Where Vision Meets Unforgettable Entertainment
From nationally recognized talent and keynote speakers to immersive activations, interactive entertainment, and unexpected moments of surprise, Carey Smolensky Productions / CSP Worldwide brings the right entertainment to your audience, and your event.
With 40+ years of producing live experiences, we develop, source, and produce entertainment at any scale–a single featured act, a full lineup of performers, or an entire immersive production built around your brand.
If you can imagine it, we can help bring it to life.
Entertainment for Every Moment of Your Event
A show-stopping headline performance. An opener that wakes up a conference. Entertainment woven through a reception, or a completely customized experience built around your brand, theme, and objectives. Whatever the moment calls for, our team can help develop, source, and produce the right entertainment solution, whether that's one act or 20.
Passion Is the Whole Job
Carey Smolensky started producing events in high school and hasn't stopped chasing the next one. Hear him on what makes an audience lean in, why nothing is ever too small or too large, and what it takes to send people home already asking about next year.
Where Do You Want the Energy?
Every kind of act, in one place. Our entertainment capabilities include national and celebrity talent, live music, DJs and emcees, keynote speakers, comedians, interactive game shows, audience competitions, murder mysteries, magicians and mentalists, speed painters, Cirque-style performers, roaming entertainers, customized gifting experiences, branded activations, attendee personalization stations, photo and video experiences, wellness activations, team-building entertainment, and much more.
Some acts sell the room before anyone arrives. A recognized name on the program drives registration, anchors your marketing, and gives attendees a reason to clear their calendars. We handle the sourcing, the contracting, and the production around them so the booking lands the way you pictured it.
Headline Acts & Recording Artists
Nationally recognized performers and touring musicians who headline your program and carry your marketing.
- National & Celebrity Talent
- Recording Artists & Touring Acts
- Celebrity Appearances
- Specialty Headline Acts
Speakers & Storytellers
Voices that shift how a room thinks, from keynote stages to closing sessions.
- Keynote & Motivational Speakers
- Inspirational Speakers & Storytellers
- Sports Personalities & Legends
Hosts, Emcees & Comedy
The through-line of your program, keeping energy up and transitions smooth from open to close.
- Celebrity Hosts & Emcees
- Comedians & Corporate Comedy
Tribute Acts
Note-for-note tributes to the bands and artists your audience already loves.
- Tribute Artists
- Tribute Bands
Music sets the temperature of a room. A string quartet during arrivals and a drumline at the general session opener are doing entirely different jobs, and the right program uses both. We match the sound to the moment, the space, and the crowd in front of it.
Dance Floors & Party Bands
High-energy acts built to fill a floor and keep it full.
- High-Energy Party Bands
- DJs & Interactive DJ/MC Teams
- Specialty & Themed Bands
Looking for the DJ, emcee, and dancer lineup? Start with Mobile Music.
Cocktail Hour & Ambient Music
Live sound that fills the space without competing with conversation.
- Jazz Bands & Cocktail Ensembles
- Solo Musicians, Duos, Trios & Ensembles
- String Quartets & Contemporary Strings
- Roaming Musicians
Featured & High-Impact Sets
Musical moments that stop conversation and become the thing people film.
- Dueling Pianos
- Electric Violinists & Instrumentalists
- Percussionists & Drumlines
- Interactive Musical Performances
Vocal & Cultural Performances
Voices and traditions that give a program its own identity.
- Vocalists & A Cappella Groups
- Cultural & World Music
Some vocal performances are a set. Others are a spectacle–see STORM Interactive Entertainment.
The room stops watching and starts playing. Interactive formats turn a passive audience into participants, which is exactly what a sales rally, a team offsite, or a multi-day conference needs by the second afternoon. Every format below can be customized to your brand, your teams, or your content.
Game Shows & Trivia
Hosted competition formats that put your own content on the big screen.
- Interactive Game Shows
- Customized Corporate Trivia
- Corporate Feud-Style Game Shows
- Music Trivia & Name-That-Tune
- Bingo & Music Bingo
Competition & Team Play
Structured competition that gets departments mixing and talking.
- Team Competitions & Challenges
- Minute-to-Win-It Style Competitions
- Scavenger Hunts
- Team-Building Entertainment
Audience Participation
Formats where the crowd supplies the entertainment and nobody stays in their seat.
- Audience Participation Shows
- Lip-Sync Battles
- Karaoke Experiences
- Dance-Offs & Interactive Dance Experiences
Story-Driven Formats
Unscripted and narrative experiences the audience helps build in real time.
- Interactive Improv
- Murder Mystery Experiences
Table Games & Live Play
Open-floor play and live audience input that keeps a room in motion.
