The No Proscenium Podcast

This special edition of the podcast features NoPro's Nicholas Fortugno , Parker Sela , and Noah Nelson along with special guest Jeff Crocker (Mister & Mischief) as they trade notes on Julia Masli 's ha ha ha ha ha ha ha , in full Spolier Cast mode. SHOW NOTES ha ha ha ha ha ha ha (Boston) ha ha ha ha ha ha ha (Washington D.C.) Julia Masli Escape From Godot Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

Sometimes the timeline just makes you break format, which is what we're doing this week as an avalanche of projects have been unleashed. This week's episode sees us covering work in the fields of theatre, VR, escape games, and role playing games. Let's break it down: First up, Jef Aldrich & Jon Taylor , the creators of the Düngeonmeister series of books of unconventional tabletop roleplaying g...

This week a double feature double dip with two segments on Neotropolis , the cyberpunk festival in California's Mojave Desert that invites revlers to shed their mundane lives and embrace a neon soaked, cybernetically enhanced alternate reality. We kick things off with a panel featuring NoPro’s own Anthony Robinson , Reality Escape Pod co-host Peih-Gee Law , and Live Action Attraction’s Brett Jacks...

This week: Chip Giller and Amy Seidenwurm  of AGOG: The Immersive Media Institute a new organization whose mission is to helping creators and nonprofit leaders harness the power of extended reality (XR) to imagine a better future for all. Then we pivot from XR to IRL as Adipat Virdi , the creator of I AM OTHER — which is headed to the Edinburgh Fringe this August and has a two night stan...

Life & Trust – the upcoming show from Emursive, the NYC presenters of Sleep No More & proprietors of the McKittrick Hotel – is the subject of much rumor & speculation, something our Review Crew is not immune to! Join NoPro's NYC curator Allie Marotta, East Coast Editor at Large Blake Weil, NYC correspondents Nicholas Fortugno and Penelope Ray along with host Noah Nelson as they di...

A double header! First: What If...? — An Immersive Story Design Director Ian Bowie of ILM Immersive and Director & Executive Producer Dave Bushore of Marvel Studios join us to talk about the new release for the Apple Vision Pro. Then: the first of our Hollywood Fringe 2024 shorts as Jacob Zorehkey & Ashley Busenlener of LAST CALL THEATRE pop in to tell us about Last Call’s upcoming Hollywo...

This week we’re joined by  Cesar Hawas , producer of Particle Ink: House of Shattered Prisms , the spectacular creation of the Light Poets that has moved into the Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and is wowing audiences in this follow up run to Particle Ink’s fabled run in Vegas’ Arts District.  SHOW NOTES Particle Ink Particle Ink: House of Shattered Prisms The NoPro Review of the...

This week we are joined by the dynamic Achinta S. McDaniel , Founding Artistic Director of Blue13 Dance Company whose all new work Soliloquy: Immersive Experience comes to LA's Heritage Square Museum May 31 - June 2. This marks Blue13's return to Heritage Square after the triumphant Shaadi in 2021, a highlight of that year. We get into the themes of the new show, how working in immersive & sit...

Michael Epstein, founder of Walking Cinema, joins us to talk about The Fillmore Eclipse. While Walking Cinema is well known for their intricate audio based walking history experiences, this is their first fully staged immersive performance based experience… one that like all of their work taps into the local history of the setting. SHOW NOTES The Fillmore Eclipse Walking Cinema Life & Trust Ho...

This week on the show Rory Mitchell of The Mercantile is here to talk with us about his new Augmented Reality narrative experience The Tent , which made a splash at SXSW this year and is now on the festival circuit. SHOW NOTES The Tent The Mercantile Broken Bone Bathtub Documentary/LA Meetup BBB Doc NoPro Patreon Backer Discount Info Meow Wolf supercharged the way we experience art. Is L.A. r...

David Rosenberg & Glen Neath, Artistic Directors of DARKFIELD return to the podcast to talk about their latest work, the interactive audio experience ARCADE. A twist on the company's signature immersive audio storytelling formula, ARCADE features a branching narrative as you guide your avatar through a world ravaged by endless war. SHOW NOTES ARCADE DARKFIELD The Los Angeles Immersive Invitati...

This week on the show NoPro’s Chicago curator Patrick McLean hops into the host chair for a conversation with Miguel Angel Rodriguez, Co-Executive Director of Chicago’s own Albany Park Theater Project and Jennine Willett, co-artistic director of the NYC based Third Rail Projects about the two company’s ongoing collaboration over the years and its current incarnation — the immersive theatre experie...

