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The No Proscenium Podcast
by Noah Nelson/No Proscenium
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Minisode for October 9, 2026
This week on the show: a quick check in on what's on the site and what's to come on the podcast for the season. SHOW NOTES The Other Kind Of Trauma Ward: 'Below' Haunts The Hospital of Emotions In L.A. (The NoPro Review) L.A.'s Haunted Hayride Scares Up Some Fun At Griffith Park (Review) 'A...
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Let's Start A Startling Spooky Season!
We kick off our Spooky Season podcasting with a visit from Juliet Bennett Rylah and Kevin Gossett who have been exploring SoCal's horror and haunt realm for us this Fall. We dive into Universal's Halloween Horror Nights, Knott’s Scary Farm, Six Flag's Fright Fest, and Candle House's The…
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Kat At Venice Immersive 2026
This week our own Katrina Lat reports back from Venice Immersive 2026 where she shares her highlights -- mostly -- of the festival's grand collection of XR experiences. SHOW NOTES Venice Immersive 2026 Venice Immersive Video Diary 2026 Venice Immersive 2026 FOMO Guide Solwata Raj'in (We Shall...
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Review Crew in Edinburgh; Festival Fringe Interviews; and more! (Bonus)
Martin Gimenez and Thomas Jancis report from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on what they've been up to, and Martin interviews Sauna Theatre co-founder James Grieve along with Clair Korobacz and Julian Rickert of Australian theatre company one step at a time like this. Plus: Noah with a few words…
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Prom Night '99, Las Vegas & Midsummer Scream
This week we're joined by Majestic Repertory Theatre's Troy Heard whose Prom Night '99 was recently attended by NoPro team members Briana Roecks & Anthony Robinson, as well as host Noah Nelson. The four also were all at the most recent edition of Midsummer scream -- the world's biggest Halloween…
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Minisode: August 2026
This week just a quick minisode with some program & event updates! SHOW NOTES The New York Immersive Invitational Melodramatic Delights On The Dance Floor: 'Prom Night ’99' Lights Up Vegas’ Arts District (The NoPro Review) How Sweet It Is: Museum of Ice Cream - Las Vegas (Review) 1986-6-6…
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Understanding The Immersive Audience w/Kathryn Yu
This week on the show, Immersive Experience Institute co-founder Kathryn Yu joins host Noah Nelson to talk about her ongoing series Understanding The Immersive Audience, which takes a deep dive into looking at what makes the immersive enthusiast cohort tick and provides some advice on what could...
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Onward To Edinburgh!
This week on the show we're joined by a delightful panel of immersive creators who are headed to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe — the largest performing arts fest in the world that pretty much takes over Edinburgh, Scotland for the month of August – for a very loose conversation that feels a bit...
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A One-on-One Chat with Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha's Julia Masli
This week we take a detour to have a one-on-one with an artist we've wanted to talk to since season one: Julia Masli, the creator and performer of the incredible Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, which is making its way to San Diego starting on July 28th, and will be popping up at the Philadelphia Fringe…
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The New York Crew Gets Feisty
This week host Noah Nelson is joined by esteemed members of the NoPro New York Review Crew: Curator Allie Marotta, East Coast Editor at Large Blake Weil, and Senior Correspondent Nicholas Fortugno for an often feisty conversation about what's happening in the NYC immersive scene in what has been…
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After The Hollywood Fringe - Test Pilots & Baby Man
This week on the show, a very Season One style episode wherein host Noah Nelson talks to Ellie and Alex DiBerardino of Say Nothing and Leave, the creative team behind the Test Pilots series, along with their oftentimes collaborators Sarah Lew and Danthony, the director and creator of Baby Man.…
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An XR Snapshot For Summer '26
This week we're talking about the state of XR -– from what's happening with the new tech to the out-of-home experiences that are actually drawing audiences – with a ridiculously talented panel of practitioners, professionals, and press. Joining host Noah Nelson in the virtual NoPro studio…
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Time For A Little Calico Chaos
This week on the show host Noah Nelson is joined by The L.A. Times' Todd Martens, ARGNet owner Michael Andersen, and NoPro's own Kathryn Yu to spin stories from Knott's Ghost Town Alive, do some close reading of a new Harvard Business Review article on immersive experiences, and react to the big...
