The Immersive Experience Institute

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Hosts of The Next Stage Immersive Summit & Co-Creators of The Immersive Invitationals. Bringing together the performing arts, gaming, and XR immersive communities since 2020.

GRAND PRIZE Spectacular Disaster Factory "Stringed Instruments"
Audience Award – Spectacular Disaster Factory "Stringed Instruments"
Best Use of Criteria – Cherry Poppins "Ismusik"
Special Recognition – Best Use of Space: The Queen's Fools "Devil on My Shoulder"
Special Recognition – Best Use of Music: Spy Brunch "Ursa Major and the Blue Mountain Hexes"
Logo of the Los Angeles Immersive Invitational with 2025 laurels
From 'Pirate's Wanted': A confrontation between two pirates (Bonnie-Lynn Montaño as Captain Souvanna & Shelby Ryan Lee as Captain Draken) as a guest looks on on the deck of a tall ship. In the distance: the worklights of the Port of Los Angeles. Photo Credit: Charly Charney Cohen
Promotional image from Spy Brunch's Dragon Show. (Credit: Nick Malis) A person with long curly hair, wearing a horned crown is confronted by a red robed figure with a dragon skull for a head.
Four people wearing motion capture tracking suits stand on a stage while a fifth person not wearing said suit addresses the audience. There is a taped down grid on the floor and a scrim behind them where something is being projected, although the lighting washes that out a bit.
A person in a knit cap and glasses (left), and another wearing white (center left) look at a woman in glasses with long hair wearing white who holds what looks to be a maraca and has bangles on her arms (right), a man in white wearing glasses stands between in the center, he has a goatee and is looking down. There is a real brick wall and what looks like white lego blocks, only they are scaled to human size.
The logo of the Los Angeles Immersive Invitational: white letters on black bars over multicolored "paint like blobs" on a white field.
Someone just off camera is aiming a NERF bow & arrow at a guy holding a banana who is talking with three others at what looks like a house party.
A woman in a trenchcoat hands off a red square of paper to another woman in a floral shirt inside a mall.
The cast of Cherry Poppin's SPICE WORLD: The Staged Parody Concert Reading.
An audience participant dressed up in cardboard portrays the "Wall" stands next to a mustachio'd Nick Bottom (Mason Conrad) in the play-within-the-play of A Midsummer's Night's Dream which is the play within the play of Not Another Midsummer.
The logo of the Los Angeles Immersive Invitational: white letters on black bars over multicolored "paint like blobs" on a white field.
central image: a man with dark curly hair and a beard smiles at the camera. Image text: Nick Moran; Phantom Peak. The Next Stage. 2025, Jan 17-19, Pasadena, CA. immersiveexperience.org
central image: A woman in a black dress sits in a chair and smiles at the camera. Image text: Myriam Achard; PHI. The Next Stage. 2025, Jan 17-19, Pasadena, CA. immersiveexperience.org
central image: a man with brown eyes and closely cropped hair smiles directly at the camera, he wears a blue shirt unbuttoned at the collar and and dark blue jacket. Image text: Stephen Gelpi; Disney Live Entertainment. The Next Stage. 2025, Jan 17-19, Pasadena, CA. immersiveexperience.org
central image: a woman with dark hair and brown eyes looks at the camera. Image text: Marie Navarro; Hasbro. The Next Stage. 2025, Jan 17-19, Pasadena, CA. immersiveexperience.org
central image: a woman in glasses with brown hair that ends in dark red highlights. Image text: Rita Orlov; PostCurious. The Next Stage. 2025, Jan 17-19, Pasadena, CA. immersiveexperience.org
Text on a white background: Electric Forest: The Future Looks Like Now At the top: a yellow and red gem like pattern At the bottom: red and yellow gem pattern with the text: Jan 17-19, 2025; The Next Stage, immersiveexperience.org; Pasadena, CA
central image: a black and white image of a woman in a hat looking to the left of frame. Image text: Nova Han; Electric Forest Festival. The Next Stage. 2025, Jan 17-19, Pasadena, CA. immersiveexperience.org
Text on a white background: Lessons From The Audience & Building The Emerging Touring Model of Immersive Events At the top: a yellow gem like pattern At the bottom: red and yellow gem pattern with the text: Jan 17-19, 2025; The Next Stage, immersiveexperience.org; Pasadena, CA
central image: the headshot of a white man with a beard. Image text: Charlie Miller, Denver Center for the Performing Arts. The Next Stage. 2025, Jan 17-19, Pasadena, CA. immersiveexperience.org
IEI board members Mikhael Tara Garver, Diana Williams, and Sara Thacher on stage as part of the 2023 Town Hall at The Next Stage Immersive Summit at ASU's California Center in Los Angeles. (Credit: Kathryn Yu / Immersive Experience Institute)