Me
I direct ensemble-based works about the instabilities of contemporary social life. Working collaboratively with performers, I make spectacularly chaotic and confrontationally intimate theater, films, and video installations. In art and life, I aim to chart new paths between individual existential problems and the joys of community.
I am the founder and former 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 and elsewhere.
Selected Press
Experimental Filmmaking meets Immersive Theater
The Stars Shine Bright in a Year to Remember from Ceaseless Fun
Immersive Theater Life - Interview with Writer/Director Derek Spencer
An existential tour down Hollywood Blvd.
‘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
Stash House, Agnosia, Sleep No More, and Then She Fell
Agnosia Reflects on the Divinity of Darkness
Grief As Fractal Art: ‘Agnosia’
NoPro Podcast Episode 123 — Derek Spencer of Ceaseless Fun