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   S1 · 29 Aug 2025 · 1 hr 55 min

   Episode 500 Part 2: Review Crew Mixtape - The Gang Saves Chevy's

   Welcome to PART TWO of No Proscenium’s Episode 500 Celebrating TEN Years of the NoPro Podcast with the first of three REVIEW CREW MIX TAPES… this first one features SF Curator Brian Resle r — whose couch is integral to the origin story of an entirely different website that covers immersive things… our associate producer Parker Sela , who also hails from San Francisco, but who like many a Bay Area kid answered the siren call of LA, our Toronto curator Katrina Lat , who I think may be on a plane to Venice right now, or soon, and Scott Gillies , long time friend of the show who did some special…

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   S1 · 29 Aug 2025 · 1 hr 59 min

   Episode 500 Part 1: A Quick Jaunt Through The Immersive Cosmos

   For the past ten years NoPro has been your guide to Everything Immersive… and this is the first part of the multi-part celebration - slash - victory lap that is EPISODE 500. Over the course of this weekend, for about TWELVE HOURS, give or take, okay maybe closer to THIRTEEN HOURS we will be checking in with over two dozen of our favorite people to chat about this thing of ours — this immersive, experiential, spatial thing of ours … It’s a series of conversations that is nostalgic, silly, sometimes profound, often rambling, that covers theatre, technology, theme parks, games, defunct…

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   S1 · E499 · 22 Aug 2025 · 1 hr 4 min

   Venice Immersive 2025 w/Eliza McNitt

   This week writer and director Eliza McNitt joins us to talk about Venice Immersive , the annual XR extravaganza inside the Venice International Film Festival, where at this year’s event she is the President of Venice Immersive's International Jury, which will judge the 30 pieces in competition. SHOW NOTES Venice Immersive Venice Immersive 2025: XR Experiences To Stoke Your FOMO (A NoPro Guide) Ancestra (YouTube) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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   S1 · E498 · 15 Aug 2025 · 1 hr 5 min

   Gillian Leitten, CEO of The Lumen Prize

   This week we’re joined by Gillian Leitten , CEO of The Lumen Prize because today is that day that the 99 finalists for the Prize are announced (check the Show Notes) and Leitten is here to talk with us about the prize which celebrates artists forging new systems of meaning through technology’s evolving creative frontier. We give a special focus on the Hybrid and Experiential categories, the later of which is the evolution of last year's Interactive/Immersive category and for the second year in a row features the most finalists of any category, 16 in total. SHOW NOTES The Lumen Prize The 2025…

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   S1 · E497 · 8 Aug 2025 · 1 hr 2 min

   Franki Chan of IHEARTCOMIX

   This week on the show Franki Chan , founder and chief creative officer of IHEARTCOMIX , the award-winning creative marketing agency who joined us last weekend at The Next Stage Immersive Summit along with the team from #METAFORYOU of Terence Leclere, Dasha Kittredge, and Annie McGrath, to talk about the 2-night overnight horror horror experience at the legendary Stanley Hotel dubbed The Overnightmare is with us today to share the backstory of IHEARTCOMIX — from parties at LA’s Beauty Bar in the Aughts to becoming a record label to just last week where they took over Hurricane Harbor for Bob…

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   S1 · E495 · 18 Jul 2025 · 54 min

   Detour Productions' Pompeii

   This week Parker Sela takes over the show to talk about Pompeii , no not the ancient Roman city that was destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD, but the Fosse-tacular immersive by Detour Productions that is coming to San Francisco at the end of this month. Billed as “part Fosse fantasy, part queer cabaret, part end-of-the-world dance party,” Parker checks in with returning guest, Detour co-founder and Pompeii director Eric Garcia along with performer Mudd The Two Spirt who plays the M.C. in Pompeii . And if you haven’t clocked it by now, yes, this show is a mash-up of movies from what Detour…

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   S1 · E494 · 11 Jul 2025 · 53 min

   Meow Wolf's Phenomenomaly

   This summer a spectacle has bloomed at Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station in Denver and Omega Mart in Las Vegas, bringing a new interactive performance layer that unfolds on a continuous loop and new characters from uncharted corners of the multiverse in the form of dancers, puppets, and shimmering creatures called Flickerwermz. It’s called Phenomenomaly and it’s running now through August 9th, and the event is inspired by the world — our world — of immersive theatre and dance. Joining us this week to talk about the event are Alexandra Renzo Contracted Creative Director of Phenomenomaly & Brie…

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   S1 · E493 · 4 Jul 2025 · 1 hr 41 min

   Review Crew: Masquerade Buzz, Tribeca Immersive, Voidspace and more

   This week on the show it’s a hangout show as members of the NoPro Review Crew — namely Toronto curator Katrina Lat , New York correspondent Nicholas Fortugno , our associate producer Parker Sela , and catching up part way through NYC curator Allie Marotta as we chat about a whole lot of things including the brisk sales on Masquerade — that’s the immersive Phantom of the Opera that goes into previews next month, Tribeca Immersive , Voidspace Live , and whatever else tickles our fancy. SHOW NOTES Masquerade Tribeca Immersive Voidspace Live Toronto Fringe Fairyland Summer Solstice Ceremony at…

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   S1 · E492 · 27 Jun 2025 · 38 min

   DreamPark: The Mixed Reality Theme Park of Tomorrow, Today

   This week on the show we’re joined by long time friend of the show Brent Bushnell — co-founder of Two Bit Circus , scion of the famed Bushnell family, and one of the earliest subscribers to the No Proscenium newsletter — who is here to talk about a new venture he is a co-founder of along with Aidan Wolf and Kevin Habich — DeamPark which turns mixed reality headsets into a configurable virtual theme park — transforming public spaces into ticketed playgrounds filled with dynamic virtual characters and which recently raised over a million in seed funding. SHOW NOTES DreamPark DreamPark raises…

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    S1 · E491 · 20 Jun 2025 · 1 hr 13 min

    Worlds In Play; Spies Among Us

    This week on the show we’ve got another double header. First up, Jake Pinholster the Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Creative Producer & Director Scarlett Kim — the producers of Worlds in Play , join us to talk about the upcoming gathering of play practitioners—game and theatre artists alike— which is coming to Monticello, Illinois this August. Then joining us is Prescott Gadd , creator of Spies Among Us , a mystery adventure that takes place on weekends in DTLA’s Little Tokyo neighborhood — and for that interview we’ll be…