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The No Proscenium PodcastEpisode 267: Capital W's Fire SeasonClimate change was once a hidden crisis, but here in California it has taken the already dangerous time of year known as "fire season" and accelerated it to something apocalyptic in nature. Writer-performer Monica Miklas and her director-producer Lauren Ludwig – the co-founders of LA's Capital W – join us to talk about Fire Season. This new socially-distanced production projects a collection of Miklas' essays on the nature of change itself via FM radio onto the landscape of the Santa Monica Mountains, which have themselves been touched by flames. Show Notes The Everything Immersive Facebook Grou...2020-10-021h 14
Immersion Nation Podcast#4 Police helicopters, rigid narratives, and the barrier to entry -Lauren Ludwig and Monica MiklasMonica Miklas and Lauren Ludwig travel through the fringe, to the front lines of immersive entertainment. Encountering overzealous onlookers, confused law enforcement, and a lifelong frustration with the 4th wall; they solve the problems that come with being on the front edge of a new wave. Based in LA, they are the skilled weavers of wonder that co-founded Capital WKnown for their shows: Red Flags, Rochester, 1996, and Hamlet Mobile. They have both spoken and taught at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, produced shows in Denver, and sustained a continuing run of...2019-06-0635 minThe No Proscenium PodcastEpisode 181: NoPro Live - The Fifth Anniversary ShowFor our fifth anniversary, we wanted to do something special, and we maybe went a little over the top. We hit up Two Bit Circus, where Josh Randall (Blackout) co-ordinates immersive experiences and got ahold of Club 01... and kicked the tires on a "late night" format. Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman - the founders of Two Bit Circus are our first guests. Followed by Lauren Ludwig and Monica Miklas of Capital W, birthday boy Josh Randall (no, really, it was his BIRTHDAY and he did this for us), Stashhouse LA's Tommy Honton, and Steve Boyle o...2019-01-111h 02
PlaythinkCapital W at PlaythinkLauren Ludwig is an LA-based multimedia director and writer who grew up outside of Syracuse, NY. She regularly helms the Los Angeles comedy show Lost Moon Radio, which she co-founded in 2009. With Lost Moon Radio, she created the television sketch comedy show Passive Aggressive History which aired on truTV last year. Lauren's immersive theater show Hamlet-Mobile (an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet staged in a cargo van) was included in the anthology Best Plays from American Theater Festivals 2015 and was the winner of the Best Game Design award at IndieCade 2016. This summer Lauren directed a sold out run of a new origina...2018-11-211h 08PlaythinkCapital W at PlaythinkLauren Ludwig is an LA-based multimedia director and writer who grew up outside of Syracuse, NY. She regularly helms the Los Angeles comedy show Lost Moon Radio, which she co-founded in 2009. With Lost Moon Radio, she created the television sketch comedy show Passive Aggressive History which aired on truTV last year. Lauren's immersive theater show Hamlet-Mobile (an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet staged in a cargo van) was included in the anthology Best Plays from American Theater Festivals 2015 and was the winner of the Best Game Design award at IndieCade 2016. This summer Lauren directed a sold out run of a new origina...2018-11-211h 08The No Proscenium PodcastEpisode 077 - Capital W's Lauren and MonicaFriends of the show Lauren Ludwig and Monica Miklas stop by to talk about lessons learned from the recent remount of Hamlet-Mobile, which was pretty much host Noah Nelson's favorite thing in 2015 that wasn't a Star Wars movie. All that plus: we've got some free tickets in the Bay Area to David Byrne's Neurosociety thanks to our friends at Epic Immersive, Noah embarrsess himself no less than TWICE during the news and notes, and you can update your NYE plans in LA. It's No Proscenium! Brought to you by our friends at drafty-app.com...2016-12-171h 14The No Proscenium PodcastEpisode 017 - Capital W (Hamlet-Mobile)So, time to come clean: last week's episode was "in character." A kind of epilogue to the fantastic Hamlet-Mobile produced at this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival. This episode is a real--no really--interview with the cast and actual creators of Hamlet-Mobile. Producer Monica Miklas and writer-director Lauren Ludwig join the actors-- Heather Ann Gottlieb, Lizzie Prestel, Hunter Seagroves, JB Waterman--and host Noah Nelson to talk about the actual creation of Hamlet-Mobile.We assure you, these are real people.Okay, one of them might be a raccoon in a human suit.All that plus a...2015-08-2859 minThe No Proscenium PodcastEpisode 008: Hamlet-MobileA quick episode this week (with a little set-up) as Lauren Ludwig and Monica Miklas, producers of Hamlet-Mobile at the 2015 Hollywood Fringe Festival join host Noah Nelson to talk about their interactive, immersive, and mobile show. It's like a food truck... for Hamlet.All this plus the usual updates from the immersive world. Follow Hamlet-Mobile on Twitter (@hamletmobile). Catch up with No Proscenium on Twitter (@noproscenium) and send us tips/announcements via email: no_proscenium@outlook.com. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...2015-06-2620 min