The No Proscenium Podcast

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It's difficult to fathom. So to help we brought along Kathryn, Anthony, Kevin, Leah, Laura, Blake, Michaela, Juliet, and Patrick to reminisce about how they got started in immersive, and with us. About where things are going as we dust ourselves off and ready for a new era... and about just what the podcast is going to become.

The End Of An Era.

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This week Siobhán O'Loughlin, creator of Broken Bone Bathtub and the Please Don't Touch The Artist online series joins host Noah Nelson to talk about PDT and her upcoming new in-person show in Los Angeles called Every Day I'll Hope.

Special guest appuurance by Detective Munch, the cat. (Listen close!)

Show Notes

• Siobhán O'Loughlin - Events
• Tribeca Diary
• Tribeca Coverage Kickoff
• Review Rundown
• Call Sheet
• LEIA LA Meetup
• NoPro Patreon

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This week we talk with creators from two incredible projects in Tribeca Immersive -- Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster, and Yasmin Elayat join us from the VR narrative series 'The Changing Same,' which views the long history of racial injustice in America through the lens of magical realism, while Lady PheOnix and Sutu talk with us about celebrating the life of Breonna Taylor by planting 'Breonna's Garden' in augmented reality. 

It's a double feature from the Tribeca Film Fest!

Show Notes

• The Changing Same: Episode One
• Breonna's Garden (iOS) (Google Play)
• Tribeca Immersive Kicks Off With An Abundance
• NoPro's Tribeca Immersive Diary
• NoPro Patreon
• The NoPro Discord

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Innerspace VR co-founder Balthazar Auxietre and writer Rob Morgan join us to talk about Maskmaker, the new game from Innerspace published by MWM Interactive that puts players into the role of an apprentice mask maker who must unravel the mystery that haunts a magical island ruled by the master mask maker Prospero.

Show Notes

• Maskmaker 
• Innerspace VR
• Brassroots DIstrict: The Opening Act For LA's Immersive Summer (Q&A)
• The (Two Bit) Circus Is Back In Town (Q&A)
• Pop-Up Magazine Hits The Streets With the 'Sidewalk Issue (Q&A)
• LEIA

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2020 was a long year for everyone, and especially so for Paige Solomon CEO & Creative Director of DTLA's Elsewhere at the Madcap Motel. The attraction's opening night was planned for the very night that everything shut down in California, and the project remained in limbo until opening last month. We talk with Solomon and with the Motel's Director of Theatrical Experience, Claire Chapelli, from INSIDE the Motel -- our first in-person interview in over a year -- about the long(er than expected) road to Elsewhere.

Show Notes

• Elsewhere at the Madcap Motel
• Head Down to DTLA to Go Elsewhen and ‘Elsewhere at the Madcap Motel’ (Review)
• Bonus Podcast: Crafting Immersive w/Koryn Wicks & Willing Kompany
• The Rundown: The One That’s A Little Spicy (Reviews!)
• Kink Curiosity Is Rewarded At LA’s ‘Fétische’ (Review)
• Short Doc Recalls ‘Everyone Agrees It’s About to Explode’ (NEWSWIRE)
• Call Sheet (5/28/21)
• Review Crew: Ultra Guest Edition (Backer Only till 5/29)
• NoPro Patreon

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This week choreographer and creator Koryn Wicks (I Love You Much, SQUEEZE ME TO DEATH; Casting) and her collaborators from Willing Kompany participated in an online Forum centering on the ideas discussed in her recent three-part Crafting Immersive series on No Pro.

This recording effectively becomes the fourth part of the series, and features both the company member's thoughts and questions from other Forum attendees.

Show Notes

• Willing Kompany
• Crafting Immersive Pt. 1: Making It Physical
• Crafting Immersive Pt. 2: Onboarding the Audience
• Crafting Immersive Pt. 3: Make It Accessible

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These days Leila Amirsadeghi is with a Senior Program Manager with the Mixed Reality Team at Microsoft for AltSpaceVR, which she joined after being part of the team for the PGA Award-winning BRCvr that brought Burning Man into AltSpace. She's also one of the creators of The Unreal Garden, a mixed reality experience that made its debut at OneDome in San Francisco during the Before Times, and that will be returning in a new form this year.

We crack into all of that and more in this episode. SHOW NOTES

• AltSpaceVR
• Mesh Connects - Leila Amirsadeghi
• Crafting Immersive - Series
• Crafting Immersive - Forum Tickets
• The Rundown
• Call Sheet 5/21/21

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A little over a year ago novelist Matt Ruff (Lovecraft Country) and journalist Blake Collier reached out to us. They were doing a podcast to promote Matt's new novel, 88 Names, which is set in a world where virtual reality is a lot further along than our own. They wanted to talk about the creative side of it all with us.

It was a grand time.

Now, after a most unexpected year and two seasons of the podcast, Blake and Matt have wrapped up their show and we asked them to come on our show and talk about their journey through the immersive world -- not just the art & entertainment side, but forays into medicine and philosophy as well.

Show Notes

• The 88 Names Podcast
• 88 Names (novel)
• Serial Killer Speed Dating Bonus Episode
• The Rundown
• Crafting Immersive Part 1: Make It Physical
• The NoPro Patreon
• The NoPro Discord

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LA's Serial Killer Speed Dating, which put a little immersive horror twist on the speed dating format, has created not one but TWO online versions over the course of the pandemic.

The first was the Zoom series, which adapted the live show to everyone's favorite video chat platform and the latest is a Clubhouse-based game show, which is now part of the Clubhouse CREATOR FIRST pilot program which will see some lucky producers get their shows picked up for development by the social audio app.

Will our guests Abel Horwitz and Jacob Patterson be amongst those lucky producers? Check out their show this Saturday, May 15th at 3 pm PT / 6 pm ET on the Clubhouse Main Stage. CH is NOW ON ANDROID and not just iOS.

And don't forget to tap back into the podcast this week with our next regular episode which features author Matt Ruff (Lovecraft Country) and journalist Blake Collier of the 88 Names Podcast as we talk about their year of diving into the immersive world.

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Javaad Alipoor is the co-director, writer, and one of the performers of Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran, an incredible multi-media theatre piece that links a constellation of Big Ideas into an incredibly human story. The docudrama starts with the real-life story of a doomed love affair between two of Iran's young rich elite, and then invites the audience to peel back the layers of the story to see the massive historical underpinnings that led to a devastating accident.

Alipoor specializes in political theatre with an emotional core, and in our interview, we dive deep into the current political and cultural moment in a wide-ranging and electric conversation.

Content Advisory: adult language

Show Notes

• Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran
• The Javaad Alipoor Company
• The Colour of Our Politics (podcast)
• Call Sheet (Job listings)
• The Rundown (Weekly Reviews)
• The NoPro Patreon

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