The No Proscenium Podcast

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 DiaryPodcast Interview: This Is Not A CeremonyPodcast Interview: Tribeca Immersive’s Ana BrzezinskaPodcast Interviews: Intravene & Mescaform HillCreator Spotlight: Q&A Interviews with Five Projects Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 NotesINTRAVENETribeca Immersive Diary 2022Tribeca Immersive Creator SpotlightRECONThe Onward Odyssey of OddKnock ProductionsReview Rundown: Plays Within Plays Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.--Discover the latest immersive events, festivals, workshops, and more at our new site EVERYTHING IMMERSIVE, new home of NoPro’s show listings.NoPro is a labor of love made possible by our generous Patreon backers. Join them today!In addition to the No Proscenium website, our podcast, and our newsletters, you can find NoPro on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, in the Facebook community Everything Immersive, and on our Discord. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 NOTESCall Sheet for June 10, 2022NoPro Office Hours - June 13th at 4PM Pacific (Discord) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Review Crew host Kevin Gossett is joined by NoPro publisher Noah Nelson to chat about two shows they've caught so far in this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival.First up is Last Call Theatre's Signals, which takes the online-MMO format and adapts it into a theatrical setting that uses the internet's own crowdsourced SCP Foundation as inspiration. Then it's The Queen's Fools production of Not Another Midsummer, a fantastic riff on the Shakespearean classic that mixes immersive elements in a gloriously chaotic pre-show with a rock solid show with a show that has a show. (That itself has a show within a show.) [12:43]Show NotesNoPro Office Hours in the NoPro Discord -- Monday June 13 @ 4PM Pacific Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We kick off our Tribeca Immersive coverage this week with Ahnahktsipiitaa (Colin Van Loon) the director of This Is Not A Ceremony, a stunning piece of 360 cinema that calls on the viewer to bear witness to personal details of the injustices visited upon Indigenous men in Canada. It is a film that understands the power of its medium, and through the heaviness of its subject matter also demonstrates the strength of First Nations individuals and communities. The film plays both in-person and as part of the online portion of Tribeca Immersive (online tickets are just $5).SHOW NOTESTribeca Immersive Panel: Extended Reality As A Modern Identity ToolkitNick Tierce's The BSO That Almost Was Twitter ThreadParticle Ink: Speed of DarkNoah's Office Hours: June 13th at 4PM PDT Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Blake, Patrick, and Kevin dive into the last two Book Club selections: L.E. Hall's Planning Your Escape, which serves as both a history of play that led up to the creation of escape rooms and as a guide on how to approach escape games (with a good dose of immersive theatre history to boot); and Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, a fantastical novel set in the midst of a duel between two magicians at an otherworldly circus that just so happens to be inspired in part by the original production of Punchdrunk's Sleep No More.Hosted by Kevin Gossett, with Blake Weil & Patrick McLeanShow NotesFailbetter's promotional story game for The Night Circus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Artist Adam Schwerner joins us to discuss Your (Un)natural Garden, currently delighting visitors to LA's Descanso Gardens. We talk about the interactive installations, botanical gardens as a canvas for art, and what he's learned about large-scale art as part of the executive team of the most iconic venue in themed entertainment.Plus: The Pick of the WeekHeadlinesApple Mixed Reality Device Details Begin To Emerge (Daring Fireball highlights The Information)Report: Apple Board Gets Mixed Reality Demo (Bloomberg)Two Bit Circus Announces Merger, New Venture (Blooloop)Hunt-A-Killer's New, More Mainstream Offerings (Press Release)Associate Producer: Parker SelaMusic: Chris Porter Headlines: Kathryn Yu, Executive Editor of No ProsceniumProducer and Host: Noah Nelson   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a whole hour focusing on the Meta Quest, from the recent showcase to what's worth playing right now. Kevin Gossett plays host as Kathryn Yu and Patrick McLean blast through:Meta Quest Gaming ShowcaseMoss: Book II by PolyarcGhostbusters VR by nDreams + Sony Pictures Virtual RealityAmong Us VR - Innersloth, Schell Games, and Robot TeddyRed Matter 2 by Vertical RobotA quick detour to talk about another upcoming game: The Last ClockwinderThen it's on to what they've been playing:Area Man Lives by Numinous Games (also on Viveport & Steam)Lost Recipes by Schell Games (Quest exclusive)Unbinary by Ludact (also on Viveport & Steam)Want more Quest Games to check out? Explore NoPro's MUST PLAY Guide to the Quest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.