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 stand in Canterbury this month — June 20th & 21st at the Gulbenkian Arts Center — to talk about the piece: An i...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 443
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 dig into what's known, what's supposed, and what just might be about the highly anticipated show that opens...
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 442
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 Hollywood Fringe show REFORGED . SHOW NOTES What If...? — An Immersive Story ILM Immersive Marvel Studios L...
May 31, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 441
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 Original Run Review Rundown with the Shattered Prism review Reality Escape Pod: Noah Nelson RECON '24 Immersive ...
May 24, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 440
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 & site-specific compares to other mediums for dance, and if her students at the Glorya Kaufman School of ...
May 17, 2024•58 min•Season 1Ep. 439
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 Hollywood Fringe Particle Ink Broken Bone Bathtub: The Documentary & LA Immersive Meetup NoPro Pat...
May 10, 2024•50 min•Season 1Ep. 438
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. ready for the wild ride? (LA Times) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 03, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 437
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 Invitational World Premiere Screening in LA: The Broken Bone Bathtub Documentary Hosted on Acast. See acast....
Apr 19, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 436
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 experience Port of Entry . SHOW NOTES Albany Park Theater Project Third Rail Projects Port of Entry The Los...
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 435
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 department at Arizona State University. It's a fantastic discussion about meaning-making. SHOW NOTES R...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 434
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/privacy for more information.
Mar 29, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 433
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 experience in Treowen Manor an early 17th-century manor house in Monmouthshire where guests stay overnight. We dive in deep on ...
Mar 22, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 432
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....
Mar 15, 2024•24 min•Season 1Ep. 431
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 Sunday Showcase is coming up on April 21st at the Nocturne Theater in Glendale and the tickets are ON...
Mar 08, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 430
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 and Virtual Virtual Reality are here to talk about their latest release: STRANGER THINGS VR which lau...
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 429
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 through game mechanics. Content Advisory: there’s some frank talk about the wave of hate directed at Asian A...
Feb 23, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 428
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 Neotropolis Lightning in a Bottle CASTING NYC Immersive Weekend LA Immersive Invitational Hosted on Acast. Se...
Feb 16, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 427
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....
Feb 09, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 426
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 Consulate in Edinburgh as part of the 2023 Edinburgh Fring e, which is where our own Toronto correspond...
Feb 02, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 425
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 on February 11th. SHOW NOTES The Order of the Golden Scribe: Initiation Tea COMING SOON: The Order ...
Jan 26, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 424
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 Inside the Decaying Sideshow which is slated for later in this year. Show Notes Carousel of Fools Schlitzie...
Jan 19, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 423
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 Aristocracy . This month the company is offering a series of workshops on devised theatre and drag perform...
Jan 05, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 422
This week we continue our annual end of year tradition of inviting our colleagues to a round table to look back at what was. For 2023 we're joined by Sabina Graves of i09, Todd Martens of the LA Times, and Scott Stein of CNET to talk about they year we’ve had in immersive — both on the live and digital side — how folks in media outside our field see it, and where they hope this is all going in the near future. SHOW NOTES Sabina Graves at i09 Todd Martens at the LA Times Scott Stein at CNET Love ...
Dec 29, 2023•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 421
This week on the show we've got three segments with members of the NoPro Review Crew checking in from across North America to share parts of their "Best Of" lists for 2023. Joining us are: Edward Mylechreest (NYC), Nicholas Fortugno (NYC), Blake Weil (Philly/East Coast At Large), Katrina Lat (Toronto), Laura Hess (Arts Editor), Patrick McLean (Chicago/Remote Editor), Martin Gimenez (At Large), Kevin Gossett (LA Reviews Editor), and Danielle Riha (Denver). Hosted by Noah J. Nelson. Show Notes NoP...
Dec 22, 2023•2 hr 56 min•Season 1Ep. 420
This week on the show we’re joined by Co-Founder and Senior Creative Director of Meow Wolf, Caity Kennedy; Sr. Art Director of Mighty Coconut Don Carson, and returning guest Lucas Martell , founder of Mighty Coconut and creator of Walkabout Mini Golf — aka NoPro’s favorite social VR game. Why? Because of the recently released Walkabout: Meow Wolf expansion, silly. It’s the Reese’s Peanut Butter cups of VR experiences that takes two great things — Walkabout Mini Golf and Meow Wolf’s Numina space ...
Dec 15, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 419
This week: a special trip out to COSM's test center at the University of Utah campus for an EXCLUSIVE interview with Ricardo Romaneiro, the latest artist collaborator to be announced by the immersive media company. We also talk with COSM CEO Jeb Terry and the head of COSM's Studios & Labs Neil Carty about the content and strategy they've developed for the launch of the Hollywood Park experience center in LA in 2024. All that plus host Noah Nelson's impressions of COSM's tech and the in progr...
Dec 08, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 418
Long time listeners and readers know that we’re big fans of the dungeon crawling extravaganza Demeo and its follow up Demeo Battles , both of which are part of the Demeo Action Role Playing System, and which are available now on Steam (PC + VR), Meta Quest and Pico (VR). Joining us on the pod today is Gustav Stenmark, producer of Demeo Battles for Resolution Games the Stockholm-based games studio. Show Notes Demeo Demeo Battles Resolution Games Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...
Dec 01, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 417
This week on the show: we tip toe through the our Holiday 2023 Gift Guide with esteemed members of the NoPro staff — Katrina Lat, Nicholas Fortugno, Laura Hess, and Patrick McLean — bringing a wide variety of options from the pretty affordable to the WAIT HOW MUCH? SHOW NOTES NoPro’s 2023 Gift Guide for Immersive Fans & Makers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 20, 2023•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 416
This week - NoPro arts editor Laura Hess hops into the host chair for a conversation with New England curator Leah Davis and London curator Shelley Snyder. The topic at hand? A look at Installation art and how different environments impact audience engagement. For this time out the Crew will focus on Outernet’s NOW Building installations in London and works at MASS MOCA in Western Massachusetts. And after our main segment, some thoughts on the big news of the week: the closure of Sleep No More i...
Nov 10, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 415
This episode was recorded LIVE at The Roguelike Tavern in Burbank. Joining us were Matt Bamberg-Johnson and Chris Porter of LA’s The Speakeasy Society who came to share word about Winter Fest OC , coming up later this month in Costa Mesa and featuring all new immersive work from the beloved LA theatre collective. Then we pull John McCormick , owner of The Roguelike Tavern, away from the bar to tell The Roguelike's origin story of the bar and spotlight the immersive & interactive attractions ...
Nov 03, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 414
