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WHEN YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES,
WHAT DO YOU SEE?
James and Lou move from Chicago to London for a fresh start. But as the young couple settles into their new home, Lou is certain that something isn’t right, and before long they will both have to grapple with the same truth: places aren’t haunted, people are.
An entirely new story inspired by the iconic film series, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY comes to Broadway direct from smash-hit, critically acclaimed runs in Chicago, Los Angeles, and London. Performances for this strictly limited 20-week engagement begin August 14.
Cher
Álvarez
Lou
Broadway debut. Television: “Sugar” (Apple TV); “Matlock” (CBS); “Criminal Minds” (CBS); “Grey’s Anatomy” (ABC); “Leverage: Redemption” (Amazon); “NCIS Hawai’i” (CBS); “Chicago Med,” “Chicago PD” (NBC); “Station 19” (ABC); “Shameless” (Netflix). Education: BFA Webster Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. Chicago: Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Writers Theatre, Drury Lane. Regional: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre.
Travis A.
Knight
James
Travis A. Knight (he/him) is an actor, director, and ensemble member at A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago. Select Theatre: Turret (Jeff Award nomination, Best Performer in a Principal Role), The Malignant Ampersands, Grey House, Small Mouth Sounds (A Red Orchid Theatre); Paranormal Activity (Shakespeare Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theater); The Crucible (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Toni Stone, Ah, Wilderness!, A Christmas Carol, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Measure for Measure, Camino Real (Goodman Theatre); How a Boy Falls (Northlight Theatre); five seasons at American Players Theatre, selected credits include The Tempest, The Glass Menagerie, Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, and Two Gentlemen of Verona. Film: Rabbit, Rabbit; Pornacopia, Inc.; Henry Gamble's Birthday Party; Survivor, Soldier, Sinner, Savior; Runner. TV: “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago P.D.,” “Chicago Med,” “Mind Games.” Travis also performs cinematic motion capture for NetherRealm Studios and Raven Software, with credits in Mortal Kombat 1 and the Call of Duty franchise. He was named to Newcity Stage's Players 50 in 2025. travisaknight.com
Shannon
Cochran
Carolanne
Off-Broadway: Bug - US Premiere (Barrow Street Theatre, Obie Award). National Tours: Paranormal Activity; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; Cabaret; August: Osage County. International: Bug - World Premiere (Gate Theatre), The Man Who Came to Dinner (Steppenwolf/Royal Shakespeare). Regional: A Doll’s House: Part 2 (South Coast Repertory - World Premiere); Space (Mark Taper Forum); The Christians (Steppenwolf Theatre); POTUS (Geffen Playhouse). Others: Long Wharf Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, Court Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Victory Gardens Theatre, Marriott - Lincolnshire Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook. Film: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The Twin, The Ring, Star Trek: Nemesis, Captive State, The Babe. Television: “Ballard,” “NCIS,” “Scandal,” “The Office,” “Modern Family,” “Star Trek: DS9” and “The Next Generation,” “Gray’s Anatomy,” “Frasier,” “Seinfeld,” “Fringe.” Education: Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Awards: Obie Award, Theatre World Award, Joseph Jefferson Awards. Directing: Fallen Angels - American Players Theatre, Dirty - Zephyr Theatre, Therese Raquin - greasy joan.
Andrea
Syglowski
Mrs. Cotgrave
Andrea Syglowski (she/her) is thrilled to be joining the Broadway cast of Paranormal Activity. Select Credits include: Broadway: Dog Day Afternoon, Pass Over. Off-Broadway: Queens by Martyna Majok, Brooklyn Laundry by John Patrick Shanley (MTC); Amerikin by Chisa Hutchinson, Dig by Theresa Rebeck (Primary Stages); Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Atlantic). Regional: The Price (Two River); Lost in Yonkers (Hartford Stage); Cry it Out (Humana/Dorset); The Nest (Denver Center); Of Good Stock (South Coast Rep); Doll's House and Venus in Fur (Huntington -Winner of the Elliot Norton and IRNE award); and more. TV: “Will Trent,” “And Just Like That,” “Evil,” “New Amsterdam,” “Blue Bloods,” “Elementary,” “How To Get Away with Murder,” “The Good Wife,” and more. She is currently appearing as Sammy in the limited series “The Terror-Devil in Silver” on AMC+. Training: USC/Juilliard - recipient of the Robin Williams Scholarship.
