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 digital realm and talk with Clement Deneux and Michael Masukawa of Atlas V about MONSTRORAMA, a Tribeca Immersive selection that truly delighted me this month.

SHOW NOTES

• RWS Entertainment
• Capital W
• Atlas V
• MONSTRORAMA

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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.

• Kurt Collins on Bluesky
• No Proscenium on Bluesky
• Noah J. Nelson on Bluesky
• Meow Wolf's The Real Unreal (Grapevine, Texas)

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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 and VisionOS - Daring Fireball

Apple’s Messi Vision - 500ish

The Pirate Queen: A Forgotten Legend - Tribeca Immersive

MONSTRORAMA - Tribeca Immersive

Tribeca Immersive

Why You Need to Get Yourself to the Nearest Meow Wolf Portal and Jump In - io9

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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.

• Mighty Coconut
• Walkabout Mini Golf

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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.

• Texas Immersive Institute
• The Next Stage Immersive Summit
• The Review Rundown
• The Immersive 5 w/Terence Leclere of #metaforyou

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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 Romeo & Juliet, and the Hella Iambic app is adding a whole new dimension later this month to OSF’s currently running production of the play. 

SHOW NOTES

Romeo & Juliet at OSF

Nataki Garrett

Scarlett Kim

Glow Up Games

The Next Stage Immersive Summit

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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 Mutual.

• Candle House Collective
• CLAWS
• Lennox Mutual
• The Next Stage Immersive Summit
• Review Rundown: The One With Fair Trades, Mystery Boxes, and Drag Sanctuaries
• ‘Threads of Fate’ Captures Hearts, Challenges Minds (The NoPro Review)

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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.

Without Walls 2023

A Shared Space

Fair Trade

Brassroots District

Cleaning The Stables

La Lucha

A Saturday That Wow'd (A NoPro Diary)

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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 conversation to follow goes long on talking about acting and the art of immersive often in the context of a brand activation aka the thing that pays so many performer’s bills.

In other words: It’s a cozy chat with some friends this week on the pod.

SHOW NOTES

• #metaforyou
• The Next Stage Immersive Summit
• The Long Road To Longmont: Paralysis’ ‘Omega’ Brings Immersive Horror To Colorado (FEATURE)
• Checking In On The Black Immersive Creators Grant As Deadline Looms

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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 VR video feel connected to the audience, and just what happens to a film set when a 30 lbs cinnamon roll is introduced.

• Making It VRy Big (MetaQuest TV)
• Making It Big (Tasty's YouTube Channel)
• The Next Stage Immersive Summit
• Imagi-Ne’er-Do-Wells w/ Jenn Wong & Noah Nelson (April 23)
• Call Sheet April 2023

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