The No Proscenium Podcast

Eight years. 400 Episodes.

This week we are marking the anniversary by having NoPro team members Allie Marotta ( our NYC Curator), Kevin Gossett (LA reviews editor), Patrick McLean (Chicago Curator), Leah Davis (New England curator), Laura Hess (Arts Editor) and Parker Sela, (associate producer of this very podcast) join us.

On this team episode we look back on the crew's "moment before" joining the NoPro team and take a snapshot of where everyone feels immersive is at the moment.

Plus: an old fashioned Noah Rant at the START of the show.

SHOW NOTES

Alien War (wikipedia)

The City, Burned: Immersive in a Era of Radical Change (Op-Ed)

“Transformational Experiences” Are The New Buzzword, But Are You Making Change Or Just Selling It?

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This week a very special VERY LONG episode of the podcast featuring guest host Mikhael Tara Garver, Head of Culture House Immersive and Director of Immersive Experience for the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser who is here to interview myself, Kathryn Yu, Graham Wetterhahn, Jessica Creane, and Nick Fortugno my shipmates for the absolutely incredible surprise trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando to head aboard the Galactic Starcruiser that Graham and Kathryn organized for us, and that a whole lot of people contributed to.

The conversation that follows dips between talking about our characters to inside baseball stuff about immersive and back again. It is deeply nerdy in every sense of the word. It’s also unlike anything we’ve done before. 

SHOW NOTES

CALL SHEET JULY 2023

My Star Wars Saga

Waking Up With The Force

Regarding Rose

Our coverage of the Starcruiser is brought to you by Agile Lens, bringing XR and theatre together for over a decade, and After Hours Theatre Company, producers of the Los Angeles Immersive Invitational, with additional support from listeners like you. 

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PostCurious founder and lead game designer Rita Orlov is joined by writer Lauren Bello (Apple TV's Foundation, Netflix's Sandman) who talk about their collaboration on Threads of Fate, the revised version of PostCurious' very first game The Tale of Ord. Chicago Curator & Remote Experiences Editor Patrick McLean guest hosts.

• PostCurious
• Threads of Fate
• The Morrison Game Factory
• “Transformational Experiences” Are The New Buzzword, But Are You Making Change Or Just Selling It?
• The City, Burned: Immersive in a Era of Radical Change (Op-Ed)
• NoPro’s 10 Most Anticipated New Works of 2023 (Part II)
• NoPro on THREADS

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Eric Garcia, creator of WE BUILD HOUSES HERE and co-director of San Francisco's Detour devised dance company is interviewed by Parker Sela about the immersive dance production that explores the idea of queer sanctuaries by combining shipwrecks and San Francisco's iconic OASIS drag nightclub.

Then stick around for the missing part of last week's show.

• DETOUR DANCE
• WE BUILD HOUSES HERE
• NoPro’s 10 Most Anticipated New Works of 2023 (Part II)
• Stoking Vegas’ Immersive Flame: Lost Spirits Distillery (Review)
• Denver Fringe 2023 Immersive Superlatives
• Review Rundown: The One With Magic & Multiverses

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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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