The No Proscenium Podcast

Kathryn Yu sits down with Jordan Chlapecka and Kendra Slack of Linked Dance Theatre to talk about Remembrance , their 11th site-specific, immersive show coming soon to a historic house on Governors Island in NYC. In Remembrance , audiences will have the ability to explore the fading memories of a woman with Alzheimer's Disease as they enter her home as guests during her 65th birthday party.  The t...

Join host Noah Nelson and guest Dan Rutstein, president of immersive technology company Laduma , as they talk about the current frontier of immersive tech.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kathryn Yu sits down without Ricky Brigante and Sarah Elger of Pseudonym Productions  who have recently moved their immersive theatre company from Orlando to Philadelphia.    The three of them have a wide-ranging conversation about Sarah's background in architecture and theme park design and Ricky's background in theme park journalism, the forming of their immersive theatre company, creating their...

Managing Editor Kathryn Yu is joined by members of the NYC team --Allie Marotta, Asya Gorovits, Blake Weil, and Cheyenne Ligon -- to talk about what they've been seeing and what's on their minds: including the Great Gotham Challenge, which had some issues.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Continuing our 2019 Overlook Film Festival coverage , we sit down with two of the creators of the fest's immersive offerings. First up is Ava Lee Scott , the veteran immersive performer, who crafted Home of Enchantments -- a piece that blew everyone who saw it away. Then we check in with Andrew Preble of Delaport Ventures, the creator of Saintsbone , and the internationally known ' Escape My Room...

I first met Robin Arnott, CEO of Andromeda Entertainment, at E3 many moons ago when he was showing an audio-based thriller game Deep Sea at the Indiecade booth. It was a true oddity -- a video game without video -- an immersive experience before we were throwing that term around as we now do. In the years since Robin and I have crossed paths on his home turf of Austin -- when I was working a story...

Join NoPro's Senior AV Content Producer/Festival Correspondent Cara Mandel and Founder Noah Nelson as they trade notes on the 2019 Overlook Film Festival Game All of Them Witches , plus some notes on the festival's other immersive offerings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two. Hundred. Episodes. Two hundred. So how do we celebrate? By getting the gang together -- that being the senior editors -- Kathryn Yu, Anthony Robinson, Jessica Lachenal, and Kevin Gossett together to just chat. Here's to 200 more.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Spoiler Warning: elements of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge discussed in the open and close. Host Noah Nelson talks with Victoria Rege conference chair for AR/MR/VR and Maxwell Planck, VR Theatre Director for Siggraph 2019 about upcoming immersive elements at the world's premier entertainment technology conference, which returns to LA July 28 - August 1. Show notes: Otherworld interview , The Why interv...

NoPro managing editor Kathryn Yu sits down with Evan Neiden, the creator behind Candle House Collective . The group has been creating ephemeral immersive experiences -- usually for an audience of one -- both in-person and remotely.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We visit Facebook's LA campus to talk with the team behind Vader Immortal , the launch title for the Oculus Quest that finds you captured by the Dark Lord of the Sith and set on a task only you can accomplish. Director Ben Snow,  narrative designer Mohen Leo ILMxLAB and Oculus' Colum Slevin (Head of Media, AR/VR Experiences at Facebook) join us to talk about the brand new adventure which debuts th...

NoPro Executive Editor Kathryn Yu speaks to creators at the Tribeca Film Festival, exploring three different pieces currently showcasing at the Virtual Arcade through May 4. She sits down with Kevin Cornish of Moth + Flame to talk about 2nd Civil War , where participants have the power to change the narrative of the VR film using a voice interface; they also go through an immersive theatre one-on-...

Friend of the show Landon Zakheim and host Noah Nelson head to a park on a sunny Easter Sunday to talk about horror... um, kinda?  We dive into the immersive lineup at the 2019 Overlook Film Festival , which is full of fun surprises this May 30th - June 2nd in New Orleans. Plus: Noah has some personal news. Also: check out the LEIA Immersive Intensive , and a Behind The Scenes essay from Peter Bil...

