The No Proscenium Podcast

Director Spencer Williams (Walk The Night) and music producer Andrew Heringer have created a unique music experience in the form of The Guest & The Host: Make Music, which will be debuting alongside the Hollywood Fringe Festival this June in LA. Plus: Noah's initial thoughts on the Oculus Go.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What happens when two immersive theatre companies meet at a bar in San Francisco? They make a show in LA, that's what. Rochester, 1996 is a collaboration between Capital W and DryCræft Los Angeles that will be hitting this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival. We talk with Lauren Ludwig & Monika Miklas of Capital W, and Thaddeus Shafer of DryCræft Los Angeles whose life as the son of a pastor provides the inspiration for the show. (They're raising money/selling advance tickets on IndieGoGo right now.) All that plus a touch of the usual shenanigans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every fan of immersive in Los Angeles know the name Jon Braver: he's the creator of the wildly popular Delusion interactive horror theatre company. Each instance of Delusion is an event into and of itself, and Jon has been creating his dark wonderland in our reality for years now. This week Delusion goes virtual, with the cinematic VR version of Delusion: Lies Within debuting at The Overlook Film Festival. We talk with Jon about that, the future of the LIVE Delusion shows, and just about everything else under the sun in this, our first full interview with Jon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Derek Spencer and Meredith Treinen of Ceaseless Fun drop in with beer and pecan pie to talk about their most recent show -- Agnosia -- and the upcoming They Who Saw The Deep in Los Angeles. Don't worry, we save the pie for afterwards. But it is one of THOSE episodes thanks to the beer. In fact, it's officially an NoPro After Dark. We get into process in this one, so you know I love it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John MacInnes and Remington Scott met while making Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, kicking off a collaboration (MacInness Scott) that is exploring the bleeding edge of photorealism. But these two are about more than brain melting tech that can turn Hollywood actors and politicians into digital humans: all that is just the groundwork for exploring the art of storytelling on the immersive digital frontier. Host Noah Nelson talks with John and Remington about the history of their collaboration, their work for Netflix on an Altered Carbon promotion, and just where all this is headed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The madmen went and did it. Last week the creative team behind The Tension & Lust Experiences announced that they were taking on new partners, a company called AGBO -- which is The Russo Brothers' new company. You know, the guys who are directing Avengers: Infinity War. So yeah, that's some big news. And Tension creators Darren Bousman, Clint Sears, and producer Gordon Bijelonic sit down with host Noah Nelson to talk about what all this means for The Experiences now and in the future. Oh, and Joe Russo calls in during the show to explain why and how he got mixed up with all this.   Plus: a word about our editorial policy updates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our dear friend Bryan Bishop of The Verge has just come back from a once-in-a-lifetime experience at SXSW. There he was one of just two participants in an elaborate, four day long immersive experience called a "Simulife" by the creative think tank known as Interactive Deep Dive. Host Noah Nelson, who walks in clueless (What else is new?), journey's with Bryan into the heart of what made this so special. The answer: Soylent Green. (I mean, from a certain point of view.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Writer and director Edward Robles of Here Be Dragons drops by to talk about Dispatch, his episodic VR narrative for Oculus that debuted at Sundance.  Well that and a wide ranging conversation about how he landed in the business, writing, and more.  That plus a #NoProGoesPro campaign update. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You may not know Justin Denton's name, but you certainly have heard of his work. He's the director of the much buzzed about LEGION FX activation at last year's San Diego Comic Con (which had an encore at FoST Fest in NYC) and part of the core team at Here Be Dragons, the production studio that has helped put VR on the map. Get ready, because Noah and Justin are about to have one of THOSE conversations. This is my favorite episode in a long while. Plus: we sing the praises of our SXSW crew, and detail the NEXT STEP in our March NO PRO GOES PRO campaign. (GIVE US YOUR MONEY!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aaron and Austin Keeling of E3W Productions join Noah to talk about their new show Bitter at the End and how their surprise debut -- the absolutely wonderful In Another Room -- came together in the first place. Keep an eye on these guys, they're got the touch. Plus: the first part of our NoPro Goes Pro campaign BEGINS. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.