Bricolage Production Company’s Immersive Creative Core consists of Jeffrey Carpenter (Founder and Co-Artistic Director), Tami Dixon (Co-Artistic Director), Gab Cody (Lead Writer/Co-Director), and Sam Turich (Co-Director). These four visionary artists have formed the heart of Bricolage’s ground-breaking immersive productions since 2012. From the mind-bending exploration of identity in STRATA, to the city-spanning quests of OjO: The Next Generation of Travel and the deeply mythic adventure into the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural history in DODO, their site informed process and participant-centered ethos invite audiences to step beyond the traditional boundaries of theatre and into unforgettable journeys of wonder and transformation.
Jeffrey Carpenter founded Bricolage Production Company in 2001, focusing on alternatives to traditional theater models with a particular interest in immersive, audience-centered experiences. His approach emphasizes fluid, responsive, and collaborative creative environments where the context defines the content and meaning of the work.
Notable immersive works include Project Amelia (2019), Bazaar (2018-19), The Clearing (2018), DODO (2017), The Ascendants (2016), Enter the Imaginarium (2016), OjO: The Next Generation in Travel (2014), Saints Tour (2015) and STRATA (2012). He co-created the IE program (Immersive Encounters), the Midnight Radio series, as well as numerous commissions for the company. He also serves as creative director and co-creator of Enter the Imaginarium, an award-winning immersive escape room facility in Etna, PA. The Inventor’s Paradox recently earned a Golden Lock Award, and the newest addition, The Mind’s Eye, pushes the boundaries of immersive gameplay, offering players a thrilling, multi-sensory challenge blending interactive gaming with a dynamic storyline and stunning projection-mapping technology. In addition to his gaming and immersive work, he continues to direct and perform in a variety of productions in Pittsburgh and beyond.
Gab Cody, is full-time special visiting faculty in the John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University. Gab creates immersive, devised and site-specific work as well as theater meant-to-be-performed in a theater. She serves as lead writer and co-creator on the immersive urban adventures DODO, (produced in tandem with the Carnegie Museum of Art and Natural History and Bricolage Production Company), Ascendants, STRATA and OjO produced in Pittsburgh with Bricolage Production Company and at the La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls Festival, Daylighting the Stream an ecological urban adventure produced with Works on Water/Underwater NY on Governor’s Island, NY, and Studio A: Immersive Engagement an embodied sensitivity and diversity training event. Ms. Cody served as Pittsburgh Regional Representative for the Dramatist Guild for five years. Her plays have been staged at the La Jolla Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The August Wilson Center for African American Culture, The Pittsburgh Playhouse, Quantum Theatre, New York City’s New Dramatists and Urban Stages, Coconut Grove Playhouse, and at theaters in Seattle, Chicago, and Sydney, Australia. Ms. Cody also produces, directs, and writes for television and independent film.
Tami Dixon has been divising work with Bricolage since 2005 and is currently its Co-Artistic Director. In 2012 she embarked into the immersive theatrical landscape with Bricolage’s critically acclaimed production of STRATA. Shortly after that she developed OjO: The Next Generation of Travel for the Three Rivers Arts Festival and its subsequent remount at the Without Walls Festival at the LaJolla Playhouse, were it was crowned show of the year in 2015. Ms. Dixon spearheaded two productions of the beloved immersive experience, The Forest of Everywhere, a show made by, for and with members of the neurodivergent community. She again joined forces with Bricolage’s Immersive Creative Team to develop DODO, a mythical immersive adventure with The Carnegie Museums. In 2019 she devised the high-intensity adventure through a tech bubble with Project Amelia. In between those large-scale works she co-created IE: Immersive Encounters, bite size immersive vignettes designed to test limits, relationships and headlines. Ms. Dixon was also a creative partner on Enter the Imaginarium, Pittsburgh’s award winning immersive escape room. Her immersive work has been commissioned for events by The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, The Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, The Duquesne Club and Construction Junction. Her next immersive project is incubating with creative partners, Community Forge and Kinselland.
Sam Turich is a creator/director on large-scale immersive theatre projects with Bricolage: STRATA (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2012 Best Production of the Year), OjO at the La Jolla Playhouse and the Three Rivers Arts Festival, The Ascendants and two projects at the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History: DODO and Round the World in 2023. He designed and produced the immersive events STUDIO A in 2018 and DAYLIGHTING THE STREAM on Governors Island in New York City in 2019.
Sam’s short film Mombies played at film festivals in Europe and the U.S. as did his feature Progression, winning the Johns Hopkins Film Festival Best Feature Award. He directed the Emmy Award-winning Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood for PBS Kids. New York directing includes the New York Fringe Festival and, at Gotham City Improv, Off the Top of Our Heads, winner of the 6th Big Apple Improv Festival “Best Improv Group in New York.” Regional directing: at Quantum Theatre: Constellations, Wild,