Caron
Buinis
u/s Mrs. Cotgrave, Carolanne
Broadway Debut. She returns to understudy the roles of Carolanne and Mrs. Cotgrave in Paranormal Activity after completing the US National Tour. Regional: Paranormal Activity, All’s Well That Ends Well (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); True West, The Full Monty, Cabaret, Oklahoma! (Paramount Theatre Aurora); The Music Man, Oliver! (Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre); An American in Paris, Murder on the Orient Express (Drury Lane Theatre); How Blood Go (Congo Square Theatre/Steppenwolf 1700); The Audience, Chimerica (TimeLine Theatre); Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (Asolo Repertory Theatre); Mary Poppins (Penobscot Theatre); Mary Jane (Forward Theatre). Television performances include roles on “Chicago Fire” and “Chicago P.D.” (NBC). Caron has also performed in various cabaret venues in New York and Chicago.
Caroline
Hendricks
u/s Lou
Broadway debut. National Tour: Paranormal Activity (Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Center Theatre Group, Shakespeare Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theater). Chicago: Infernal (Malapuzza); Hooded, Or Being Black for Dummies (Clementine, Joseph Jefferson Award Nominated Ensemble); The Queen’s Ball: A Bridgerton Experience (Lady in Waiting); Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook (Junie B. Jones). Comedy Writing/Ensemble: Chicago Comedy Hour (The Second City’s de Maat Studio Theater); Liquidation Sale! (Judy’s Beat Lounge); The Second City Graduate Showcase: TenneSHE William’s The Glass Ceiling Menagerie (e.t.c. Theater at The Second City); It’s a Wonderful Laugh (Bughouse Theater). Television: “Chicago Fire” (NBC). Film: Room Six. Education: BFA Acting, The Theatre School at DePaul University, The Second City Conservatory Graduate at The Second City Training Center Chicago. @carolinehen, caroline-hendricks.com
Michael
Holding
u/s James
Broadway debut. Tour: Paranormal Activity. Regional: TheatreSquared, Lakeside Shakespeare Theatre. Chicago: Translations (Writers Theatre), Rutherford and Sons (Timeline Theatre), We are Proud to Present… (Steppenwolf Theatre), Koalas (16th Street Theatre), Posh (Steep Theatre), Truth and Reconciliation (Sideshow Theatre), Shining City (Irish Theatre of Chicago), The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe (First Folio Theatre). Film: Reversed, Vampirus, Finn and the Sea of Noise. Television: “Deli Boys” (Hulu), “Chicago Med” (NBC), “South Side” (Comedy Central). Education: B.F.A. Illinois Wesleyan University. Love to ma’.
Levi
Holloway
Playwright
Levi Holloway is a Chicago-based, Olivier-nominated playwright. Recent works include Pinocchio, Haven Place, Grey House and Turret. He is an ensemble member at A Red Orchid Theatre and the co-founder of Neverbird Project, a youth-based Deaf and hearing theatre company. He spent a decade devising theatre with the Sign/Voice theatre program at Chicago’s Bell Elementary, one of the country’s oldest and most prolific Deaf and hearing integrated schools, founded in 1917. He is repped by CAA and Anonymous Content.
Felix
Barrett
Director
Felix Barrett is the founder and Artistic Director of Punchdrunk, a company whose work is recognised internationally as pioneering game-changing ways for audiences to experience culture across theatre, TV, digital technology and gaming. Felix has conceived, directed and designed all of Punchdrunk’s site-sympathetic shows, including: Lander23, Viola’s Room, Sleep No More Seoul, The Burnt City, Sleep No More Shanghai, The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable, Sleep No More New York, The Crash Of The Elysium, The Duchess Of Malfi, It Felt Like A Kiss, The Masque Of The Red Death, Faust,and The Firebird Ball. Additionally, Barrett worked as creative director on Shakira’s “The Sun Comes Out” global tour, and Mumford & Son’s "Delta" tour. Additionally in New York, he directed Luna Luna at The Shed in 2024. For TV, Felix created the BAFTA nominated “The Third Day,” a six-part TV drama and 12-hour theatrical broadcast for HBO & Sky Atlantic.
Fly
Davis
Scenic and Costume Design
Fly Davis trained at RADA and Motley. Designs Include: Caroline, Or Change (West End and Broadway - nominated for Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Costume Design); Paranormal Activity (West End, US tour); The Ocean at the End of the Lane (nominated for a WhatsonStage Best Set Design Award); Beginning, Middle, Pericles, I Want My Hat Back (National Theatre/West End); Groan Ups (West End and UK tour); Henry V, Appropriate (Donmar, nominated Evening Standard Best Design Award); 50 First Dates the Musical (The Other Palace); Macbeth (RSC, Barbican); Otherland, Vassa (Almeida); Second Best (Riverside Studios); The Battle (Birmingham Rep, Manchester Opera House); The Winter’s Tale (Royal Lyceum); The Enormous Crocodile the Musical (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre UK and US tour); La Boheme (Gothenburg Opera House); A Streetcar Named Desire, Scuttlers (Royal Exchange Manchester); I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me of My Sleep, Image of an Unknown Young Woman (Gate, winner Best Set Design Off West End Award); Improbable and Philip Glass Tao of Glass world tour; The Prudes (Royal Court); How Do You Lycett (UK Tour); Nick Mohammed’s Show Pony (London Palladium and UK tour, winner Best Comedy Show Chortle Award); A Christmas Carol-ish The Musical (Soho Place West End). As Costume Designer: The Odyssey (National Theatre); Unreachable (Royal Court); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Shipwreck (Almeida).
