This week just a quick minisode with some program & event updates!

• The New York Immersive Invitational
• Melodramatic Delights On The Dance Floor: 'Prom Night ’99' Lights Up Vegas’ Arts District (The NoPro Review)
• How Sweet It Is: Museum of Ice Cream - Las Vegas (Review)
• 1986-6-6
• Midsummer Scream

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This week on the show, Immersive Experience Institute co-founder Kathryn Yu joins host Noah Nelson to talk about her ongoing series Understanding The Immersive Audience, which takes a deep dive into looking at what makes the immersive enthusiast cohort tick and provides some advice on what could best be called good marketing hygiene for immersive work in a time when producers find it increasingly difficult to find their audience.

SHOW NOTES

• The Understanding The Immersive Audience Series
• The Immersive Experience Institute
• The New York Immersive Invitational
• Tech firm Fever produces live shows worldwide, with local consequences (Seattle Times)

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This week on the show we're joined by a delightful panel of immersive creators who are headed to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe — the largest

performing arts fest in the world that pretty much takes over Edinburgh, Scotland for the month of August – for a very loose conversation that feels a bit like sneaking backstage

Joining us for the episode are are Emily Carding, creator and performer of Hamlet (an experience), Peter Michael Marino, whose Planet of the Grapes is headed to Fringe after a sold our run in NYC, and Katy Murphy, creator of the interactive games how (No) Refunds — which is hosted by her alter ego Tiffany Gold.

• Hamlet (an experience)
• Planet of the Grapes
• (No) Refunds
• NoPro's Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 FOMO Guide
• Edinburgh Festival Fringe

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This week we take a detour to have a one-on-one with an artist we've wanted to talk to since season one: Julia Masli, the creator and performer of the incredible Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, which is making its way to San Diego starting on July 28th, and will be popping up at the Philadelphia Fringe this September.

SHOW NOTES

• Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha in San Diego
• Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha at the Philly Fringe
• Next Stage Salon NYC: Finding Your Audience
• Subscribe to No Proscenium

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This week host Noah Nelson is joined by esteemed members of the NoPro New York Review Crew: Curator Allie Marotta, East Coast Editor at Large Blake Weil, and Senior Correspondent Nicholas Fortugno for an often feisty conversation about what's happening in the NYC immersive scene in what has been a very busy year. (I mean, look at those Show Notes!)

But first the gang digs into the recent, and somewhat controversial announcement of a new Punchdrunk production destined for the Wynn Al Marjan Island, the first casino to be planned for the United Arab Emirates. We dig into what it means for the Punchdrunk brand and a whole lot more as the punches are not pulled.

• Wynn Al Marjan Island Announces Landmark Partnership with Punchdrunk, the Global Pioneers of Immersive Theater
• Conwell Coffee & Cocktail Hall
• The Circuit
• The Circuit (Review)
• Lunch Dances
• Tempest Tossed (Review)
• Hamlet/The Furies
• Hamlet/The Furies (Review)
• Woyzeck (Coming Soon Article)
• Clinamen
• Balloon Museum
• Radiohead Motion Picture House
• Marina Abramović's Balkan Erotic Epic
• Big Feelings
• Whisperlodge
• Growing Takes Time
• FestiValle (The thing in Sicily Blake talks about)
• 13th Hour Escape Rooms
• Rip Van Winkle's Journey
• Every Brilliant Thing
• Cats The Jellicle Ball
• Legendary (TV Series)
• The Rocky Horror Show

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This week on the show, a very Season One style episode wherein host Noah Nelson talks to Ellie and Alex DiBerardino of Say Nothing and Leave, the creative team behind the Test Pilots series, along with their oftentimes collaborators Sarah Lew and Danthony, the director and creator of Baby Man. All of which was at Second Place Studios at the Hollywood Fringe Festival last month.

