Join Epic Immersive and The Landry in welcoming Annie Lesser of The ABC Project to the Bay for a free meetup and talk! Annie is one of our favorite auteurs from the Los Angeles scene, famed for her emotionally intimate, darkly funny writing and her multi-genre, site-specific work as part of The ABC Project. Her 10-minute piece A(partment 8) still ranks as one of the most harrowing, unforgettable experiences we've ever witnessed.
Now, Annie is town to debut a new experience that she has created for Epic Immersive's Underland. Baby/Mine takes a deeply personal and challenging look at her relationship with her own mother. Join us this Mother's Day weekend for what promises to be a profoundly moving, evocative, and intimate immersive experience for an audience of one.
While she's in town, Annie will be stopping by The Laundry for a mattinee meetup, where she'll speak about her experiences creating and producing The ABC Project! Join the San Francisco immersive community at this FREE meetup to meet Annie and grab some midday drinks and coffee for a little mixing and mingling.
We'll see you this Saturday!
About Annie Lesser:
Annie Lesser Bio: Annie Lesser is the award-winning immersive theater director behind the site specific based series The ABC Project, food and math pop up Infinitely Dinner Society, autobiographical slow burn Death and Coffee, DIY multisensory haunt The Unknown, character exploration Getting to Know You, and premiering this summer the positive affirmation silent disco Picnic Party. She is also was the artistic director of the immersive experiences at the Cloak and Dagger music festivals in 2017 and 2018, and the original artistic director of immersive at the Cloak and Dagger night club from 2015-2016. Annie graduated from NYU Tisch's Dramatic Writing Program as a Goldberg Playwrights Fellowship finalist and the recipient of the Excellence in Television Writing Award. She is also an international award-winning poet and photojournalist of note.
Praise for Annie Lesser:
"Courageous actors and Lesser’s fertile invention and exacting eye made each show an exhilarating and profoundly unsettling journey into the poetics of extreme intimacy." -LA Weekly Best of Theater 2016-
"In the few years since she landed in Los Angeles, experimental playwright-director Annie Lesser has firmly established herself as one of the most fearless and adventurous forces in the city's emerging immersive scene." -Stage Raw, 2016-
Getting to Know You "An inspired combination of speed dating and relationship time travel." -KCRW 2015-
A(partment 8) "This could be one of the most intimate, visceral experiences ever created... It is a transformation. You walk in one person and walk out another." -Gia On The Move 2016-
B(arbershop) "What continues to be exciting is seeing Lesser fearlessly experiment without the firewall of the physical and figurative distance between spectator and performer that mediates the traditional drama." -Haunting 2016-
The Chalet an adaptation of A(partment 8) "It’s an incredibly special experience, one that will stay with you and maybe even change you a little."-Birth.Movies.Death. 2017-
C(ovell) "Its carefully orchestrated illogic is one of the show’s genuine pleasures. Lesser’s playful, semi-nonsensical lyricism and emotionally wounded comic caricatures evoke the double-edged paradoxes and existential absurdities most associated with Lewis Carroll,"-LA Weekly
D(istillery) "While D(istillery) hews to a more traditional theatrical role of audience as listeners, the signal has rarely come through with such clarity and resonance. All thanks to Lesser’s impeccable immersive instincts"-No Proscenium
E(levator), Students, and Friends "Annie Lesser is the Quentin Tarantino of Immersive Theater." -My Haunt Life 2017-
Infinitely Dinner Society Midnight Snacks "[a] bizarre and unique experience...the feeling of experiencing “Midnight Snacks,” [is] one of nervousness and excitement because of the unknown." -LA Weekly 2017-
Infinitely Dinner Society @ The Overlook "...Lesser conveyed the coldness of dimensions beyond." -Bloody Disgusting 2018-
Death and Coffee "... beautifully cathartic..." -See It or Skip it 2018-
The Unknown "It reveals itself as something that’s less about scaring you and more as a meditation on what’s behind those fears...That thoughtful approach is what gives The Unknown a little heft and makes it an interesting spin on a Halloween haunt. But hey, it’s a fun one of those too."
