The No Proscenium Podcast

Surprise! Zay Amsbury returns to talk with Caitlin Cassidy and Geoff Kanick of Lubdub Theatre Company about The Doubtful Guest. Plus: Noah talks about the initial impact of the Immersive Design Summit .   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we turn to YOU, the NoPro audience (and our team), to find out what you're looking forward to in the coming year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ida Benedetto is the author of Patterns of Transformation: Designing Sex, Death and Survival in the 21st Century . That work came about thanks to years of practice as an experience designer, including being part of the legendary Night Heron speakeasy brain trust. She joins NoPro NYC curator Kathryn Yu to discuss her approach to experience design. This is one we've been waiting for. Hosted on Acast...

Tommy Honton wears a lot of hats: escape room designer, founding member of LEIA, and now the co-creator of The Museum of Selfies, a gloriously self-aware "Instagram Museum" which is opening up in the immersive-friendly SoCal city of Glendale. We talk with Tommy about the very real, and very tongue in cheek, themes of the Museum and about his upcoming escape room "Stash House," which is coming out...

Zay Amsbury, our man in New York City, is setting out for some traveling. Stepping into his shoes is Kathryn Yu, our not-so-secret-weapon.  In this AFTER DARK episode that duo join Noah to talk about, well... whatever we want to talk about. It's one of THOSE episodes. (Which are a lot of fun.) Plus: what starts out as a media rant at the end of the show turns into something decidedly more, um, spi...

Sean T. Cawelti, Chelsea Sutton, and Lori Meeker of LA's Rogue Artist Ensemble stop in to talk about Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin. We dig into the long gestation process, and lessons learned from the Rogue's first foray into large-scale immersive work. Plus: Rolfe Kent of The Unmarked Door stops by to talk about their first show, 'The Heart of Winter' which debuts in Culver City this month. Hos...

Louis Changchien and Steven Klein of the LA and immersive premiere of the Obie-Award winning CAUGHT (currently at Think Tank Gallery in DTLA) join Noah for a look into the twisty reality of this barnburner of a play. Spoilers abound! But you still have two weeks to catch (accidental pun) the show at Think Tank Gallery, then come back here and listen to this deep dive into the history of the produc...

Before he was the Vice President of Experiential Global Entertainment for Westfield -- yes, that Westfield -- Vance Garrett was a producer on 29 Rooms and The Museum of Ice Cream. Before THAT he was a key player in the opening of the McKittrick Hotel, home of Sleep No More. On this episode of the podcast we take a trip down memory lane with Vance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

Eva Anderson and Michael Cassady, the co-writers of 'Amos: A Play With Music,' join us to talk about the EDM infused, site-responsive musical that audiences in LA are eating up. Plus: Steve Boyle of Epic Immersive joins us to make a VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT about The Immersive Design Summit, which is coming up in San Francisco this January. (Applications are OPEN NOW, and they CLOSE THIS SUNDAY!)...

Get ready for some brain-twisty-ness on the latest episode. First: we have Lin Bo, of China's dissident Xiong Collective joining us for a hot second at Think Tank Gallery where he is hanging their new collaboration 'District 798.' Lin Bo is the subject of the show 'Caught,' which is also making its bow at Think Tank. How does that work? We have no idea.  Then it's time for one of THOSE episodes, a...

Just a quick check in with a few announcements about some upcoming events! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

London based immersive producer Venetia Harpin joins Noah to talk about the scene in London, her work in experiential marketing and the way that world and the world of immersive theatre overlap.   All that plus more on this January's Immersive Design Summit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week: the creative team at Hall and Mirrors -- creators of the $5000 a ticket, one guest at a time show YOU -- sit down with us to talk about upending the traditional theatre market, making art for one, and what led to the creation of this audacious experiment. Writer-producer Edward Tucker, director Daniel Student, and actor Lola Kelly join host Noah Nelson for a lively discussion. Plus: a t...

