About the Project
Watch our recording on YouTube!
Thursday, February 5th, from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
ZOOM | Livestream
To watch digitally, visit the Hollywood Fringe YouTube channel during or after the event.
To join in on the Zoom chat, reserve your ticket no later than 6:00 pm PT on the event day.
Interested in site-specific & immersive work? Or producing your show at a venue in the Fringe Zone that’s not already registered with Fringe (BYOV)? This workshop is for you!
We will cover both the logistics of BYOV at HFF and the many creative and behind-the-scenes elements of producing immersive work.
Join our moderator and brilliant panelists who have successfully navigated the hurdles and joys of taking the more unconventional route at HFF and beyond (more about them below!)
This workshop is followed by a Q&A.
This event will have live captioning. To request live ASL interpretation, please email [email protected] at least 72 hours in advance, and we will provide one.
Introducing our brilliant panelists:
Brooke Burgstahler
Brooke Burgstahler is an actor, comedian, and writer based in Los Angeles. She works across live comedy, scripted projects, and digital content, and is actively developing and performing new original material for the stage and screen.
She is the creator of the digital comedy series America’s Next Top Wellness Coach and a co-producer of the Woo Woo Comedy Series, which has been featured at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Brooke has appeared on ABC, MTV, and Apple TV. If you, too, have a social media addiction – give her a follow @BrookeStellar.
Zander Raphael
Zander Raphael (Ayeroff) is a gender-fluid actor, singer, producer, experience designer, clown, and performance artist. They have worked professionally in Hollywood as a studio session singer and actor across television, film, and commercial projects.
During the pandemic, Zander acted in, produced, and designed virtual events for worldwide audiences as a member of Co-Reality Collective (CRC) and The Caravan, creators of immersive solo, group, and party experiences. Online participants were entertained, challenged, and teleported through Zoom wormholes into uncharted technological territories. Zander also collaborated with SparkleVerse as a key performer and experience designer for the 2020 and 2021 Virtual Burns (Digital Burning Man).
Their immersive character work includes hosting a Glass Onion-themed escape room for Netflix, interacting with San Diego Comic-Con patrons as an ancient Greek security guard, and teaching Rage Therapy as The Queen of Hearts. Hollywood Fringe Festival highlights include playing a non-binary dragon in the musical Cherries, Rare & Fair: A Quest for Orgasmic Rainbows, producing Ghost Train by Leia Vogelle, and conceptualizing, producing, and starring as their Kafkaesque character “The Supervisor” in three unique productions of The Complaints Dept.—a multiversal organization that transcends space and time, using complaints to improve your reality.
In 2025, Zander founded Unplugged Fest, an ongoing theater festival series providing completely free performance opportunities for fringe artists to perform new and existing work across the greater Los Angeles area. Learn more at @unplugged_fest on Instagram.
Christina Evans
Christina is a dance artist and actor who graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. She was the first performing artist to receive an Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship, spending time in Antarctica creating dance works ‘Polarity’ and ‘Body of Ice’. Her multi-award winning dance theatre piece ‘TOYS’ shed light on sex trafficking, with sell-out performances at Hollywood Fringe, the International Human Rights Arts Festival in New York and the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Her film and theatre credits include the smash hit documentary ‘That Sugar Film’, ‘Theatre Macabre’ directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and ‘Ouija Summoning’. Her recent site specific series ‘Original Woman’ was created amongst the ancient caves sites of Cantabria, Spain. ‘Together Forever’ debuted at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2024, with an upcoming season at Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2026. Discover more at christina-evans.com