F(ord Focus) "...unlike any theatre experience you've ever had" -Thrillist 2019 -
About The Laundry
The Laundry is an experiential space fostering creativity, connection, and community. We are a new kind of gallery space dedicated to providing people with tools and interactive opportunities for sharing their creations with the world. We believe that creativity makes life infinitely interesting and fulfilling and we want The Laundry to be a special place for creators to build and share their creative endeavors.
About Epic Immersive
Epic Immersive designs large-scale live immersive theatre and mixed reality experiences where story, spectacle, and interaction deliver transcendent, awe-inspiring journeys. Epic's experiences have featured 14-acre fictional cities, 100+ performers, journeys down slides in fireplaces into underground wonderlands, and multi-block takeovers of historic neighborhoods.
Epic's live experiences have been commissioned by Silicon Valley companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. Epic is also one of the producers of The Immersive Design Summit, the premiere gathering of the immersive universe. The Immersive Design Summit has featured luminaries from Disney, Meow Wolf, Punchdrunk Inernational, Lucasfilm, ILMxLab, The Void, Dreamscape Immersive, Giant Spoon, Mycotoo, Two Bit Circus, and more. We are proud that, in every year that Epic has existed, more that half of our artists have always been women, and more that half of our artists have always been artists of color.
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Now, Annie is town to debut a new experience that she has created for Epic Immersive's Underland. Baby/Mine takes a deeply personal and challenging look at her relationship with her own mother. Join us this Mother's Day weekend for what promises to be a profoundly moving, evocative, and intimate immersive experience for an audience of one.
While she's in town, Annie will be stopping by The Laundry for a mattinee meetup, where she'll speak about her experiences creating and producing The ABC Project! Join the San Francisco immersive community at this FREE meetup to meet Annie and grab some midday drinks and coffee for a little mixing and mingling.
We'll see you this Saturday!
About Annie Lesser:
Annie Lesser Bio: Annie Lesser is the award-winning immersive theater director behind the site specific based series The ABC Project, food and math pop up Infinitely Dinner Society, autobiographical slow burn Death and Coffee, DIY multisensory haunt The Unknown, character exploration Getting to Know You, and premiering this summer the positive affirmation silent disco Picnic Party. She is also was the artistic director of the immersive experiences at the Cloak and Dagger music festivals in 2017 and 2018, and the original artistic director of immersive at the Cloak and Dagger night club from 2015-2016. Annie graduated from NYU Tisch's Dramatic Writing Program as a Goldberg Playwrights Fellowship finalist and the recipient of the Excellence in Television Writing Award. She is also an international award-winning poet and photojournalist of note.
Praise for Annie Lesser:
"Courageous actors and Lesser’s fertile invention and exacting eye made each show an exhilarating and profoundly unsettling journey into the poetics of extreme intimacy." -LA Weekly Best of Theater 2016-
"In the few years since she landed in Los Angeles, experimental playwright-director Annie Lesser has firmly established herself as one of the most fearless and adventurous forces in the city's emerging immersive scene." -Stage Raw, 2016-
Getting to Know You "An inspired combination of speed dating and relationship time travel." -KCRW 2015-
A(partment 8) "This could be one of the most intimate, visceral experiences ever created... It is a transformation. You walk in one person and walk out another." -Gia On The Move 2016-
B(arbershop) "What continues to be exciting is seeing Lesser fearlessly experiment without the firewall of the physical and figurative distance between spectator and performer that mediates the traditional drama." -Haunting 2016-
The Chalet an adaptation of A(partment 8) "It’s an incredibly special experience, one that will stay with you and maybe even change you a little."-Birth.Movies.Death. 2017-
C(ovell) "Its carefully orchestrated illogic is one of the show’s genuine pleasures. Lesser’s playful, semi-nonsensical lyricism and emotionally wounded comic caricatures evoke the double-edged paradoxes and existential absurdities most associated with Lewis Carroll,"-LA Weekly
D(istillery) "While D(istillery) hews to a more traditional theatrical role of audience as listeners, the signal has rarely come through with such clarity and resonance. All thanks to Lesser’s impeccable immersive instincts"-No Proscenium
E(levator), Students, and Friends "Annie Lesser is the Quentin Tarantino of Immersive Theater." -My Haunt Life 2017-
Infinitely Dinner Society Midnight Snacks "[a] bizarre and unique experience...the feeling of experiencing “Midnight Snacks,” [is] one of nervousness and excitement because of the unknown." -LA Weekly 2017-
Infinitely Dinner Society @ The Overlook "...Lesser conveyed the coldness of dimensions beyond." -Bloody Disgusting 2018-
Death and Coffee "... beautifully cathartic..." -See It or Skip it 2018-
The Unknown "It reveals itself as something that’s less about scaring you and more as a meditation on what’s behind those fears...That thoughtful approach is what gives The Unknown a little heft and makes it an interesting spin on a Halloween haunt. But hey, it’s a fun one of those too."
