The No Proscenium Podcast

This week: we’re back to the double header groove, first with a stop to chat with Aaron Blanton & Este Olivia, owners The Ghoulish Sanctuary, a Haunted Mansion inspired Airbnb in Kissimmee, Florida and then we look to the future with Corvas Brinkerhoff, one of the co-founders of Meow Wolf to talk about his new venture the in-development SUBMERSIVE, an immersive art spa that is planned to launch in Austin.  

• The Ghoulish Sanctuary
• Submersive

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Listen in on host Noah Nelson's first conversation ever with legendary ARG designer Adrian Hon as they talk about game design, escape games, defining immersive, training actors and more. It’s a winding conversation between two folks who love this stuff more than anyone reasonably should.

• Adrian Hon
• Edinburgh Fringe Immersive Creators Meetup w/Adrian Hon
• Zombies Run!
• Perplex City

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This week on the show we have another double header, this time focused on escape game companies with a theatrical flair… or is that theatre companies who got the escape game itch?

First: Tina Keenan, Managing Director of Toronto’s Secret City lets us on on their secrets: from their days of working with SCRAP to bring the escape game pioneer’s work to Toronto all the way to THE PERFECT BITE, their collaboration with Netflix.

Then Jeffrey Carpenter & Tami Dixion of Pittsburgh theatre company Bricolage (OjO: The Next Generation of Travel) and Rod Schwartz, Owner of the escape game company ENTER THE IMAGINARIUM — tells us about how their partnership formed to create some of the most lauded escape experiences on the East Coast.

• Secret City
• The Perfect Bite
• The Wedding Party
• Bricolage
• Enter The Imaginarium
• COMING SOON: Hiker Trash
• COMING SOON: SEEK
• That Everything Immersive Facebook post we need to you like/share/comment

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This week on the show: NoPro London Curator Shelley Snyder talks with Parabolic Theatre's Owen Kingston about the return of Bridge Command to London.

Plus: Majestic Repertory Theatre's Troy Heard, writer & director of the new immersive adaptation of Jane Austen's EMMA and actress Coco Lane Rigbye (Emma) join host Noah Nelson to dish on the new production that opens this week in Las Vegas.

• Bridge Command
• Jane Austen's EMMA
• NoPro's Front Page
• Something Wicked Stirs In Kansas City (Field Report)
• DIY Publicity 101 for Immersive Creators (July 30)
• DIY Publicity 101 for Immersive Creators (Aug 6)

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This special edition of the podcast features NoPro's Nicholas Fortugno, Parker Sela, and Noah Nelson along with special guest Jeff Crocker (Mister & Mischief) as they trade notes on Julia Masli's ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, in full Spolier Cast mode.

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Julia Masli

Escape From Godot

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Sometimes the timeline just makes you break format, which is what we're doing this week as an avalanche of projects have been unleashed. This week's episode sees us covering work in the fields of theatre, VR, escape games, and role playing games. Let's break it down:

• First up, Jef Aldrich & Jon Taylor, the creators of the Düngeonmeister series of books of unconventional tabletop roleplaying game supplements join me to talk about their latest, The Deck of Many Drinks, and nerd out about some of the truly obscure RPGs they cover in their own podcast Systems Mastery.

• Then David Spira & Peih-Gee Law of the Reality Escape Podcast join us to talk about the upcoming RECON: Reality Escape Convention - the escape game owner & enthusiast gathering that is coming to LA this August.

• Body of Mine creator Cameron Kostopoulos joins us to talk about the award winning VR project's leap to the Meta Quest store.

• And finally theatre makers Keight Leighn & Erik Blair drop by to talk about the upcoming D8 S(t)imul8 in LA.

ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES

• NoPro’s 10 Most Anticipated New Immersive Works of 2024 (Part II)

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This week a double feature double dip with two segments on Neotropolis, the cyberpunk festival in California's Mojave Desert that invites revlers to shed their mundane lives and embrace a neon soaked, cybernetically enhanced alternate reality.

We kick things off with a panel featuring NoPro’s own Anthony Robinson, Reality Escape Pod co-host Peih-Gee Law, and Live Action Attraction’s Brett Jackson — who were part of the same camp at Neotropolis and in the case of Peih-Gee and Brett were part of this year’s story team for the event. They give us a player and makers eye view of the festival.

Then we dive even deeper with Jared Butler, founder of Wasteland World, and the creator of Neotropolis and Wasteland Weekend who brings us the origin story of these events and lets us in on how it all comes together. 

• Neotropolis
• Wasteland Weekend
• People Make Games: We Roleplayed the End of the World with 4000 Other People
• Reality Escape Pod
• Recon: Reality Escape Convention
• Live Action Attractions
• Imagi-Ne'er-Do-Wells

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This week:

Chip Giller and Amy Seidenwurm of AGOG: The Immersive Media Institute a new organization whose mission is to helping creators and nonprofit leaders harness the power of extended reality (XR) to imagine a better future for all.

Then we pivot from XR to IRL as Adipat Virdi, the creator of I AM OTHER — which is headed to the Edinburgh Fringe this August and has a two night stand in Canterbury this month — June 20th & 21st at the Gulbenkian Arts Center — to talk about the piece: An immersive family drama, about an older relative’s act of aggression towards a biracial child, that actively investigates white privilege, judgement, identity and bias.

• AGOG: The Immersive Media Institute
• Award Winning ‘Body of Mine’ Drops On Meta VR Platforms
• I AM OTHER
• I AM OTHER Canterbury
• I AM OTHER Edinburgh

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Life & Trust – the upcoming show from Emursive, the NYC presenters of Sleep No More & proprietors of the McKittrick Hotel – is the subject of much rumor & speculation, something our Review Crew is not immune to!

Join NoPro's NYC curator Allie Marotta, East Coast Editor at Large Blake Weil, NYC correspondents Nicholas Fortugno and Penelope Ray along with host Noah Nelson as they dig into what's known, what's supposed, and what just might be about the highly anticipated show that opens later this month.

Then stick around as Larry Myers joins us to talk about his Hollywood Fringe show Did I Just Join A Cult? about his time with The Tension Experience.

SHOW NOTES

• Life & Trust
• Did I Just Join A Cult?
• Hollywood Fringe

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A double header!

First: What If...? — An Immersive Story Design Director Ian Bowie of ILM Immersive and Director & Executive Producer Dave Bushore of Marvel Studios join us to talk about the new release for the Apple Vision Pro.

Then: the first of our Hollywood Fringe 2024 shorts as Jacob Zorehkey & Ashley Busenlener of LAST CALL THEATRE pop in to tell us about Last Call’s upcoming Hollywood Fringe show REFORGED.

• What If...? — An Immersive Story
• ILM Immersive
• Marvel Studios
• Last Call Theatre's REFORGED
• Last Call Theatre
• Hollywood Fringe

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