We make work engineered for the people in front of it, not a crowd. For years that meant theater in rooms small enough to feel, sometimes for a single guest at the center of a fully staged production. Now it means characters built the same way, living in short form.
Now in production: HELLO HAVEN, an original comedy series. We are casting.
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Hall & Mirrors makes immersive theater for small audiences in rooms small enough to feel. Sometimes for one guest at the center of a fully staged production. Sometimes for one or two guests inside an intimate black box. Always the work is engineered for the people in front of it, not a crowd.
The evening, not the show, is the unit. What happens in the room is part of a longer night the audience moves through. Mystery, community, beauty, designed by hand.
That discipline, work made for the person in front of it, is the same discipline we now bring to serialized short-form storytelling. The rooms changed. The principle did not.
Hello Haven
Four New Yorkers, each a little too much, in their own lovable way, getting through the modern condition one day at a time with chaos and grace, while a game show host keeps asking the city what it is carrying. A brand-funded original comedy series: recurring characters with real arcs, told in short-form episodes across social platforms. Not spot commercials. Not testimonials. Characters who live inside the show's world, built to be inhabited by an actor over months and grow with the performer playing them. Professional production throughout: dedicated DP, director, sound, and edit. Casting now through Actors Access and Breakdown Express, New York.
What we believe about the people we cast
You will always be the performer. No AI replication. No likeness scanning. No voice synthesis. Ever. Every episode is performed by the human being we hired, because the performance is the product.
Plain-language agreements. Role terms, usage, and rates stated upfront, nothing buried. Character IP belongs to the production; your performance, your credit, and your likeness remain yours.
A set that respects your craft. Real crew, real call sheets, real direction, and material written to give an actor something to build, not something to read off a card.
We came from immersive theater, where the entire form depends on the live, unrepeatable presence of a performer in a room. We brought that conviction with us.
Who we are
R. Edward Tucker
R. Edward Tucker is the kind of producer you can build a project around. When he takes something on, it gets funded, it launches on schedule, and it works. He is driven, and he reveres the craft. He trusts his director and he trusts his actors in their choices, because he believes great work comes from giving talent the structure, the freedom, and the money to unlock it. Demanding but fair. The producer you want when you want the work to move your career.
He is also a lifelong theorist of the thing you do. A Ph.D. in rhetoric who publishes in dramatic theory and phenomenology, he has spent his life circling one question: what acting actually is, and what it means to stay authentic while you construct an identity and offer it to another person. In the room he comes across as a very normal guy. He smiles a lot, he tells jokes. But his eyes are never joking. He consumes every second he lives, relentless on himself, faithful to Goethe: never hurry, never rest.
Selected: producer of YOU, the immersive work covered by Newsweek, LA Weekly, and the trade press for its avant-garde staging. Multiple hybrid productions across theater, technology, and digital distribution, on budgets from $200,000 to $5 million.
Andrea Waddell
Andrea Waddell is the collaborator on the team, and she directs the way the best directors do: she listens. A detail person who gives clear direction and then leaves the performer room to move, she watches for the unexpected and doubles down on the moments no amount of planning could have predicted. That is her gift. She sees when what an actor is making is right, and she has the nerve to chase it. Warm, structured, and genuinely fun to work under, with expectations you never have to guess at.
She has been the creative director on hybrid productions across digital distribution, social, and real artistic ambition, and she is one of the most imaginative people working in short form, because she refuses to treat it as the lesser form. In her hands short form demands more, more intelligence, more discipline, a different way of thinking about time. Touch points rather than a seated experience. Work that integrates into the lives of the audience rather than a curtain rising and falling in a window.
She is warm, thoughtful, funny, and completely unassuming, an outstanding manager with no need to be the biggest presence in the room. That ease is not softness. Behind the quiet is someone made of steel, and a little mystery she is in no hurry to explain.
Casting inquiries
Casting is running now through Actors Access and Breakdown Express, New York. All submissions and agent inquiries come through the breakdown.