Ghost Palace
2023–2025 · Palace of Fine Arts, SF

Ghost Palace

Producer & Technical Director

Three years of themed room takeovers at San Francisco's biggest Halloween party, presented by Electroluxx, NPU and HUSH Concerts, with Trash Fence Events, Starvibes and Pink Mammoth.

What I did

  • Created Barbie's Dirty Room, Barbie's Dirty Playroom and Mad Hatter's Tea Dance Party
  • Built interactive pieces: LED dance cube, X-pole, pink St. Andrew's crosses and custom signage
  • Designed and ran sound, lighting and DJ backline, and stage-managed each night
  • Wrote the proposals and negotiated each year's budget with the promoters
5,000+guests at the 2025 event
$10Kroom budget by 2025, up from $3.2K
3themed worlds, one per year

One room, three worlds

Oct 28, 2023Barbie's Dirty RoomWith Trash Fence and Starvibes. $3.2K budget, a pink dungeon with St. Andrew's crosses built in-house, an X-pole and an LED dance cube.
Oct 26, 2024Barbie's Dirty PlayroomWith Starvibes, Pink Mammoth and Trash Fence. Budget grew to about $9K for delay speakers, stage lighting and a cleaner floor plan.
Oct 31, 2025Mad Hatter's Tea Dance Party$10K approved. Grass walls, rugs and fairy lights, a mushroom tea host, battery uplights and moving heads, for a 5,000+ guest night.

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