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 Shine On Collective's Echoes in the Dark . We caught up with the busy lady to talk about her work an...
Nov 24, 2018•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 174
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 crisis intervention and conflict management." Amanda Rose is both a practitioner and a researcher, s...
Nov 16, 2018•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 173
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 Tad on the Wolf Trail, where we've encountered a Moonglow . This episode is brought to you by listene...
Nov 09, 2018•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 172
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 information.
Oct 27, 2018•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 171
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 coming to your town soon?! Find NoPro at these upcoming events! #SantaFe : 10/22: The Art of Presence by...
Oct 19, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 170
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 , the upcoming workshop from Tara O'Con and Marissa Neilsen-Pincus , and much much more. Support us ...
Oct 12, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 169
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....
Oct 05, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 168
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 Tylenol with codeine. Uh oh. Also: be sure to check out this week’s edition of Everything Immersive This We...
Sep 29, 2018•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 167
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 NoPro headquarters with host Noah Nelson to talk about the company's origin story and what's on tap th...
Sep 21, 2018•57 min•Season 1Ep. 166
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. Get ready for a deep dive. Plus: a slew of announcements including The Immersive Design Summit venue, ...
Sep 14, 2018•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 165
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 that universe to Las Vegas. Theatre Macabre is an all-new stand alone show, and the team is bringin...
Sep 07, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 164
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.
Aug 31, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 163
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 the next set of experiences from The 49 Boxes this week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for ...
Aug 24, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 162
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 projects, like the Hollywood Fringe sleeper hit What Went Wrong , and the immersive enhanced production of...
Aug 17, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 161
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 interactive acting techniques and design, and after a recent stop in Los Angeles he sat down with our o...
Aug 10, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 160
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 directing and creating immersive work for 18 years. She is an experiential architect integrating live and tec...
Aug 03, 2018•56 min•Season 1Ep. 159
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 kicks off on August 2nd, and will feature director Lynsey Peisinger who produces participatory work...
Jul 27, 2018•56 min•Season 1Ep. 158
Think Tank Gallery impresario Jacob Patterson invites Noah over to the studio to share the scoops on Think Tank's latest projects in LA. They've got three big shows opening in the next few weeks, including the Sea-Saw residency on the Santa Monica Pier which will feature local favorites like The Guest & The Host , #Metaforyou , and Lola Kelly. Plus it's Jacob and Noah, so you know the convo gets off the rails and into some ish. Brought to you by Meow Wolf and our generous Patreon backers. Ho...
Jul 20, 2018•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 157
Once upon a time Sean Stewart was a science fiction novelist. Then, one day, he got a call asking if he wanted to take part in a little world-building project. One based around a Steven Spielberg movie. That movie was A.I. and that project would become known as "The Beast," the first Alternate Reality Game. Now Sean works for Magic Leap, the secretive company in Florida that is working on augmented reality. But we're not here to talk about that. We're here to talk about making participatory stor...
Jul 13, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 156
Last week your host, Noah Nelson, was in Qingdao, China for the Sandbox Immersive Festival . This week he's back, solo, to talk about some of what he observed there and about the emerging thinking around XR -- the term being given to all of immersive technology -- and how that relates to live immersive. This being Noah talking into a microphone, you know that we get into a few tangents, including thoughts about what it means to become a bit jaded as a reviewer, and what incoming designers need t...
Jul 06, 2018•41 min•Season 1Ep. 155
At the heart of many an immersonaut's journey is #SOMEDND, the "DND" being Dungeons & Dragons, and as it just so happens that hashtag stood for a recent livestream extravaganza called the Stream of Many Eyes. Now, why is NoPro talking about live-streaming D&D? Well for one, the lead up to the stream was a multiverse hopping alternate reality game (#NoStoneUnturned) that called upon the powers of transmedia producer Emmett Furey and puzzle designer Elisa Teague, who join us on this week's...
Jun 22, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 154
Our hard-hitting reporters have revealed a nest of bloodsuckers in the beating heart of Los Angeles. This den of the undead appears to the outside world as the lobby of one of those new fang led "escape rooms" co-owned by a woman named Rachel Foti. Our intrepid host dares to enter this lair of sin and uncover the secret origin of this nefarious gathering point for a "micro-community" of the vampire's mortal pawns. Follow us into The Count's Den if you dare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
Jun 15, 2018•52 min•Season 1Ep. 153
There's something magical going on in Downtown Los Angeles. Something simple, and oh-so-needed in this day and age. It's called The Silent Play Experiment, and it is exactly what it says on the tin. Host Noah Nelson sits down with its co-creator Olivia Hamilton to talk about the experience, the company that gave birth to it, and the road to embracing play. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 08, 2018•57 min•Season 1Ep. 152
Negin Singh has been a lot of things: founder of Cartel Arts Collaborative LA , leader of the Inspiration team at AR pioneers DAQRI , and now she's the Executive Director of the Santa Monica Pier . She's bringing her experience as a producer of immersive and interactive events to one of the biggest travel destinations in all of Southern California, and taking our friends at Think Tank along for the ride. This episode is a barn burner: art, augmented reality, and how theatre kids are stealth taki...
Jun 01, 2018•53 min•Season 1Ep. 151
This edition replaces the messed up original file. Lisa & David Spira of Room Escape Artist and Michael Andersen of ARGN.com join us to talk about how we talk about this immersive thing of ours. From how to handle spoiler discussions online to designing for discovery after the fact, this conversation is all about the unique problems that face immersive entertainment of every form -- from live theatre to escape rooms to Alternate Reality Games. Good thing we've got people who specialize in ea...
May 26, 2018•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 150
It's no secret that we have LARP roots here at No Proscenium, specifically VAMPIRE LARP roots. So when we heard that there's a "blockbuster" (aka bespoke) Vampire LARP coming to Texas in November -- part of the relaunch of Vampire: the Masquerade which is happening all year long -- we got very, very intrigued. Which is how we ended up talking to Matthew Webb of Jackalope Live Action Studios , the company that is putting on this event called The Night In Question . That's not all Jackalope is up ...
May 18, 2018•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 149
Just time for a real quick update about a few things. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 11, 2018•15 min•Season 1Ep. 148
Director Spencer Williams ( Walk The Night ) and music producer Andrew Heringer have created a unique music experience in the form of The Guest & The Host: Make Music, which will be debuting alongside the Hollywood Fringe Festival this June in LA. Plus: Noah's initial thoughts on the Oculus Go. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 04, 2018•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 147
What happens when two immersive theatre companies meet at a bar in San Francisco? They make a show in LA, that's what. Rochester, 1996 is a collaboration between Capital W and DryCræft Los Angeles that will be hitting this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival . We talk with Lauren Ludwig & Monika Miklas of Capital W, and Thaddeus Shafer of DryCræft Los Angeles whose life as the son of a pastor provides the inspiration for the show. ( They're raising money/selling advance tickets on IndieGoGo rig...
Apr 27, 2018•53 min•Season 1Ep. 146
Every fan of immersive in Los Angeles know the name Jon Braver: he's the creator of the wildly popular Delusion interactive horror theatre company. Each instance of Delusion is an event into and of itself, and Jon has been creating his dark wonderland in our reality for years now. This week Delusion goes virtual, with the cinematic VR version of Delusion: Lies Within debuting at The Overlook Film Festival. We talk with Jon about that, the future of the LIVE Delusion shows, and just about everyth...
Apr 20, 2018•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 145
