Workshop: Performing for Immersive & Themed Entertainment

Taught by themed entertainment professional AJ Danna, this 1-day online workshop offers an insider’s perspective on how to view immersive and themed entertainment performing as storytelling, advertising, and a means for life-changing connections.

  • Sunday, June 23rd, 4pm-7pm PT

  • Workshop Cost: $129 (+applicable taxes & fees)

  • Workshop is held online via Zoom

  • This is not a performance coaching class! No prior acting experience is required!

  • Taught by industry professional: AJ Danna

  • Upon completion, you receive your Essential Art Department Certificate

Workshop: Performing for Immersive & Themed Entertainment

Summer '24

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Workshop: Performing for Immersive & Themed Entertainment

Summer 2024

Join us for a Performing for Immersive & Themed Entertainment session. Only $129 for an intensive one-day workshop of instruction and interaction. 

Discover your role in joining the world’s leading entertainment companies as they utilize immersive experiences and performances to connect with guests. From theatre to theme parks and beyond, students will explore a variety of productions where interactive characters help set the stage for the future of audience engagement. Taught by themed entertainment professional AJ Danna, this online workshop offers an insider’s look at the life of an immersive and themed entertainment performer, theorizing storytelling and advertising as tools for life-changing connections. Taught by themed entertainment professional AJ Danna, this online workshop offers an insider’s perspective on how to view immersive and themed entertainment performing as storytelling, advertising, and a means for life-changing connections.

This course is NOT A PERFORMANCE COACHING COURSE! It is built more upon the theory and deep dive into what goes into immersive & themed entertainment performances and how they tell a story. 

Complete this course and receive your Performing for Immersive & Themed Entertainment certificate!  

The content from this course stays available to you for a full year,  so you will always have the opportunity to go back to prior weeks to review information or download handouts as needed. 

It is our hope that the course content will inspire you to dive into this crazy industry, and become an Essential part of any department. We expect you to have fun while taking the course, because even though it is packed with information and resources, you should still be enjoying every moment of it! 

Taught by industry professionals you will be given rare insight into the inner workings of some of the most famous Entertainment projects around town. And you will get to hear some amazing, funny, sad and true stories from behind the scenes as well!

All students will have until one week before course start to cancel their registration and receive a full refund (Minus applicable fees & taxes). Cancellations requested within one week of class started will not be refunded. Please see our Terms & Conditions for any questions. 

Check out a preview of the course curriculum below and check back often for the next session to begin.

Workshop Sample Curriculum

This is a sample of the subject matter that you will experience within the workshop.

    1. How to Navigate Your Student Course Site

    1. Welcome to PITE - Please introduce yourself!

    1. Media Lecture: Introduction to the course and overview

    2. Workshop Syllabus

    3. Overview / Q&A Section

    1. The Power of Characters

    2. "What...IS this?"

    3. Immersive Defined

    4. Themed Entertainment Defined

    5. Transmedia Defined

    6. The Power of Connection

    7. Theme Parks: Character Performers

    8. Theme Parks: Face Characters

    9. Theme Parks: Parade Performers

    10. Theme Parks: Music Acts

    11. Theme Parks: Dancers

    12. Theme Parks: Hosts

    13. Theme Parks: Streetmosphere

    14. Theme Parks: Safety and Advocacy

    15. Immersive: LBE

    16. Immersive: Site-Specific Theatre

    17. Immersive: Agency

    18. Immersive: Gamified Experience

    19. Immersive: Narrative Experience

    20. Immersive: Worldbuilding Performance

    21. Immersive: Aesthetic Experience

    22. Immersive: Audio Storytelling

    23. Looking for Work

    24. Q&A

    1. Final Thoughts and What to Expect from Here

    2. Tell us about your experience with The Essential Art Department!

About this course

  • $129.00
  • 31 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

Meet Your Instructor

AJ Danna

Ambassador Instructor

AJ Danna is a Los Angeles-born actor, known primarily for his work in immersive themed entertainment and voiceover. AJ’s improv training from ComedySportz and The Groundlings School prepared him for an acting career dedicated to interpersonal connections, karmically giving back what he often experienced as a young guest at theme parks in Southern California. AJ’s performance work encompasses immersive experiences for clients including Netflix, Amazon, Universal, Blumhouse, Sony, 20th Century Studios, Warner Bros., Audible, and JoJo Siwa. He has also played over one hundred characters for theme parks and entertainment destinations throughout the world. From Alton Towers in the UK to Six Flags Magic Mountain in California, AJ regularly performs voiceovers for theme park rides, haunted attractions, firework shows, and animatronics. He also works as a freelance themed entertainment show writer, frequently collaborating with Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group and Palace Entertainment to develop scripts. Last but not least, you may have seen AJ on Disney Channel, Disney+, or NBC, in addition to his appearances in a variety of documentaries. AJ hopes to see YOU in a TEAD classroom soon!

Workshop: Performing for Immersive & Themed Entertainment | Summer 2024

Session starts June 23rd! Limited capacity!

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