We are Culture House Immersive, an Avengers-style collective of leaders in the immersive, theatrical, gaming, and technology spaces. Led by pioneer in the industry, Mikhael Tara Garver, we have combined forces to change the future of Immersive Entertainment.
We develop, create, and design original and licensed narrative experiences. In 2024 we launch Culture House Immersive’s Inaugural Immersive Incubator with12 projects developed for prototype and production by 2025. Culture House Immersive's Slate launches in 2025.
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We are the Immersive Artistic Director to develop your IP into a Premiere Experience with business potential built into its DNA. With a focused sprint process, we design integrated XR and live entertainment with fandom, community, and narrative at its center.
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We consult on your multi-platform experience, location-based entertainment, experiential event, or XR experience. When designed well, Immersive is made for a world of stories in a connected narrative. We help you create space for all of your potential audience.
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We work with IP holders; Brands; Venues; Developers; Music, Film, TV, Book, or Game Creators; and Unique Talents. Projects are designed to scale to a range of venues, from planetariums and civic spaces to under-utilized malls, sport arenas, immersive technology spaces, roller rinks, and engage immersive technologies across the Extended Technology (XR) spectrum.
who we are
founder & executive creative producer
Mikhael Tara Garver has blazed the immersive trail internationally for over 20 years in creating, directing, and developing transformative live experiences across the globe. Her award-winning work has been with Walt Disney Imagineering, A.R.T./Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Facebook; IDEO, Amazon, United Nations, and Disney’s THEA award-winning Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. She is a founding board member of the Immersive Experience Institute; has the first ever immersive commissions from The Kennedy Center, Goodman Theatre and the National Theatre of Scotland; is a multi-year grantee of Pop Culture Collaborative - identified as a foremost Pop Culture Leader making culture change; and is an International Sacatar Fellow in Bahia, Brazil. She will be a featured speaker at the inaugural XP Fronts in May, 2024.
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the team
angela augustus
Head of Business Development
Jenny Koons
Head of Narrative Experiences
Kierna Conner
Head of Talent Development
Bri Moten
Associate Creative Producer
Nicole Borrelli Hearn
Head of Partnerships
Doreen Sayegh (for Pemberley Productions)
General Manager
Scarlett Kim
Head of Innovation
Geoffrey Jackson Scott
Head of Immersive Development
strategic advisors
bridgeLine Media (JL Pomeroy): Connecting strategic capital with technology-driven media companies poised for disruption and/or rapid growth that can generate impact at scale. A focus on world building IP, technical innovation, and linear storytelling expansion fuels bridgeLine’s ecosystem.
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AMS Immersive is the immersive consulting practice of AMS Planning & Research, founded in 1988 and committed to the value of arts, culture, and entertainment in communities around the world. Our purpose is to help leaders, institutions, and the sector adapt and change to realize ventures that are effective, resilient, and vital. With more than 35 years of experience in service to arts, cultural, and entertainment organizations, our team brings knowledge and expertise to provide meaningful perspective in these dynamic times. We serve producers, presenters and communities through three practice areas: management consulting and project development, performance analytics, and industry intelligence. For more information, please go to: www.ams-online.com.
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Pemberley Productions: a producer, tour booker, and general manager - specializing in bringing overseas work into the United States and on tour. Pemberley highlights: West End production of The Woman in Black (off-Broadway at NYC’s McKittrick Hotel and across the US); multiple productions with the Center Theatre Group (Los Angeles); the US Tours of Wise Children’s Wuthering Heights, Sadler's Wells Message in a Bottle; The Last Ship (starring STING). Prior to joining Pemberley, she was Manager of International & Special Projects at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, overseeing as many as 16 international presentations in each season. She is the Board President of contemporary performance incubator Links Hall, the Board Vice President of the League of Chicago Theatres, and served the City of Chicago as Legacy Co-Chair for the 2019 Year of Chicago Theatre effort led by Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
incubator co-producers
