Don't Follow the Lights

Don't Follow the Lights is an interactive immersive show featuring a fantastical menagerie of fae folk, breathtaking circus performances, delightful quests, and multiple possible endings depending on audience actions throughout the night. Every audience member will receive a unique token to take home with them at the end of the night. The show is geared towards adults but is suitable for teens as well.

Mystic Ventures Collective

Mystic Ventures Collective creates queer focused immersive theater in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their spooky mystery show, The Gravermind Estate, won No Proscenium's Pick of the Week in 2019. Show styles range from in person to virtual to pre-recorded on old school tapes.

Artist Biographies

Shelli Frew

Shelli Frew is an award winning playwright, performer, costumer, and author in San Francisco. Originally from Virginia, she moved to the Bay Area to study contortion under the tutelage of the world renowned contortionist Serchmaa Byamba. She got into immersive theater and writing on a whim, originally through the Rathskeller Club, an off-shoot of the Latitude Society. She has performed in immersive/interactive shows and events for Epic Immersive, Netflix's Stranger Things, Paradox's Bloodlines Vampire the Masquerade, and Speakeasy SF. She started Mystic Ventures Collective to bring about more queer art to the world and has so far produced half a dozen unique shows. She currently works as a contortion teacher at Circus Center and a costumer at Dear San Francisco, a long running show by Seven Fingers.

Sailor Galaviz

Sailor Galaviz (she/they) is a San Francisco-based trans-femme genderqueer writer, theater artist, filmmaker, drag performer, and activist, with a background managing several theater companies and nonprofit arts and culture organizations. Their theatrical work has been produced nationwide, with local collaborations including Oasis Arts, Ray of Light Theatre, Thrillpeddlers, Circus Center, Peaches Christ Productions, and more. They are the writer and director of Select Thine Own Journey, a series of interactive theatrical experiences in the style of “Choose Your Own Adventure” novels which has celebrated four unique productions.
As a filmmaker, Sailor has produced and directed several shorts that have been featured at film festivals worldwide, and was the production coordinator on the 2020 feature Sh*t & Champagne (dir. D'Arcy Drollinger). As their drag alter ego Piranha Psychotronica, she is one part of Media Meltdown, a performance collective and event production team. You can see them most regularly at their monthly film series at the 4 Star Theater entitled Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse, a celebration of gonzo filmmaking.