Me
I am an interdisciplinary artist and director who makes ensemble-based works. My performances, films, and installations amalgamate spectacular moments of contrapuntal chaos alongside intimate, interactive encounters in pursuit of fleeting and contingent truths. Common themes in my work include cyclical obsession, untethered social dynamics, the futility of the existential search, incommunicability, anxious nostalgia, and the disorienting porousness of identity. My performance work is typically devised with the ensemble, staged in unusual venues, and formatted with immersive and interactive elements.
I am the founder and artistic director of Ceaseless Fun, an LA-based immersive theater company. I recently relocated to my hometown of Chicago, but continue to collaborate on projects in Los Angeles.
Press
Immersive Theater Life - Interview with Writer/Director Derek Spencer
An existential tour down Hollywood Blvd.
The Stars Shine Bright in a Year to Remember from Ceaseless Fun
Hollywood Fringe Fest 2018 – Week One Reviews
Ceaseless Fun Takes Immersive Theater Out for a Poetic Spin
Hollywood Fringe 2018: The NoPro Diary
‘They Who Saw the Deep’ is Like Being Lost in the Weirdest Dream You Can Possibly Imagine
Sometimes The Abyss Looks Back: They Who Saw The Deep
Ceaseless Fun’s “They Who Saw the Deep” Redefines an Epic
Ceaseless Fun: They Who Saw The Deep
Stash House, Agnosia, Sleep No More, and Then She Fell
Agnosia Reflects on the Divinity of Darkness
Grief As Fractal Art: ‘Agnosia’
The Immersive 5 with Derek Spencer of Ceaseless Fun
NoPro Podcast Episode 123 — Derek Spencer of Ceaseless Fun