The No Proscenium Podcast

Ricky Brigante and Sarah A.S. Elger, authors of the 2020 Immersive Entertainment Industry Annual Report , join us to talk about some of the big takeaways from this year's edition -- which is four times the size of the 2019 Report. Show Notes The 2020 Immersive Entertainment Industry Annual Report Pseudonym Productions (Brigante and Elger's production company) Everything Immersive - our new, search...

A few weeks back David Liu -- Creative Director at AFVR.co, a virtual reality consulting firm,  and formerly the Creative Director of Viacom Next and recently with the volumetric capture company The Lightframe Co. in NYC -- who tweets under the handle TheDak posted an interesting thread-- which David now refers to as “that thread” about the state of hiring practices in XR. David and I are Twitter...

This time out Zay and Noah discuss three episodes of the 2017 DuckTales reboot. TERROR OF THE TERRA FIRMIANS, HOUSE OF THE LUCKY GANDER, and THE INFERNAL INTERNSHIP OF MARK BEAKS are all covered along with the show's views on billionaires and a side trip into Jerry Garcia's favorite movie. It's the show about DuckTales , that's not really a show about DuckTales . Except when it is.  Hosted on Acas...

Continuing our miniseries where Zay Amsbury and Noah Nelson talk about the 2017 DuckTales, this edition covers the episodes "The Great Dime Chase" and "The Beagle Birthday Massacre," the movie Ben-Hur, Hollywood writers' obsession with subverting expectations vs. classical storytelling, and beer. Get yourself comfy, we’re gonna be here a while… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

Welcome to a special miniseries from the creators of No Proscenium.  This is Webbed Toes: The DuckTales Footnotes , a show that is, ostensibly, about the 2017 DuckTales reboot. Only it's really about storytelling, character, and the grand sweep of pop culture. Annnnd racecars, lasers, areoplanes. This episode of the miniseries covers the pilot "Woo-oo!" (which for some reason is episodes 4 & 5 on...

250 Episodes. Five years. Our biggest show ever. Come celebrate with us with returning guests Anthony Robinson, Bryan Bishop, David & Lisa Spira, Juliet Bennett Rylah, Kathryn Yu, Kevin Gossett, Ricky Brigante, and Zay Amsbury across three segments. Plus: some announcements about the next evolution of No Proscenium and Everything Immersive. Segment One (The Now) --- 6:34 -- 1:19:04 Kathryn Yu Juli...

Writer Betsy Isaacson and performer/sound designer Jennifer Suter of Sinking Ship Creations join us to discuss the LARP focused company's foray into phone-based interactive adventures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Producer Mali Elfman and puzzle/path designer Tommy Honton join us to talk about Arcana , the new ARG from the creators of All of Them Witches , the 2019 Overlook Film Festival Game.  There's an all-star LA immersive team behind these projects, and we get into how they came together, and why they're working on a new piece in the middle of this pandemic. Show Notes All of Them Witches’ (A NoPro Adv...

This week, we're joined by Jackson Teeley, Sarah Galante, and Dan  Barron, the creative team behind the upcoming musical Within Earshot: Anthems For The In-Between , which is set in a New York City coffee house on "Single's Awareness Day" aka Feb. 15th. Plotted out as an immersive piece, the creative team finds themselves tackling unexpected challenges in the wake of the pandemic. This conversatio...

The last time we spoke with Adventure Lab CEO Maxwell Planck it was about Siggraph 2019 . Now he's back to discuss his own work, the upcoming -- and totally awesome -- Dr. Crumb's School for Disobedient Pets . We get into that and the odd place that VR finds itself in at this moment: ready for all kinds of new experiences.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I've been tracking Robin Arnott's SoundSelf for forever. Now, after taking a variety of forms, the experience -- which Arnott calls a technodelic -- is coming home in both VR and PCs. We catch up with Arnott, who formed the company Andromeda Entertainment to explore transformational experiences, and Andromeda's Chief Strategy Officer Lyle Maxson to talk about the upcoming release of SoundSelf, tec...

Originally scheduled as the Horizon keynote speaker for the second day of the HERE Summit, Mikhael Tara Garver is the Head of Experiential Entertainment for Category 41, a "global experience company that creates, incubates and syndicates location-based experiences." She's also a long time friend of the show and one of the few people whose careers in immersive & experiential has stretched long and...

