David Valentino has been a part of the immersive theatrical family adventure, Pip’s Island, since the beginning. “I joined the founders Rania and Rami Ajami and Walter Krudop way back in 2015,” says the director of production. “We started workshopping the production with a shoestring budget at a small blackbox downtown and did a few pop-up workshops, including a version in Chelsea that was 10,000 square feet. But we realized after we closed that pop-up event in January 2017, that the only way to really make the business model work was to wholly own our own venue and build out the space from scratch.” Check out all our Pip's Island coverage here.
