The No Proscenium Podcast

Jan 31 2025 535 ep. 68 mins 225
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Exploring the renaissance in immersive theatre and interactive events. Hosted by Noah Nelson, creator of No Proscenium, a free events listing newsletter in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco. Visit NoProscenium.com to sign up.
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Stefanie Frey of Actor's Equity

Jan 31 2025 39 mins  
This week on the show, Stefanie Frey the Director of Organizing & Mobilization for Actor’s Equity Association — joins us to talk about how Equity — the union for actors and stage managers — has been expanding its membership into places like escape rooms and themed restaurants that touch upon our world of immersive experiences.SHOW NOTESActor's Equity Association Get bonus c

Review Crew: Sleep No More Ends in NYC

Jan 24 2025 62 mins  
This week on the show, the Review Crew – in the form of NYC curator Allie Marotta, East Coast Editor at Large Blake Weil, Exec. Editor Emeritus Kathryn Yu, NYC correspondent Penelope Ray, and host Noah Nelson – gather to talk about the end of Sleep No More’s era defining run in New York City and the last run of shows and parties at the McKittrick Hotel, the show’s venue in

Minisode for Jan 17, 2025

Jan 17 2025 10 mins  
The original plan for this week was for us to have no episode while The Next Stage Immersive Summit was on.Because of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in LA brought about by the wildfires The Next Stage is postponed.We'll have more on the plans for that at a later date. In the meantime check the show notes for how to help those in LA.Show NotesLA Fires: How You Can Help (compiled by

Minisode: We're Okay, Are You Okay?

Jan 10 2025 15 mins  
A quick check in from LA as the fire situation evolves, including updates on The Next Stage Immersive Summit, which at present is still on at the Pasadena Playhouse Jan 17-19.We will check in next week.SHOW NOTESGoFundMe for Suzanne Down to recover from the Eaton Fire Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nicole Orabona and Nathan Leigh of CirqueSaw

Jan 03 2025 55 mins  
This week on the show, Parker Sela takes up the host duties to interview Nicole Orabona and Nathan Leigh of CirqueSaw about their remote repertory season consisting of Void Main, a revival of POV: You Are an AI Achieving Consciousness and workshop dates for labRats and just why an online theatre company is going to all the trouble of coding its own platform. SHOW NOTESCirqueSa

End of the Year 2024

Dec 27 2024 98 mins  
This week we wrap our End of the Year podcasts with our annual gathering of the NoPro Crew to look back at the year that was in immersive and look forward to what might be.Joining us for the chat are NoPro Toronto Curator Katrina Lat, New York Correspondent Nicholas Fortugno, correspondent-at-large Martin Gimenez, and Senior LA Reviewer Kathryn Yu.SHOW NOTESIn the Matter of the Dea

2024 Journalist Round Table: London Edition

Dec 20 2024 80 mins  
At the end of every year we pull together a roundtable of journalists covering immersive to look back on what was and this year we’re talking with our colleagues in London, starting with NoPro curator Shelley Snyder, the Voidspace’s Katy Naylor, Immersive Rumors' Graham Fitzgerald, and Franco Milazzo stage critic for Broadway World UK.SHOW NOTESVoidspaceImmersive RumorsFranco M

Emursive's Ilana Gilovich

Dec 13 2024 55 mins  
This week Ilana Gilovich, Chief Storyteller for Emursive Productions, joins me for our first-ever conversation and yes, we get into just what the Chief Storyteller for the production company behind Life And Trust and the McKittrick Hotel – home of Sleep No More in NYC — does and nerd out as only two theatre kids meeting for the first time can do.Happy Holidays: it’s one of TH

Skydance's Behemoth w/Shawn Kittelsen

Dec 06 2024 54 mins  
This week Shawn Kittelsen SVP Creative at Skydance Interactive, the creators of the just released Skydance’s Behemoth (available now on PSVR2, Steam VR, and Meta Quest) joins us to talk about the game which puts players into the role of Wren, a lone hunter who sets off for the Forsaken Lands to lift a terrible curse. The only way to do so is by saying the towering gods known

Batman: Arkham Shadow director Ryan Payton

Nov 27 2024 104 mins  
This week we have a delightful doubleheader. First up we have Ryan Payton, director of Batman: Arkham Shadow. I’ve been following Ryan’s career since he founded his studio Camouflaj back in 2011 back when I was doing stories about the rise of crowdfunding and here we are on the cusp of 2025 talking about the greatest game to be released on the Meta Quest platform so far.In