We're joined this week by Robert Farid Karimi – whose work of late has included a series of interactive analog immersive game experiences involving topics such as community-police relations and the illegal detention of Central American immigrant youth – and who is the co-director of the Public Practice + Generative Play StudioLab and serves as Assistant Professor in the Music, Dance and Theater de...

This week it’s an AFTER DARK style episode featuring host Noah Nelson and NoPro Arts Editor Laura Hess as they have a conversation that covers the AI works in the LA Art show, the use of AI in Immersive, a bit on the Wonka debacle because we recorded this like three weeks ago, and the overall nature of immersive work particularly as it applies to the art world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

This week on the show we’re joined by  Ivan Carić  and  Emily Carding of The Key of Dreams , the follow up to the hit overnight immersive experience in the Welsh countryside which was reviewed for us last year by Ellery Weil, who also joins us on the pod for the first time. The Key of Dreams draws on the literary tradition of weird fiction to create a strange and thrilling experienc...

This week on the show: we reveal the winner of the 2024 No Proscenium Audience & Editor Awards. Check the site for the full list of Nominees & Winners. SHOW NOTES The 2024 No Proscenium Audience & Editor Awards The 2024 Los Angeles Immersive Invitational Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the show our dear friend Graham Wetterhahn is here with us to talk about the upcoming Los Angeles Immersive Invitational , which is produced by his company After Hours Theatre Company in collaboration with The Immersive Experience Institute … and we’re unveiling seven of the teams that will be participating in this year’s invitational — and it is QUITE the lineup. The Invitational’s S...

This week on the show we’ve got a DOUBLE HEADER! First up Amy Ashton & Mia Fiorella of La Jolla Playhouse’s WITHOUT WALLS FESTIVAL will be here to give us a preview of the fest that is headed back to the UC San Diego campus for the first time since 2015 this April 4th - 7th. Then Samantha Gorman & Danny Cannizzaro of Tender Claws, the studio behind NoPro favorites like The Under Presents a...

This week on the show artist Risa Puno joins us to talk about some of their latest work, including the upcoming Group Hug at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and Unresolved Rage Game , developed with theatre artist Ran Xia which was recently at Worlds in Play at ASU’s MIX Center in Mesa Arizona. We go deep into the motivation behind both pieces and how Puno explores emotions thr...

Joining us on the show this week is designer Jaden Andrea, most recently the Art Director of Gather, the virtual gathering spot for remote teams that was home to more than a few interactive experiences during the height of the pandemic, and who has done installation work at Lightning in a Bottle, Neotropolis, and Burning Man.  SHOW NOTES Jaden Andrea (portfolio) Nostalgia Purgatory Gather Neo...

Joining us this week is Ben Enos, Senior Director of Product Design at The Escape Game to talk about his path from being an escape game super fan to heading up a team at one of the largest location based game companies in the U.S. SHOW NOTES The Escape Game NYC Immersive Weekend  CASTING in NYC Pre-Sale Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining us this week is Gry Worre Hallberg the artistic director of Copenhagen based Sisters Hope a performance group and movement organized around the idea of a creating “an ecological awareness of connectivity” outlined in the book Sensuous Society – Carving The Path Towards A Sustainable Future . Sisters Hope was the group behind the event Sensuous Governing , which took place at the Danish Con...

This week the co-creators of the hit show The Order of the Golden Scribe: Initiation Tea — writer/director Arlo Howard and producer & puzzle-master Shuai Chen — join us to talk about their show which not only made multiple members of our Review Crew’s Best of 2023 list but also got a coveted Golden Lock from Room Escape Artist — all ahead of a return engagement in New York City which kicks off...

This week  Sean Cawelti and Chelsea Sutton of Rogue Artists Ensemble — the LA based company behind works like Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin , and Señor Plummer’s Final Fiesta — are here with us for a quite lovely conversation about their upcoming projects including the one-off Carousel of Fools taking place in Santa Monica this month and the full length immersive show Schlitzie: Alive and I...

Joining us this week are Eric Garcia & Kat Cole co-directors of Detour, the San Francisco based performing arts company, whose website says everything you need at a glance in big bold letters: “DEVISED THEATRE. DANCE. DRAG. IMMERSIVE.” In 2023 they brought us We Build Houses Here , and this March they will be workshopping a new production set in the same world as that show: The Twilight Aristo...