Without Walls Festival Producer Amy Ashton and Director of Experiences and Activations Mia Fiorella join us to talk about this year's festival, as the La Jolla Playhouse produced event in San Diego moves to an annual schedule, goes free for all, and enjoys a partnership with the San Diego Symphony at the home at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. The festival runs April 27-30th.

• Without Walls Festival
• The Next Stage Immersive Summit
• REA Los Angeles Escape Room Meetup (April 17th)
• TEA x Immersive Institute Meetup in LA (April 20th)
• Imagi-Ne'er-Do-Wells w/ Jenn Wong & Noah Nelson (April 23)
• Call Sheet April 2023

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This week we're joined by Graham Wetterhahn, Sara Beil, and KJ Knies of After Hours Theatre Company to talk about The Tempest: An Immersive Experience, their current collaboration with the Shakespeare Center LA. The gang at After Hours Theatre Company are some of our favorite people to talk shop with.

• The Tempest: An Immersive Experience
• After Hours Theatre Company
• Shakespeare Center LA
• Next Stage: Spotlight Sessions & Deep Dives
• Imagi-Ne'er-Do-Wells w/ Jenn Wong & Noah Nelson - April 23, 2023
• Review Rundown for 4.4.23
• The Immersive 5 with Brett Jackson of Imagi-Ne’er-Do-Wells
• Desert X 2023 Begets Apathy and Heartbreaking Magic (Review)

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This week we head down to San Diego to talk with Optika Moderna's David Israel Reynoso about LA LUCHA, the company's latest immersive theatre piece that will preview during the Without Walls Festival (April 27-30) and then full open in May. Reynoso's previous shows Waking La Llorona and Las Quinceañeras stand tall in NoPro's immersive pantheon, and we expect LA LUCHA to to the same. Plus: a few more notes on WOW, and some updates on The Next Stage and our ongoing Patreon campaign.

• Don’t Miss These Shows At Without Walls Festival 2023
• Immersive Review Rundown for 3.28.23
• Intercon U 2023 — A NoPro Diary
• NoPro Pod: Getting Down with the ‘Brassroots District’ and Planning Your Escape
• Call Sheet March 2023
• The Next Stage Scholarship & Subsidy Application
• The Next Stage Badges

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This week on the show: something monumental is coming to Las Vegas this April — it’s being billed as the largest touring immersive art experience — and its kicking off with a residency at Resorts World, the newest casino on the strip.

The show is Transfix, and will cover four acres, bringing over 50 large scale immersive art pieces to the very heart of Vegas.

We sat down this week with Heather Gallagher, Director of Tour Strategy at Transfix, who not that long ago was the long serving Head of Technology for Burning Man.

• Transfix
• Black Immersive Creators Grant
• Review Rundown for 3.21.23
• Call Sheet March 2023
• Next Stage Scholarship & Subsidized Badge Application
• Next Stage Pre-Sale Info

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Those of you who follow the world of experiential marketing have definitely heard of Giant Spoon, the full stack advertising agency that has put together some of the most talked about marketing activations of the era. Favorites of ours like SXSWestworld, The Last of Us premiere, or maybe our favorite thing ever: The Ink Hole puppet speakeasy for The HappyTime Murders. 

We talk a lot about production here, but we wanted to understand more about how these activations come into being from the client/agency side of the equation, and no one is better for insight into that process than Giant Spoon co-founder Marc Simons. Fresh off being named the most innovative ad agency in the world by Fast Company, we sat down with Marc to get a handle on the view of the experiential marketing world from his point of view.

• Giant Spoon
• Call Sheet March 2023
• Review Rundown for 3.14.23
• The Next Stage Summit 2023
• The Next Stage Pricing Info
• NoPro Patreon

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This week a special teamspeak episode of the podcast featuring the NoPro Staff including Leah Davis, Patrick McLean, Laura Hess, Blake Weil, and for the first time on the show Parker Sela, our associate producer.

We recorded this a couple of weeks ago, chatting about what we’ve been going to see and experience with a touch of what we’re looking forward to.

The conversation ranges WILDLY, but at around the 55 minute mark we get into a discussion and a description of artist Paul McCarthy’s White Snow for about 20 minutes. That involves discussion some pretty graphic imagery, and younger ears or those who just don’t want to get into sexualized material may want to hop ahead.