This week David Ruzicka, the Artistic Director of Creep LA , joins us to talk about his career path in immersive -- from his earliest days as a kind of haunt prodigy (my term, not his) to working operations and then design in the theme park industry.  And then, of course, teaming up with Just Fix It Productions for  The Willows and now  Creep: Lore . It's a great conversation with a great guy. And...

This week Zay sits down with Woodshed Collective’s Artistic Director Teddy Bergman (K-POP) to talk about the storied NYC group's approach to immersive theatre. Bergman and Woodshed's The Confidence Man was Zay's intro into the realm of immersive, so he's been looking forward to this one... and I've been looking forward to listening to it! --Noah Plus: some rambling thoughts from our master of cere...

This week on the show: a kind of psychological sequel to last week’s episode on physical safety. We have sex-positive psych Dr. Liz Powell -- a licensed therapist and coach who specializes in LGBTQ/Poly/Kink-Friendly therapy joining us to talk about the mental side of safety and emotional risk. Plus Elan Lee -- co-creator of Exploding Kittens and former Chief Design Officer at Xbox joins us to tal...

Immersive productions can be challenging, both physically and mentally for creators and audiences alike. Even when they are challenging, there is a reasonable expectation that they are safe. That every effort has been made to make sure that even experiences that seem dangerous are, in fact, not dangerous. That the risks that are being taken by audience and performers are the agreed upon ones -- no...

Two of our favorite creators in the Southland, Jeff Leinenveber and Jarrett Lantz return to talk about lessons learned from their first show: the very much beloved The Nest . Before that: Meredith Treinen talks about her upcoming debut work grief . Before that: Noah formally announces the formation of LEIA: The League of Experiential & Immersive Artists. Before that: we address the safety issues r...

MINDSHOW! There is pretty much NOTHING that gets me more excited about virtual reality than Mindshow : which turns an HTC Vive into a performance capture tool, allowing users to create animated stories with digital puppets. It's like having a film FX pre-visualization tool to play with. For years now I've been anticipating Mindshow's release to the public and now, this week, it is finally HERE. Yo...

If you're in the amusement industry, Kevin Williams is a name you probably know. Once upon a time he headed up the "DisneyQuest" project in Orlando for the Mouse House, and beyond that he's a consultant on numerous projects, the editorial voice of The Stinger Report and founder of  The DNA: Digital Out-of-Home Interactive Entertainment Association . This year he's starting an all new conference fo...

Oh, do we have a multi-layered episode for you today. First, we turn to Jacob Patterson of Think Tank Gallery, as we drop in on the night of their media preview for their next big show Drinkin', Smokin', West Coastin' . Then we unlock the No Pro time machine (Where do you think all that Patreon money goes to?) to enter the world of Nocturnal Fandango before The Sudden Loneliness Gift disrupted the...

Christian Dieckmann is the Chief Strategy Officer of 3D Live , a technology studio in Los Angeles that specializes in creating "holographic" 3D. Their LED video wall has made appearances at VRLA and other gatherings, showing that there is something magical to letting those of us outside a virtual space see what happens when participants and performers are interacting with virtual worlds. Christian...

After two years (!!) we're back with Annie Lesser for a conversation on how her work has evolved as she's become a mainstay of LA's immersive theatre scene. Plus: field reports from Noah about Midsummer Scream and a pop-up event for HBO's Big Little Lies that pulled in some of LA's best immersive actors and creators. What a week.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At this year's San Diego Comic Con the most buzzed about things weren't movies: they were immersive. Pop-up "marketing activations" for Westworld , Blade Runner 2049 , and Mr. Robot drew on the talents and skills of immersive theatre makers and ARG crafters to created the biggest tentpole for immersive this side of Sleep No More . We check in with Daphne Mir and Maxwell Robison who checked out Wes...

What can we say about this Open Forum edition?   Well: we crack open a can of worms and we go right in. That's what.   WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.