F(ord Focus) "...unlike any theatre experience you've ever had" -Thrillist 2019 -
About The Laundry
The Laundry is an experiential space fostering creativity, connection, and community. We are a new kind of gallery space dedicated to providing people with tools and interactive opportunities for sharing their creations with the world. We believe that creativity makes life infinitely interesting and fulfilling and we want The Laundry to be a special place for creators to build and share their creative endeavors.
About Epic Immersive
Epic Immersive designs large-scale live immersive theatre and mixed reality experiences where story, spectacle, and interaction deliver transcendent, awe-inspiring journeys. Epic's experiences have featured 14-acre fictional cities, 100+ performers, journeys down slides in fireplaces into underground wonderlands, and multi-block takeovers of historic neighborhoods.
Epic's live experiences have been commissioned by Silicon Valley companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. Epic is also one of the producers of The Immersive Design Summit, the premiere gathering of the immersive universe. The Immersive Design Summit has featured luminaries from Disney, Meow Wolf, Punchdrunk Inernational, Lucasfilm, ILMxLab, The Void, Dreamscape Immersive, Giant Spoon, Mycotoo, Two Bit Circus, and more. We are proud that, in every year that Epic has existed, more that half of our artists have always been women, and more that half of our artists have always been artists of color.
Join Epic Immersive and The Landry in welcoming Annie Lesser of The ABC Project to the Bay for a free meetup and talk! Annie is one of our favorite auteurs from the Los Angeles scene, famed for her emotionally intimate, darkly funny writing and her multi-genre, site-specific work as part of The ABC Project. Her 10-minute piece A(partment 8) still ranks as one of the most harrowing, unforgettable experiences we've ever witnessed.
Now, Annie is town to debut a new experience that she has created for Epic Immersive's Underland. Baby/Mine takes a deeply personal and challenging look at her relationship with her own mother. Join us this Mother's Day weekend for what promises to be a profoundly moving, evocative, and intimate immersive experience for an audience of one.
While she's in town, Annie will be stopping by The Laundry for a mattinee meetup, where she'll speak about her experiences creating and producing The ABC Project! Join the San Francisco immersive community at this FREE meetup to meet Annie and grab some midday drinks and coffee for a little mixing and mingling.
We'll see you this Saturday!
About Annie Lesser:
Annie Lesser Bio: Annie Lesser is the award-winning immersive theater director behind the site specific based series The ABC Project, food and math pop up Infinitely Dinner Society, autobiographical slow burn Death and Coffee, DIY multisensory haunt The Unknown, character exploration Getting to Know You, and premiering this summer the positive affirmation silent disco Picnic Party. She is also was the artistic director of the immersive experiences at the Cloak and Dagger music festivals in 2017 and 2018, and the original artistic director of immersive at the Cloak and Dagger night club from 2015-2016. Annie graduated from NYU Tisch's Dramatic Writing Program as a Goldberg Playwrights Fellowship finalist and the recipient of the Excellence in Television Writing Award. She is also an international award-winning poet and photojournalist of note.
