David Neilsen Storytelling

My shows are professional, punctual, and enthralling. Audiences will laugh, shiver, and otherwise be fully immersed within the world I've crafted for them.

I am a classically-trained actor with a BFA from U.C. Santa Barbara. I have been involved in theater all my life, and and that experience has allowed me to create true performances whether I'm giving a dramatic reading of Dracula or Frankenstien at a cemetery, delivering a series of ghost stories to teenagers, or performing The Legend of Sleepy Hollow for audiences up and down New York's Hudson Valley.

I love a challenge, and will frequently work with a vendor to create a unique program perfectly tailored to their desires, such as when I put together a Halloween program for Sleepy Hollow Cemetery centered around graveyards or when I did the same for the NY Botanical Garden centered around stories of the dark side of nature.

In addition to my half-hour performance of Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow, I have also mastered an hour-long performance of H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu.

Lest you think I only do dark, horrific work, I created an educational show which I bring to schools depicting the capture of Major Andre during the Revolutionary War- an event which unmasked the treason of Benedict Arnold and shifted the course of the war.

My murder mysteries are one-of-a-kind events that are fully interactive for everyone who attends. All guests are suspects, and everyone interacts with everyone else in an attempt to earn clues and unmask the kiier in their midst. These events, which usually serve between 20-50 people, need a large lead time as I create them from scratch made-to-order for your situation.

Whether your audience is made up pre-teens or CEOs, bring me in and we'll create a unique event they will remember for years to come.