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Submersive Productions is a collaborative artworks company that creates original, site-specific immersive works where artists and audiences engage together at the intersection of histories, mythologies and the immediate experience.
Based in Baltimore, we devise works that make the audience essential to the journey of the narrative.
We work with diverse, predominantly female teams of artists and performers to make worlds that engage the senses and unfold stories, both familiar and forgotten.
Latest News
For every door that closes, another will open
We've had an extraordinary year bringing you "Katalepsis" and "The Boundary." Two fully unique and detailed worlds for you to explore, created collaboratively from the ground up by two amazing teams of world-builders.
So what is next? As we close the doors on these two long-term projects, we are excited at all the possibilities ahead. We like to think in terms of cycle rather than seasons, with our next cycle reaching 2-3 years into the future. We currently have about a dozen projects we would like to fit into that timeframe. As we plot out this cycle, we could use your help! Getting a new show up and running requires a lot of financial support. Ticket prices only cover a portion of production costs, and grant money is increasingly difficult to come by.
Help us support our commitment to audience-focused, experience-based artworks. We are a fiscally sponsored project through Fractured Atlas. You can make a tax-deductible contribution towards these efforts here, or if you prefer, donate via PayPal: info@SubmersiveProductions.com and Venmo: @Submersive Productions
Breathing New Life
"Breathing Black" is a new documentary created by Submersive Core Creators Tina Canady, and Marissa O'Guinn Dahl and Collective member Daisy Candy Brown.
Breathing Black follows nine Black Baltimoreans as they find joy amidst the global COVID-19 Pandemic and a summer of reckoning with the continued genocide of the Black body.
Since this past Summer, when we screened the film in person at The Peale Center and it streamed in the Columbia Film Fest, Breathing Black has continued to appear at film festivals locally and nationwide. Breathing Black screened at the Indianapolis Black Documentary Film Festival in August, the Detroit Black Film Festival in late September and will be screened at the SNF Parkway Friday, October 7th as part of the Baltimore International Black Film Festival!
What They Are Saying
"Best of Baltimore
One-of-a-kind Theater Company"
"...an exciting example of how historic spaces can be animated and made accessible through artistic experiences."
"Best Of Baltimore
Best Theatrical Experience"
“Submersive Productions has continued their dominance in creating unique immersive experiences. And using women of color to tell these unique experiences was genius.”
“I was blown away by the quality of the work.”
“A fully immersive experience that has something to dazzle all the senses.”
“...smart design decision after smart design decision...a one-hour master class in immersive theatre.”
"Lovers of the new, the weird and the wonderful, take note: everything you’re looking for is in Baltimore, at Submersive Productions’ fantastical new piece, H.T. Darling’s Incredible Musaeum"
“An experience that defies description in the most imaginatively miraculous way possible.”
"Museums spend years acquiring the sort of artifacts Submersive Productions assembled for this show. It’s one thing to stage a show in a real museum – quite another to flesh out an empty one."
Current and In-progess Works
In Progress...
2023 saw two extraordinary experiential works, "Katalepsis" and "The Boundary: A Life and Death Experience" run essentially back-to-back. For us, these pieces comprised work that started in 2020, before the world shut down, and represent our return to fully in-person work. It was a long ride to get those shows up, and now with that chapter closing, we are looking towards new horizons. Sure enough, a number of other projects have been simmering for a while and only now can we start thinking about them. (Currently there are about a dozen productions, large and small, and other stray ideas waiting to find the right moment to come to life.) Once this production season ends, we will be taking a much-needed pause to take stock and plan out our next 2-3 years. Join our email list and look for announcements in early 2024!
Our Building!
It's true! Last December we announced:
After a multi-year search, Submersive has found a home.
And it's every bit as weird and wonderful as you would expect.
We consider our building (nickname: The Sub Hub) to be our third project currently in progress.
We continue to make improvements so it may be suitable to visitors, and each day it gets a little closer to becoming the development space of our dreams. Meantime, we have been using it as a gathering and incubation space for the two above projects. We of course want to make sure we meet all the codes, rules and requirements of the city before officially “opening the doors” — even if it will be for small groups at a time. We are greatly looking forward to this day.
Our Team
Each project pulls from a growing and vibrant group of contributing artists.
Meet our core team of creatives.
KimLe
Core Creator
TaraCariaso
Core Creator
TrustinaSabah
Core Creator
JoshAterovis
Core Creator
UrsulaMarcum
Co-artistic Director
MikaNakano
Core Creator
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SusanStroupe
Core Creator
MarissaDahl
Core Creator
GlennRicci
Co-artistic Director
TinaCanady
Core Creator
MeganLivingston
Core Creator
Collaborators & Supporters
...and the Maryland State Arts Council's Creativity Grant program. To discover more about MSAC and how they impact Maryland, visit msac.org. Submersive Visionary Society: Kathleen Callaghan, Tony and Idalee DiGregorio, Jim Egan, Claire Rojstaczer, James Taylor, Jimmy Rogers, Susan McCully, Morgan Levinson, Laura Leslie, Cynthia Heider, Nancy Proctor, Natalie Wood, James Cavanaugh, Mike Ankrom and F. W. Chickering, Jackson Gilman-Forlini, Chris Frost and Christina Garafola, Bob Pownall.
How You Can Help
Participate
Come see a show, attend an event, bring a friend! Sign up for our Newsletter and keep an eye out for other ways to be an active part of our work. Word of mouth is still the most likely way for people to find us, so talk us up whenever you can!
Engage
Work the social webs! Give us a 5-star rating on FB. Follow us on our social platforms (links at the top), comment, share. Tag friends you know will love our work. Write a blog or FB post about us. It all really helps!
Donate
Help us support our commitment to audience-focused, experience-based artworks. We are a fiscally sponsored project through Fractured Atlas. You can make a tax-deductible contribution towards these efforts here, or if you prefer, donate via PayPal: info@SubmersiveProductions.com and Venmo: @Submersive Productions