Tape Escape

Escape room meets immersive performance set in a 90s video store with three separate game-plays. The three “In-Store Rentals” are Love Without Late Fees, A Grown-Up’s Guide to Flying, and Yesterday’s Heroes.

Production Credits

Co-created by: Vanessa Smythe, Mitchell Cushman and Nick Bottomley
Production Design by: Anahita Dehbonehie and Nick Blais
Dramaturgy by: Griffin McInnes
Assistant Video and Puzzle Designer: Allie Marshall
Assistant Production Designers: Hans Krause, Julia Howman and Edith Nataprawira
Creative Technologist: Daniel Oulton
Sound Design by: Bram Gielen
Interstitial Sound Designers: Christo Graham and Tucker Bottomley
Head painter: Edith Nataprawira
Head Carpenter: Andrew Chute
Escape Artists: Kayla Chaterji, Daniel Halpern, Madeleine Jung-Grennan and Bryanna Blackwell
Model Builder: Bryanna Blackwell
Blindness and Performance Consultant: Devon Healey
Producer: Katherine Devlin Rosenfeld
Associate Producer: Zoe Danahy Associate
Producer, Marketing: Rebecca Ballarin, Outside the March
Director of Development: Adam Martens
Publicity: Red Eye Media
Graphic Design: Kinnon Elliot
Photography: Neil Silcox
The Tape Escape Clerks: Rais Clarke-Mendes, Kavone Manning, Francis Melling, Nick Porteous, Danté Prince, Raylene Turner
The Tape Escape Managers: Tony Cushman, Zoe Danahy
Artistic Accomplices: Luke Avoledo, William Dao, Annie Luján, Abby McEachran, Evgenia Mikhaylova, Merlin Simard
Leading Season Supporters: Audrey S. Hellyer Charitable Foundation, Tamara Zielony, Susanne Boyce, Q Media
Artistic Accomplice Program Lead Supporter: David Binet
Thanks to the Metcalf Foundation and Theatre Ontario’s Professional Theatre Training Program, funded by the Ontario Arts Council.

Photo credit: Neil Silcox. Photo source: outsidethemarch.ca