We get into what makes the shows work, how the four met up in the underground immersive scene – yes, we still have one of those; no, we will not explain – and other elements of what comes with taking part in something like 40 different runs during Hollywood Fringe

• Say Nothing and Leave
• Test Pilots
• Change Your Mind
• Danthony
• Baby Man
• Sarah Lew
• Enormous Things: The Musical
• Really Big Spoon
• Hollywood Fringe Festival
• Second Place Studios
• Mirth Arts Foundation

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This week we're talking about the state of XR -– from what's happening with the new tech to the out-of-home experiences that are actually drawing audiences – with a ridiculously talented panel of practitioners, professionals, and press.

Joining host Noah Nelson in the virtual NoPro studio Scarlett Kim (Center for Unclassifiable Technologies and Experiences) , Ray Mosco (General Immersive), Rory Mitchell (Mercantile), and NoPro's Toronto curator Katrina Lat.

• Scarlett Kim
• Raymond Mosco
• Rory Mitchell - Mercantile Agency
• Katrina Lat
• Sony Pictures Invests $100 Million in Cosm, Shared-Reality Venue Owner (Variety)
• LIVE from AWE 2026 ft. Malia Probst, Mary Matheson, and Shelley Peterson (The AI XR Podcast)
• Tender Claws: Body Proxy
• Siggraph 2026
• AWE Nite
• The Immersive Experience Institute

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This week on the show host Noah Nelson is joined by The L.A. Times' Todd Martens, ARGNet owner Michael Andersen, and NoPro's own Kathryn Yu to spin stories from Knott's Ghost Town Alive, do some close reading of a new Harvard Business Review article on immersive experiences, and react to the big Sphere-related news of the week.

• Mr. Todd's Wild Ride (L.A. Times)
• ARGNet
• ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ Set to Screen at Sphere Las Vegas in 2027 (Variety)
• Why The Best Immersive Experiences Succeed (Harvard Business Review)
• Understanding The Immersive Audience (Immersive Experience Institute)
• Knott's Berry Farm's Ghost Town Alive
• One of the Best Larps I Ever Played Was at a Theme Park (ARGNet)
• Pageant of the Masters (Festival of the Arts - Laguna Beach)
• Museum of Make Believe (Laguna Beach)
• Kcymaerxthaere
• Test Pilots (Hollywood Fringe)

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Out of the blue, we're back, with season 2 of the podcast.

This summer we're catching up with our favorite folks, hanging out and talking what we've seen, what they've been making, and generally celebrating the fact that immersive is here and not going anywhere.

To kick us off in the new era we're joined by: associate producer of the podcast, and an immersive creator in her own right Parker Sela, Executive Editor Emeritus of No Proscenium and co-founder of The Immersive Experience Institute game designer Kathryn Yu, and Artistic Director of After Hours Theatre Company Graham Wetterhahn.

The topics du jour are the Without Walls Festival and L.A.'s immersive scene which has been really hopping this year.

• The Immersive Experience Institute
• After Hours Theatre Company

• Tea Party at the End of the World
• Suzik
• Again Again
• The Apple Avenue Detective Agency
• Handle With Care
• Night Watch

• Dataland
• Dark Library: The Time Machine
• You Must Be Here For The Reading
• Hatch Escapes
• Undersigned
• Drowned Out Productions
• Confession
• The Elysian's Spaghetti Festival
• Brassroots District
• Hollywood Fringe
• Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind
• Hospital of Emotions
• Ghost Town Alive

• The Still Point
• Masquerade

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Our guest on this special edition this week is Charles Melcher of the Future of Storytelling who you might know from his own podcast and who is the author of the new book The Future of Storytelling: How Immersive Experiences Are Transforming Our World which is available now.

Charlie’s book is really a fantastic snapshot of the world of immersive storytelling as it stands today, containing both an extensive catalog of expeirences AND essays that provide an framework to understand what makes this work… well.. work.

Best of all — we’ve got a copy of the book to give away.

Plus: an update on Season Two production!

• The Future of Storytelling: How Immersive Experiences Are Transforming Our World
• Book Excerpt: The Future of Storytelling (Plus Giveaway)
• FoST
• Spotlight Series: Yannick Trapman-O'Brien

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