Marlee Delia and Anna Mavromati are the co-founders of Shine On Collective , the LA immersive theatre company that made its name creating intimate horror experiences with a strong audio signature. Like so many others in the pandemic, Shine On had to pivot if they wanted to keep producing, and what that landed on came as a surprise. Their first quarantine experience was Welcome Home , a boxed mystery that came with a delivery/take-out meal in LA and is now shipping as a mystery in a box with a de...
Feb 26, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 285
This week we talk with VRChat worldbuilders CyanLaser and Fionna , who are both part of the team that created the award-winning The Devouring VRChat experience and are admins of the VRC Prefabs Community: a collective of creators doing innovative work in the user-generated virtual worlds of VRChat. This episode also marks the opening up to listings of Virtual Worlds on the Everything Immersive site. If you've made a persistent Virtual World you'd like share with the wider immersive community we ...
Feb 19, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 284
Sarah Ellis, Director of Digital Development for The Royal Shakespeare Company joins us to talk about ' Dream ' the upcoming experimental live-streamed performance that merges live actors, the Unreal Engine, and an audience feedback loop to create a first-of-its-kind interactive performance delivered to desktops and mobile devices. Show Notes The RSC's 'Dream' 'Dream' Press Release at NoPro Unreal Engine's Metahuman Creator Call Sheet for 2/10/21 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...
Feb 12, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 283
Glen Neath and David Rosenberg, the co-directors of Darkfield Radio join us for an in-depth discussion of the art of spatial audio and audience-centered design. Darkfield creates some of the most amazing immersive work, and the delivery method is a pair of headphones. This is a can't-miss episode of the podcast. Plus: Noah's notes on the Sundance New Frontier and the Apple VR headset rumors. Show Notes Darkfield Radio Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran (Review) Prison X: The Devil ...
Feb 05, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 282
Continuing our three-part series focusing on the emerging art form of VR Theatre. Three panels of VR Theatre all-stars join us to talk about acting in, directing, designing, and producing live theatrical production in virtual reality. No Proscenium hosts Noah Nelson & Kathryn Yu are joined by special guest host Stephanie Riggs, with each running one of the panels as they tackle the core questions. This week's edition looks at the special magic of LIVE. Segment One Hosted by Noah Nelson (@noa...
Jan 29, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 281
Continuing our three-part series focusing on the emerging art form of VR Theatre. Three panels of VR Theatre all-stars join us to talk about acting in, directing, designing, and producing live theatrical production in virtual reality. No Proscenium hosts Noah Nelson & Kathryn Yu are joined by special guest host Stephanie Riggs, with each running one of the panels as they tackle the core questions. This week's edition kicks off with the question: what skills transfer over from traditional the...
Jan 22, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 280
This week we kick off a three-part series focusing on the emerging art form of VR Theatre. Three panels of VR Theatre all-stars join us to talk about acting in, directing, designing, and producing live theatrical production in virtual reality. No Proscenium hosts Noah Nelson & Kathryn Yu are joined by special guest host Stephanie Riggs, with each running one of the panels as they tackle the core questions. This week's edition starts off with the most basic of questions: how do these producti...
Jan 15, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 279
It's 2021 and the Sundance Film Festival is going where it hasn't gone before: ONLINE. Helping them get there is the collective wisdom of the New Frontier branch of the Festival, led by Senior Programmer Shari Frilot, which helped launch the VR Renaissance back in 2012 and now is helping shape the online social spaces that will bring festival goers from around the world together on a platform built by Active Theory. Both Frilot and Active Theory co-founder Michael Anthony join us to talk about t...
