The No Proscenium Podcast

This week Nick Fortugno, The Director of Gaming Pathways at City College of New York, slips into the host chair to interview an artist he’s collaborated with for years now: filmmaker and Director of Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab Lance Weiler, whose critically acclaimed immersive storytelling experience Where There’s Smoke is currently running at ArtYard in Frenchtown, New Jersey through Oct. 1st with an upcoming artist talk on September 30th.Nick and Lance have been working together for a long time now, and we thought it would be a unique opportunity to play with the NoPro format and have artistic collaborators take a deep dive into a piece of work. We're pretty happy with how it turned out!SHOW NOTESWhere There's Smoke at ARTYardWhere There's Smoke Artist Talk (Sep. 30)Gaming Pathways at City College of New YorkReview Rundown for 8.8.23American Dreams Are Just Out of Reach in Stunning ‘Port of Entry’ (The NoPro Review)CALL SHEET AUGUST 2023This week No Proscenium is brought to you by SEE TICKETS, which has proudly supported thousands of clients across the globe in areas as diverse as historic attractions like Stonehenge, immersive theater like The Burnt City, and important cultural touchstones like LA Pride. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Curtis Hickman co-founder and chief creative officer of The VOID is here to talk about his new — and quite excellent book: Hyper Reality - The Art of Designing Impossible Experiences.Join us for a quick, action-packed conversation that covers how magic and virtual reality interact, the differences between storytelling and storybuilding, and the role Dungeons & Dragons plays in the design philosophy behind impossible experiences involving Star Wars, Ghostbusters, and Jumanji.Show NotesCurtis HickmanHyper Reality - The Art of Designing Impossible ExperiencesThe VOIDMaking GhostbustersReview Rundown for 8.2.22Hey coffee lovers! Promo code NOPROYESPLZ gets you 25% off your first purchase of any bag of YES PLZ beans.Thanks again to SEE TICKETS for sponsoring this year’s Next Stage Immersive Summit Making An Impact Pillar. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Keram Malicki-Sanchez of VRTO and FIVARS is with us to talk about the recently wrapped VRTO — the Spatial Media World Conference in Toronto, and of course we get into live performance in VR, the cutting edge of haptics, and the true identity of Shakespeare.Wait… what was that last one?SHOW NOTESVRTOFIVARSTitan HapticsGames by StitchDerek Jacobi and Mark Rylance: Reasonable Doubt about the Identity of William ShakespeareThis episode's recording session is brought to you by… the fact that I buy my coffee from YES PLZ.Promo code NOPROYESPLZ gets you 25% off your first purchase of any bag of YES PLZ beans.Not a paid ad, mind you, just an offer from a friend! Whose coffee I actually drink! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eight years. 400 Episodes.This week we are marking the anniversary by having NoPro team members Allie Marotta ( our NYC Curator), Kevin Gossett (LA reviews editor), Patrick McLean (Chicago Curator), Leah Davis (New England curator), Laura Hess (Arts Editor) and Parker Sela, (associate producer of this very podcast) join us.On this team episode we look back on the crew's "moment before" joining the NoPro team and take a snapshot of where everyone feels immersive is at the moment.Plus: an old fashioned Noah Rant at the START of the show.SHOW NOTESAlien War (wikipedia)The City, Burned: Immersive in a Era of Radical Change (Op-Ed)“Transformational Experiences” Are The New Buzzword, But Are You Making Change Or Just Selling It?Special for NoPro listeners & readers: Promo code NOPROYESPLZ gets you 25% off your first purchase of any bag of YES PLZ beans. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week a very special VERY LONG episode of the podcast featuring guest host Mikhael Tara Garver, Head of Culture House Immersive and Director of Immersive Experience for the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser who is here to interview myself, Kathryn Yu, Graham Wetterhahn, Jessica Creane, and Nick Fortugno my shipmates for the absolutely incredible surprise trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando to head aboard the Galactic Starcruiser that Graham and Kathryn organized for us, and that a whole lot of people contributed to.The conversation that follows dips between talking about our characters to inside baseball stuff about immersive and back again. It is deeply nerdy in every sense of the word. It’s also unlike anything we’ve done before. SHOW NOTESCALL SHEET JULY 2023My Star Wars SagaWaking Up With The ForceRegarding RoseOur coverage of the Starcruiser is brought to you by Agile Lens, bringing XR and theatre together for over a decade, and After Hours Theatre Company, producers of the Los Angeles Immersive Invitational, with additional support from listeners like you.  Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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PostCurious founder and lead game designer Rita Orlov is joined by writer Lauren Bello (Apple TV's Foundation, Netflix's Sandman) who talk about their collaboration on Threads of Fate, the revised version of PostCurious' very first game The Tale of Ord. Chicago Curator & Remote Experiences Editor Patrick McLean guest hosts.SHOW NOTESPostCuriousThreads of FateThe Morrison Game Factory“Transformational Experiences” Are The New Buzzword, But Are You Making Change Or Just Selling It?The City, Burned: Immersive in a Era of Radical Change (Op-Ed)NoPro’s 10 Most Anticipated New Works of 2023 (Part II)NoPro on THREADS Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eric Garcia, creator of WE BUILD HOUSES HERE and co-director of San Francisco's Detour devised dance company is interviewed by Parker Sela about the immersive dance production that explores the idea of queer sanctuaries by combining shipwrecks and San Francisco's iconic OASIS drag nightclub.Then stick around for the missing part of last week's show.SHOW NOTESDETOUR DANCEWE BUILD HOUSES HERENoPro’s 10 Most Anticipated New Works of 2023 (Part II)Stoking Vegas’ Immersive Flame: Lost Spirits Distillery (Review)Denver Fringe 2023 Immersive SuperlativesReview Rundown: The One With Magic & Multiverses Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week: a DOUBLE FEATURE.First: our good friend Monica Miklas joins us to talk about a career arc that has taken her from indie work at the Hollywood Fringe Festival to being a senior manager of creative direction at RWS Entertainment, one of the biggest themed entertainment companies in the world, working on everything from haunts to cruise ships.Then we take a leap over into the digital realm and talk with Clement Deneux and Michael Masukawa of Atlas V about MONSTRORAMA, a Tribeca Immersive selection that truly delighted me this month.SHOW NOTESRWS EntertainmentCapital WAtlas VMONSTRORAMA Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week a true rarity — a SEQUEL. This week we’re following up last week’s minisode with a conversation with my former colleague — entrepreneur and technologist — Kurt Collins about just what Apple is really up to with the Vision Pro.SHOW NOTESKurt Collins on BlueskyNo Proscenium on BlueskyNoah J. Nelson on BlueskyMeow Wolf's The Real Unreal (Grapevine, Texas) Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.