Praise for Annie Lesser:
"Courageous actors and Lesser’s fertile invention and exacting eye made each show an exhilarating and profoundly unsettling journey into the poetics of extreme intimacy." -LA Weekly Best of Theater 2016-
"In the few years since she landed in Los Angeles, experimental playwright-director Annie Lesser has firmly established herself as one of the most fearless and adventurous forces in the city's emerging immersive scene." -Stage Raw, 2016-
Getting to Know You "An inspired combination of speed dating and relationship time travel." -KCRW 2015-
A(partment 8) "This could be one of the most intimate, visceral experiences ever created... It is a transformation. You walk in one person and walk out another." -Gia On The Move 2016-
B(arbershop) "What continues to be exciting is seeing Lesser fearlessly experiment without the firewall of the physical and figurative distance between spectator and performer that mediates the traditional drama." -Haunting 2016-
The Chalet an adaptation of A(partment 8) "It’s an incredibly special experience, one that will stay with you and maybe even change you a little."-Birth.Movies.Death. 2017-
C(ovell) "Its carefully orchestrated illogic is one of the show’s genuine pleasures. Lesser’s playful, semi-nonsensical lyricism and emotionally wounded comic caricatures evoke the double-edged paradoxes and existential absurdities most associated with Lewis Carroll,"-LA Weekly
D(istillery) "While D(istillery) hews to a more traditional theatrical role of audience as listeners, the signal has rarely come through with such clarity and resonance. All thanks to Lesser’s impeccable immersive instincts"-No Proscenium
E(levator), Students, and Friends "Annie Lesser is the Quentin Tarantino of Immersive Theater." -My Haunt Life 2017-
Infinitely Dinner Society Midnight Snacks "[a] bizarre and unique experience...the feeling of experiencing “Midnight Snacks,” [is] one of nervousness and excitement because of the unknown." -LA Weekly 2017-
Infinitely Dinner Society @ The Overlook "...Lesser conveyed the coldness of dimensions beyond." -Bloody Disgusting 2018-
Death and Coffee "... beautifully cathartic..." -See It or Skip it 2018-
The Unknown "It reveals itself as something that’s less about scaring you and more as a meditation on what’s behind those fears...That thoughtful approach is what gives The Unknown a little heft and makes it an interesting spin on a Halloween haunt. But hey, it’s a fun one of those too."
F(ord Focus) "...unlike any theatre experience you've ever had" -Thrillist 2019 -
About The Laundry
The Laundry is an experiential space fostering creativity, connection, and community. We are a new kind of gallery space dedicated to providing people with tools and interactive opportunities for sharing their creations with the world. We believe that creativity makes life infinitely interesting and fulfilling and we want The Laundry to be a special place for creators to build and share their creative endeavors.
About Epic Immersive
Epic Immersive designs large-scale live immersive theatre and mixed reality experiences where story, spectacle, and interaction deliver transcendent, awe-inspiring journeys. Epic's experiences have featured 14-acre fictional cities, 100+ performers, journeys down slides in fireplaces into underground wonderlands, and multi-block takeovers of historic neighborhoods.
Epic's live experiences have been commissioned by Silicon Valley companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. Epic is also one of the producers of The Immersive Design Summit, the premiere gathering of the immersive universe. The Immersive Design Summit has featured luminaries from Disney, Meow Wolf, Punchdrunk Inernational, Lucasfilm, ILMxLab, The Void, Dreamscape Immersive, Giant Spoon, Mycotoo, Two Bit Circus, and more. We are proud that, in every year that Epic has existed, more that half of our artists have always been women, and more that half of our artists have always been artists of color.
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Now, Annie is town to debut a new experience that she has created for Epic Immersive's Underland. Baby/Mine takes a deeply personal and challenging look at her relationship with her own mother. Join us this Mother's Day weekend for what promises to be a profoundly moving, evocative, and intimate immersive experience for an audience of one.
While she's in town, Annie will be stopping by The Laundry for a mattinee meetup, where she'll speak about her experiences creating and producing The ABC Project! Join the San Francisco immersive community at this FREE meetup to meet Annie and grab some midday drinks and coffee for a little mixing and mingling.
We'll see you this Saturday!
