The No Proscenium Podcast

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Episode 208: Matthew Webb of Jackalope Live Action Studios Aug 02, 2019

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Jackalope Live Action Studio's Matthew Webb rejoins us to talk about their latest forays into making blockbuster LARPs. We talk Night City, their Cyberpunk 2020/2077 game (check out some awesome photos of the event along with us at the top of the show), and the revamp of The Night In Question, the Studio's successful Vampire: The Masquerade game which has led to their announcement at GenCon this week of The Elysium Chronicles, a serialized immersive LARP launching in 2020.

For more from Matthew, including an in-depth discussion on blockbuster LARP and the state of the art, check out Episode 149 of the podcast.

Episode 207 -- Linked Dance Theatre’s Remembrance Jul 26, 2019

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Kathryn Yu sits down with Jordan Chlapecka and Kendra Slack of Linked Dance Theatre to talk about Remembrance, their 11th site-specific, immersive show coming soon to a historic house on Governors Island in NYC. In Remembrance, audiences will have the ability to explore the fading memories of a woman with Alzheimer's Disease as they enter her home as guests during her 65th birthday party.

The three discuss the company's approach to blending movement, text, and live music; what they’ve learned throughout their journey; the illusion of audience agency versus actual agency; their approach to narrative, on-boarding, and casting the audience; what it's like to make their first sandbox show; the power of immersive theatre to connect; using immersive to explore social issues; and their Kickstarter campaign for Remembrance.

Plus: a bonus lightning round where Kathryn forces Jordan and Kendra to choose their favorite children.

Episode 206: Dan Rutstein of Laduma Jul 19, 2019

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Join host Noah Nelson and guest Dan Rutstein, president of immersive technology company Laduma, as they talk about the current frontier of immersive tech.

Episode 205 - Sarah Elger and Ricky Brigante of Pseudonym Productions Jul 12, 2019

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Kathryn Yu sits down without Ricky Brigante and Sarah Elger of Pseudonym Productions who have recently moved their immersive theatre company from Orlando to Philadelphia. The three of them have a wide-ranging conversation about Sarah's background in architecture and theme park design and Ricky's background in theme park journalism, the forming of their immersive theatre company, creating their first show, running an immersive theatre business in a place like Orlando, their recent experience going through the Creative Startups accelerator program, the future and impact of immersive design as a field, as well as their thoughts on Disney’s influence on immersive, including the brand new Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. Read Interactive, Intimate, Experimental: The Impact of Immersive Design 2019 by Ricky Brigante [PDF].

Episode 204 -- NYC After Dark - Summer 2019 Jun 28, 2019

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Managing Editor Kathryn Yu is joined by members of the NYC team --Allie Marotta, Asya Gorovits, Blake Weil, and Cheyenne Ligon -- to talk about what they've been seeing and what's on their minds: including the Great Gotham Challenge, which had some issues.

Episode 203: Overlook Double Feature Jun 21, 2019

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Continuing our 2019 Overlook Film Festival coverage, we sit down with two of the creators of the fest's immersive offerings. First up is Ava Lee Scott, the veteran immersive performer, who crafted Home of Enchantments -- a piece that blew everyone who saw it away.

Then we check in with Andrew Preble of Delaport Ventures, the creator of Saintsbone, and the internationally known 'Escape My Room' in New Orleans.

That's right: it's a double feature show.

Advisory: some explicit language.

Episode 202: Robin Arnott, CEO of Andromeda Entertainment Jun 14, 2019

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I first met Robin Arnott, CEO of Andromeda Entertainment, at E3 many moons ago when he was showing an audio-based thriller game Deep Sea at the Indiecade booth. It was a true oddity -- a video game without video -- an immersive experience before we were throwing that term around as we now do. In the years since Robin and I have crossed paths on his home turf of Austin -- when I was working a story on indie games for NPR -- at GDC, and Indiecade. In my mind he's always been one of the "weird art kids" making games in the space beyond the horizon.

So it was a shock when I was at an event months ago and learned that he had become the CEO of a start-up that was looking to redefine just what games could be. Robin? A CEO?

Get ready for an adventure as we catch up, road trip style, from the heart of DTLA to the Hollywood Hills -- and from Austin's indie game scene to the philosophical frontier.

Episode 201 - Overlooking All of Them Witches w/ Cara & Noah Jun 07, 2019

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Join NoPro's Senior AV Content Producer/Festival Correspondent Cara Mandel and Founder Noah Nelson as they trade notes on the 2019 Overlook Film Festival Game All of Them Witches, plus some notes on the festival's other immersive offerings.

Episode 200 - Just Us May 31, 2019

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Two. Hundred. Episodes.

Two hundred.

So how do we celebrate? By getting the gang together -- that being the senior editors -- Kathryn Yu, Anthony Robinson, Jessica Lachenal, and Kevin Gossett together to just chat.

Here's to 200 more.

Episode 199: Looking Ahead to SIGGRAPH 2019 May 25, 2019

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Spoiler Warning: elements of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge discussed in the open and close.

Host Noah Nelson talks with Victoria Rege conference chair for AR/MR/VR and Maxwell Planck, VR Theatre Director for Siggraph 2019 about upcoming immersive elements at the world's premier entertainment technology conference, which returns to LA July 28 - August 1.

Show notes: Otherworld interview, The Why interview. The NoPro Patreon.

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