The No Proscenium Podcast
Stand With Asians is a community call to action that kicked off with a day of protest and programming on March 26, 2021 as a direct response to the mass shooting in Atlanta on March 16th, which came after a year of rising violence and discrimination targeting the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities here in the United States.
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Noah and Kathryn are joined by Patrick McLean (NoPro Chicago) and first time on the podcast Leah Davis (NoPro New England) to talk about what's been giving us hope of late.
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This week: just a quick touch-base about the media created for the , our , and all the various community projects that are ongoing including the work of , , and Artizen's .
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Artizen is a community-powered grant platform that began as a project of Kaleidoscope, the immersive production studio that has navigated countless projects through the stormy seas of VR.
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Courtney Nichols & Blakeshine are the co-founders of Of The Night, a new experiential party-in-a-box company that evolved out of Nichols' work in LA – the beloved Disco Dining Club – and Blakeshine's work on the music festival circuit creating large scale experiences.
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Working out of England, Lou Doye is an executive producer in the immersive field whose projects often mix immersive theatre and immersive tech. Projects where XR meets the boards. She's also one of my favorite people to talk to, having met while working on the board for the Artizen Transformations Grant. On this episode of the show, Lou and I talk the business of immersive and as always it's an education for me. Plus a little bit about what The RSC's Dream was before the pandemic pivot. Show Notes
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Violeta Ayala's Prison X — Chapter 1: The Devil and The Sun, stunned us at Sundance this year. The Quechua film and theatre-maker blended lessons learned from those disciplines to put the audience inside a Neo-Andean myth via VR. (Check out our enthusiastic review.)
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Marlee Delia and Anna Mavromati are the co-founders of Shine On Collective, the LA immersive theatre company that made its name creating intimate horror experiences with a strong audio signature. Like so many others in the pandemic, Shine On had to pivot if they wanted to keep producing, and what that landed on came as a surprise.
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This week we talk with VRChat worldbuilders CyanLaser and Fionna, who are both part of the team that created the award-winning The Devouring VRChat experience and are admins of the VRC Prefabs Community: a collective of creators doing innovative work in the user-generated virtual worlds of VRChat.
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Sarah Ellis, Director of Digital Development for The Royal Shakespeare Company joins us to talk about 'Dream' the upcoming experimental live-streamed performance that merges live actors, the Unreal Engine, and an audience feedback loop to create a first-of-its-kind interactive performance delivered to desktops and mobile devices.
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Three panels of VR Theatre all-stars join us to talk about acting in, directing, designing, and producing live theatrical production in virtual reality. No Proscenium hosts Noah Nelson & Kathryn Yu are joined by special guest host Stephanie Riggs, with each running one of the panels as they tackle the core questions.
This week's edition kicks off with the question: what skills transfer over from traditional theatre into the realm of VR?
Segment One
Hosted by Kathryn Yu (@kathrynyu)
- Marinda Botha (@MarindaBotha6)
- Beth Kates (@the_play_ground)
- Riel Tarr (@raktorxr)
Segment Two
Hosted by Noah Nelson (@noahjnelson)
- Dasha Kittredge (@DashaKittredge)
- Brandon Powers (@bpowtweets)
- Espii Proctor (@espiistudios)
Segment Three
Hosted by Stephanie Riggs (@immersiveriggs)
- Brendan A. Bradley (@brendanAbradley)
- Tim Kashani (@TimKashani)
- Deirdre Lyons (@deirdrelyons)
Show Notes
- Episode 279: XR Live — Theatre & VR Part One
- The End of Storytelling: The Future of Narrative in the Storyplex
- The NoPro Newsletter
- Call Sheet (1/20/21)
- Yes Plz Release 113: Night Shift (Playlist)
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