Chris
Fisher
Illusions Design
Chris Fisher received a Special Tony Award in 2025 for his work as Illusions and Visual Effects Designer on Stranger Things: The First Shadow, as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Chris is also a member of The Magic Circle and works worldwide as International Illusions and Magic Associate for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Theatre credits as Illusion Designer and Director include: Black Swan (American Repertory Theatre), The Psychic (York Opera House), Paranormal Activity (Leeds Playhouse/West End/US Tour); The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (West End); The BFG (RSC/Singapore); The Hunger Games On Stage (Troubadour Canary Wharf); Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Marquis Theater/Phoenix); Dr Strangelove (Nöel Coward); The Illusionist (Tokyo); Ballet Shoes, The Witches, Peter Gynt, Here We Go, Treasure Island, Julie (National Theatre); Back to the Future: The Musical (Winter Garden / Tokyo / US Tour / Germany / Adelphi Theatre); The Ghost and the Lady (Tokyo); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Leeds Playhouse/UK tour); The Time Traveller’s Wife (Apollo); The Prince of Egypt, Big the Musical (Dominion); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne/UK tour); 2:22 A Ghost Story (Noël Coward/ Melbourne/LA); Angels in America (National Theater / Neil Simon); Wicked Das Musical (Hamburg); Company (Gielgud Theatre / Bernard B. Jacobs / US Tour), Merlin (Northern Ballet).
Anna
Watson
Lighting Design
Anna Watson is an international award-winning lighting designer who is based in the UK. She has collaborated extensively on new writing, revivals and large-scale productions. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Recent Projects include: Giant (Broadway, West End and Royal Court); Don Carlo (Grange Park Opera); The Price (Marylebone Theatre); Paranormal Activity (Leeds Playhouse and West End); Merlin (Northern Ballet); Sherlock Holmes and the Twelve Days of Christmas (Birmingham Rep); Anna Karenina (Chichester Festival Theatre); Otherland, Critical Mass (Almeida); Ruddigore (Barbican/Opera North/UK Tour); The Unseen (Riverside studios); Imposter 22, Hope has a Happy Meal, That is Not Who I Am, Poet in da Corner (& UK tour), All of It, Pity, You for Me for You, Plaques & Tangles, A Time to Reap (Royal Court); The Band’s Visit, Appropriate, Salt Root & Roe (Donmar); All of Us (National Dorfman); Three Sisters, Othello, The Winter’s Tale, Hamlet, Henry VI, Richard III (Sam Wanamaker); Orlando (WNO/Scottish Opera/San Francisco); Gaslight (Watford Palace); Christmas Carol (Bristol Old Vic); Leave to Remain, The Seagull, Shopping & Fucking (Lyric, Hammersmith); The Fantastic Follies of Mrs. Rich, Snow in Midsummer, The Roaring Girl (RSC); Box of Delights (Wilton’s Music Hall); King Lear (Globe); Dutchman, The Secret Agent, Fireface, Disco Pigs, Sus (Young Vic); Bank On It (Theatre-Rites/Barbican); Paradise, Salt (Ruhr Triennale, Germany).
Gareth
Fry
Sound Design
Luke
Halls
Video & Projections Design
Luke Halls is a London-based video designer, recognised by Drama Desk and BAFTA for his work spanning concerts, opera, ballet, theatre shows, film, and public art. Halls’ theatre credits include: Aida (Circustheater); West Side Story (Broadway Theatre); The Starry Messenger, Everyone’s Talking About Jamie, The Moderate Soprano, Frozen, 2071, The Nether,and The Lehman Trilogy (West End); Shipwreck and Oil (Almeida); Linda and Girls & Boys (Royal Court); Miss Saigon (Austria, Japan, New York, and UK tour); Antony and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Ugly Lies the Bone, and The Great Wave (National Theatre); The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Talking Heads, A Christmas Carol, My Name is Lucy Barton, and Alys, Always (Bridge Theatre); Local Hero (Royal Lyceum Theatre); Desire Under the Elms (Crucible Theatre); Elegy for Young Lovers (Theater an der Wien); Mary Poppins (touring); Hamlet and The Master and Margarita (Barbican); and I Can’t Sing (The London Palladium). Halls’ opera credits include: Boris Godunov (Teatro alla Scala); Lucia di Lammermoor and Otello (Metropolitan Opera); The Merry Widow (Bergen National Opera); Atlas (LA Philharmonic); Don Giovanni and Król Roger (Royal Opera House); The Hobbit, The Cunning Little Vixen, Don Giovanni, and Der Freischütz (Danish Royal Opera); Zeitgeist (Coliseum); Das Liebesverbot (Teatro Real); West Side Story (Malmö Opera); Don Giovanni (Barcelona Opera and Houston Opera); Madame Butterfly and Carmen (Bregenzer Festspiele); and Porgy and Bess (National Opera, Amsterdam, and the Met Opera). Halls’ ballet credits include: Like Water for Chocolate (Royal Opera House, Costa Mesa, and the Metropolitan Opera); Malgorzata Dzierzon (Ballet Rambert); and Connectome (Royal Ballet). He has also designed visuals for performing artists such as Adele, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, and U2. Halls has been awarded three Knight of Illumination Awards (in 2014, 2015, and 2016), a BAFTA Award for The Cube, and the 2020 Drama Desk Award for West Side Story.
