A scene from The Collective — performers in an immersive warehouse setting lit in magenta and teal

New York, NY

DylanErdelyi

Creative Producer

Theater Director

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About

Dylan Erdelyi is a theater artist creating immersive, psychological, and world-driven experiences. He aims to place audiences inside the architecture of the mind to explore challenging human dilemmas. His work uses heightened realism and tactile environments to mine the raw emotional core of memory and identity. He is interested in immersive and site-specific theater as a means to grow human connection within the work, and especially interested in lessening hierarchies of power between artist and audience. He presented his original research Effects of immersive theatre on audience agency and engagement at the American Psychological Association's annual conference.

Dylan is also a creative producer and arts manager with five years of experience across live-performance leadership and executive arts administration. He is fluent across the full arc of theatrical production, from dramaturgical development and creative vision to contract management, budgeting, and stakeholder relations. Dylan's work is grounded in experience at nonprofit and commercial theatrical institutions from Disney to the Metropolitan Opera. After receiving his BFA in Musical Theatre at Rider University, he completed a Lead for America fellowship at Princeton University, where he worked with the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship to push back on local inequities and strengthen arts infrastructure as a community resource.

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Selected Projects

The Collective

2022 · Somedae Studios Co.

by Dylan Erdelyi, Megan Raab & Sarah Ford

An immersive, site-specific experience about a group of artists reckoning with the meaning of their work in a time of crisis. Staged across indoor and outdoor locations in Trenton, NJ, the devised text was developed with the cast over a multi-year workshop. Audiences voted on the plot at fixed points, branching into one of sixteen unique performances. The work was part of a psychological study presented at the American Psychological Association's 2022 conference.

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Butterscotch

2019 · Rider University

by Valen-Marie Santos

The original production of a new play on guilt, innocence, and loss, staged inside a real classroom. The site-specific setting transported audiences back to their own childhood, asking them to face adult reckonings through a child's eyes.

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Additional Credits

It Takes Two

Director
2022 · 54 Below · Cabaret

Twosome

Director
2021 · KCACTF · Outstanding Director, 10-Minute Play

Touch: An Exploration

Director
2020 · Rider University

Chicago

Assistant Director
2019 · Rider University

Red

Associate Director
2017 · Florida Children's Theatre
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Creative Leadership

The Walt Disney Company

Company Performance Manager · Disney Cruise Line

2024 — 26

Shipboard performance manager responsible for artistic integrity and company management for new and existing live entertainment offerings, including mainstage musicals, immersive shipwide events, and character-driven experiences.

  • Partnered with Stage Managers, Resident Directors, and technical teams to sustain and improve show quality to the defined creative intent; delivered regular performance notes and documented quality standards across productions.
  • Fielded and resolved all guest issues and inquiries related to entertainment, responding with luxury hospitality service standards consistent with the Disney brand.
  • Functioned as leader of leaders for the Entertainment Manager and their team of Entertainment Hosts, ensuring consistent delivery across all guest-facing entertainment and supporting team leads in managing their own direct reports.
  • Selected for the opening team of Disney Adventure (Singapore), contributing to the launch of DCL's entertainment slate for its first offering in Asia.

Amoeba Productions

Advisor, Organizational Development & Strategy

3/26 — Present

Part-time consulting engagement to scale operations at a community-based nonprofit theatre company, using expertise in nonprofit development to create multi-year strategic plans for scalable growth and creative success.

The Metropolitan Opera

Manager, Board Relations & Strategic Projects

2022 — 24

Project manager to the executive team at the largest performing-arts organization in the U.S. Stewarded relationships across 140+ board members and ~40 meetings a year, executed initiatives alongside General Manager Peter Gelb, and served as in-house lead on a Boston Consulting Group optimization project spanning production, labor, and marketing.

Passage Theatre Company

Artistic Associate · Education & Community Engagement

2021 — 22

Member of the small artistic team at a regional, Equity-producing theater. Reported to the Artistic Director, contributed to season selection and casting, and built a long-range partnership with Princeton University while managing departmental budgets and programming.