In the spring of 2022, I co-created a course called ‘The New Media Laboratory” with my colleague Brad Willcuts in the Department of Theatre. The focus of this course was to bring new and emerging technologies into the classroom to provide our students exposure and practice in working with performance styles of the future. While the course offered an opportunity for crucial practice in existing forms as well (A.D.R, Musicals on Film, and green screen work,) the primary purpose of the class was the work they were doing in motion capture and augmented reality. Using motion capture suits, funded primarily through grants, our students were able to make direct connections between the physical work they were learning for stage performance in their Movement classes, and how those same techniques can be applied to modern practices in filmmaking. In keeping with my commitment to provide our students the skills necessary to create content for themselves, the final project of the class involved using motion capture to record an avatar (selected by the student) in a scene (written by the student) which would then be filmed using augmented reality; the student would then act as another character opposite their avatar in the scene. This created connections between content creation, movement work, motion capture work, basic filmmaking techniques, acting on camera, and ADR.