Carlo D'Amore

Founder & Creative Director | Live in Theater (LIT)
Founded and led Live in Theater, an award-winning immersive theater company that revolutionized interactive storytelling. Developed a canon of 15 immersive experiences and 6 DEI workshops, engaging audiences in transformational and participatory performances. Designed, directed, and produced interactive productions that have been featured in The New York Times, NBC, The Times of London and The Verge, to name but a few and experienced by millions worldwide. Created and facilitated workshops on improvisation, audience engagement, and experiential storytelling for corporate clients, educational institutions, and professional actors. Pioneered new methodologies that blend realism, improvisation, and narrative-driven learning, making Live in Theater a leader in the field of interactive and immersive experiences.

In addition to creative direction, I have been involved in every aspect of running the business, including casting, costume design, writing, directing, marketing, production, performance training, performance and sales. I have personally overseen operations, ensuring that Live in Theater consistently delivers high-caliber productions. Through strategic growth and business development, I have successfully scaled the company to produce 400-600 performances annually, engaging corporate clients and audiences worldwide—an unparalleled achievement in the theater industry

Private Actor Coaching (LIT)

Bad Boys For Life - Feature Film starring Wil Smith - / Columbia Pictures 2020 - Privately Coached Principal Actor Paola Nunez (Female Lead)

Patriots Day - Feature Film starring Mark Wahlberg - / CBS Films Marathon 2016 - Privately Coached Principal Actor Themo Melikidze (Male Lead)

Blue Bloods - Network Television
Privately Coached Principal Actor Josh Dye (Featured Lead)

The (LIT) Workshops (Created and Led)
Designed, developed, and led a series of immersive workshops, empowering actors and professionals with interactive and experiential learning techniques.

• Intro to Interactive Technique
• In-depth Interactive Techniques For Actors
• Improvisation LIT Style
• Writing On Your Feet
• Theater As Experiential Marketing
• The American Masters - A Scene Study Class
• Private Coaching For Actors

• Provided one-on-one and group coaching to small business owners, predominantly women, and entrepreneurs of color, to help them develop, scale, and sustain their businesses.
• Guided entrepreneurs through business strategy, financial planning, marketing, and investor readiness.
• Taught over 75 small business owners and entrepreneurs through English and Spanish workshops, ensuring accessibility and inclusivity in business development training.
• Leveraged Ureeka’s proprietary Growth Framework to help clients achieve measurable success, including 2x revenue growth for participating business owners.
• Connected clients with mentors, funding opportunities, and resources, helping them navigate the challenges of entrepreneurship and secure capital.
• Partnered with Dennis O’Leary to expand business development initiatives, providing additional resources and mentorship to Ureeka members seeking to scale their businesses.

• Identified 30 + student strengths and weaknesses to create tailored learning activities, including monologue, physical training, and scene work
• Employed over 12 teaching techniques and disciplines to encourage student engagement and cater to diverse learning modalities
• Built relationships with students, mentoring on personal, professional and academic goals while providing coaching on effective study habits

• Worked with ensemble of over 50 gifted educators and art practitioners to develop curriculum to coincide with productions appearing at New Vic's multiple stages
• Worked with all student age groups from pre-k - college level
• Co-created over 100 different lesson plans
• Assisted in developing student-led after-school programs to reach under-privileged students
• Documented student attendance and progress against goals
• Prepared and gathered materials for detailed lesson plans surrounding various types of art, history and culture
• Assisted all students in coming up with and executing detailed final projects for exhibition
• Devoted special emphasis to punctuality and worked to maintain outstanding attendance record, consistently arriving to work ready to start immediately

• Documented student attendance and progress against goals
• Created curriculum for conflict resolution workshops
• Performed in-class scenes tailored to specific groups, and focused on concerns, and areas of improvement, while simultaneously distancing the material to gain access and buy-in from students
• Co-Facilitated theater games, scene work, creative writing, and scene playback
• Established relationships with classroom teachers and administrators, for a cohesive student learning outcome

Facilitated & Taught the Following Workshops

• Student pre-k - High School Seniors
• Parent workshops
• Teacher trainings
• Taught over 100K students within the scope of my work at this company

Taught the Following Courses

• Acting for the camera
• Scene Study I
• Advanced Scene Study
• Improvisation I
• Improvisation II
• Improvisation III

• Gave one-on-one attention to each student while maintaining overall focus on the entire group
• Developed and taught ESL curriculum to improve students' conversational abilities
• Constructed and developed engaging lesson plans in conjunction with the museums living history programs
• Premiered The Ryan Case 1873, a true-crime murder mystery, to date still the largest attended event in the history of the museum