The No Proscenium Podcast

Kathryn gathers up part of the New York City team -- Leah Ableson , Edward Mylechreest , and Michaela Holland -- for one of our patented After Dark episodes. Come along as we meet the team! Then, in LA, Noah finally gets down to an old fashioned rant about price/value. Welcome back! NoPro is a labor of love supported by our amazing Patreon backers , with office facilities provided by Thymele Arts...

For our fifth anniversary, we wanted to do something special, and we maybe went a little over the top. We hit up Two Bit Circus , where Josh Randall ( Blackout ) co-ordinates immersive experiences and got ahold of Club 01... and kicked the tires on a "late night" format. Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman - the founders of Two Bit Circus are our first guests. Followed by Lauren Ludwig and Monica Mikl...

Carl Choi is the founder and CEO of The Great Company , an experiential studio which in the past few years has emerged as a leader in producing and creating space for immersive work in LA. GreatCo teamed up with Jon Braver to produce Delusion  and recently played host to Chained: A Victorian Nightmare . Like us, GreatCo is all in on immersive -- keeping the engines running by whatever means necess...

Hosts Noah Nelson (LA) and Kathryn Yu (NYC) are joined by NoPro's Anthony Robinson (new title: Features Editor) to close out 2018 on this hella long After Dark episode. What? It's a WHOLE YEAR. Warning: Noah curses. We digress. A lot. There's talk of Star Wars land and video games. By EVERYBODY. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Samantha Gorman is the co-founder -- along with Danny Cannizzaro -- of Tender Claws , a groundbreaking digital studio that mixes tech, art, and a wry sense of humor to create virtual and augmented reality works that push the narrative boundaries of the medium while maintaining a real heart. No small feat, that. We talk with Samantha about what goes into making their work, focusing on their latest...

Multidisciplinary artist Nancy Baker Cahill invites us to her LA studio to check out her VR artwork and talk about how the world of fine art is meshing with the immersive and site-specific movements. Buckle up for one of our patented philosophical conversations! Want to check out Nancy's work for yourself? Check out the 4th Wall AR app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey! Just a few quick notes about events and the IDS application process this week. Back to a full episode next week as we round out the year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jesse Damiani , longtime friend of the show, drops by to talk about his continuing adventures in the world of XR. (That's virtual, augmented, and mixed reality for those playing the home game.) Recently he curated the art show Spatial Reality , which brought together multiple artists from across the  reality spectrum for what was one of the biggest -- if not the biggest -- gatherings of XR art to...

In the past year actress Karlie Blair has become a mainstay of the LA immersive theatre scene. She's performed in such shows as Whisperlodge , the original production of Safehouse '77 , and The Lust Experience . With actress Keight Leighn she co-founded DR3AMLOGiKK, which has presented the improvised experience Snow Fridge , and a workshop production Broken Clocks . She's also one of the leads in...

We met Amanda Rose Villarreal at the Denver Immersive Summit, where we shared a panel with her and Jenny Weinbloom of Meow Wolf Denver on Consent & Agency in immersive. Amanda Rose is getting her Ph. D in Theatre Arts at Colorado University at Boulder, and her practice involves training "police officers, lawyers, and counselors to use effective communication and de-escalation techniques during cri...

You might know Tad as the actor who played the dad, and whose own childhood informed  Drycraeft LA and Capital W's Rochester 1996 , or you might know him as a gentle seeker whose life got caught up in The Society and who is now working for the group that is unraveling the mystery of the Wolf Trail. Tad is all this, and more.  Get ready for a special in-the-field edition of No Proscenium as we join...

Kathryn Yu moderates and This Is Not A Theatre Company's Erin Mee is the featured guest in this talkback session for Cafe Play recorded on September 30th, 2018. Featuring guest appearances by the cast of the show, Alyssa Kim, Christy Casey, and Andrew Hoepfner. Plus: Noah rambles a bit about his recent trip to Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, New Mexico.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...

Odyssey Works is a legendary company that started in San Francisco around the turn of this century. They're best known for making elaborate, immersive pieces of theatre for one. Ayden LeRoux is an installation artist and writer who is a part of Odyssey Works' team of collaborators, and she joins NoPro's Kathryn Yu in NYC to talk about her work and Odyssey Works.   ALL NEW: EVENT SCHEDULE   Are we...

