Imagine you're an immersive theater collective, you've got some big projects on the horizon, and you just leased a 10,000-square-foot performance venue in East Williamsburg. Your first instinct may be to panic. But what if you pivoted, using your resources for something that seems off brand--video games. Future Proof, founded in 2017, is one of many immersive theater collectives housed in New York City whose livelihood is threatened by the infeasibility of live performances during the pandemic. From one-time murder mystery dinner party events to award-winning, decades-long pieces like Punchdrunk's Sleep No More--a cinema noir retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth--immersive theater (and live event programming as a whole) is in a particularly precarious position as we pass the one year mark of Broadway going dark.