The No Proscenium Podcast

Jose Perez III and Alyssa Finley of ILMxLAB join us to talk about Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge , the latest release from Lucasfilm's pioneering immersive entertainment studio. The virtual reality experience dropped on the Oculus Quest platform this week, and we take a dive into what the studio has learned about storytelling in the new medium.   Show Notes Star Wars: Tales from the Galax...

Long time friend of the show, and veteran installation designer Lonnie Hanzon , joins us to talk about the 2020 edition of Camp Christmas .  What began as a major holiday installation in Denver has turned into a hybrid digital/at-home activity experience because of our pandemic year. Nerd out on design challenges, logistics, VR, and the world to come in this very No Proscenium episode of No Prosce...

Host Noah Nelson and NoPro's Executive Editor Kathryn Yu talk magic, Live VR Theatre, and Gather. Town in this chat recorded on Nov. 5th, 2020. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After ten years in DTLA, and after becoming one of the primary hubs of immersive and experiential work in Los Angeles, Think Tank Gallery is leaving DTLA. You know why: COVID-19. But not before one last banger: join us as we talk with Think Tank's Jacob Patterson about the past, present, and future of the gallery... and as we get a special visit from the creator of the last show at Think Tank -- R...

It's here! We've come to the end of our Ducktales 2017 Season One journey.  We're mostly shocked at HOW MANY OF YOU joined us. Seriously. This was a fan favorite? We're going to do more like this, reality pending. But before all that can begin, we have to finish what we've started. EPISODES DISCUSSED   The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck! The Last Crash of the Sunchaser! The Shadow War! (Parts I & II)...

It's the penultimate episode of our deep dive into the 2017 Ducktales reboot. This time out we get ever closer to the final mysteries of season one, and learn more than we ever expected to learn about Mrs. Beakley. EPISODES DISCUSSED   From the Casefiles of Agent 22 Who is Gizmoduck? The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck Sky Pirates... in the Sky!  Your assignment for next time: Finish Season One     Ho...

Dragon Productions Theatre Company's Max Koknar, Ariel Aronica, and Jacob Vorperian join us to talk about All We Have To Fear: Party at the End of the World , their new theatre/game hybrid that uses Gather to recreate the experience of an immersive theatre space like the former Speakeasy in San Francisco, along with some tweaks to the system created by the Dragon to add a game layer to the proceed...

Mikhael Tara Garver of 13EXP is back, and she's bringing along some friends who are all working on the upcoming RIO REVEALS series, created in collaboration with RIVER LA the new series will extend to both digital and physical experiences about and around the LA River. Along with Mikhael, we are joined by experiential producer Daniel Penilla, and composers Jonathan Sanford and Amanda Yamate, to ta...

Climate change was once a hidden crisis, but here in California it has taken the already dangerous time of year known as "fire season" and accelerated it to something apocalyptic in nature. Writer-performer Monica Miklas and her director-producer Lauren Ludwig – the co-founders of LA's Capital W – join us to talk about Fire Season . This new socially-distanced production projects a collection of M...

Tara O'Con is an experiential artist and transformation coach whose work you may be familiar with as a performer in Third Rail Projects'  Then She Fell and  The Grand Paradise. Tara's performance in Then She Fell is a key part of our host Noah Nelson's own immersive origin story. In this After Dark episode, Noah catches up with Tara after her first day on the load out of Then She Fell to talk abou...

Kathryn Yu, Patrick McLean, and Will Cherry of the NoPro team join host Noah Nelson to talk the news of the week including: Venice VR Expanded More VR Festivals Pandemic Era Programming and, burying the lede: The Oculus Quest 2. Here. We. Go. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We've been looking forward to this one for a minute: Coach Leanne Pedante and Within's Jonny Ahdout join host Noah Nelson to talk about Supernatural , the VR fitness service that has been keeping us on our toes all summer. Show Notes Supernatural Facebook Group Kathryn's interview with the Knight Foundation Everything Immersive The NoPro Slack The NoPro Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

The highly anticipated AREA 15 will open its doors in Las Vegas on September 17th , kicking off a rollout of the immersive entertainment hub that will last into next year and the debut of Meow Wolf Las Vegas aka Omega Mart . This week, Area 15 CEO Winston Fisher and Chief Creative Officer Michael Beneville join host Noah Nelson to talk about the road that led here and what to expect from Area 15's...

