The No Proscenium Podcast

Eric Garcia, creator of WE BUILD HOUSES HERE and co-director of San Francisco's Detour devised dance company is interviewed by Parker Sela about the immersive dance production that explores the idea of queer sanctuaries by combining shipwrecks and San Francisco's iconic OASIS drag nightclub. Then stick around for the missing part of last week's show. SHOW NOTES DETOUR DANCE WE BUILD HOUSES HERE No...

This week: a DOUBLE FEATURE. First: our good friend Monica Miklas joins us to talk about a career arc that has taken her from indie work at the Hollywood Fringe Festival to being a senior manager of creative direction at RWS Entertainment, one of the biggest themed entertainment companies in the world, working on everything from haunts to cruise ships. Then we take a leap over into the digita...

This week a true rarity — a SEQUEL. This week we’re following up last week’s minisode with a conversation with my former colleague — entrepreneur and technologist — Kurt Collins about just what Apple is really up to with the Vision Pro. SHOW NOTES Kurt Collins on Bluesky No Proscenium on Bluesky Noah J. Nelson on Bluesky Meow Wolf's The Real Unreal (Grapevine, Texas) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

This week, as we catch our breath after The Next Stage, host Noah Nelson shares his impressions – and concerns – about the Apple Vision Pro announcement and then pivots to talk about two pieces in this year's Tribeca Immersive – The Pirate Queen: A Forgotten Legend and MONSTRORAMA – both of which are being showcased this at the festival through June 17th. SHOW NOTES First Impressions of Vision Pro...

This week on the show Lucas Martell of Mighty Coconut, the creators of Walkabout Mini Golf, is with us to talk about the present and future of one of our absolute favorite things to do. SHOW NOTES Mighty Coconut Walkabout Mini Golf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining us on the show this week is Erin Reilly Founding Director of The University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Immersive Institute at the Moody College of Communication. She's here to tell us about the program there and how the next generation of immersive creators is using emerging technology to create deeply human stories. SHOW NOTES Texas Immersive Institute The Next Stage Immersive Summit...

This week on the show we welcome Nataki Garrett and Scarlett Kim of Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Latoya Peterson of Glow Up Games to talk about Hella Iambic the collaboration between the famed theatre company and the game studio that has previously worked with the likes of HBO on creating original games based on existing works. The existing work in this case is Shakespeare’s best known play Rom...

This week on the show Evan Neiden, the founder of Candle House Collective — the makers of telephone-based experiences like the award-winning CLAWS and the serialized Lennox Mutual joins us. Evan and host Noah Nelson go one-on-one in this episode, but keep your ears on the feed for some bonus material soon that features a deep dive with the Review Crew and the Candle House Collective on Lennox Mutu...

NoPro Arts Editor Laura Hess joins host Noah Nelson to trade notes on their experiences at the 2023 Without Walls Festival, a production of La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. That includes stops at A Shared Space , Brassroots District , Fair Trade , Cleaning The Stables , and La Lucha . Show Notes Without Walls 2023 A Shared Space Fair Trade Brassroots District Cleaning The Stables La Lucha A Saturd...

This week on the show we're joined by Terence Leclere & Dasha Kittredge, two thirds of the core team at #metaforyou, the actor led immersive services company whose work can be found in marketing & brand activations from coast to coast. LA immersive heads know Terence and Dasha as two of the powerhouse performers on the LA immersive scene, so it should come as no surprise that the conversat...

Director Steven Calcote is a partner at Butcher Bird Studios and has created all kinds of projects for the likes of Legendary Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Disney, BBC America and more… but today we're going to talk about Making It VRy Big, BuzzFeed’s giant-sized food show which he shot in the 180 VR format and which you can find on Meta Quest TV. The topics at hand include how to make a 180...

Without Walls Festival Producer Amy Ashton and Director of Experiences and Activations Mia Fiorella join us to talk about this year's festival, as the La Jolla Playhouse produced event in San Diego moves to an annual schedule, goes free for all, and enjoys a partnership with the San Diego Symphony at the home at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. The festival runs April 27-30th. Show Notes Without Wal...

This week we're joined by Graham Wetterhahn, Sara Beil, and KJ Knies of After Hours Theatre Company to talk about The Tempest: An Immersive Experience, their current collaboration with the Shakespeare Center LA. The gang at After Hours Theatre Company are some of our favorite people to talk shop with. Show Notes The Tempest: An Immersive Experience After Hours Theatre Company Shakespeare Center LA...

