This 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 NOTES

• Actor's Equity Association

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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.

• LA Fires: How You Can Help (compiled by Kathryn Yu)
• GoFundMe for immersive actor Brandon Bales’ family to find a new place to live
• GoFundMe for 2023 Next Stage Immersive Summit speaker Wendy McClellan Anderson
• GoFundMe for 2025 Next Stage Immersive Summit speaker Suzanne Down of Cirque Berzerk
• LA Immersive Industry Mixer at Squirrelor's Tavern

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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.

• GoFundMe for Suzanne Down to recover from the Eaton Fire

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This 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 NOTES

• CirqueSaw @ WellAttended (ticketing site)
• CirqueSaw Instagram
• Next Stage Immersive Summit: Program Guide

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This 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.

• In the Matter of the Death of ‘Tamara’: A Post-Mortem – LA Times, 1993
• The Next Stage Immersive Summit

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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.

• Voidspace
• Immersive Rumors
• Franco Milazzo, Broadway World
• The Next Stage Immersive Summit
• NoPro's Best of 2024: Immersive Moments

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This 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. –Noah

• Life And Trust
• Sleep No More
• Speakeasy Magick
• Emursive
• The Next Stage Immersive Summit
• Contact Noah about that thing he mentioned.

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