Jan 07, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 278
Welcome to "The Immies." The first-ever No Proscenium awards for Outstanding Achievements in Immersive & Experiential Production are hereby unleashed upon the world. This episode features both our juried awards and the Audience Choice Awards, as presented by members of the NoPro editorial board and staff: Kevin Gossett, Laura Hess, Patrick McLean, Blake Weil, Executive Editor Kathryn Yu, and Publisher Noah Nelson. The various categories were limited to work that was accessible online, by tel...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 30 min
This week Noah and Kathryn are joined by: Kent Bye of the Voices of VR Podcast; Todd Martens of The Los Angeles Times; Alexis Soloski , contributor to The New York Times; and Scott Stein , Editor-At-Large of CNET to talk about their encounters in the immersive world in 2020. SHOW NOTES Todd's Games of the Year list for 2020 The NoPro Audience Awards Nominees & Ballot LEIA's Draft Bylaws LEIA Office Hours Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 276
This week we're honored to have Pete Billington, writer & director of Wolves in the Walls , the VR adaptation of Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean's beloved story as our guest. Pete is one of the co-founders of Fable , which not only created Wolves , but are now pioneering in the realm of virtual beings. We'll get into how immersive theatre helped him break a creative stalemate, and the exciting experiments in the creative use of artificial intelligence to create virtual characters that can evol...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 275
Creative technologist and author Stephanie Riggs (“ The End of Storytelling: The Future of Narrative in the Storyplex ”) joins hosts Noah Nelson and Kathryn Yu to talk about the upcoming 5th Wall Forum , which will bring immersive technologists and theatre-makers together on December 4th & 5th. Learn more in this week's episode, or cut to the chase and get your application in for the Forum's free Masterclass or Connector before the November 30th deadline. SHOW NOTES NoPro's Holiday Gift Guid...
Nov 26, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 274
Jose Perez III and Alyssa Finley of ILMxLAB join us to talk about Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge , the latest release from Lucasfilm's pioneering immersive entertainment studio. The virtual reality experience dropped on the Oculus Quest platform this week, and we take a dive into what the studio has learned about storytelling in the new medium. Show Notes Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge at the Oculus Store Living on the Edge, the ‘Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge,’ That I...
Nov 20, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 273
Long time friend of the show, and veteran installation designer Lonnie Hanzon , joins us to talk about the 2020 edition of Camp Christmas . What began as a major holiday installation in Denver has turned into a hybrid digital/at-home activity experience because of our pandemic year. Nerd out on design challenges, logistics, VR, and the world to come in this very No Proscenium episode of No Proscenium. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 13, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 272
Host Noah Nelson and NoPro's Executive Editor Kathryn Yu talk magic, Live VR Theatre, and Gather.Town in this chat recorded on Nov. 5th, 2020. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 06, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 271
After ten years in DTLA, and after becoming one of the primary hubs of immersive and experiential work in Los Angeles, Think Tank Gallery is leaving DTLA. You know why: COVID-19. But not before one last banger: join us as we talk with Think Tank's Jacob Patterson about the past, present, and future of the gallery... and as we get a special visit from the creator of the last show at Think Tank -- RIP White Jesus -- comedian and filmmaker Hisham Fageeh . Visit http://thinktank.gallery and scroll t...
Oct 23, 2020•1 hr 51 min•Season 1Ep. 270
It's here! We've come to the end of our Ducktales 2017 Season One journey. We're mostly shocked at HOW MANY OF YOU joined us. Seriously. This was a fan favorite? We're going to do more like this, reality pending. But before all that can begin, we have to finish what we've started. EPISODES DISCUSSED The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck! The Last Crash of the Sunchaser! The Shadow War! (Parts I & II) Your assignment for next time: Get some rest! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
Oct 22, 2020•1 hr 47 min
It's the penultimate episode of our deep dive into the 2017 Ducktales reboot. This time out we get ever closer to the final mysteries of season one, and learn more than we ever expected to learn about Mrs. Beakley. EPISODES DISCUSSED From the Casefiles of Agent 22 Who is Gizmoduck? The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck Sky Pirates... in the Sky! Your assignment for next time: Finish Season One Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 25 min
Dragon Productions Theatre Company's Max Koknar, Ariel Aronica, and Jacob Vorperian join us to talk about All We Have To Fear: Party at the End of the World , their new theatre/game hybrid that uses Gather to recreate the experience of an immersive theatre space like the former Speakeasy in San Francisco, along with some tweaks to the system created by the Dragon to add a game layer to the proceedings. We dive in on the eve of the show's opening. For the curious amongst you: there's a handful of...
Oct 16, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 269
Mikhael Tara Garver of 13EXP is back, and she's bringing along some friends who are all working on the upcoming RIO REVEALS series, created in collaboration with RIVER LA the new series will extend to both digital and physical experiences about and around the LA River. Along with Mikhael, we are joined by experiential producer Daniel Penilla, and composers Jonathan Sanford and Amanda Yamate, to talk about the unique project about this most unique of rivers. Show Notes RIO REVEALS The Everything ...
