In the spring of 2016 Counts partnered with former Jerry Bruckheimer producer and Las Vegas nightclub impresario Jennifer Worthington on the creation and production of a new immersive theatrical production which intends to take the emerging escape room genre to the next level.

Titled PARADISO: Chapter 1, this unique and technologically leading edge production, follows the traditional escape room format of a one-hour experience within which an audience of up to 10 people has to escape from a room or a series of rooms by solving puzzles of varying types and styles.  However, unlike most existing escape rooms, PARADISO draws on Counts’ extensive experience as one of the early pioneers of immersive theater and takes the escape room format to the next level.  As the first installment of an expanding narrative structure, the production is loosely based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, which rendered Hell, Purgatory and Paradise (a Counts favorite as fans familiar with his 2001 GAle GAtes production, So Long Ago I Can’t Remember, will be aware), The experience adds multiple performers and a coherent, multilayered and complex story structure to a highly produced scenic design featuring high production value and state-of-the-art special effects.