Sarah Ellis, Director of Digital Development for the Royal Shakespeare Company , was originally scheduled as one of our featured speakers at the HERE Summit. Since we're all on lockdown, Sarah joined us on the HERE Discord to talk about the innovative immersive work that the RSC has been exploring of late, and discusses how the current crisis is shaping some of the thinking the RSC has around digi...

Story Engineer Shawn Taylor, a founding author of www.thenerdsofcolor.org , and a founding organizer of the Black Comix Arts Festival, first hit my radar at the 2019 IDS thanks to Mikhael Tara Garver. Shawn brought a perspective that was rooted in pluralism and the power of story to move people to action... and at that moment I knew I had to get him on the show/get him back on our stage. Well, 202...

It's an all-Everything Immersive episode with two segments. Noah and Kathryn are in both, and for round one are joined by Ricky Brigante ( Pseudonym Productions ), David Spira ( Room Escape Artist ), and No Pro's VR correspondent Will Cherry. For round two we change teams and No Pro team members Cara Mandel and Anthony Robinson join us. It's kinda like an After Dark episode, but not. Everything is...

A special, host only,  edition of the podcast that addresses both the postponement of the HERE Summit & Festival and our craft's ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Show notes: COVID-19 & Freelance Artists  (h/t to Michael Jung for sharing on FB.) Sorry for the rambling nature, it's been a WEEK, y'all.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We talk with actor Katie Peabody and actor/Ceaseless Fun company member Scott Monahan about the upcoming Everyone Agrees It's About To Explode , the new immersive show from Ceaseless Fun ( Agnosia , Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Regan ) set inside a cell of revolutionary activists. The show opens March 12th in LA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Film fans know the Alamo Drafthouse, the Austin theater chain which has set the bar for transforming the experience of going to the movies. For years Los Angeles anticipated the arrival of the Drafthouse, and it seems to have been well worth the wait. From rowdy screenings of CATS which have since swept the nation to full-on ARGs there's something special happening at the DTLA Drafthouse . Host No...

NoPro's Executive Editor Kathryn Yu speaks to multi-hyphenate artist Jessica Creane of  IKantKoan Games , the creator of immersive shows such as  Chaos Theory  and  Know Thyself .  They discuss the collision of theatre and games, audience agency, designing for meaningful choice, what keeps her going as an artist, creating safe spaces using immersive theatre, how her work bleeds into everyday life,...

NoPro's own Anthony Robinson ( Survivor: Fiji ) is joined by Peih-Gee Law ( Survivor: China and Survivor: Cambodia ) and Room Escape Artist 's David Spira to talk about the 20th anniversary of the reality show, escape games, and more. Show Notes: The 2020 Immersive Design Industry Survey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last week we were fortunate enough to have two of our staff at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, exploring all the XR goodies at the New Frontier .  XR correspondent Will Cherry and our host Noah Nelson trade notes on a very exciting class of 2020. The verdict: VR storytelling is maturing rapidly alongside the tech, thanks to pieces like The Book of Distance , Scarecrow , Atomu , and All Kinds of L...

This week Yuval Sharon, Artistic Director of The Industry and co-director of that company's upcoming opera Sweet Land , joins host Noah Nelson to talk about his approach to making opera. Yuval has created the seminal works Invisible Cities and Hopscotch here in Los Angeles, propelling the conversation about how audiences engage with opera forward and raising the bar for immersive creators of every...

We first met Jeff and Andy Crocker at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2018, where their piece Escape From Godot turned the festival on its ear for a whole day, only to fade into the night. Since then Escape... has popped up at Indiecade, the Denver Film Fest, and will soon be a featured selection of the HERE Summit & Festival in Pasadena this March.  Host Noah Nelson talks with Jeff & Andy, aka M...

Luke and Madison Rhodes of Cross Roads Escape Games join us to talk about how these horror-loving theatre kids wound up running one of the most innovative and immersive escape game companies in Southern California. Join host Noah Nelson as we talk about their smash debut hit The Hex Room, the game-changing The Psych Ward, and the 2019's pop-up theatre piece The Seance. Plus: some updates on the HE...

The second half of our end of the year/beginning of the year roundtable with Anthony, Kathryn, Kevin, beer, and Noah. Plus: the latest programming announcement from the HERE Summit & Festival , taking place March 27-29 in Pasadena, CA. Beer Notes: Enegren Belgian Dark Strong Ale 5th Anniversary edition. (Moorpark, CA) Bruery Terreux's Tart of Darkness (2016, Placentia, CA -- we get this one wrong!...