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Core Team.
Production Leadership.
Shaping Projects.
A senior creative, production and operations partnership shaping large-scale projects from concept through to delivery.
Working as a collaborative platform, projects are delivered alongside client teams, partners and appointed suppliers, strengthening existing structures rather than replacing them.
Led by senior partners working across international markets, each project is shaped by assembling the right expertise for its ambition and context. The partnership has contributed to major international ceremonies, destination developments and large-scale live productions across multiple markets.
Each project is led by a core creative and production pairing, supported by a curated network of specialist collaborators assembled to match the scale and complexity of the work.
Robbie Klaesi
Executive Creative Producer
Robbie is a Creative Director and Producer working across large-scale live events, ceremonies and destination-based entertainment. His work focuses on shaping theatrical concepts, narrative structure and spectacle systems for complex, multi-layered productions operating at scale.
His experience spans some of the world’s most recognised global events and landmark productions, including the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games (Emmy Award-winning), FIFA World Cup and FIFA Women’s World Cup ceremonies, Expo 2020 Dubai UAE Golden Jubilee, and the Shanghai World Expo Opening Ceremony. 
Beyond stadium-scale ceremonies, Robbie has led the creative and visual direction of major destination and architectural spectacles across Asia and the Middle East, including The Venetian and Parisian Macau, Hong Kong’s Symphony of Lights and Pulse festivals, Vivid Sydney (Sydney Opera House), and large-scale projection works for Tokyo Disneyland’s Christmas Castle show and Legoland Malaysia. 
His work bridges broadcast, live performance and immersive environments, aligning creative vision with technical execution at scale. He is known for defining clear visual direction early and carrying it through to final delivery, ensuring the work that reaches screen remains true to the original idea.
Within Proscenium, Robbie leads creative direction and show architecture, working alongside partners and specialist teams to ensure ideas are ambitious, achievable, scalable and aligned to real-world delivery.
David Shapiro
Executive Producer
David is an Executive Producer specialising in the delivery of large-scale live events, broadcast productions and complex international projects. He started his career working on commercial musicals on Broadway, before moving into television and global event production, developing a strong foundation across both theatrical and broadcast environments.
His experience spans global ceremonies, high-profile televised events and major destination developments delivered at scale for international audiences.
He has held senior production roles across projects including the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, The World Economic Forum Special Meeting in Riyadh, Riyadh Season Opening Ceremony with Cirque du Soleil, The World Combat Games Opening Ceremony, Dakar Rally Closing Ceremony, The Special Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies in Los Angeles, The Angela Zhang World Tour, and major destination openings across international markets.
His broadcast background includes work with NBC Universal across Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly in Times Square, The Carson Daly Show, Access Hollywood, The Emmy Awards Red Carpet and NBC’s 75th Anniversary special.
David specialises in structuring ambitious projects for real-world execution, overseeing budgeting, scheduling, logistics and large multi-disciplinary teams across simultaneous productions. He is known for bringing clarity, control and reliability to complex environments, ensuring projects are delivered safely and at scale.
Within Proscenium Live, David leads production strategy and integration, aligning creative ambition with operational execution and delivery frameworks.
Paul Lovett
Director of Operations
Paul is a senior production and operations leader specialising in the delivery of large-scale live events, global sporting ceremonies and complex international productions. His experience spans more than three decades, working across Olympic Games, major sporting events and destination-scale projects delivered worldwide.
His credits include multiple Olympic Games, including Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Vancouver 2010, London 2012 and Paris 2024, alongside Winter Olympic Games including Salt Lake 2002 and Sochi 2014, as well as numerous Commonwealth Games and international sporting events. Across these, Paul has operated at the highest level of global broadcast and live event delivery, supporting projects of extreme scale, complexity and visibility. 
Beyond the Olympic movement, his portfolio includes Expo 2020 Dubai, World Economic Forum Riyadh, Saudi Games, World Combat Games, Liwa Festival (UAE), Monster Jam Qatar, alongside long-term involvement in global sporting circuits including Formula 1 Grand Prix, US Open Tennis, Wimbledon and major stadium events across the US, UK and Middle East. 
Paul is known for structuring and delivering highly complex operations, overseeing large-scale workforce mobilisation, logistics, infrastructure and multi-layered event systems across simultaneous venues and productions. His strength lies in building robust operational frameworks that allow ambitious projects to be delivered safely, efficiently and at scale.
Through his work with Incognitus, Paul has established and led international operations across Australia, the USA, the UK and the Middle East, supporting governments, organising committees and major event owners in delivering world-class outcomes across more than four continents. 
Within Proscenium Live, Paul leads operational strategy and delivery integration, ensuring projects are grounded in practical execution, supported by experienced teams and structured for successful real-world delivery.
Trevor Burk
Creative Director, Screens & Experiential Design
Founder, Visual Noise Creative
Trevor is a creative director, creative producer and screens producer specialising in large-scale visual storytelling across live entertainment, broadcast, esports and experiential design. As founder of Visual Noise Creative, he leads the development of bold, high-impact screen environments and immersive systems that connect creative ambition with real-world delivery. 
His work is deeply rooted in Asia and internationally recognised live entertainment, with credits including the 2023 League of Legends World Championships Opening Ceremony at Gocheok Sky Dome, Seoul, the 2020 League of Legends Worlds Opening Ceremony at Pudong Football Stadium, Shanghai, Journey of Lights at Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Zhuhai, China, Tokyo Disneyland’s Main Street Electrical Parade, and Taqa Island at Dubai Expo 2020’s Terra Pavilion. Across these projects, Trevor and Visual Noise have delivered creative direction, lighting and systems design, screens producing, and immersive visual frameworks that operate at stadium, theme park and destination scale.     
His broader portfolio spans major global events and artist-led productions including the 2024 Esports World Cup Closing Ceremony with Kid Cudi, Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday Tour, Savage x Fenty Vol. 2 with Rihanna, Rupi Kaur Live, Soundstorm Music Festival in Riyadh, MTV Video Music Awards, CMT Music Awards, Adidas x Parley at 747 Warehouse St., Journey of a Dress for Diane von Furstenberg, and the Times Square TSX Stage reimagining in New York. His recent work has also included screens creative and live visual development for artists including Machine Gun Kelly, Doja Cat, Fall Out Boy, Karol G, Carrie Underwood, Lainey Wilson, Jelly Roll, James Bay, Foster the People, Two Feet, Odesza and Sabrina Carpenter.     
At the MSG Sphere in Las Vegas, Trevor was part of the early concept and vision team helping define what the venue could become, contributing to the creative ambition, audience logic and technical backbone required to support immersive content at scale. That same thinking runs through his work more broadly: not just designing visuals, but shaping the systems, behaviours and frameworks that allow complex experiences to perform with clarity and impact. 
Through Trevor’s leadership and the wider capabilities of Visual Noise, he brings a specialist layer of screen-based creative direction, experiential thinking and technical integration to complex multi-platform productions. Within Proscenium’s wider network of collaborators, that capability strengthens the creative and technical teams assembled for each project, helping ambitious ideas translate clearly from concept through to live delivery.