Writer/Director David Ruzicka ( Creep: Lore , The Willows ) and creative producer Eric Vosmeier join host Noah Nelson to talk about their dark fantasy confection, I want to live in your mouth ,  that has transmogrified North Hollywood's Zombie Joe's Underground Theater into the stuff of childhood fever dreams. It's a conversation where we dig in deep into the various flavors of horror in immersive...

The Nest -- which blended elements of escape rooms and podcast dramas -- was one of our favorite shows of 2017. The show's two LA-based creators Jeff Leinenveber and Jarrett Lantz, aka Scout Expedition Co., are bringing the piece back in an extended format this year. This week they launched a Kickstarter campaign that will help with that effort, and they're on the show to tell us about what they h...

Co-creators Christoff Visscher ( Cantrip Candles ) and Spencer Williams (Walk The Night) join host Noah Nelson to talk about their new collaboration Tales By Candlelight . This scent guided storytelling experience mixes the best of tabletop roleplaying with an olfactory journey to create an artifact of a place that never was. A place drawn from your imagination. Join us on the trip. Also: if you'r...

On this very special episode, No Proscenium accepts an invitation into the home of a 'The Willows.' Special thanks to Melinda DeKay, Misha Reeves, and Daniel Montgomery of Just Fix It Productions for helping us unravel the threads. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Managing Editor Kathryn Yu goes on the road to Baltimore for a conversation with four of the folks at  Submersive Productions : co-artistic directors Glenn Ricci and Ursula Marcum, as well as artistic associates Susan Stroupe and Lisi Stoessel.    Join us as we dig into topics like their devising process, making open world shows, the care and feeding of the audience, telling history “at a slant,”...

What happens when two Shakespeare nerds decide to ditch the proscenium and start incorporating their love of Dungeons and Dragons, board games, and video games into interactive and improvisational theatre projects? That's the story of Ian McNeely and Austen Anderson of Broken Ghost Immersives who are the co-creators of experiences like The Wake , The Bunker , and Rogues' Gallery .   NoPro's Managi...

From the halls of the Immersive Design Summit to your ears! Guest hosts KJ Knies and Michaela Holland tag in to interview Fri Forjindam of Mycotoo, and we follow that up with an interview of Jenni Cook of Dreamscape Immersive by KJ. It's the first in what will be a handful of episodes emerging from the 2019 IDS. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NYC Curator and NoPro Managing Editor Kathryn Yu tracks down the always busy Kellian Adams Pletcher and Brian Pletcher of Green Door Labs for a wide-ranging conversation about the collision of immersive theatre and game design.    They discuss Kellian and Brian's work on shows like Club Drosselmeyer and Save the Munbax and how their approach to audience agency and interactive storytelling has chan...

Seasons change, time passes, friends move away... or up the street. Think Tank Gallery is moving from its home at 939 Maple, the site of many a memory for immersive LA, to a new space at the edge of the Arts District and Little Tokyo. We get together with Jacob Patterson of Think Tank in the podcast studio at the Old Tank one last time to reminisce, talk about ongoing relations with the city of LA...

Managing Editor and NYC Curator Kathryn Yu catches up with Tom Pearson, one of the Artistic Directors of Third Rail Projects ( Then She Fell , The  Grand Paradise , Ghost Light ,  Behind the City ) in New York City as the company prepares to launch a new show in DC, Confection . They discuss the creation of Then She Fell , its influence on immersive creators, as well as Tom’s work as an immersive...

Little Cinema is a fixture in New York City's art scene, bringing films to life at the House of Yes and the Brooklyn Museum. They've also spread their wings to Bonnaroo, and have crafted a number of immersive premieres for television series from TNT. The latest of these for the series I Am The Night , which debuted this week on the network. We talk with founder Jay Rinsky  about the company's arc,...

A somber lead topic this week, as we talk about the escape room fire in Poland that left five teenage girls dead earlier this month with our collegues from Room Escape Artist : David & Lisa Spira. That plus notes on their upcoming tours, the immersive Industry Survey we're compiling for an upcoming Industry Report to be released for free during the Immersive Design Summit, and a bit about a specia...