This week we head down to San Diego to talk with Optika Moderna's David Israel Reynoso about LA LUCHA , the company's latest immersive theatre piece that will preview during the Without Walls Festival (April 27-30) and then full open in May. Reynoso's previous shows Waking La Llorona and Las Quinceañeras stand tall in NoPro's immersive pantheon, and we expect LA LUCHA to to the same. Plus: a few m...

Those of you who follow the world of experiential marketing have definitely heard of Giant Spoon, the full stack advertising agency that has put together some of the most talked about marketing activations of the era. Favorites of ours like SXSWestworld, The Last of Us premiere, or maybe our favorite thing ever: The Ink Hole puppet speakeasy for The HappyTime Murders.  We talk a lot about pro...

This week a special teamspeak episode of the podcast featuring the NoPro Staff including Leah Davis, Patrick McLean, Laura Hess, Blake Weil, and for the first time on the show Parker Sela, our associate producer. We recorded this a couple of weeks ago, chatting about what we’ve been going to see and experience with a touch of what we’re looking forward to. The conversation ranges WILDLY, but...

This week on the show our dear friend artist Nancy Baker Cahill is back for another enlightening conversation about digital art — both her work and the big currents that are shaping this constantly evolving world — from XR to working on massive public pieces that are immersive in a whole other dimensions, with stops along the way to talk about museum grade NFTs and incorporating generative AI into...

This week on the show NoPro’s London curator Shelley Snyder takes over the interview duties to talk with Immersive Everywhere’s Brian Hook about the company’s upcoming debut of The Great Gatsby in New York City after a long London run, along with a few updates about Gatsby’s future in the UK. It's the first of what’s set to be some regular podcast dispatches coming out of London thanks to the cont...

This week on the show YET ANOTHER doubleheader, only this time we’re staying on the VR side of things with a check in with ILMxLAB and then with the organizers of the XR Live Performance festival. First — From ILMxLAB we talk with Director Jose Perez III and CG & Lighting Lead Ronman Ng about the PLAYSTATION VR2 launch title Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge: Enhanced Edition ....

This week on the show another doubleheader, this time reaching into two different parts of the immersiverse. First up we have a great talk with Nate Koch, the prolific producer who has been part of Sleep No More , Queen of the Night , and the epic opening of Hermès’ flagship store in New York City to talk about a career that balances creating art and working with some of the biggest companies in t...

This week on the show a DOUBLEHEADER with a double dose of horror. First, our good friend Bryan Bishop stops by wearing a brand new hat: he’s the Immersive Curator for this year’s Overlook Film Festival — the horror focused genre festival which is coming up in March in New Orleans, and he’s here to tell us all about what’s on tap for the festival.  Then Winston Fisher , Co-Founder and CEO of...

This week a special episode of the pod as Leah Davis, our New England correspondent, takes over the host duties for a panel on LARP in 2023. They’re joined by Darker Larper aka Dann, a LARP creator and academic and Nicholas Fortugno , Director of Gaming Pathways at City College of NY and co-founder of the Come Out and Play festival. (Plus Noah is there in the background, engineering and chiming in...

In Sugar Land, Texas, just outside of Houston, a bold experiment that brings together performance, puppetry, creative technology, and interactive storytelling waits for the curious and adventurous. This is The Department of Wonder, and it looks to be bringing together all the elements we talk about on the podcast regularly all under one roof. This week we talk with Brandon Oldenburg and Limbert Fa...

Last January we told you all about the Black Immersive Creators Grant , which gives direct support to a Black maker who is launching original immersive work with a grant fund target of $10,000. This year the Grant is back and looking to do it all over again. Joining us on the pod this week is Maya Carter - Vice President of the Board of the Black Immersive Creators Grant — and Grant support team m...

We kick off 2023 by talking with the creators responsible for one of our 2022 highlights: the NoPro Review Crew trip to The Ministry of Peculiarities: Hope End in Azuza, CA. This escape game is the talk of SoCal's immersive scene, as it blends the best of escape room sleuthing with dialed in performances and a game structure where story is the ultimate reward. We sit down with Adam Moody and broth...