Spectacular Disaster Factory, the company Kirsten and I set up, was a first-time invitee to the 2025 Los Angeles Immersive Invitational. With seven other teams of notable immersive experience creators in the LA area, on Friday May 2 we were given a theme (music) and randomly chose a genre (we got electronica) and a room at the LGBT Center in Hollywood. We had until noon Sunday May 4 to get a 10-minute immersive show on its feet. Audiences would see all eight vignettes in two hours, and there was a noon, 4pm, and 7pm show.
Our entry, entitled “Stringed Instruments”, starring Abigail Corrigan & Tiffany Ogburn, with production and sound design from Rachel Adams, was honored by receiving both the Audience Choice Award (popular vote) and the Judges’ Choice award (we tied with Spies Among Us).
Todd Martens of the Los Angeles Times covered the experience here, and Kirsten and I were quoted with pictures from the show in the article.
The other participating companies were:
- Cherry Poppins
- Dream Logik
- Last Call Theatre
- Meanwhile…netprov studio
- The Queen’s Fools
- Spies Among Us
- Spy Brunch