About Annie Lesser:
Annie Lesser Bio: Annie Lesser is the award-winning immersive theater director behind the site specific based series The ABC Project, food and math pop up Infinitely Dinner Society, autobiographical slow burn Death and Coffee, DIY multisensory haunt The Unknown, character exploration Getting to Know You, and premiering this summer the positive affirmation silent disco Picnic Party. She is also was the artistic director of the immersive experiences at the Cloak and Dagger music festivals in 2017 and 2018, and the original artistic director of immersive at the Cloak and Dagger night club from 2015-2016. Annie graduated from NYU Tisch's Dramatic Writing Program as a Goldberg Playwrights Fellowship finalist and the recipient of the Excellence in Television Writing Award. She is also an international award-winning poet and photojournalist of note.
Praise for Annie Lesser:
"Courageous actors and Lesser’s fertile invention and exacting eye made each show an exhilarating and profoundly unsettling journey into the poetics of extreme intimacy." -LA Weekly Best of Theater 2016-
"In the few years since she landed in Los Angeles, experimental playwright-director Annie Lesser has firmly established herself as one of the most fearless and adventurous forces in the city's emerging immersive scene." -Stage Raw, 2016-
Getting to Know You "An inspired combination of speed dating and relationship time travel." -KCRW 2015-
A(partment 8) "This could be one of the most intimate, visceral experiences ever created... It is a transformation. You walk in one person and walk out another." -Gia On The Move 2016-
B(arbershop) "What continues to be exciting is seeing Lesser fearlessly experiment without the firewall of the physical and figurative distance between spectator and performer that mediates the traditional drama." -Haunting 2016-
The Chalet an adaptation of A(partment 8) "It’s an incredibly special experience, one that will stay with you and maybe even change you a little."-Birth.Movies.Death. 2017-
C(ovell) "Its carefully orchestrated illogic is one of the show’s genuine pleasures. Lesser’s playful, semi-nonsensical lyricism and emotionally wounded comic caricatures evoke the double-edged paradoxes and existential absurdities most associated with Lewis Carroll,"-LA Weekly
D(istillery) "While D(istillery) hews to a more traditional theatrical role of audience as listeners, the signal has rarely come through with such clarity and resonance. All thanks to Lesser’s impeccable immersive instincts"-No Proscenium
E(levator), Students, and Friends "Annie Lesser is the Quentin Tarantino of Immersive Theater." -My Haunt Life 2017-
Infinitely Dinner Society Midnight Snacks "[a] bizarre and unique experience...the feeling of experiencing “Midnight Snacks,” [is] one of nervousness and excitement because of the unknown." -LA Weekly 2017-
Infinitely Dinner Society @ The Overlook "...Lesser conveyed the coldness of dimensions beyond." -Bloody Disgusting 2018-
Death and Coffee "... beautifully cathartic..." -See It or Skip it 2018-
The Unknown "It reveals itself as something that’s less about scaring you and more as a meditation on what’s behind those fears...That thoughtful approach is what gives The Unknown a little heft and makes it an interesting spin on a Halloween haunt. But hey, it’s a fun one of those too."
F(ord Focus) "...unlike any theatre experience you've ever had" -Thrillist 2019 -
About The Laundry
The Laundry is an experiential space fostering creativity, connection, and community. We are a new kind of gallery space dedicated to providing people with tools and interactive opportunities for sharing their creations with the world. We believe that creativity makes life infinitely interesting and fulfilling and we want The Laundry to be a special place for creators to build and share their creative endeavors.
About Epic Immersive
Epic Immersive designs large-scale live immersive theatre and mixed reality experiences where story, spectacle, and interaction deliver transcendent, awe-inspiring journeys. Epic's experiences have featured 14-acre fictional cities, 100+ performers, journeys down slides in fireplaces into underground wonderlands, and multi-block takeovers of historic neighborhoods.
Epic's live experiences have been commissioned by Silicon Valley companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. Epic is also one of the producers of The Immersive Design Summit, the premiere gathering of the immersive universe. The Immersive Design Summit has featured luminaries from Disney, Meow Wolf, Punchdrunk Inernational, Lucasfilm, ILMxLab, The Void, Dreamscape Immersive, Giant Spoon, Mycotoo, Two Bit Circus, and more. We are proud that, in every year that Epic has existed, more that half of our artists have always been women, and more that half of our artists have always been artists of color.
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