Comedian Kylie Vincent is on a sold out run of stand-up comedy hour, Lesion Lady which tracks her medical journey of being “hospitalized with no insurance after her entire left side went numb” ultimately learning that she had a brain lesion.
She turned that into fuel for her new hour, and now is partnering with Jordan Thewlis, DSP Studios, The Elysian, and a team of creative collaborators to create American Healthcare: The Haunted House “to invite the LA community into a fully immersive haunted house experience that will bring participants face-to-face with the horrors of the healthcare system” this coming Halloween weekend.
As Vincent says below “I knew that the healthcare system is bad, but dying under it is a whole new in-your-face type of horror.”
Read on to get more on the production that will pop upon Riverside Dr. in L.A. on Halloween weekend. (Vincent will also headline a Lesion Lady standup marathon at the The Elysian Theater on Oct 30th.)
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No Proscenium: Tell us a little bit about your experience! What’s it about? What makes it immersive?
Kylie Vincent: The American Healthcare System. It’s an escape room with live actors & 6 immersive rooms. Upon getting in line, people fill out a medical intake form and then are taken into the first room, the emergency room and are diagnosed with an incurable disease from the live actors who are playing doctors and other players in The American Healthcare System.
NP: What was the inspiration for your upcoming experience?
KV: In January of 2026, I was hospitalized because my entire left side went numb and I lost the ability to walk on my own. I had no insurance and a he/him doctor tried to send me home with a UTI after waiting at the hospital with stroke-like symptoms from 1 PM-1 AM. After a MRI of my brain, a brain lesion (lesiondary) was discovered on my brainstem. They diagnosed me with MS and sent me through the system.
For 9 months, I was given no medication for my growing brain lesion and my diagnosis started to change. Most of my days have been spent on the phone fighting hospital bills, insurance companies, and hospitals for speedier appointments with no avail. While living this real life nightmare, I have done a new hour of stand-up every month about my experience called Lesion Lady, which is also a documentary stand-up special. We wanted to do something big for Halloween that would make people talk about the American Healthcare System.
NP: What do you think fans of immersive will find most interesting about this latest experience?
KV: I’ve never seen anything quite like this done. Even prior to my serious medical complications, I knew that the healthcare system is bad, but dying under it is a whole new in-your-face type of horror. At one point in life, every human becomes sick, it’s just a part of life, that means we will all have to face this for-profit system. I want people who aren’t facing this reality at the moment to take in what a never ending maze it is because I think sometimes it takes experiencing it for people to start caring and at least with this, you’re not actually sick.
NP: Once you started designing and testing what did you discover about this experience that was unexpected?
KV: The technical build out is not my forte typically, so it’s been fun to work with everyone to figure out how we can execute not only something entertaining, but functionally impressive. At one point, guests go through a “MRI machine” and we’ve taken a lot of passes on how to exactly build that out with our resources and everyone has been so creative and imaginative. We call it MRIGate. I’ve spent a lot of time in MRI machines this past year and I think aside from the horrifying sounds, it becomes psychological torture to lie still in a chamber of chaos while you meditate over the fact there is something inside your brain.
NP: What can fans who are coming to this, or thinking about coming to this, do to get into the mood of the experience?
KV: This is all based off of my direct experiences this year in the healthcare system. Tonally, it's political horror comedy. It’s like if Alfred Hitchock collabed with a Gen Z comedian.
American Healthcare: The Haunted House will run Oct. 29 -31 at 1960 Riverside Dr. in Los Angeles. Tickets are $25.
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