Our Goal
The Permit Committee addresses issues surrounding the permitting of compliant and safe immersive events. The committee gathers data and works with the City of Los Angeles to streamline the permitting process and create pathways to elevate the immersive community.
The Committee
Transparency is important. We encourage members of the community to reach out to the LEIA Permits Committee at any time to learn more about our work.
Here are our members:
Tommy Honton (LEIA Permits Chair)
Tommy Honton is a Los Angeles-based experience designer who specializes in weaving interactivity and game mechanics into narrative storytelling. Across the United States, he has produced interactive and immersive work for audiences of all sizes, ranging from 1 to 80,000. He is also co-creator and designer of the critically-acclaimed escape room Stash House and co-founder of the interactive exhibition Museum of Selfies.
Marlee Delia
Marlee Delia is the co-founder and director/producer for the award-winning immersive theatre company, Shine On Collective. Outside of immersive theatre, Marlee is the choreographer and theatrical director for the Santa Monica Chorus. Marlee has a degree in theatre from Northeastern University and has studied theatrical movement and devised theatre with the SITI Company. Marlee has worked in many different capacities with local and regional theatres such as the American Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Cortland Repertory Theatre, the El Portal Theatre and Little Fish Theatre.
Alena Geffner-Mihlsten
Alena Geffner-Mihlsten is the co-founder of Into the Film, an immersive film company that takes participants into the world of their favorite films. She is also a lawyer, with extensive corporate experience. She is passionate about immersive entertainment and Los Angeles.
Justin Fix
Justin Fix has been producing, directing and performing original work over the last five years with his company Just Fix It Productions. Founded in 2015, Just Fix It Productions brings dynamic, live attractions and events to Los Angeles and major metro areas across the country. The production company’s impact and success over just a few years has quickly grown, with the high-end haunt experience CREEP, a visceral reinvention of murder mystery dinner theater, The Willows, and the full-length cinematic project Summer Slasher (In Development) – which places guests into nostalgic scenes from the best cult classics of our time. Capitalizing on the popularity of escape rooms, VR/AR, haunts, and the thriving nightlife scene in LA, Just Fix It’s creative team pushes the boundaries of interactive theatre in a daring and bold new direction within the always expanding artistic market of Los Angeles. For more information please visit www.JFIProductions.com | @JFIProductions
Jarrett Lantz
Jarrett Lantz is Co-Creative Director of Scout Expedition Co., an immersive theater company based in Los Angeles. Scout most recently ran “The Nest,” a small-format show described by The Verge as “...transcend[ing] its escape room and video game influences, turning a well-known format into a dramatic and emotional experience that is utterly unique.” By day, Jarrett works at a major themed entertainment company as a Concept Designer, developing rides and lands for theme parks around the world.
Jacob Patterson
Jacob Patterson is the director of Think Tank Gallery and Productions. Beginning as a co-op artist space in Downtown Los Angeles in 2010, the Think Tank has since expanded its services to provide permitting and sponsorship consultation, event production, and art direction for the artists and brands that it supports. Think Tank Gallery has been called one of the "Top 25 Most Instagrammable Arts Spaces" in the U.S. by Vice Magazine, and has produced shows in North Carolina, San Francisco, and all over Los Angeles. Patterson moved straight from the Art History program at UCLA to a job in marketing at DeviantArt while also co-founding the Think Tank, and has done freelance work in public relations and corporate fundraising, as well. He is from Sacramento, CA and has been based in Los Angeles for ten years. Past clients include the City of LA's Night on Broadway festival, Playboy, Pornhub, Cirque du Soleil, and Vans.
Annie Saunders
Annie Saunders is a site-specific director and live artist. Her company, Wilderness, has presented The Day Shall Declare It in a disused warehouse in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District with Los Angeles Performance Practice and in London with Theatre Delicatessen in the former BBC Studios and the Bush Theatre, at The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, REDCAT, the 14th Factory, Soho House Malibu, the San Francisco Playhouse and the Getty Villa. She is a core performer with Lars Jan's Early Morning Opera, and has appeared in Holoscenes, The Institute of Memory (TIMe), and Abacus. She is a participant in the 2017/18 Devised Theater Working Group for next-generation performance-makers at the Public Theater in New York. She is represented for commercial projects and commissions by HeLo, and has created unique large-scale experiences at Cannes Lions, for MasterCard, Hewlitt-Packard, Dos Equis, Bulleit and ASICS Worldwide.
