Welcome to the American Immersion Theater School: Los Angeles, where the boundaries between audience and actor fade away, and the world of immersive theater becomes your classroom.
Enroll TodayImmersive Theater is the fastest-growing form of entertainment in America. Learn what it takes to be part of the ‘Immersive Revolution’.
Whether you're a seasoned performer or new to the stage, American Immersion Theater’s Los Angeles acting classes offer a unique blend of informative and interactive methods that will elevate your artistry to new levels. Learn how to interact directly with the audience, develop intriguing characters, and engage a crowd in a way that blends, not blurs, the line between actor and audience.
Why choose American Immersion Theater? Our legacy speaks for itself. American Immersion Theater (AIT) was founded in 2002 with the mantra of “empowering people to participate.” This simple message is carried out by AIT’s 23 locations nationwide and it’s 2,000 working actors that have performed in over 100,000 individual immersive shows. AIT’s workshops are based on field-tested training that has been crafted from 20+ years of experience.
Whether you're looking to hone your theatrical skills, explore new forms of expression, or simply have a fun and enriching experience, our workshops are the gateway to a world where imagination knows no bounds. Join us, and be part of an acting program and community that celebrates the transformative magic of immersive theater.
What You'll Learn
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Foundations of Immersive Theater
Take a step into the different types of acting involved in an immersive performance. Define similarities between immersive works, channel different types of sensory experiences into a performance, and learn the fundamentals of how to create an immersive environment.
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Immersive Improv Techniques
Within the greater acting community, there are a series of guidelines an actor can follow within an improv performance to gain a specific result. When improvisation stretches beyond the stage as it does in immersive theater, there are now different tools and techniques an actor can use that allows the audience to feel as if they control the narrative as well.
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Keys to Building an Immersive World
Performing and witnessing immersive theater can be a very personal and emotionally vulnerable experience. Train and elevate your instincts when connecting with your audience, allowing you to create a result you can anticipate. Learn how to create your desired effect on the participants in real-time and how to manipulate that experience within each given audience.
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Building your Immersive Toolbelt
Artists are developing strategies each day to use the tools of immersive theater in new and creative ways. We have harnessed these tools from our years of immersive theater experience and then asked ourselves; How do we make these tools transferable? How can we in real time make an audience member feel they have the capacity to play, to build, to perform?
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Los Angeles Class Schedule & Registration
Our courses are offered in two types: four three-hour classes over a two-week period and one four-hour workshop on a weekend day. Weekday classes are offered in both the morning and evening. The exact location of each course will be emailed to participants after registration.
Actors who complete our four day courses and show excellent achievement are invited to join American Immersion Theater’s Los Angeles troupe. Offers for placement in troupe are delivered at the discretion of the course instructor.
| Course Type | Four Day Immersive Theater Course |
| Schedule | Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 10 AM - 1 PM |
| Start Date | Sold Out! |
| Location | North Hollywood, LA |
| Instructor | Amber Lawson |
| Price | $225 |
| No Seats Available - Sorry! | |
| Course Type | One Day Immersive Theater Workshop |
| Schedule | Sunday, 1 PM - 5 PM |
| Start Date | Sold Out! |
| Location | North Hollywood, LA |
| Instructor | Amber Lawson |
| Price | $95 |
| No Seats Available - Sorry! | |
Meet the AIT School Co-Founders
Meet Scott Cramton, Founder and CEO of American Immersion Theater is widely known as “The Maverick of Immersive Theater”. A veteran in the immersion industry, Scott has been involved in the rapidly growing movement since 2002. American Immersion Theater has founded multiple immersive companies such as The Murder Mystery Company, The Princess Party Company, Famous for a Day, and Camp Dragon Online.
Born in Detroit, MI with a severe cleft palate, Scott was told by speech therapists that he could be anything he wanted to be, as long as it wasn’t an actor. Since then he has performed in over 1,000 immersive theatrical performances and been on numerous televised immersive events such as Impractical Jokers and The Real Housewives of Dallas.
Meet Amber Lawson, immersive theater extraordinaire. Amber has nearly 15 years of experience in the immersive theater scene, performing over 1000 shows as an actor, director, dancer, and writer; and now creating the curriculum for the American Immersion Theater School.
Proudly hailing from Detroit, MI, her journey into immersive acting began in college when she took a casual gig with The Murder Mystery Company, where she quickly found herself taking the reins as the first Assistant Director for the company. Following her passion for performance, Amber ventured to Los Angeles, establishing herself as the Los Angeles Director for American Immersion Theater with a team of actors that would go on to shape the immersive theater landscape. From performing on Off-Broadway stages to captivating audiences from the comfort of their living rooms, Amber brings a down-to-earth yet impactful touch to the immersive theater experience and her acting coaching.
