The No Proscenium Podcast

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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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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