Leah Cárdenas

A Denver Based Immersive Experience Company

opia

n. the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable—their pupils glittering, bottomless and opaque—as if you were peering through a hole in the door of a house, able to tell that there’s someone standing there, but unable to tell if you’re looking in or looking out.

-The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Meet the Creative Team

Started in Denver by Leah Cardenas and Beau Fisher, we work to curate shows that engage audiences through story, play, and empathy. We believe that theater should be more than just a passive experience - it should be something that engages all of your senses and leaves you feeling transformed.

Opia House is dedicated to creating immersive theater experiences that transport our audiences to another world.

The Creative Team

Director, Experience Designer, Actor

(She/Her)

Leah is a director, experience designer, and actor from Denver, Colorado. She graduated with a BFA in Acting from Nebraska Wesleyan University, recent credits include Assistant Directing with the Catamounts for their most recent shows Impossible Things and After the End, Experience Design for Creative Endeavor's Reunion 85' Tour, performing in DCPA Off Center’s Bright Lights of Denver, and acting/costume designing for Shakespeare in the Wild.

Her biggest passion, however, is creating immersive/interactive theater; she produced & directed an immersive Christmas Carol with Four Mile Historic Parks, has been a fellow with Odyssey Works, directed two pieces for the Denver Fringe Festival, each winning “Most Immersive” in their consecutive years. Most recently Opia House won the Audience Choice and Grand Prize at the inaugural Denver Immersive Invitational.

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Actor, Mover, Educator

Beau Fisher

(He/His)

Beau received his degree in Theatre Arts from Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. He has spent the last couple years living in different states and working as a professional actor, dancer, and puppeteer on stage and in film. He has worked as a theatre educator, performer and writer on multiple projects since moving to Denver.

His most recent productions include acting in The Exposure Project’s The Final Seance, Opia House’s Salt Mother and Feels Like Yesterday, and dancing with JK Co for their productions of Glass Palace, A Mad Chance, and Something Borrowed. He and his wife, Leah Cardenas, are co-founders of the immersive experience company Opia House for which he frequently acts and writes.

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