Escape Entertainment And The Team Behind 'Paradiso' Launch Groundbreaking And Dynamic Immersive Live Game

Escape Entertainment and the team behind the critically acclaimed immersive experience, Paradiso, New York City's premier escape the room operators, are proud to announce the opening of "The MasterMind" an innovative escape the room experience in NYC that takes immersion, interactive theatrics and social engagement to new heights. The new live escape the room game reflects the groups' combined 6 years of experience in the industry during which they have served hundreds of thousands of customers, hosted hundreds of work and school groups and received many awards and other accolades. "The MasterMind" is a reflection of the combined team's deep backgrounds in immersive theater, game design, film production, set design and technology. For the companies and their partnership, the game represents a first step in a joint roadmap of continuing innovation that will result in an ever- growing portfolio of intellectual property and advancements in the realms of replay-ability, dynamic content conveyance and game architecture.

Michael Counts, creator of Paradiso, who has been described as a "Mad Genius" and a "master of immersive theater" by the New York Times said "based on the highly complementary strengths of the Escape Entertainment and Paradiso team we set an ambitious goal of creating a groundbreaking live escape the room experience unlike any other in the world. Through our collaboration we were able to achieve a variety of innovations in game design and presentation to create a superior experience for our customers."

"The MasterMind" creates a thrilling and fun social adventure for all walks of life-from friends and families to work and school groups and for ages from 10 to 80+. Utilizing cutting edge technology and the proprietary Dynamic Content PalletTM created through the collaboration of Escape Entertainment and Paradiso, new and innovative immersive heights are achieved. Coupled with the beguiling test put forth by "The MasterMind" players have an action-packed series of challenges to overcome to beat the challenge and achieve MasterMind status themselves within an hour!

"The MasterMind", located in midtown Manhattan is now open to the public and can be booked through nyc.escape-entertainment.com.

Media Contact: Jennifer Worthington Jen@iactivations.com

About Escape Entertainment
Escape Entertainment was founded in 2015 in NYC to elevate the quality standard of live escape the room games and adapt the concept to broaden its appeal and enhance the impact of "purposeful games" for work and school group team building, social outings and learning and development. Since commencing its operations, Escape Entertainment expanded its presence to London and Philadelphia and the company has hosted hundreds of thousands of customers, including more than half of the Fortune 500 and myriad school and other organizations, including The United Nations, The Federal Reserve Bank, Columbia University, Harvard, NYU, Princeton and Yale. The company has received numerous awards for its games and extended delivery platforms in novel ways to as to appeal to the broadest possible audience. For more information please visit www.nyc.escape-entertainment.com

About Paradiso Escape
The Paradiso suite of properties (Paradiso Chapters 1&2, and The Path of Beatrice) was created by Immersive Escape Productions. The company was founded in 2016 in NYC by acclaimed film producer and hospitality executive, Jennifer Worthington, and Michael Counts, a renowned immersive theater creator and impresario who is considered to be one of the leading pioneers of the immersive theater genre. Paradiso was established to push the boundaries of the live escape the room genre by blurring the lines between this worldwide phenomenon and immersive theater. Paradiso has received tremendous acclaim for its groundbreaking experiences.