre Lyons, one of the many stars of “The Under Presents: Tempest”. Deirdre tells us all about her role as Prespero in this completely VR, completely unique telling of Shakespeare’s Tempest.
Patti Pietschmann
“Virtual reality is part of the future of storytelling. This production gives a great example for how VR and live theater can successfully come together,” says Lyons
Horrorbuzz Interview
Brian Tull sit down with The Under Presents developer, Tender Claws Co-Founder Samantha Gorman and actress Deirdre Lyons, who immersive theatre fans will recognize from her various shows with JFI Productions, to discuss the thrills and tribulations of being one of the few bastions of live performance still operating in 2020, a VR one.