We're joined this week by Robert Farid Karimi – whose work of late has included a series of interactive analog immersive game experiences involving topics such as community-police relations and the illegal detention of Central American immigrant youth – and who is the co-director of the Public Practice + Generative Play StudioLab and serves as Assistant Professor in the Music, Dance and Theater department at Arizona State University.

It's a fantastic discussion about meaning-making.

• Robert Farid Karimi
• Worlds In Play: The Mint Experience!
• LA Immersive Invitational

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This week on the show we’re joined by Ivan Carić and Emily Carding of The Key of Dreams, the follow up to the hit overnight immersive experience in the Welsh countryside which was reviewed for us last year by Ellery Weil, who also joins us on the pod for the first time.

The Key of Dreams draws on the literary tradition of weird fiction to create a strange and thrilling experience in Treowen Manor an early 17th-century manor house in Monmouthshire where guests stay overnight.

We dive in deep on what goes into delving into the realms of the uncanny in a historic locale in this week’s interview.

SHOW NOTES

The Key of Dreams

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This week on the show: we reveal the winner of the 2024 No Proscenium Audience & Editor Awards.

Check the site for the full list of Nominees & Winners.

The 2024 No Proscenium Audience & Editor Awards

The 2024 Los Angeles Immersive Invitational

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This week on the show our dear friend Graham Wetterhahn is here with us to talk about the upcoming Los Angeles Immersive Invitational, which is produced by his company After Hours Theatre Company in collaboration with The Immersive Experience Institute… and we’re unveiling seven of the teams that will be participating in this year’s invitational — and it is QUITE the lineup.

The Invitational’s Sunday Showcase is coming up on April 21st at the Nocturne Theater in Glendale and the tickets are ON SALE NOW and you can find a link right here in the show notes.

The 2024 Los Angeles Immersive Invitational (Tickets)

After Hours Theatre Company

The Immersive Experience Institute

The 2024 NoPro Audience Awards (Backers Only)

The 2024 NoPro Reader's Special Award

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This week on the show we’ve got a DOUBLE HEADER!

First up Amy Ashton & Mia Fiorella of La Jolla Playhouse’s WITHOUT WALLS FESTIVAL will be here to give us a preview of the fest that is headed back to the UC San Diego campus for the first time since 2015 this April 4th - 7th.

Then Samantha Gorman & Danny Cannizzaro of Tender Claws, the studio behind NoPro favorites like The Under Presents and Virtual Virtual Reality are here to talk about their latest release: STRANGER THINGS VR which launched on Meta’s QUEST platform last week.

• Without Walls Festival
• Stranger Things VR
• The 2024 No Proscenium Audience Awards Nominees
• 2024 NoPro Audience Awards Ballot- (Backer Access Only)
• 2024 NoPro Special Reader Award Ballot

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This week on the show artist Risa Puno joins us to talk about some of their latest work, including the upcoming Group Hug at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and Unresolved Rage Game, developed with theatre artist Ran Xia which was recently at Worlds in Play at ASU’s MIX Center in Mesa Arizona.

We go deep into the motivation behind both pieces and how Puno explores emotions through game mechanics. 

Content Advisory: there’s some frank talk about the wave of hate directed at Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders that the pandemic unleashed and that includes some strong language including the identification of slurs that were directed at Puno themself. Telling you that upfront so that you’re not caught off guard.

• Risa Puno
• Group Hug
• Unresolved Rage Game at Worlds in Play
• Los Angeles Immersive Invitational Sunday Showcase Backer Exclusive Pre-Sale

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Joining us on the show this week is designer Jaden Andrea, most recently the Art Director of Gather, the virtual gathering spot for remote teams that was home to more than a few interactive experiences during the height of the pandemic, and who has done installation work at Lightning in a Bottle, Neotropolis, and Burning Man. 

SHOW NOTES

• Jaden Andrea (portfolio)
• Nostalgia Purgatory
• Gather
• Neotropolis
• Lightning in a Bottle
• CASTING
• NYC Immersive Weekend
• LA Immersive Invitational

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Joining us this week is Ben Enos, Senior Director of Product Design at The Escape Game to talk about his path from being an escape game super fan to heading up a team at one of the largest location based game companies in the U.S.

• The Escape Game
• NYC Immersive Weekend 
• CASTING in NYC Pre-Sale

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Joining us this week is Gry Worre Hallberg the artistic director of Copenhagen based Sisters Hope a performance group and movement organized around the idea of a creating “an ecological awareness of connectivity” outlined in the book Sensuous Society – Carving The Path Towards A Sustainable Future.

Sisters Hope was the group behind the event Sensuous Governing, which took place at the Danish Consulate in Edinburgh as part of the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe, which is where our own Toronto correspondent Katrina Lat encountered the group’s work. Katrina will also be joining me today as co-host.

• Sisters Hope
• Sensuous Governing
• The Best Immersive at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023

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