Oct 09, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 268
Climate change was once a hidden crisis, but here in California it has taken the already dangerous time of year known as "fire season" and accelerated it to something apocalyptic in nature. Writer-performer Monica Miklas and her director-producer Lauren Ludwig – the co-founders of LA's Capital W – join us to talk about Fire Season . This new socially-distanced production projects a collection of Miklas' essays on the nature of change itself via FM radio onto the landscape of the Santa Monica Mou...
Oct 02, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 267
Tara O'Con is an experiential artist and transformation coach whose work you may be familiar with as a performer in Third Rail Projects' Then She Fell and The Grand Paradise. Tara's performance in Then She Fell is a key part of our host Noah Nelson's own immersive origin story. In this After Dark episode, Noah catches up with Tara after her first day on the load out of Then She Fell to talk about the impact of that production on her professional and personal journey. Note: Tara is also offering ...
Sep 26, 2020•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 266
Kathryn Yu, Patrick McLean, and Will Cherry of the NoPro team join host Noah Nelson to talk the news of the week including: Venice VR Expanded More VR Festivals Pandemic Era Programming and, burying the lede: The Oculus Quest 2. Here. We. Go. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 18, 2020•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 265
We've been looking forward to this one for a minute: Coach Leanne Pedante and Within's Jonny Ahdout join host Noah Nelson to talk about Supernatural , the VR fitness service that has been keeping us on our toes all summer. Show Notes Supernatural Facebook Group Kathryn's interview with the Knight Foundation Everything Immersive The NoPro Slack The NoPro Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 11, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 264
The highly anticipated AREA 15 will open its doors in Las Vegas on September 17th , kicking off a rollout of the immersive entertainment hub that will last into next year and the debut of Meow Wolf Las Vegas aka Omega Mart . This week, Area 15 CEO Winston Fisher and Chief Creative Officer Michael Beneville join host Noah Nelson to talk about the road that led here and what to expect from Area 15's rollout. Show Notes Venice VR Expanded Burning Man Multiverse Freeform's Holiday Road Everything Im...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 263
Liz Rosenthal, co-curator of Venice VR at the Venice International Film Festival with Michel Reilhac, joins host Noah Nelson to talk about the 2020 edition. This year's event is Venice VR Expanded , a hybrid digital/physical exposition of over 40 works in VR -- from 360 film to live theatrical performances -- across a host of venues virtual and physical. And the best news: if you own a VR headset of just about any stripe, you can experience some of the programming at home as the festival unfolds...
Aug 28, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 262
David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist join us to talk about THIS WEEKEND'S RECON: Reality Escape Convention . Original planned out as an in-person event in Boston, they've put in a whole lot of work to raise the bar on the online replacement. And they're giving it away for FREE. Aug. 23 & 24. Ten hours a day of programming across the escape game universe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 21, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 261
On Monday of this week NYC's Third Rail Projects announced the end of Then She Fell , the seminal immersive production which inspired countless fans and creators, after seven and a half years and 4,444 performances due to the ongoing pandemic. That night we asked our team to gather in our Discord, along with some friends, to share memories and talk about what the show meant to them. You can also find our tribute post on the website. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 14, 2020•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 260
So our already planned bye week nearly got a bit more "bye" to it. The plan was to drop the next installment of Webbed Toes... but when I opened up the files this morning it turns out that Craig, our Discord recording tool, had basically eaten Zay's track up and turned him into a squirrel. Luckily I had been paranoid about Craig that week, and used Audio Hijack to record the session as a backup. Even better: I REMEMBERED that I did that about halfway through writing this post and telling you all...
Aug 07, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Sean Stewart has been a lot of things in his storied career in telling stories. Novelist, LARPwright, actor, theatre tech, and most famously of all: one of the creators of the modern Alternate Reality Game. Now add "internationally produced playwright" to the list. Sean and Noah talk about his upcoming interactive play Roundabout, which will be performed by students of Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art via Twitch, and the evolving nature of theatre (yes with the "re") in the Pandemi...
Jul 31, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 259
