AJ Danna is a Groundlings-trained improviser and themed entertainment creative. His recent titles include show director for RWS Global, show writer for Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor and Los Angeles Haunted Hayride, and casting director for Delusion. AJ’s voiceovers can be heard in theme park rides, firework shows, haunted attractions, and animatronics throughout the world - from Alton Towers in the UK to Six Flags parks in the US. AJ is especially grateful to be ‘Part of the Magic’ when contributing to The Walt Disney Company’s numerous global entertainment offerings. When he isn’t working behind a laptop or a microphone, AJ can be found performing at activations and experiences for Netflix, Universal, Warner Bros., and other studios. Web: ajdanna.com IG: @ajdanna

Karlie Blair is an LA-based immersive actor, producer, and managing director of #metaforyou. She has performed in many of LA’s top immersive experiences, such as The Lust Experience, Shine On Collective, Whisperlodge, and Drunken Devil. Immersive performance has taken her all over the world: San Diego Comic Con, SF Sketchfest, Electric Forest, NYC Poetry Fest, Edinburgh Fringe, and an immersive design challenge in Paris. She has used the word “immersive” so many times in this bio that it doesn’t sound like a real word anymore. Follow her on immers- I mean, Instagram: @blairkarlie

Terence Leclere is the founder, CEO of #metaforyou, a company that provides immersive interactive services via talent, content, and consultation; specializing in interpersonal dynamics design, casting and creative frontline personnel direction for live events.

#metaforyou has worked on immersive events for brands such as Amazon Prime Video, HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, Paramount Plus, Peacock, Freeform and more.  

He is also an immersive actor performing live, on screens, and in VR, featured in Vice, LA Weekly, Stage Raw, VR Focus, CNet, The Verge, Variety, Broadway World, Backstage, Huffington Post, AV Club, Buzzfeed, and No Proscenium.

Shoshanna Ruth Green is an L.A-based actor from Philadelphia, by way of New Zealand, by way of Pittsburgh. She adores Shakespeare, immersive theater and laughter. Shoshanna just finished an incredible run of shows at Theatricum Botanicum where Broadway World called her “wildly comic and entertaining.” When she’s not on stage you can find her writing comedy for her sketch group Corduroy at The Pack Theater. More info at www.shoshannaruthgreen.com

Paul Jones is an immersive creator, actor, Alaska fishery advocate, and arts educator who is desperately hoping that any of those could become full time jobs. He co-produces Brucefest, an immersive fan convention featuring horror icon Bruce Campbell!

Christy Casey specializes in interactive experiences that invite guests to not just see the story... but LIVE it! If you're in LA, set sail to Neverland in early November with her upcoming show Second Star (allaruse.com/secondstar). Christy was part of the Interactive Deep Dive, a think tank led by Jeff Wirth, which created experiences that cast non-actor participants in protagonist roles. She now produces original immersive work with her company, Ruse, and hosts a YouTube channel, Making Belief, exploring the gray area between fiction and reality. She also teaches interactive acting workshops! Subscribe to her newsletter at ChristyCasey.com for updates on future workshops and productions.

Francesca “Frankie” Palermo is a born & raised LA girl who you might have seen performing at Knott’s Berry Farm, Universal Studios Hollywood City Walk, another theme park or somewhere else touring throughout the country. You might have heard her voiceovers at different theme parks or museums or just walking around town. Or she’s that girl they’ve trusted on a microphone hosting a panel or something fun like that. But nothing brings her more joy than all the amazing immersive improv projects she’s had the honor of being a part of such as Ghost Town Alive! She could speak about all things “immersive” for days she’s gotten to play in. Or most likely, she’s the girl sitting on the floor at your party petting your dog.

Terence Leclere is the founder, CEO of #metaforyou, a company that provides immersive interactive services via talent, content, and consultation; specializing in interpersonal dynamics design, casting and creative frontline personnel direction for live events.

#metaforyou has worked on immersive events for brands such as Amazon Prime Video, HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, Paramount Plus, Peacock, Freeform and more.  

He is also an immersive actor performing live, on screens, and in VR, featured in Vice, LA Weekly, Stage Raw, VR Focus, CNet, The Verge, Variety, Broadway World, Backstage, Huffington Post, AV Club, Buzzfeed, and No Proscenium.

Dasha is an LA based theatre/film/voice artist and creative director who specializes in interactive storytelling. Immersive productions include 5 seasons of Delusion, Angela in The Willows which can be seen on Oculus Go/AmazeVR, Atlas with The Speakeasy Society at Two Bit Circus, Rochester 1996 with Capital W, ABC Project's C(ovell), Haus of Creep with JFI Productions and Crimson Cabaret with The Unmarked Door. She is currently a live actor in the VR experience Tempest at Raindance Film Festival November 5-15th as well as a live actor in the VR Oculus experience The Under Presents by Tender Claws through the end of the year. Dasha holds a BFA in Drama from NYU and additionally trained at UCB and the Moscow Art Theatre. Say hallo @dashakittredge

Jessica is an award-winning game and immersive experience designer and the founder of IKantKoan Studio. She enjoys gamifying complex subject matter like love, chaos, empathy, metaphysics, philosophy, and climate change. Her games have been implemented by The National Parks Service, the Rachel Carson Center for Climate Change Research, Tanween Creativity Festival in Ithra, Saudi Arabia, and featured on NPR. Her New York Times recommended playable theater show, CHAOS THEORY, recently won the 2019 Best Social Immersion Award from Immersion Nation and Critics Pick for Best Immersive Storytelling from No Proscenium. Last year she gave a TEDx talk about embracing uncertainty through play.

