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- Michael Counts (born 1970) is an American stage director and designer of theater, opera, and immersive performance events and a creator and producer of large-scale public art installations and digital platforms. He has been described in The New York Times as a “mad genius” and “a master of immersive theatre”,in Variety as having the "grandest ambitions" of leading pioneers of immersive theater in New York City. Counts has worked in a wide range of contexts and locations including a performance on the side of a mountain in Japan, a custom-designed bus that made Times Square and the surrounding streets its stage, an immersive environment for a program of spatial music for symphony orchestra presented in a drill hall, a six-story video tower in a planned community in Florida, and two immersive adaptations of Dante’s The Divine Comedy: the first an evening performance in a series of walk-through installations in a 40,000 square foot Brooklyn warehouse and the second in an escape room maze in Midtown Manhattan. He also directed and designed opera productions at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City Center, the Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College, and on tour at the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Many of his innovations anticipated new developments in the worlds of live performance, design and the digital realm. Counts is the Founding Director of Counts Projects and produces his work in New York City. He has served as a consultant for Disney theme parks and other global entertainment and media companies. He was a co-founder of GAle GAtes et al., a performance and visual art company initially resident with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) at various locations in Manhattan and on tour in Asia before taking up residence in the Brooklyn warehouse. (en)
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- Michael Counts (born 1970) is an American stage director and designer of theater, opera, and immersive performance events and a creator and producer of large-scale public art installations and digital platforms. He has been described in The New York Times as a “mad genius” and “a master of immersive theatre”,in Variety as having the "grandest ambitions" of leading pioneers of immersive theater in New York City. (en)