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2024 Journalist Round Table: London Edition
Season 1, Ep. 467
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At the end of every year we pull together a roundtable of journalists covering immersive to look back on what was and this year we’re talking with our colleagues in London, starting with NoPro curator Shelley Snyder, the Voidspace’s Katy Naylor, Immersive Rumors' Graham Fitzgerald, and Franco Milazzo stage critic for Broadway World UK.
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471. Stefanie Frey of Actor's Equity
39:46||Season 1, Ep. 471This week on the show, Stefanie Frey the Director of Organizing & Mobilization for Actor’s Equity Association — joins us to talk about how Equity — the union for actors and stage managers — has been expanding its membership into places like escape rooms and themed restaurants that touch upon our world of immersive experiences.SHOW NOTESActor's Equity Association470. Review Crew: Sleep No More Ends in NYC
01:02:57||Season 1, Ep. 470This week on the show, the Review Crew – in the form of NYC curator Allie Marotta, East Coast Editor at Large Blake Weil, Exec. Editor Emeritus Kathryn Yu, NYC correspondent Penelope Ray, and host Noah Nelson – gather to talk about the end of Sleep No More’s era defining run in New York City and the last run of shows and parties at the McKittrick Hotel, the show’s venue in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood which now recedes into history.Minisode for Jan 17, 2025
10:10|The original plan for this week was for us to have no episode while The Next Stage Immersive Summit was on.Because of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in LA brought about by the wildfires The Next Stage is postponed.We'll have more on the plans for that at a later date. In the meantime check the show notes for how to help those in LA.Show NotesLA Fires: How You Can Help (compiled by Kathryn Yu)GoFundMe for immersive actor Brandon Bales’ family to find a new place to liveGoFundMe for 2023 Next Stage Immersive Summit speaker Wendy McClellan AndersonGoFundMe for 2025 Next Stage Immersive Summit speaker Suzanne Down of Cirque BerzerkLA Immersive Industry Mixer at Squirrelor's TavernMinisode: We're Okay, Are You Okay?
15:30|A quick check in from LA as the fire situation evolves, including updates on The Next Stage Immersive Summit, which at present is still on at the Pasadena Playhouse Jan 17-19.We will check in next week.SHOW NOTESGoFundMe for Suzanne Down to recover from the Eaton Fire469. Nicole Orabona and Nathan Leigh of CirqueSaw
55:38||Season 1, Ep. 469This week on the show, Parker Sela takes up the host duties to interview Nicole Orabona and Nathan Leigh of CirqueSaw about their remote repertory season consisting of Void Main, a revival of POV: You Are an AI Achieving Consciousness and workshop dates for labRats and just why an online theatre company is going to all the trouble of coding its own platform. SHOW NOTESCirqueSaw @ WellAttended (ticketing site)CirqueSaw InstagramNext Stage Immersive Summit: Program Guide468. End of the Year 2024
01:38:56||Season 1, Ep. 468This week we wrap our End of the Year podcasts with our annual gathering of the NoPro Crew to look back at the year that was in immersive and look forward to what might be.Joining us for the chat are NoPro Toronto Curator Katrina Lat, New York Correspondent Nicholas Fortugno, correspondent-at-large Martin Gimenez, and Senior LA Reviewer Kathryn Yu.SHOW NOTESIn the Matter of the Death of ‘Tamara’: A Post-Mortem – LA Times, 1993The Next Stage Immersive Summit466. Emursive's Ilana Gilovich
55:06||Season 1, Ep. 466This week Ilana Gilovich, Chief Storyteller for Emursive Productions, joins me for our first-ever conversation and yes, we get into just what the Chief Storyteller for the production company behind Life And Trust and the McKittrick Hotel – home of Sleep No More in NYC — does and nerd out as only two theatre kids meeting for the first time can do.Happy Holidays: it’s one of THOSE No Pro episodes and a good one at that.Plus: the latest updates on The Next Stage Immersive Summit including HASBRO & DISNEY LIVE ENTERTAINMENT. –NoahSHOW NOTESLife And TrustSleep No MoreSpeakeasy MagickEmursiveThe Next Stage Immersive SummitContact Noah about that thing he mentioned.465. Skydance's Behemoth w/Shawn Kittelsen
54:42||Season 1, Ep. 465This week Shawn Kittelsen SVP Creative at Skydance Interactive, the creators of the just released Skydance’s Behemoth (available now on PSVR2, Steam VR, and Meta Quest) joins us to talk about the game which puts players into the role of Wren, a lone hunter who sets off for the Forsaken Lands to lift a terrible curse. The only way to do so is by saying the towering gods known as Behemoths.In this talk we get into storytelling in VR, the way dynamic, spatial games systems lead players to embody characters, and a whole lot more. It’s another very fun conversation about VR at the precise moment when the medium is hitting a stride on narrative focused experiences that rival the best traditional video games can offer.SHOW NOTESSkydance’s BehemothAnn Morrow Johnson, of Gensler, Joins Board of The Immersive Experience InstituteThe Next Stage Immersive Summit: Speakers & GuestsThe Next Stage Immersive SummitThe Next Stage Immersive Summit: BadgesNo Proscenium Gift Subscriptions