Ryan Fisher is a graduate of Theatre and Drama Studies from the University of Toronto. Seen on the immersive theatre stage in Crimson Cabaret (Unmarked Door) and Here the Birds Burn (Heritage Square Museum). Other theatre includes Mitchell Sanatorium (MMProductions), Streeptease (Macha Theatre), and Being at Home With Claude (Toronto Fringe). TV credits include The Mentalist (CBS), American Horror Story (FOX), Enemies of Dorothy (Here TV).

Bob Fingerman, best known for his cult comic series Minimum Wage, in 2018 realized his childhood dream to become one of MAD’s “usual gang of idiots.” Alas, MAD was soon thereafter essentially euthanatized. Bob accepts only partial blame for that. His newest book is the comical Dotty’s Inferno (Heavy Metal/Virus, Fall 2020).

Karlie Blair is an LA-based immersive actor, producer, and managing director of #metaforyou. She has performed in many of LA’s top immersive experiences, such as The Lust Experience, Shine On Collective, Whisperlodge, and Drunken Devil. Immersive performance has taken her all over the world: San Diego Comic Con, SF Sketchfest, Electric Forest, NYC Poetry Fest, Edinburgh Fringe, and an immersive design challenge in Paris. She has used the word “immersive” so many times in this bio that it doesn’t sound like a real word anymore. Follow her on immers- I mean, Instagram: @blairkarlie

Siobhan O’Loughlin is a Brooklyn-based performance artist, activist, and filmmaker. She is the recipient of The New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, a grant recipient of the Network of Ensemble Theatres, a Moth Story Slam Champion, a fellow at Guild Hall of East Hampton, and an international teaching artist, from southeast Asia to refugee camps all over Greece. Her site specific, immersive piece, Broken Bone Bathtub, toured globally for five consecutive years with over 600 performances in 40 different cities, and clocked top ten lists for theatre experiences from the Baltimore Sun, The San Francisco Examiner, and The Houston Chronicle. Siobhan is currently in the editing process for her feature-length documentary about her experience with Broken Bone Bathtub on the road, and the journey of the artist in a capitalist culture. She quickly pivoted in the Covid-era to perform weekly in her interactive serial digital art experiment, Please Don't Touch the Artist, where she invites a community of guests to explore intimacy and vulnerability through her screen, for over fifty performances since March. In September 2020, Siobhan organized The Misfits, a group of progressive artists and activists (and mostly Bernie and Warren supporters) going rogue to help Joe Biden take the White House back from the clutches of fascism.

Get tickets for Please Don't Touch the Artist shows at: https://www.pleasedonttouchtheartist.com/events

Visit her at www.siobhanoloughlin.com

One day, the show-in-a-bathtub will thrive again: www.brokenbonebathtub.com

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Phil Ward is an actor and musician who has been part of seven or eight immersive productions, a few movies and TV shows, and dozens of stage plays, mostly at Theatre of NOTE in Hollywood. He also has a career as a comic singer-songwriter, recording on the Trough Records label. He’s been heard on the radio here and there, including The Dr. Demento Show, and you may have seen him on your local PBS station, wooing you with song to donate your vehicle. Did you respond by donating your vehicle? Excellent.

Jonathan Wysocki is a filmmaker whose debut feature "Dramarama" is currently playing the festival circuit. He is a Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs Fellow as well as an Advisor for Sundance Co//ab. He’s made 5 award-winning short films including "A Doll’s Eyes," which screened at 50 festivals across 6 continents and was translated into 8 languages. Previously, Wysocki worked as a programmer for the LA Film Festival, as a producer on the indie features "The Hammer" and "Thrasher Road," and for major studios such as MGM and ABC. Wysocki is a UCLA alumnus, a Project Involve Fellow at Film Independent, a Berlinale Talents alum, and a lecturer at Occidental College, Chapman University, and Cal State Long Beach.

Kim is a San Diego-based theatre director and actor. Directing credits include HANDBAGGED at Moxie Theatre; BULL IN A CHINA SHOP, A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS and A NEW BRAIN (Diversionary Theatre); ROMEO, ROMEO AND JULIET (Roustabouts Theatre Company); 8 SONGS FOR A MAD KING (San Diego Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Special Event and 2017 Best of Festival-San Diego International Fringe Festival/Bodhi Tree Productions); SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE (San Diego Critics Circle Award-Outstanding Direction of a Musical), MASTER CLASS, PASSION (San Diego Critics Circle Award Nomination-Outstanding Direction of a Musical), GREY GARDENS, GYPSY (San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Nomination-Outstanding Direction of a Musical) and DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE (Ion Theatre); GUTENBERG THE MUSICAL! (Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company); SEASCAPE (New Village Arts Theatre) and THE WOMAN IN BLACK with Jason Heil (CSU San Marcos). Acting credits include THE NORMAL HEART at Ion Theatre (San Diego Critics Circle Award-Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play),THE MOORS at Diversionary Theatre and THE ROOMMATE and SIMPATICO at New Village Arts Theatre. Kim is a graduate of Catholic University of America, studied at LAMDA, and is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. Kim has also served as an Artistic Trustee for Diversionary Theatre and teaches Acting at the Coronado School of the Arts.

Pete Vigeant is a veteran experience and game designer that specializes in creating fun, playful moments for large groups. Pete is the founder of The Completely Surrounded, a consulting group that partners with design firms, corporations, camps, colleges, and institutions to bring live-action games, thoughtful design, and training to thousands of participants. He also helps run the Come Out and Play Festival in New York and has given talks and lectures about fun, game design, and user experience design across the United States and abroad.

Brett Jackson is the award winning creator of live action attractions for theme parks and immersive experiences. Specializing in funny, delicious and/or illuminating. Find Brett Jackson online at LiveActionAttractions.com