Phantasma Arts
A place where visual and performing art can live and grow side by side.
Mission Statement
Phantasma Arts creates theatre that blurs the line between discipline, experience level, and form. Rooted in live performance, our work expands into visual art and education as sites of experimentation—where professionals, amateurs, and students collide in the creative process.
About Phantasma
Phantasma Arts is an interdisciplinary arts organization dedicated to creating collaborative performance experiences that bring together artists across disciplines, backgrounds, and experience levels. Rooted in live theatre, the company explores the intersection of performing arts, visual arts, and arts education as a shared space for experimentation and growth.
Although brand new, we hope to bring engagement through productions, workshops, and outreach, throughout Los Angeles and Southern California and beyond. Phantasma Arts is working to create opportunities for emerging and established artists to work side by side, encouraging mentorship, creative risk-taking, and collective ownership of the artistic process. The company is particularly committed to accessibility, working to expand opportunities for audiences and artists who may not traditionally have access to live performance.
At its core, Phantasma Arts believes that collaboration is more than a method—it is a practice. By building environments where artists actively support and learn from each other, the company seeks to create work that is visually compelling, emotionally immediate, and grounded in genuine human connection.
A Note From Our Founding Artistic Director
Phantasma Arts grew out of a simple observation: some of the most meaningful artistic experiences don’t come from large institutions, but from rooms where artists genuinely invest in each other. Rooms where a student can learn next to a professional, where a designer’s idea can shape a performance, and where the process feels just as important as the final result.
My own path in the arts started in spaces like that. As a young artist in community arts and sports programs, I was given opportunities to explore, fail, learn, and contribute. Later, as a director and facilitator, I saw how rare and valuable those environments really are—and how necessary they are for artists to develop not just skill, but confidence and voice.
Phantasma Arts was created to build more of those rooms.
Our work starts with live performance, but it doesn’t end there. We are interested in what happens when disciplines intersect, when visual artists influence staging, when performers think like designers, and when education becomes part of the creative process rather than something separate from it.
More than anything, we believe the act of creating together teaches us something larger than technique. It teaches patience. It teaches trust. It teaches how to listen. These are artistic skills, but they’re also human ones.
If we do our job well, the result isn’t just good work. It’s a stronger community of artists who know how to build something together.
— Jacob Nye
Founding Artistic Director