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Home Again, Home Again
Out of the blue, we're back, with season 2 of the podcast. This summer we're catching up with our favorite folks, hanging out and talking what we've seen, what they've been making, and generally celebrating the fact that immersive is here and not going anywhere. To kick us off in the new era…
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The Future of Storytelling w/Charles Melcher
Our guest on this special edition this week is Charles Melcher of the Future of Storytelling who you might know from his own podcast and who is the author of the new book The Future of Storytelling: How Immersive Experiences Are Transforming Our World which is available now. Charlie’s book is...
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Hanging Out At The 20-Sided Tavern
This week, a visit to Dungeons & Dragons The 20-Sided Tavern in Los Angeles – where the show is wrapping its current stand this weekend before heading off to Scottsdale, Arizona and Dallas, Texas. We sit down with Alex Stompoly, one of the Tavernkeepers of the Tavern to talk about the unique role...
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A Visit To The Willows Estate (2025)
We're still on hiatus, but we recently got a chance to visit the new home of The Willows in LA and talk with Justin Fix and Stephanie Turek of JFI Productions as we toured the new home of one of LA's favorite immersive shows. The show has gotten a glow up in this new production, and fair warning...
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Episode 500 Part 9: The Last Word (Coda)
We've reached the end. Of Episode 500 and Season One. Which means one last word from our host. See you in Season Two. (But don't act too surprised when we pop up a few times for some specials between now and then.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 500 Part 8: Launch Party (Bonus)
This one is for the diehards. On Friday, August 29th, 2025 we held a Launch Party for Episode 500 in the NoPro Discord. We had no idea who would show up. To our delight Jacob Patterson, who you had a chance to hear in the last part of the marathon, ARGN’s Michael Anderson — who gives us a...
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Episode 500 Part 7: An LA Immersive Joy Ride
We start Part 7 off where the show began, way back in Episode ZERO, which we first released on SOUND CLOUD as a pilot for a potential series, with an interview with Annie Saunders of Wilderness, whose The Day Shall Declare It jump started that renaissance era and got the local performing arts…
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Episode 500 Part 6: The Last Review Crew of Season One
And now is the part of the Episode 500 Marathon where we get to some lasts. In this case, the last Review Crew of Season One. For this one, which was the last we recorded, and the last thing we officially recorded for Episode 500, LA Reviews Editor Kevin Gossett and Chicago Curator/Remote Editor...
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Episode 500 Part 5: An Unstructured Conversation About Immersive Theatre
Welcome to PART FIVE of the Episode 500 marathon "An Unstructured Conversation About Immersive Theatre," which, really, could also be the title of the whole dang podcast but that might just break the very ontological concept of SEO. Come to think of it, that might not be a BAD thing. On this part...
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Episode 500 Part 4: Review Crew Morning Zoo
In Part Four of our celebration of TEN YEARS of NoPro, Noah taps into his alternate-dimensional form as a Morning Zoo radio host, unbeknownst to London curator Shelley Snyder, her London cohort Thomas Jancis, or NYC curator Allie Marotta. But before that chaos is unleashed, we check in with The...
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Episode 500 Part 3: The Heart
Look: when you do a thirteen or so hour long retrospective on a ten year long project you’re going to wind up with a part that stands out to you as the center of it all, and I knew going into the recording process that the central interview for this part would be that for this run. The only real...
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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 Resler — whose couch is integral to the origin story of an entirely different website that covers immersive things…...
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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...
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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.…
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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...
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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…
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Sweet & Lucky: Echo
Zach Morris of Third Rail Projects and Charlie Miller of The Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ Off-Center join host Noah Nelson to talk about the upcoming Sweet & Lucky: Echo — a companion story of the 2016 hit Sweet & Lucky –– which helped put Denver’s immersive scene on the map. SHOW NOTES...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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Theme Parks & Immersive Double Header: DC Heroes & Villains Fest at Six Flags; NoPro After Dark
This week on the show we’ve got an extra-long double header with some real clarity of purpose as we take a look at IMMERSIVE inside Theme Parks. First up, Mike Ostrom, Manager of Entertainment and Events for Six Flags Magic Mountain and WOW! Entertainment Inc’s Mark Brymer join me to spill the...
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Tribeca Immersive 2025
Today on the show we’re talking about this year’s Tribeca Immersive offering at the Tribeca Festival which is currently running in New York City. This year the lineup has come together thanks to a unique partnership between Tribeca, Onassis ONX, and Agog: The Immersive Media Institute. To tell us...