Liz Rosenthal, co-curator of Venice VR  at the Venice International Film Festival with Michel Reilhac, joins host Noah Nelson to talk about the 2020 edition. This year's event is Venice VR Expanded , a hybrid digital/physical exposition of over 40 works in VR -- from 360 film to live theatrical performances -- across a host of venues virtual and physical.  And the best news: if you own a VR headse...

David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist join us to talk about THIS WEEKEND'S RECON: Reality Escape Convention . Original planned out as an in-person event in Boston, they've put in a whole lot of work to raise the bar on the online replacement. And they're giving it away for FREE. Aug. 23 & 24. Ten hours a day of programming across the escape game universe.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

On Monday of this week NYC's Third Rail Projects announced the end of Then She Fell , the seminal immersive production which inspired countless fans and creators, after seven and a half years and 4,444 performances due to the ongoing pandemic. That night we asked our team to gather in our Discord, along with some friends, to share memories and talk about what the show meant to them. You can also f...

So our already planned bye week nearly got a bit more "bye" to it. The plan was to drop the next installment of Webbed Toes... but when I opened up the files this morning it turns out that Craig, our Discord recording tool, had basically eaten Zay's track up and turned him into a squirrel.   Luckily I had been paranoid about Craig that week, and used Audio Hijack to record the session as a backup....

Sean Stewart has been a lot of things in his storied career in telling stories. Novelist, LARPwright, actor, theatre tech, and most famously of all: one of the creators of the modern Alternate Reality Game. Now add "internationally produced playwright" to the list. Sean and Noah talk about his upcoming interactive play Roundabout, which will be performed by students of Australia's National Institu...

It's an all NoPro team episode. Executive editor Kathryn Yu, NYC curator Blake Weil, and LA correspondent Laura Hess join host Noah Nelson to talk about their latest immersive adventures, and what separates theatre from TV in the Pandemic Age. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jay Rinsky, the founder, CEO, and creative director of the NYC based Little Cinema is back on the show to talk about the arrival of Little Cinema Digital. This new venture from the production company has seen the theatre professionals pivot into creating a video platform of their own. They've been using it to host premiere parties for television shows, complete with online versions of the elaborat...

This week Tender Claws co-founder Samantha Gorman returns to talk about the latest evolution of The Under Presents : an expansion that takes the form of a live-actor driven participatory production of Shakespeare's Tempest . Along for the ride are producer and assistant director Eli Bork, and actor Kelley Pierre - who some members of our LA audience may recognize from her live-action immersive wor...

Our side-track podcast covering the 2017 DuckTales reboot returns with Zay and Noah. This time out:  The Living Mummies of Toth-RA The Impossible Summit of Mount Neverest & The Spear of Selene Content Advisory: starting at around 53 minutes we discuss the evidence of mental abuse and sexual coercion perpetrated by comic book writer Warren Ellis. It had bubbled up on social media the day that we’re...

Virtual spaces can exist without VR headsets, and they can truly be wonders. This is an episode about one such space. Yannick Trapman-O'Brien, creator of The Telelibrary joins us to talk about how getting stuck traveling in the pandemic and a whole lot of phone calls contributed to the development of his unique creation.     Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Linked Dance Theatre 's Kendra Slack and Jordan Chlapecka join us to talk about Like Real People Do: Long Distance Relationships Division , the online edition of their dance-theatre series that explores relationships and memories. Blending character-based interactions, filmmaking, and site-responsive dance, this latest entry in the series overcomes the limits of online video to create a world that...

Brittany Blum and Taylor Myers, two of the creators of Saturday night's hottest ticket -- Eschaton -- join us to share how the project came to be and what they've learned about translating an immersive nightclub into a mysterious web-based phenomenon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.