United Palace
Clayton Landiss is an experienced technical supervisor and lighting technician currently employed at United Palace since January 2022. With a robust background in production design, drafting, and lighting direction as a self-employed professional since January 2008, Clayton also held significant roles at RWS Entertainment Group from December 2018 to December 2021 as the Director of Technical Services and Senior Technical Director. Prior experience includes working as Rigging Installation Supervisor at Texas Scenic Company and Production Designer & Draftsperson at Bradfield Stage Lighting, alongside lighting design work at Ryman Auditorium. Clayton Landiss began a career in climbing instruction and management at Climb Nashville and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Production Design from Belmont University, earned between 2007 and 2011.
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United Palace
The history of the United Palace began in 1930, when it was then one of five Loew’s “Wonder Theatres” across the boroughs and New Jersey. Designed by noted architect Thomas Lamb (Cort Theatre, the former Ziegfeld Theatre) with interiors overseen by decorative specialist Harold Rambusch (Waldorf Astoria, Radio City Music Hall), it was one of the region’s premier vaudeville and movie houses. The theater’s first 40 years as a home for engaging storytelling came to an equally storied end in 1969 with a screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey — a fitting and wondrous final chapter for the Wonder Theatre. Yet while many of the city’s grand movie theaters were slated for demolition, the United Palace of Spiritual Arts (formerly known as United Christian Evangelistic Association) purchased the building to house its congregation. Nearly 90 years since it first opened its doors, the United Palace is still an inclusive spiritual center. United Palace honors the building’s legacy through concerts, multimedia productions, movie screenings, and spiritual programming. With nearly 3,400 seats, the United Palace is Manhattan’s fourth largest theater. Yet with its indescribable fusion of decorative styles, symbolic motifs, and international elements, the United Palace is as distinct, diverse, and magical as the city it calls home. The United Palace was designated as a landmarked building in 2016.