Experience

Bash Creative | 2025 - Present
Senior Manager of Event Innovation

  • Co-founded Event Enablement, a training and community ecosystem for large-scale event producers, achieving a 4.3 out of 5 student satisfaction score and a 92% completion rate compared to an 8% industry average.

  • Authored university-accredited curriculum and actively teaches it, distilling expert interviews and production best practices into a technical framework covering event production, risk mitigation, and operational logistics.

  • Delivers competitive intelligence through reports, briefings, live training, and custom AI tools, helping Bash anticipate market shifts and upskill staff..

Séance Media | 2012 - Present
Founder, Chief Creative Officer

  • Created and produced over 50+ events spanning multiple genres and formats including: intimate luxury experiences, large-scale festivals (12,000+ guests), city-wide mystery games, corporate activations for Lionsgate, reactive art spaces with spatial audio & projection mapping, and critically acclaimed immersive theater.

  • Designed, built, and launched an immersive theater, premiering over a dozen original productions for consistently sold-out houses.

  • Architected custom A/V and effects networks for live productions.

  • Co-founded and continues to lead the Philadelphia Immersive Experience Society, a professional network for immersive experience designers and producers that has grown to 180+ members through workshops, field trips, and peer education since 2018.

Comcast NBCU | 2012 - 2024
Event Specialist

  • Co-led quarterly global tech conferences reaching 15,000+ attendees, positioning Comcast as a technology industry leader and driving measurable downstream outcomes including 20%+ growth in specialized recruiting.

  • Developed creative briefs for billion-dollar IPs, including Jurassic Park, Kung Fu Panda, and Despicable Me.

  • Built and scaled a global event series from a one-day program into a week-long, multi-market experience across 13 countries in under one year, delivering 60+ hours of localized content.

  • Led cross-functional teams of 7 to 15 across design, production, marketing, and analytics, establishing reporting frameworks to measure engagement, event performance, and ROI.

  • 2024 Circle of Success finalist, Comcast NBCU’s highest employee honor, with personal commendations from Brian Roberts (Chairman) and Dave Watson (CEO).

Creative Web | 2000 - 2012
Senior Director of Digital Marketing

  • Directed digital and live campaigns for enterprise clients including Comcast, Disney, and Subaru.

  • Built cross-functional delivery teams, negotiated contracts, and managed agency partnerships and budgets across large-scale programs.

Education

Psychology of Live Events

PhD Candidate (ABD) | Carnegie Mellon University

Themed Entertainment Design

Master’s Degree | Savannah College of Art & Design

Fine Art & Graphic Design

Bachelor’s Degrees | York College of Pennsylvania

Strategic Foresight

Certification | EDHEC Business School

Psychological First Aid

Certification | Red Cross

Skills

Event Innovation

Experience Strategy & Creative Direction: Concept/Launch/Scale, immersive storytelling, show direction, audience journey design, IP-to-experience translation

Program & Platform Building: Business plans & playbooks, KPI/ROI reporting & optimization

Large-Scale Production Leadership: Global events, 15K attendee events, vendor & venue management, contracts, budgets

Tech Experience

Innovation: 15+ years of hands-on experience in software design & development, rapid prototyping, and emergent technology with specialties in AI, UX, and Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 + 2.2).

Tools: Design (Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Canva, MadMapper), Development (Python, Javascript, HTML5/CSS3), Production (Cvent, Eventbrite, Splash, Swoogo), Management (Airtable, Asana, Excel, Google Workspace, Jira, Powerpoint,), AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok)

Friends of Autumn
Founder & Executive Creative Producer

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Jazz Age on the Delaware
Producer and Entertainment Lead

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Neotropolis 2023
Logistics and Volunteer Coordination

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“Tome's work shows a passion for pushing

the boundaries of transmedia storytelling.”

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“Felt real”

“Glorious cast”

“Thrilling”

“Goosebumps”

“Unexpected and different”

“An elegant night out”

“There were tears”

“Tailored to us”

“Luxurious”

“So detailed”

“Felt real” “Glorious cast” “Thrilling” “Goosebumps” “Unexpected and different” “An elegant night out” “There were tears” “Tailored to us” “Luxurious” “So detailed”

Recent Projects

Events, sets, costuming, stage effects, and props

Character Designs

Pen & Ink, Watercolor, Photoshop

From Concept to Reality