Avin Shah

Avin Shah is an award-winning writer, actor and director. He won Best Radio Drama at the UK Writers’ Guild Awards and co-wrote BBC’s First World War series ‘Tommies’. He’s now producing a VR game, ‘This is Your Country Too’, about being a person of colour stuck in airport immigration: The Terminal meets Groundhog Day.

Emcee and JAZZ ORGAN

In the Spring of 2022, Avin Shaw partnered with Ari Tarr to devise and perform the immersive performance Jazz Organ for OnBoard: Port of Registry.

THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY TOO

In the beginning of 2023, Avin Shah submitted a proposal to OnBoardXR: It’s Pronounced Gybe as a first exploration of his playable theatre experience for FlipsideXR. Shah explored the migration of elements from a Unity3D package into web-based VR and a new cue to replace the navigation mesh of a 3D world to control the walkability of specific areas.