- Casino-Style Entertainment
- Live Polling & Audience Challenges
Some moments need a jaw drop. Speed painting, mentalism, magic, and customized visual performances work especially well as conference openers, award-show moments, product launches, and brand reveals. Cirque-style entertainment extends well beyond aerial acts into dance, acrobatics, choreography, specialty costuming, and fully staged custom experiences.
Magic, Mentalism & Mind Reading
Close-up and stage performers who make a roomful of skeptics lean forward.
- Magicians & Illusionists
- Mentalists & Mind Readers
- Close-Up & Roaming Magicians
- Hypnotists
Live Art & Speed Painting
Artists who create a finished piece in front of your audience, often revealing your logo or a featured face.
- Speed Painters & Live Performance Artists
- Shadow & Silhouette Performers
Cirque & Aerial Artistry
Aerial, acrobatic, and choreographed performance that turns the air above your room into a stage.
- Cirque-Style Performers
- Aerialists
- Acrobats & Contortionists
- Jugglers
- Specialty Dancers
Want the full production behind it? Explore STORM Interactive Entertainment.
Larger-Than-Life Characters
Living, moving spectacle that fills a space and gives guests something to photograph.
- Stilt Walkers
- Living Statues
- Human Statues & Living Art
- Character Performers
Light & Variety Performance
LED, glow, and variety acts built for a darkened room and a big reveal.
- LED & Light Performers
- Specialty Variety Acts
Cocktail hours are where most programs go flat. Guests arrive at different times, nobody knows where to stand, and the energy you built in the general session drains away. Roaming entertainment fixes that by bringing the show to the room instead of asking the room to sit down for it.
Arrivals & First Impressions
The first 60 seconds of your event, staged so guests know immediately that this one is different.
- Living Red Carpet Experiences
- Human Tables & Champagne Greeters
- Specialty Hosts & Ambassadors
- Interactive Characters
Personalized Keepsakes
Artists who create something for each guest to take home, made on the spot.
- Caricature Artists
- Digital Caricature Artists
- Silhouette Artists
- Live Fashion Illustrators
- Poets & Personalized Poetry
Wearable & Body Art
Hands-on artistry guests wear for the rest of the night.
- Temporary Tattoo Airbrush Artists
- Henna Artists
- Face & Body Artists
Close-Up & Mingling Acts
Performers who work the room table by table, sparking conversation as they go.
- Roaming Magicians & Mentalists
- Roaming Musicians
Guests leave with something made for them, not handed to them. Personalization stations, photo experiences, and gifting activations give attendees a reason to stop, take part, and post about it. They also double as brand moments, since everything produced can carry your logo, colors, or campaign.
Gifting & Swag Experiences
Curated gifting moments where guests choose or build their own takeaway.
- Custom Gift Kiosks & Gifting Experiences
- Build-Your-Own Swag Stations
- Personalized Merchandise Stations
Every item on the table can carry your logo. We make Custom Specialty Promotions.
Made-to-Order Apparel & Accessories
Live production stations where guests watch their item get made.
- Hat & Apparel Customization
- Sneaker Customization
- Live Screen Printing
- Embroidery & Monogramming Stations
- Engraving & Personalization Experiences
The blanks, the apparel, the sourcing–all handled by Custom Specialty Promotions.
Keepsake & Scent Bars
Build-your-own stations where guests design something personal to wear or take home.
- Custom Jewelry & Bracelet Stations
- Charm Bars
- Fragrance & Scent Bars
Wellness & Relaxation
Quiet, restorative moments built into a busy floor plan.
- Wellness & Relaxation Experiences
- Massage & Spa Activations
Photo & Video Experiences
Capture stations that produce a branded, shareable asset in seconds.
- Photo Booths & Interactive Photo Experiences
- 360° Video Experiences
- Slow-Motion Video Booths
- AI-Powered Photo Experiences
- Green-Screen Experiences
- Glam/Bling Booths
- Video Confessionals & Testimonial Booths
Booths capture the guests. Photography and Videography capture the event.
Social & Shareable Walls
Large-format installations that grow as guests contribute to them.
- Interactive Digital Graffiti Walls
- Mosaic Photo Walls
- Live Social Media Activations
Guests build the wall. Our event photographers catch everything happening around it.
Entertainment can carry your message instead of interrupting it. A custom act reinforces your event's theme, product, brand, or message rather than feeling like an unrelated performance dropped into the program. We build these from your objectives out.
Openers, Entrances & Reveals
The moment the program starts, staged so the room knows something was planned for them.
