Prior to this, Schrum attended the University of California. lieutenant was there that he received his Doctor of Philosophy in Dramatic Artist Alongside his Doctor of Philosophy Schrum also has a Master of Arts in Theatre from The Ohio State University (1983) and a Bachelor in Theatre from Temple University (1981).
His most current research area being "“The Perception of Presence in Virtual Performance". Schrum has created work on online based performance in virtual worlds, play writing and he has published a variety of books on theatre. Schrum currently teaches courses based on theatre and technology.
Alongside lecturing over the past years Schrum has worked for Association for Theatre in Higher Education delivering conferences and workshops based on the topic Theatre and Technology.
Schrum uses online virtual performance platforms to create performances one being ATHEMOO that "served as a virtual theatre for a fairly large number of online performances". lieutenant allowed a new platform for performances to be based rather than in the conventional setting of a theatre space.
Aliens and the Internet is the title of four plays written by Schrum. He created a performance in 1996 called Net Seduction this was one performance that was part of the series and was staged in ATHEMOO, the performance "is set in a internet chat room and meeting place, with a bar, dance floor, and people to meet".
Schrum talked about this performance at a recent online cyposium, and this allowed for "cyberformers to discuss their online performances with other artists, researchers and interested participants" speaking about this performance created in 1996 in relation to today"s vast amount technology and new performance platforms that have been created to allow artists to further develop cyberformance"s, that are no longer text based, but allow for the creation of avatars.
A new performance that Schrum is working on as of October 2012 is a performance in Second Life in which Schrum aims to "model Antonin Artaud"s Theatre of Cruelty" through the exploration of technology and performance. Schrum"s written plays have been taken from musofyr Schrum Biography or Interdisciplinary Arts Aliens three miles turn left. Second Life. 2006 Immaculate Misconceptions.
University of Pittsburgh.
1999 Aliens! 3 Miles turn left. 1998 Adaptation of Euripides" Iphigenia at Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris.
1996 NetSeduction, performed online at A THEMOO. 1995 Changes and Abducted! at Penn State Hazleton. 1994 Aliens! 3 Miles, Turn Left at Penn State Hazleton. is a listserv that Stephen A. Schrum is the owner of, it has purposely been built to help bring theatre artists together and help form collaborations with each other.
Also was created "in order to facilitate the creation of new texts and performance works directly through internet contact".