Shine On Collective's writer-director duo Anna Mavromati and Marlee Delia join host Noah Nelson in LA to talk about their latest work Echoes in the Dark , a 2018 update of the Frankenstein story, and how their collaboration has evolved over the last two years of work. Plus: we touch on a bunch going on in LA right now, like the amazing Spatial Reality gallery exhibition, Delusion , CreepLA: Awake...

Yvonne Chang and Jae Lee of NYC's Wildrence join guest host Kathryn Yu to talk about their unique storytelling space and consulting studio on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Plus: quick notes from Noah about the beautifully constructed site-specific work Nightwalk in the Chinese Garden currently in Southern California.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From NYC: Kathryn Yu talks with Carlo D'Amore, founder of interactive theatre company Live In Theater , about their latest work, the Nordic LARP influenced  This Is When We Rest.  Carlo is a Drama Desk Nominated director and he and LIT have been re-imagining the mystery genre since 2009. This year he was part of the Interactive PlayLab's Deep Dive team in Austin. Meanwhile, in LA: Noah is on Tylen...

Matt Dorado's Drunken Devil has been a fixture of the LA immersive scene for years now. Starting out as a haunt, the company transitioned to nightlife events with a flair for horror themes and immersive elements.  This Spooky Season the company will present the next in its series of deadly sin themed soirees: Bacchanalia , a trip back to Rome sans togas. (No one wants togas.) Dorado sits down at N...

David Wally, Chief Creative Officer of Mycotoo --the design firm that collaborated with marketing agency Giant Spoon on the SXSWestworld and InkHole activations -- joins us to talk origin stories: of the Westworld activation, Mycotoo, and his own journey from filmmaker to theme park and immersive designer. Oh, and he's ALSO the director of the annual Dark Harbor haunt at the Queen Mary to boot. Ge...

Darren Lynn Bousman, Clint Sears, and Gordon Bijelonic are the terrifying trio behind the all-new Theatre Macabre , which recreates Paris' infamous 19th Century Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in 21st Century LA, with an immersive twist. This is, of course, the team that brought us the often controversial Tension and Lust experiences and who made a splash by partnering with the Russo Brothers to bring...

Kathryn Yu and Anthony Robinson -- the keystones of our editorial board -- join Noah Nelson for a talk about the state of immersive as we see it now. So grab your beverage of choice and pull up a chair, it's NoPro After Dark. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The 49 Boxes is a singular puzzle based storytelling event, the latest incarnation of which focuses on the life of Floyd G. Thayer-- one of the most famed illusion creators of all time. Host Noah Nelson sits down with Michael Borys, the information and story architect of The 49 Boxes to talk about the origins of the show and his career as an untraditional storyteller. Look for announcements about...

Sara Beil and KJ Knies are one of LA's most interesting behind the scenes pairs in immersive. By day Sara works for ThinkWell, the major themed entertainment design firm, as a multimedia writer and producer. KJ, meanwhile, works for Giant Spoon, the company that has been behind some of the splashiest immersive activations (SXSWestworld, The InkHole) this year. By night the two work on indie projec...

Jeff Wirth has been a lot of things in his life: university professor, computer programmer, ballroom dancer, and clown. These days he's the wandering sage of interactive performance, leading the Interactive PlayLab which is best known for the Deep Dive think tank that created work that was both intimate and large scale at the same time. Wirth has been crisscrossing America leading workshops in int...

Our friend  Mikhael Tara Garver  dropped by this morning for a chat about how she integrates social impact into her work -- for entertainment, causes, and brands -- and how immersive and experiential work are uniquely suited for creating long term social change. Here's one we wish could be longer, and it pairs well with the conversation we just had on EXP*DSN . Mikhael Tara Garver has been directi...

We sit down with the founder of Presence , which aims to be a kind of Patreon for experiential artists, Damian Madray to talk about his own life as an experience designer and why he decided to built a platform for other makers. Damian is also the co-host of the upcoming EXP*DSN , aka Experiential By Design, a live web show that features conversations between pioneers in experience design. The show...