Our Story
Animal House Productions is a music, arts, nightlife, and community events production company based on the east coast in the United States. Established in 2012, owned and operated by the creative visionary, Ryan Gabriel Davis in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Ryan Davis’s ethos is founded in the living arts, community engagement, energy, and creative expression. Davis began launching events under the name “Animal House” in 2013. The company name was inspired by the movie, “National Lampoon's Animal House” by the American director, John Landis. Davis says, "I just liked the craziness. Every scene in that movie changes so rapidly. I feel like that's what we'll always be."
Animal House’s services range from artist management and booking, event coordinating, operations managing, creative directing and producing, set designing, talent and location scouting, stage managing and assistance, and more.
Animal House’s event coordinating and booking primarily takes place in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We extend booking to Slab City, a self-reliant, off-grid, alternative living community located in the desert of Southern California. Animal House believes music and art engage communities to come together, collaborate and co-exist in spaces. We curate events in various venues and spaces with the goals and intent of drawing diverse crowds and fostering connections between attendees, artists, and community. We are focused and devoted to working and creating platforms with artists that are womxn, people of color, members of the q***r community and other marginalized groups on our line-ups. Our pursuit is to make those populations feel welcomed, at home, present, heard, and know that their participation is vital and valued. Our booking practices are very selective but are not limited to genres due to we believe if we limit ourselves, we miss out on many opportunities. We wholeheartedly believe that every artist we work with is talented and destined for greatness.
Animal House consists as their own entity and we are not affiliated or represented by the spaces we work in. We are actively working towards building a HOME that will operate as a performance art center in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We hope to provide our community with a venue space that reflects all that we value and offer the artist’s needs in the future. Animal House is continuously striving to form more creative, positive, colorful, open-minded atmospheres through the power of art and music because we believe that performance, dance, and art can heal you. We are constantly changing, forming, and evolving. That being said, you’ll never figure us out.
If you would like to contact Animal House Productions with booking inquiries, please reach out at least 60 days prior to the date in question by email at [email protected]
Include a link to any recorded material as well as a short description of your sound. We would like to personally respond to all emails but the volume of inquiries received sometimes prevents us from doing so.
Animal House has had the pleasure of working with the following acts:
Andrea Gibson -- Tender Loving Empire
And The Kids -- Label: Signature Sounds
Arms & Sleepers -- Label: Fake Chapter
Big Thief -- Label: Saddle Creek
Camp Cope -- Label: Poison City
Cayetana -- Label: Plum Records
Chastity Brown -- Red House Records
CityCop -- Label: Flannel Gurl
Comrades -- Label: Blood and Ink, The Motherland Collective
Creepoid -- Label: Collect Records
Diane Cluck -- Label: Important Records
Diet Cig -- Label: Father/Daughter
The Dirty Nil -- Label: Dine Alone
DIVORCE. -- Label: Head2Wall
Drug Church-- Label: No Sleep
The Districts -- Label: Fat Possum
Flux Capacitor -- Label: Flexion
Girlpool -- Label: Wichita
Homeless Gospel Choir
Into It. Over It. -- Label: Triple Crown
Jessica Lea Mayfield -- Label: ATO Records
Kaki King
Kids -- Label: Square of Opposition
Kississippi -- Label: Soft Speak Records
Koji -- Label: No Cover, Run for Sound
Kool A.D. (of Das Racist)
Listener
Lucy Dacus -- Label: Egghunt
Mannequin P***y -- Label: Tiny Engines
Mauno -- Label: IDÉE FIXE / TIN ANGEL
Medusa's Disco
Mike Greenfield of Lotus
Milo (rapsmith)
Mimicking Birds -- Label: Glacial Pace
The O’My’s
The Ok-Ok's
On the Water
ORBS -- Label: Equal Vision, Hogweed & Fugue
Potty Mouth -- Label: Planet Whatever
Restorations --Label: Tiny Engines
Rivers
See Through Dresses -- Label: Tiny Engines
Soul Low -- Label: Gloss Records, Delaware Records
The Stonewall Vessels
Swearin' (Allison Crutchfield)
Take One Car -- Label: Broken World Media
This Will Destroy You -- Label: Su***de Squeeze
Tigers Jaw -- Label: Run for Cover
Three Man Cannon -- Label: Lame-O Records
Ton-Taun
Troller -- Label: Holodeck
Trophy Scars -- Label: Monotreme
Tuck Ryan
Waxahatchee -- Label: Merge Records, Wichita
We Were Skeletons -- Label: Topshelf Records
Weatherman
Younger Me
Young & Heartless -- Label: Hopeless Records
...and many more notable acts on the regional and national levels.
