The No Proscenium Podcast

Sherwood & Nottingham co-creator/director Nick Rheinwald-Jones and Supervising Creative Producer Shoshanna Green join host Noah Nelson to talk about the upcoming second season of the Robin Hood-themed alternate reality roleplaying experience.

Show Notes

• SpyBrunch
• The Rundown
• The NoPro Discord

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For the last session of this March's Spring Fling, we asked a few folks we knew had projects coming up to come give us a sneak peek, Comic-Con Hall H style.

Here's the line-up:

• Paige Solomon of LA's Madcap Motel
• Actor & Creative Director Dasha Kittredge on OnBoard and more
• Stephen Butchko, Braden Roy and Danielle Levesque on   Welcome To Respite VR
• Designer & Producer David Ruzicka of Hidden Worlds Entertainment

It's an exciting cross-section of IRL and URL projects that show the breadth of immersive in 2021. Oh, and if you need a shortcut to getting on the newsletter so you can catch the Eschaton preview, sign up here.

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Stand With Asians is a community call to action that kicked off with a day of protest and programming on March 26, 2021 as a direct response to the mass shooting in Atlanta on March 16th, which came after a year of rising violence and discrimination targeting the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities here in the United States.

Carl Choi of GreatCo. reached out to us about putting together a community event as part of the SWA programming that day which would speak to the immersive creative community. In response, we pulled in Michaela Ternasky-Holland, a VR producer and part of NoPro's extended team who in turn helped us reach out Joanna Popper of the Extending Reality (AR/VR) Club in Clubhouse, the largest immersive creative community on the popular app. This event was recorded on Clubhouse, in the Extending Reality club on March 26th, 2021 by Jacob Patterson, and features Carl, Michaela, Joanna, NoPro's Kathryn Yu, and Voices of VR's Kent Bye as moderators of the discussion which looks to get the immersive creative community exploring what they can do to address the systemic issues facing the AAPI members of our community, and the larger issues facing America as a whole.

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It's been a minute! Noah and Kathryn are joined by Patrick McLean (NoPro Chicago) and first time on the podcast Leah Davis (NoPro New England) to talk about what's been giving us hope of late.

Show Notes The Window (Review) Into The Mist SXSW 2021 Diary Under The Freeways of Los Angeles The NoPro Discord

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This week: just a quick touch-base about the media created for the Spring Fling, our Discord, and all the various community projects that are ongoing including the work of Stand With Asians, LEIA, and Artizen's Black Realities Grant.

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Artizen is a community-powered grant platform that began as a project of Kaleidoscope, the immersive production studio that has navigated countless projects through the stormy seas of VR. René Pinnell, founder and designer of Artizen, talks with us about the new platform's plans – including becoming community-governed – and we get into some of the cutting-edge issues of creative technology to boot! SHOW NOTES Artizen Kaleidoscope #StandWithAsians (Clubhouse Event March 26th) The NoPro Discord SPRING FLING Saturday Day Saturday Night Sunday Day

Spring Fling AR Program (powered by EyeJack)  

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Courtney Nichols & Blakeshine are the co-founders of Of The Night, a new experiential party-in-a-box company that evolved out of Nichols' work in LA – the beloved Disco Dining Club – and Blakeshine's work on the music festival circuit creating large scale experiences.   Now they're taking a pandemic era project which delivered parties for two in LA and turning it into a nationwide service via the crowdfunding platform iFundWomen.   We get into the background and the pivots on this week's show.

Show Notes

• iFundWomen Crowdfunding for Of The Night (running now though April 15th)
• Of The Night
• Instagram: @ofthenight
• The Everything Immersive Spring Fling

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Working out of England, Lou Doye is an executive producer in the immersive field whose projects often mix immersive theatre and immersive tech. Projects where XR meets the boards. She's also one of my favorite people to talk to, having met while working on the board for the Artizen Transformations Grant.

On this episode of the show, Lou and I talk the business of immersive and as always it's an education for me. Plus a little bit about what The RSC's Dream was before the pandemic pivot. Show Notes

• Lou Doye
• Artizen Grants
• The E.I. Spring Fling
• Fifth Wall Forum
• Everything Immersive Radio
• The NoPro Discord

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Violeta Ayala's  Prison X — Chapter 1: The Devil and The Sun, stunned us at Sundance this year. The Quechua film and theatre-maker blended lessons learned from those disciplines to put the audience inside a Neo-Andean myth via VR. (Check out our enthusiastic review.)

This week's episode is a wide-ranging discussion with the creator about how she brought the work to life, and the powerful themes that flow through this mix of myth, theatre, and technology.

Show Notes

• Prison X
• Violeta Ayala on Twitter
• The Everything Immersive Spring Fling 
• Kent Bye's Everything Immersive Radio thread

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Marlee Delia and Anna Mavromati are the co-founders of Shine On Collective, the LA immersive theatre company that made its name creating intimate horror experiences with a strong audio signature. Like so many others in the pandemic, Shine On had to pivot if they wanted to keep producing, and what that landed on came as a surprise.

Their first quarantine experience was Welcome Home, a boxed mystery that came with a delivery/take-out meal in LA and is now shipping as a mystery in a box with a dessert nationwide. They followed it up with The Rouguelike Presents: The Spirits of Tillinghast, the inaugural offering from Burbank's The Roguelike Tavern, a bar owned and operated by LA immersive theatre veteran John McCormick.

We talk with Delia and Mavromati about finding new ways to tell immersive stories in the real world after all the rules changed.

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