The No Proscenium Podcast

This week on the show — you’ve got two MIGHTY SEGMENTS featuring members of the Senior Staff of NoPro — Arts Editor Laura Hess, Senior Editor Leah Davis, LA Reviews Editor Kevin Gossett, East Coast Curator at Large Blake Weil all join us in part one [6:37], and then London Curator Shelley Snyder and Chicago Curator Patrick McLean join us for part two [57:23].

SHOW NOTES

NoPro's Best Immersive Moments of 2022

NoPro's Best Immersive Experiences of 2022

Telelibrary Public Auction

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This week we sit down for one-on-one talks with members of our Review Crew to dive into their favorite moments & experiences of 2022. Each team member covers their favorite moment and one of their top shows of the year.

You can find an expanded written, but not identical, version of this at our website.

RUN ORDER

• Shelley Snyder, London Curator [6:42]
• Kevin Gossett, LA Reviews Editor [19:06]
• Katrina Lat, Toronto Correspondent [23:23]
• Nicholas Fortugno, New York Correspondent [36:25]
• Patrick McLean, Chicago Curator [51:42]
• Danielle Look, Denver Correspondent [59:56]
• Blake Weil, East Coast Curator at Large [1:10:25]
• Laura Hess, Arts Editor [1:20:49]
• Leah Davis, Senior Editor/New England Correspondent [1:28:28]
• Noah Nelson, Publisher and Host [1:43:25]

Show Notes

The Telelibrary Ticket Auction

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This week on the show — first we take a trip out to the South Coast Botanic Garden the site of Moment Factory’s ASTRA LUMINA, where with talk with Jonathan St-Onge and Thomas Pintal of Moment Factory and Isabel Solano Global Vice President of Live Experiences at Fever, who are co-presenting Astra Lumina in LA.

Then we chat with Andy Barnes of London's Immersive Experience Network about what this creative community centered group has on tap for 2023, including their current fundraiser for their Immersive Huddle series there in the global capital of immersive.

Show Notes

Astra Lumina LA

Moment Factory

Immersive Experience Network

IEN Fundraiser

Backer Exclusive: The Telelibrary Auction

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This week on the show — we’re sharing with you the audio from the panel from the NYC Immersive Meetup hosted last month at Andrew Hoepfner’s GYMNOPEDIE that was moderated by NoPro’s New York Curator Allie Marotta.

The panel features:

• Alex Chmaj - co-owner of Future Proof
• Evan Neiden - Candle House Collective
• Andrew Hoepfner - Houseworld Immersive
• Jessica Creane - IKantKoan
• Risa Puno - Installation Artist, creator of The Privilege of Escape 

This is a frank conversation about the impact of the pandemic on their work, where the field of immersive is going, and includes questions from the audience. 

Note: the audio was recorded live, and we recommend NOT using headphones or earphones for this episode due to a few rare audio issues that are sprinkled through the recording.

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This week on the show — we’re taking a quick trip through the 2022 NoPro Gift Guide with No Pro East Coast Editor at large Blake Weil. Blake and I have pulled seven items from the Gift Guide to talk about including video games, boxed experiences, and live events you should definitely treat you and yours to.

Show Notes

• The 2022 NoPro Gift Guide

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First up, Scarlett Kim, Associate Artistic Director of Innovation and Strategy, of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival joins us to talk about the QUILLS FEST — where immersive tech and live performance come out to play — which is running now until the end of the month. We dive into why one of the United States' best known theatre companies is commissioning XR performance works. (5:45)

Then Greg Lombardo, Vice President and Head of Experiences at the one and only NETFLIX, stops by to talk about just why it is that Netflix has gotten into the immersive experience business and what Lombardo thinks is so special about the form. (34:40) Netflix, along with its partner Fever, is opening the Los Angeles tour stop of the Stranger Things Experience this weekend, and I have some quick thoughts on the show after the interview. (48:30)

SHOW NOTES

Quills Fest

Stranger Things Experience: Los Angeles

Stranger Things Experience: Atlanta

Stranger Things Experience: London

Stranger Things Review (Leah Davis for NoPro)

40 Watts From Nowhere Patreon Discount

Rumble in the Jungle Patreon Discount

The NoPro Discord

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This week on the show — Felix Barrett, the Artistic Director of Punchdrunk is here to talk about The Burnt City — currently playing in London — but that’s not all. We get into the state of the London immersive scene, LARPS, Punchdrunk’s own experiments with immersive gaming, that time they created a DOCTOR WHO event for school kids, video games, and the origins of Punchdrunk itself.

I tell you straight - I was nervous as heck going into this and I shouldn’t have been. Not only is this the biggest interview of the year for us, it’s also one of our best in ages.

Show Notes

• Punchdrunk
• The Burnt City
• Inscryption
• Immortality
• Quills Fest
• Rematch: Rumble in the Jungle
• NoPro Patreon

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Jeb Terry, the CEO of Cosm – a new company with surprisingly deep roots – joins host Noah Nelson to talk about their plans for bringing large scale immersive experiences, powered by dome projection tech, first to their flagship location being built in LA's Hollywood Park and then beyond. Thing is, the company has the tech stack to back it up, being the technology providers for some of the biggest planetariums in the world. And then there's the sports angle: with the company planning to leverage live sporting events as part of their programming. Something Terry knows more than a little about: he played in the NFL before going into business and leading initiatives at FOX Sports amongst others.

In other words: we're going long on the business of immersive this week.

SHOW NOTES

Cosm

Andrew Hoepfner's "How To Make Immersive Theater Your Full Time Job"

Bottom of the Ocean

Particle Ink: Speed of Dark

40 Watts From Nowhere Backer Discount

Immersive Experience Institute

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40 Watts From Nowhere, an experiential documentary from Mister & Mischief (Escape From Godot, The Builder & The Dove) was the absolute highlight of this year's Without Walls festival in San Diego for the NoPro team. Now creators Andy & Jeff Crocker are bringing the show, which puts audience members into the shoes of Sue Carpenter the real-life proprietor of pirate radio station KBLT in the Silver Lake neighborhood of LA, to the place where the story actually took place.

Strap yourselves in for a fun ride with Jeff, Andy, and host Noah Nelson as they cover the show, Andy's work on Tricks and Treats for Cedar Fair's theme parks, and how the lessons they learn on their home grown creative projects carry over to the work they do in themed entertainment.

SHOW NOTES

40 Watts From Nowhere

Mister & Mischief

Patreon Backer Discount Code

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This week on the show — we’ve gathered together a journalists roundtable to talk about this week’s Meta Connect event — and specifically the keynote address that introduced the Quest Pro headset. Joining are Scott Stein of CNET — who had some serious hands on time with the new device — Todd Martens of the LA Times, who covers games and themed entertainment for LA’s daily newspaper, and the one and only Kent Bye of the Voices of VR Podcast — making this episode a crossover pod!

Show Notes

Scott Stein at CNET

Scott's Quest Pro hands-on, and Reality Labs video

Todd Martens at the LA Times

Kent's Voices of VR Podcast

The Denver Immersive Gathering

What Are Immersive Experiences? (Immersive Experience Institute)

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