The No Proscenium Podcast

Two great interviews this week with two luminaries of immersive.

First: writer Margaret Kerrison, whose work includes Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser and Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, joins us to talk about her new book Immersive Storytelling For Real and Imagined Worlds: A Writer's Guide. This is a must-read for everyone who makes immersive work. Period, full stop.

Then Charlie Miller, Executive Director & Curator of the Denver Center for Performing Art’s Off-Center program, stops by to talk about Off-Center's new position in the DCPA and the work they have on tap for Denver in the Fall.

Show Notes

• Margaret Kerrison, In Conversation With Nancy Seruto at Vroman's
• Theatre of the Mind
• The DIG
• Review Rundown
• Call Sheet

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We settle in for a long chat about storytelling and the art of immersion with Frank Rose, the man who literally wrote the book on the subject. Frank's latest book, 'The Sea We Swim in: How Stories Work In A Data Driven World' takes center stage and we also touch on his work with Columbia University's Digital Storytelling Lab and their annual Digital Dozen list.

Show Notes

The Art of Immersion

The Sea We Swim In

Columbia University's Digital Storytelling Lab

2022 Digital Dozen

The Denver Immersive Gathering

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This week on the show: Chris Alderson of Polyarc Games joins us to talk about the MetaQuest release of Moss: Book II and what the studio learned about creating virtual characters you can’t help but form a bond with. [6:30]

And Félix Lajeunesse of Felix & Paul Studios is here to bring us up to speed on the latest with their collaboration with NASA — the final episode Space Explorers: The ISS Experience and the upcoming Artemis mission livestream. [30:50]

All that plus HEADLINES.

SHOW NOTES

• SDCC Activations @ Everything Immersive
• Tender Claws Human Union
• Meow Wolf Workers Collective
• Communication Workers of America
• Walkabout MiniGolf VR Tour SignUp
• The Metaverse And How it Will Revolutionize Everything
• The NoPro Discord
• The Denver Immersive Gathering
• Who’s The Bossk? The Force Awakens
• NoPro Patreon

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For years now, first in a backyard and then inside an early 20th century storage building, one of the most unique immersive creations in the world has been one of Los Angeles' treasures: Scout Expedition Co.'s The Nest.

Created by themed entertainment designers Jarrett Lantz and Jeff Leinenveber, The Nest has both delighted audiences and broken our hearts since it first turned up, almost like a rumor, years ago. A visit to a storage unit reveals the shape of a life, told through audio tapes (literal tapes), and interactive moments that unlock more and more of the story of a woman named Josie, whose legacy is now yours.

This special episode of the podcast, our 349th, brings Lantz and Leinenveber together with Mackenzie Firgens, the voice of Josie, and was recorded inside The Nest itself. The Thea Award-winning show will close this August. But there's still time to discover it, or revisit it, and the code NOPROPODCAST will unlock a discount for these last shows. Scout Expedition will also be offering up Behind The Scenes tours over the summer, so keep an eye out for that.

Show Notes

The Nest

Scout Expedition Co.

The DIG

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It's a big show this week.

First up: writer-director Ryan Griffen and executive producer Nathan Anderson are here to talk with us about Lustration, the narrative VR series available on Meta Quest that adapts Griffen's neo-noir afterlife tale from comics to virtual reality. With a little help from voice actors like Kevin Conroy and Dante Basco. [6:00]

Then David Markland of Midsummer Scream is here to tell us about this year's Halloween and Horror Convention, the first full Scream since 2019, which is returning to Long Beach July 29th - 31st. [35:10]

Finally, we settle in for a great conversation with Susanna Pollack, President of Games For Change — producers of On The Morning You Wake (To The End of the World) and of the upcoming Games For Change Festival in New York City and ONLINE in July 13-16th that brings game makers and XR creators together with a focus on creating social impact through their work. [51:05]

All that PLUS details on this November's Denver Immersive Gathering at the top of the show. Tickets on sale NOW.

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We wrap up our Tribeca Immersive 2022 coverage with this gathering of the Review Crew: NYC correspondent Edward Mylechreest is joined by special guest Nick Fortugno who makes his Review Crew debut both of whom were on-site at Tribeca this year. Hosted by NoPro Podcast host Noah Nelson, who held down the fort on the at-home portion of Tribeca.

In this episode:

This is Not A Ceremony [3:00]

Plasticsapiens [7:52]

Please Believe Me [10:35]

Intravene [16:25]

Iago [28:22]

Emerging Radiance [36:40]

Reach You [43:46]

Evolver [48:38]

Our Complete Tribeca Immersive Coverage:

• 2022 Festival Diary
• Podcast Interview: This Is Not A Ceremony
• Podcast Interview: Tribeca Immersive’s Ana Brzezinska
• Podcast Interviews: Intravene & Mescaform Hill
• Creator Spotlight: Q&A Interviews with Five Projects

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Our Tribeca Immersive coverage continues with interviews of the creative teams behind two of the most exciting projects at this year's festival.

First up: Glenn Neath of DARKFIELD and Garth Mullins of the Crackdown Podcast join us to talk about their collaboration with documentarian Brenda Longfellow called INTRAVENE, an immersive docudrama series about the overdose crisis in Vancouver. [3:35]

Then Edward Madojemu, the artist behind Mescaform Hill: The Missing Five talks with us about adapting the webcomic world he created with his brother Adam into the immersive animated short that is now available on Oculus TV, and about his multiple approaches to bringing comic book storytelling into the spatial medium. [27:00]

Plus an update from David Spira of Room Escape Artist on RECON: the Reality Escape Convention.

Show Notes

INTRAVENE

Tribeca Immersive Diary 2022

Tribeca Immersive Creator Spotlight

RECON

The Onward Odyssey of OddKnock Productions

Review Rundown: Plays Within Plays

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This week New England correspondent Leah Davis hops into the host seat and is joined by Arts Editor Laura Hess to talk Stranger Things.

No, not Season 4 and its upcoming finale, but to swap notes on the past two years of Stranger Things experiences. First Laura takes us back to 2020 and the Stranger Things Drive-Into Experience in LA to set the background.

Then Leah pivots to the NYC edition of Stranger Things: The Experience, which opened this season. (13:08) And for those wondering: YES, the San Francisco one is ALREADY OPEN.

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Summer Festival season has started in earnest and this week's episode has us touching base with two very different events on the East and West Coast of the United States.

Ana Brzezinska curator of this year’s Tribeca Immersive at the Tribeca Festival which is taking place RIGHT NOW in New York City joins us to talk about this year’s selections and how it all comes together both in NYC and in the virtual galleries of the Museum of Other Realities.

Then we shift coasts and festivals for the Hollywood Fringe where Morgan Taylor, Mason Conrad, and Kristin Childers of Not Another Midsummer join us to talk about this rollicking new show that wraps the Bard’s classic with an immersive metastory about a theatre troop coming apart at the seams. [31:50 - Explicit Language]

SHOW NOTES

• Call Sheet for June 10, 2022
• NoPro Office Hours - June 13th at 4PM Pacific (Discord)

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