So yeah, that’s an EXPLICIT tag. We’re so 90's.

SHOW NOTES

• Doors Of Divergence
• Living Paintings
• POV: you are an ai achieving consciousness
• Paul McCarthy’s WS White Snow
• InterconU
• A Blistering Case of SXSW FOMO (A NoPro Guide)
• Review Rundown for 3.7.23
• CALL SHEET March 2023

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This week on the show our dear friend artist Nancy Baker Cahill is back for another enlightening conversation about digital art — both her work and the big currents that are shaping this constantly evolving world — from XR to working on massive public pieces that are immersive in a whole other dimensions, with stops along the way to talk about museum grade NFTs and incorporating generative AI into the work. 

• Nancy Baker Cahill
• NoPro Podcast Episode 177: Nancy Baker Cahill
• Quest’s Back Catalog Could Be A Knockout, But Meta Pulls Its Punches
• Immersive Review Rundown for 2.28.23
• Hunt A Killer Reviews Round Up
• SXSW: Sport And Immersive: The Past and Future of Fan Engagement
• SXSW: Is This Really Live? Performance in the Age of XR
• SXSW: This is Not a Person Part 2

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This week on the show NoPro’s London curator Shelley Snyder takes over the interview duties to talk with Immersive Everywhere’s Brian Hook about the company’s upcoming debut of The Great Gatsby in New York City after a long London run, along with a few updates about Gatsby’s future in the UK.

It's the first of what’s set to be some regular podcast dispatches coming out of London thanks to the continued support of our Patreon backers. 

SHOW NOTES

• Immersive Everywhere
• The Great Gatsby
• Review Rundown for 2.22.23
• Call Sheet for Feb 2023
• Everything Immersive

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This week on the show YET ANOTHER doubleheader, only this time we’re staying on the VR side of things with a check in with ILMxLAB and then with the organizers of the XR Live Performance festival.

First — From ILMxLAB we talk with Director Jose Perez III and CG & Lighting Lead Ronman Ng about the PLAYSTATION VR2 launch title Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge: Enhanced Edition. This is what it says on the tin: an Enhanced Edition of the game we already love, and we get into just what is going into the new edition, what the PSVR2’s haptics are opening up for designers, and the state of VR on this eve of the launch of the highly anticipated peripheral for the wildly successful Playstation 5.

Then Braden Roy and Brian Tull of The Ferrymen Collective are here to talk about something at the other end of the VR spectrum: the XR Live Performance Exhibition now underway which is putting the spotlight on one of VR’s all too secret joys: live interactive theatrical performances staged inside virtual worlds.  

ILMxLAB

Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge: Enhanced Edition

XRLive Performance Exhibition

The Ferrymen Collective

Review Rundown: The One With Murder Mysteries, An Evil Ikea, and a Baby in a Well

‘NOWISWHEREWEARE’ Brings Us to ‘The Stars’ and Back (REVIEW)

NoPro's CALL SHEET, February 2023

NoPro Patreon

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This week on the show another doubleheader, this time reaching into two different parts of the immersiverse.

First up we have a great talk with Nate Koch, the prolific producer who has been part of Sleep No More, Queen of the Night, and the epic opening of Hermès’ flagship store in New York City to talk about a career that balances creating art and working with some of the biggest companies in the world as clients for experiential marketing. It’s the first time Nate and I have talked, and we have a fantastic conversation. 

Then Athena Demos and Doug Jacobson of Big Rock Creative are back on the show to chat about the surprise closing of AltSpaceVR, where they’ve been hosting the award winning virtual Burning Man celebration known as BRCvr, the future of that particular project and of Big Rock Creative as a whole… and we get into some broader thoughts about the state of VR at this particular moment in time.

SHOW NOTES

• Enveekay
• With a Musical Block Party Extravaganza, Hermès Feted its New (and Marvelous) Madison Avenue Home (Vogue)
• Big Rock Creative
• AltspaceVR is shutting down as Microsoft’s mixed reality division shrinks (The Verge)
• BRCvr
• CALL SHEET FEBRUARY 2023 (NoPro)
• NoPro’s 10 Most Anticipated New Works of 2023 (So Far)

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