The Permit Committee addresses issues surrounding the permitting of compliant and safe immersive events. The committee gathers data and works with the City of Los Angeles to streamline the permitting process and create pathways to elevate the immersive community.
The Committee
Transparency is important. We encourage members of the community to reach out to the LEIA Permits Committee at any time to learn more about our work.
Here are our members:
Tommy Honton (LEIA Permits Chair)
Tommy Honton is a Los Angeles-based experience designer who specializes in weaving interactivity and game mechanics into narrative storytelling. Across the United States, he has produced interactive and immersive work for audiences of all sizes, ranging from 1 to 80,000. He is also co-creator and designer of the critically-acclaimed escape room Stash House and co-founder of the interactive exhibition Museum of Selfies.
Marlee Delia
Marlee Delia is the co-founder and director/producer for the award-winning immersive theatre company, Shine On Collective. Outside of immersive theatre, Marlee is the choreographer and theatrical director for the Santa Monica Chorus. Marlee has a degree in theatre from Northeastern University and has studied theatrical movement and devised theatre with the SITI Company. Marlee has worked in many different capacities with local and regional theatres such as the American Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Cortland Repertory Theatre, the El Portal Theatre and Little Fish Theatre.
Alena Geffner-Mihlsten
Alena Geffner-Mihlsten is the co-founder of Into the Film, an immersive film company that takes participants into the world of their favorite films. She is also a lawyer, with extensive corporate experience. She is passionate about immersive entertainment and Los Angeles.
Justin Fix
Justin Fix has been producing, directing and performing original work over the last five years with his company Just Fix It Productions. Founded in 2015, Just Fix It Productions brings dynamic, live attractions and events to Los Angeles and major metro areas across the country. The production company’s impact and success over just a few years has quickly grown, with the high-end haunt experience CREEP, a visceral reinvention of murder mystery dinner theater, The Willows, and the full-length cinematic project Summer Slasher (In Development) – which places guests into nostalgic scenes from the best cult classics of our time. Capitalizing on the popularity of escape rooms, VR/AR, haunts, and the thriving nightlife scene in LA, Just Fix It’s creative team pushes the boundaries of interactive theatre in a daring and bold new direction within the always expanding artistic market of Los Angeles. For more information please visit www.JFIProductions.com | @JFIProductions
Jarrett Lantz
Jarrett Lantz is Co-Creative Director of Scout Expedition Co., an immersive theater company based in Los Angeles. Scout most recently ran “The Nest,” a small-format show described by The Verge as “...transcend[ing] its escape room and video game influences, turning a well-known format into a dramatic and emotional experience that is utterly unique.” By day, Jarrett works at a major themed entertainment company as a Concept Designer, developing rides and lands for theme parks around the world.
Jacob Patterson
Jacob Patterson is the director of Think Tank Gallery and Productions. Beginning as a co-op artist space in Downtown Los Angeles in 2010, the Think Tank has since expanded its services to provide permitting and sponsorship consultation, event production, and art direction for the artists and brands that it supports. Think Tank Gallery has been called one of the "Top 25 Most Instagrammable Arts Spaces" in the U.S. by Vice Magazine, and has produced shows in North Carolina, San Francisco, and all over Los Angeles. Patterson moved straight from the Art History program at UCLA to a job in marketing at DeviantArt while also co-founding the Think Tank, and has done freelance work in public relations and corporate fundraising, as well. He is from Sacramento, CA and has been based in Los Angeles for ten years. Past clients include the City of LA's Night on Broadway festival, Playboy, Pornhub, Cirque du Soleil, and Vans.
Annie Saunders
Annie Saunders is a site-specific director and live artist. Her company, Wilderness, has presented The Day Shall Declare It in a disused warehouse in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District with Los Angeles Performance Practice and in London with Theatre Delicatessen in the former BBC Studios and the Bush Theatre, at The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, REDCAT, the 14th Factory, Soho House Malibu, the San Francisco Playhouse and the Getty Villa. She is a core performer with Lars Jan's Early Morning Opera, and has appeared in Holoscenes, The Institute of Memory (TIMe), and Abacus. She is a participant in the 2017/18 Devised Theater Working Group for next-generation performance-makers at the Public Theater in New York. She is represented for commercial projects and commissions by HeLo, and has created unique large-scale experiences at Cannes Lions, for MasterCard, Hewlitt-Packard, Dos Equis, Bulleit and ASICS Worldwide.
