Señor Plummer's Final Fiesta
Creative Director, Video Designer
Rogue Artists Ensemble • 2018 • West Hollywood, CA
A wild, site-specific journey through truth and myth, this immersive adventure brings the colorful life of early LA legend Señor Plummer to life across the grounds of a Plummer Park in West Hollywood.
REVIEWS
"Highly imaginative...a lively night...All routes culminate in the title’s promised fiesta, by which point you won’t want the adventure to end." LA Times
"Sets the standard for innovative immersive theatre." - Horrorbuzz
"There’s magic in the making at Plummer Park...The ensemble creates a vibrant, exciting sense of community through the use of puppetry, music, dance, and good old-fashioned storytelling...Señor Plummer’s Final Fiesta is a celebration of family and community, and it’s entertaining as hell. Marvels, magic, and moments brilliance abound. The Rogue Artists Ensemble have created something truly special, a certain source of pride for the whole city. And that’s no tall tale." - Stage Raw
"Entirely charming...Myth bleeds into history as land sharks become literal sharks and widows become totem spirits and back again. Most of Eugenio’s memories have a peppy, dream-like quality. And then there is the nightmare... It is realized with the same level of fidelity that Rogue’s Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin was executed... Señor Plummers’ Final Fiesta is the best kind of living history, one that I hope finds a way to become an LA perennial." - No Proscenium
Señor Plummer’s Final Fiesta is an immersive, site-specific adventure that blurs the line between fact and fantasy, memory and myth. Based on the memoirs of Eugene Plummer—one of early Los Angeles’ most eccentric historical figures—the production invited audiences to roam the grounds of Plummer Park, encountering vignettes, characters, and dreamlike episodes inspired by Plummer’s outrageous life and the city’s forgotten past.
Sean Cawelti served as Creative Director and co-creator, crafting a participatory experience full of unexpected interactions, large-scale puppetry, physical comedy, and theatrical spectacle. With multiple narrative tracks unfolding simultaneously, each audience member forged their own path through the fiesta, encountering truth and tall tales in equal measure.
The production also incorporated sophisticated interactive technology to deepen the immersive experience. In one room—representing a collection of Plummer’s most nightmarish memories—audience members were handed flashlights that quickly became the only light source in a maze of twisting corridors. Unbeknownst to them, the flashlights were IR-controlled and could be manipulated remotely to great effect. Miniatures, grotesque masks, and scent effects were layered in to fully immerse participants in Plummer’s fractured psyche.
In another sequence, guests interacted with a large-scale map of Los Angeles, rear-projected from beneath a table. Using toys and artifacts embedded with RFID sensors, audiences could trigger real-time changes in the projection-mapped room around them—revealing different versions of the city through time, layered with history, memory, and myth.
Señor Plummer’s Final Fiesta was praised by critics and audiences alike for its irreverent humor, cultural resonance, and ambitious immersive design, offering a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience rooted in Los Angeles lore.