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Behind The Magic of The Labyrinth Masquerade
This week on the show we go into the field for a visit to Sypher Arts Studio where Labyrinth Masquerade founder Shawn Strider and producer Jacquie Adorni give us a tour of the treasure trove of costumes that make up the living tapestry that is the Labyrinth Masquerade — the Twenty Seventh edition...
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The Matrix, Cosm Style w/Little Cinema's Jay Rinsky
Little Cinema's Jay Rinsky joins us to talk about his most ambitious project yet: bringing The Matrix — the 1999 blockbuster that defined action movies for a generation — to Cosm’s titanic video domes. In classic Little CInema style they’re using theatrical techniques to bring the world of The...
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Looking Ahead to Voidspace Live 2025
This week on the show we are joined by Katy Naylor of Voidspace to talk about Voidspace Live, the interactive arts festival which is coming up in London June 7th & 8th and which is featuring a wonderful cross section of London’s always bubbling immersive & experiential scene. SHOW NOTES Voidspace...
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Detour: The Andor Finale w/Jay Bushman
We wrap up our Detor into Andor: A Star Wars Story's second series with one more trip along the Rimma Trade Route to talk with Jay Bushman about the final arc – ever – of the series which pushed Star Wars storytelling in bold new directions. Spoilers Abound. SHOW NOTES Night Drive - Synthwave...
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The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot
This week on the show we are joined by Donna Personna & Mark Nassar two of the three writers — along with Collette LeGrande — of The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot which has returned to San Francisco’s Tenderloin after a successful run in 2018. The immersive, interactive play brings to life the 1966...
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Detour: More Andor with Jay Bushman
Another Detour into the world of Star Wars as storyteller extraordinaire Jay Bushman joins NoPro host Noah Nelson to dive into the incredible third arc of Andor's second season. SHOW NOTES Detour: Jay & Noah Talk Andor Season One Who's The Bossk: Episode 224: Lonni, You're Out of Your Element…
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Jon Pedigo of Quonk
Jon Pedigo is known to the NoPro universe as one of the creators of Bar of Dreams, which has charmed audiences on both the East and West Coast and to attendees of the 2022 Los Angeles Immersive Invitational as part of the team that created the brilliant Well, Well, Well that year. Well, Jon will…
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Halfway to Halloween w/Jason Egan & David Markland
This week on the show we’re marking the imminent Halfway to Halloween point of the year with two interviews. First up: Jason Egan of Egan Productions - whose Saw, It, and Blair Witch escape games are perreniall favorites in Las Vegas, joins us to talk about his origins in haunts, and his latest...
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Detour: Noah Talks 'Andor' With Jay Bushman
As we near Episode 500 I want to start experimenting, exploring other ways to connect with members of the immersive creative community. One idea I've been toying with is a side-project where we talk with creators about works they love and that inspire them, and so that's what we do this week with...
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AREA15's Expansion w/ Winston Fisher; The 2025 LA Immersive Invitational
Another double header this week as first we're joined by Winston Fisher, Chief Executive officer of Las Vegas' AREA15 to talk about their 20-acre expansion this year which will see attractions like Felix & Paul Studios’ Interstellar Arc, The Museum of Ice Cream, and the highly anticipated…
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Margaret Chandra Kerrison's 'The Art of Immersive Storytelling: Strategies from the Gaming World'
This week we’re joined by Margaret Chandra Kerrison, who is here to talk about her latest book The Art of Immersive Storytelling: Strategies from the Gaming World. Many of you know Margaret from her time with Walt Disney Imagineering where she worked on some projects dear to our hearts like...
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Beat The Bomb's Alexander Patterson
This week we’re joined by Alexander Patterson, founder of Beat The Bomb and we go on the origin story journey of the New York based company which traces its roots to Alex’s time with Tough Mudder all the way to its post-pandemic expansion, including the opening THIS WEEKEND of Beat The bomb…
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Culture House Immersive & Yannick Trapman-O'Brien (Double Header)
This week on the show: another double header. FIrst up: Mikhael Tara Garver and Jenny Koons of Culture House Immersive are with us to talk a bit about the work going on over there, including a fair amount about working with creatives from outside the realm of immersive to bring their worlds to...
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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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