AWARDS:
Primetime Emmy Award
Cannes Lions (8)
Clios (11)
Webby Award (2)
Facebook Awards (2)
Augmented World Expo Auggie Award
Village Voice OBIE Award (with NTUSA)
PRESS:
AdAge
AdWeek
Creator’s Project
LA Times
Hollywood Reporter
New York Times
Nerdist
New Yorker
Refinery29
and more +
Yehuda Duenyas is an award–winning experiential director with a focus on immersive new media, storytelling, and technology. He also works as an Intimacy Coordinator and Director for film, TV, and theater.
His work and collaborations have received a Primetime Emmy award, 2 Webby awards, 8 Cannes Lions, 11 Clios, 2 Facebook awards, and an OBIE award, among others.
Yehuda has directed shows, experiences, and commercials with online view counts in the 100+ millions. His clients have included Google/YouTube, Walt Disney Imagineering, Activision, Spotify, Netflix, Comcast, HBO, Showtime, MGM/UA, the Ad Council, R/GA, Droga 5, Mullen/Lowe, GS&P, and he has directed experiences for properties and brands such as Game of Thrones, Billions, Audi, Spotify, Netflix, HBO, INTEL, Activision, and Jet Blue, among others.
Yehuda was the experiential director and designer for the AdCouncil’s Love Has No Labels (150M+ combined views online) which went viral in 2015, one of the first online experiences to hit the one billion media impressions metric.
Bridging the gap between the physical and the virtual, Yehuda is a visionary artist who creates immersive encounters and interactive events—environments that sensuously evoke the mythic, the intimate, the ridiculous, and the sublime. His techniques emerge from his passion and experience working in the arenas of immersive theater, intimacy direction, interactive technology, ride design, reality television, large-scale events, gaming, and physical computing.
In addition to his commercial work, his Immersive Theater and installation work has been supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Greenwall Foundation, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the 9/11 Fund, the Downtown Theater Alliance, the Jerome Foundation, Arts International, Chashama, the Durst Organization, Two-Trees Realty, as well as private funders and donors.
He holds an MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a BS cum laude in theater from Skidmore College, and is a founding member of the multi–award-winning underground New York theater collaborative the National Theater of the United States of America (NTUSA).