Hideaway Circus is a Brooklyn-based production company run by creative producers Josh Aviner and Lyndsay Magid Aviner. The company’s live productions include their slasher circus show Slumber described by Time Out as “contemporary, sexy and a little bit dangerous,” and the New York Times critics pick, Miss Behave Game Show now playing at Bally’s Casino in Las Vegas. They are currently in production shooting a circus and dance experience designed for viewing in virtual reality. But it was their award-nominated Hideaway Podcast we wanted to talk to them about, a podcast where they discuss current circus and theatre news and interview artists and entrepreneurs in the industry.

  Stav Meishar: Tell us a bit about yourselves and what brought you to circus. Josh Aviner: I saw Cirque du Soleil when I was 8 or 9, and I walked out of there thinking “Oh man! I want to do circus!” I just knew it. Then I went to Circus Smirkus camp for about three years, then I went on tour with them for four years, and during that time I really cultivated my love for circus. Then moved to NY for my undergrad at NYU studying film, during that time I started working at The Box performing there and eventually casting for them. Then went to Columbia for grad school studying theater producing, where I met Lyndsay. ...