- Conference Openers & Closers
- Customized Grand Entrances
- Surprise Entertainment Reveals
An opener lands harder with lighting, sound, and staging behind it. See Event Production.
Product & Brand Reveals
Performance built around the moment your product or logo appears.
- Product Reveal Entertainment
- Logo & Brand Reveal Performances
- Custom-Branded Performances
Reveals hit hardest when Event Production builds the moment around them.
Awards & Recognition Moments
Entertainment that makes recognition feel earned rather than administrative.
- Awards Show Entertainment
- Executive & Employee Recognition Experiences
Custom-Written Acts
Original material written around your company, your people, and your content.
- Custom Songs & Musical Performances
- Company-Themed Game Shows
- Customized Comedy & Improv
- Branded Magic & Illusion
Sponsor & Brand Activations
Experiences that give sponsors and brand partners something better than a logo on a banner.
- Sponsor Activations
- Interactive Brand Experiences
- Corporate Storytelling Through Entertainment
The room stops being a ballroom. Themed environments scale from a single activation in a corner to a fully built world your guests walk into, and either one gives an event a story instead of a schedule. Tell us the feeling you want, and our production team designs backward from there.
Themed Worlds & Environments
Fully realized environments where décor, performance, and staging work as one idea.
- Immersive Themed Environments
- Speakeasy Experiences
- Decade & Era-Themed Entertainment
- Hollywood & Awards Night Experiences
- Destination & Cultural Experiences
- Interactive Lounges
- Festival-Style Entertainment
Building a world takes scenic design, staging, and lighting–that's Event Production.
Games, Casino & Midway
Play-driven formats that give guests somewhere to go and something to do.
- Casino Nights
- Carnival & Midway Experiences
- Mystery & Escape-Room Experiences
Story-Driven & Live Action
Performers and pop-ups that create scenes guests stumble into.
- Interactive Theater
- Custom Characters & Themed Performers
- Pop-Up Entertainment Experiences
Entrances & Processions
Moving spectacle that transitions a crowd from one space, or one mood, to another.
- Parade & Processional Entertainment
- New Orleans-Style Second Lines
- Surprise Flash Mobs
New technology only matters if it does something. We stay ahead of what's possible so your event never feels like last year's, and we're careful to use the tools that serve the moment rather than the ones that photograph well in a vendor deck. Every format below can be branded and tied to your content.
Immersive Reality
Headset and overlay experiences that put guests inside something they can't otherwise visit.
- Virtual Reality Experiences
- Augmented Reality Activations
- AI-Driven Interactive Experiences
Gaming & Competition
Competitive play that draws a crowd and holds it, whether or not people are playing.
- Interactive Gaming
- Esports & Gaming Stations
- Racing & Sports Simulators
Responsive Environments
Installations that react to the people moving through them.
- Interactive Projection Experiences
- Motion-Activated Entertainment
- Interactive LED Installations
Visual Spectacle
Large-scale visual technology built for the reveal moment.
- Holographic & Specialty Visual Experiences
- Digital Art Experiences
- Robotic Entertainment
Wellness and lifestyle activations give people a genuine reset between sessions, which shows up in how the afternoon room feels. These also work as sponsor-friendly moments, since they're useful rather than promotional.
Recharge & Restore
Hands-on restoration built into the flow of a long agenda.
- Chair Massage & Massage Stations
- Hand & Spa Treatments
Mind & Movement
Guided sessions that reset a room's energy without demanding athletic ability.
- Yoga & Movement Experiences
- Guided Meditation
- Sound Bath Experiences
- Fitness Challenges
Culinary Experiences
Food as entertainment, with a chef or a station guests gather around.
- Culinary Demonstrations
- Chef Experiences
- Interactive Food Stations
Beverage Bars & Activations
Crafted, non-alcoholic moments that give everyone something to hold.
- Coffee & Barista Experiences
- Smoothie & Wellness Activations
- Mocktail Mixology Experiences
Entertainment Is Better With a Production Behind It
Lighting, staging, sound, and scenic design turn a strong act into a moment nobody forgets. Our production team builds the show around the entertainment–or the entertainment around the show.
See Event Production See Event Production
Experience the Extraordinary
Step inside the world of CSP, from jaw-dropping productions to packed dance floors.
What Our Clients Say
I've worked with CSP on multiple events and I can honestly say that I haven't had one experience that hasn't completely WOW'd me with their creativity. Every time I've contracted with them, I wonder what new and amazing ideas they have created for the event.
These guys rock! First class, fun, easy to work with. Above and beyond in every way.
I've worked with CSP Worldwide at many events, and always found him and his team to be professional, and to go the extra mile. Incredible production work, great energy, and a passionate professional. As good as it gets.