Melting Pot
Producer
Melting Pot is an independent theatre production company led by Simon Friend and Hanna Osmolska. We develop, produce and manage all of our own productions, which have won Academy Awards, Tony Awards, BAFTAs, and Olivier Awards. Simon Friend founded the company in 2015 and has been named in The Stage 100 most influential people in British theatre. West End credits include: Paranormal Activity (Ambassadors Theatre); The Truth (Apollo Theatre); The Real Thing (The Old Vic); The Crown Jewels (Garrick Theatre); Life of Pi (Wyndham’s Theatre); Bad Jews (Arts Theatre); The Girl on the Train (Duke of York’s Theatre); The Starry Messenger (Wyndham’s Theatre); Admissions (Trafalgar Studios); The Height of the Storm (Wyndham’s Theatre); The Philanthropist (Trafalgar Studios); Million Dollar Quartet (Royal Festival Hall); The Father (Wyndham’s Theatre and Duke of York’s Theatre); Bad Jews (Arts Theatre, again!); Speed-the-Plow (Playhouse Theatre); Relative Values (Harold Pinter Theatre) and Fences (Duchess Theatre). UK regional theatre credits include: One Day (Royal Lyceum Theatre); The Battle (Birmingham Rep, Opera House Manchester). UK tour credits include: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Paranormal UK Tour; Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts; The Girl on the Train; Ghost Stories; Here You Come Again; Drop the Dead Donkey; Life of Pi; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; The Da Vinci Code; Dial M for Murder; Dr Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas; The Entertainer; The Girl on the Train; The Messiah; Titanic the Musical; Around the World in 80 Days; The Wipers Times and Trial by Laughter. US credits include: Life of Pi (Broadway, Schoenfeld Theatre); The Height of the Storm (Broadway, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre); The Closet starring Matthew Broderick (Williamstown Theatre Festival); and Around the World in 80 Days (US tour). International credits include: Life of Pi (Toronto, Mumbai, China, South Korea); Million Dollar Quartet (New Zealand and India); and Titanic the Musical (Germany). Film & Television: The Father, starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman (winner of 2 Academy Awards & 2 BAFTAs), and The Grinch Musical (NBC & Sky).
Seaview
Executive Producer
Seaview is a Tony, Olivier, and Peabody Award-winning theater and film company. Recent Credits: The Fear of 13 starring Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson; The Unknown starring Sean Hayes; TRU starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson; Every Brilliant Thing starring Daniel Radcliffe; Kenrex starring Jack Holden; All Out: Comedy About Ambition; The Queen of Versailles starring Kristin Chenoweth; Prince Faggot; The Ziegfeld Files starring Jesse Eisenberg; Dylan Mulvaney’s The Least Problematic Woman in The World; Gruesome Playground Injuries starring Nicholas Braun and Kara Young; Good Night, and Good Luck starring George Clooney; The Last Five Years starring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren; Angry Alan starring John Krasinski; My Master Builder starring Ewan McGregor and Elizabeth Debicki; Romeo + Juliet starring Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler; All In: Comedy About Love; and Once Upon a Mattress starring Sutton Foster. Past Credits: Hold On To Me Darling starring Adam Driver; the Tony Award-winning Stereophonic; Sam Gold’s An Enemy of The People starring Jeremy Strong; Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Illinoise; Lempicka directed by Rachel Chavkin; Danny and the Deep Blue Sea starring Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott; Michael Arden’s Tony Award-winning revival of Parade; Alex Edelman's Emmy Award-winning Just For Us; Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign In Sidney Brustein’s Window; The Old Man & The Pool; POTUS; Slave Play; Sea Wall / A Life; Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theatre, Stress Positions (NEON), and Reality (HBO). @ThisIsSeaview @StudioSeaview.
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