Podcasts about submersive productions

About the guestTina is a genderful interdisciplinary artist working in theatre and film. Their work often asks us to challenge our perception of Black history and embrace Black joy as a pivotal tool in the disruption of white supremacy. They're constantly inspired by the resilience of Black queer people and my hometown of Baltimore, MD. Tina currently serves as an ensemble member and the Director of Artistic and Community Partnerships at Single Carrot Theatre. As well as a core creator for Submersive Productions. Their film Breathing Black, a documentary that follows nine Black Baltimoreans as they find joy amidst the global COVID-19 Pandemic and a summer of reckoning with the continued genocide of the Black body is an official selection of the Columbia film festival and the Indianapolis Black Documentary film festival.About Single Carrot Theatre Single Carrot Theatre is an ensemble theatre company in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. The Company was founded in 2005 by students from the University of Colorado at Boulder. The company selected Baltimore, MD as the city to locate their theatre after a nationwide city search.The Truth In This ArtThe Truth In This Art is a podcast interview series supporting vibrancy and development of Baltimore & beyond's arts and culture.Mentioned in this episodeSingle Carrot Theatre★ Support this podcast ★

One arts organization is creating a choose-your-own-adventure performance to explore a library’s history. Ursula Marcum, Co-Artistic Director at Submersive Productions, tells us more.

One arts organization is creating a choose-your-own-adventure performance to explore a library’s history. Ursula Marcum, Co-Artistic Director at Submersive Productions, tells us more.

Managing Editor Kathryn Yu goes on the road to Baltimore for a conversation with four of the folks at Submersive Productions: co-artistic directors Glenn Ricci and Ursula Marcum, as well as artistic associates Susan Stroupe and Lisi Stoessel.    Join us as we dig into topics like their devising process, making open world shows, the care and feeding of the audience, telling history “at a slant,” getting the audience to feel complicit during a piece, focusing on diversity and inclusion while making immersive work, and making their productions more accessible.    We discuss their past shows such as The Mesmeric Revelations of Edgar Allan Poe; H.T. Darling's Incredible Musaeum Presents: The Treasures of New Galapagos, Astonishing Acquisitions from the Perisphere; their episodic series The Institute of Visionary History which included an eight-hour durational performance called A Horse By the Tail in the Night; plus their upcoming movement-based large-scale participatory piece MASS/RABBLE which is coming April 3—14 to the Baltimore War Memorial. 

Eavesdrop on my Thai dinner with the immersive (and totally science fictional) theatrical troupe Submersive Productions as we discuss the ways everything from Dragon Ball Z to Myst to Terry Gilliam's Brazil stoked their love of the fantastic, how the funding came together for their first mesmeric show about the women in the works of Edgar Allan Poe, the dare that made their recent durational play grow to eight hours and the half-scripted/half-improvised way they were able to keep their performance going that long, how the actors found their voices by channeling Katherine Hepburn and Roberto Benigni, the multiple meanings of the most transcendent pie-eating scene I've ever witnessed in the theater, how they deal with introverted (as well as overly extroverted) audience members during immersive performances, the differences between improv comedy and improvisational theater, and much more.

Our intrepid trio visits with Submersive Productions inside their home base at The Peale. We talk about their unique immersive subversive style and specifically about “The Institute of Visionary History and the Archives of the Deep Now. Episode 1” which just opened 9/132018 and runs through 9/30/2018

Creative Director Scott Simmons travels to Baltimore to catch up with former ScareHouse audio masters Glenn Ricci and Ursula Marcum from Submersive Productions to talk about immersive theater. Scott and Glenn first worked together in sixth grade on a friend’s basement haunt then again at the Cloverleaf YMCA and ScareHouse How Sleep No More and Then She Fell inspired The Basement and Submersive Productions The struggle to define what immersive theater is and isn’t How the audience is crucial to the immersive theater experience Glenn’s trip to London to experience The Drowned Man Glenn and Ursula talk about taking their experiences and unique skill sets to create their own immersive theater shows How your space can influence the story you are telling Submersive Productions strives to combine intimacy, free-roaming, and exploratory elements in their shows Glenn and Ursula describe their first two shows The Mesmeric Revelations! of Edgar Allan Poe and H.T. Darling’s Incredible Musaeum Presents the New Galapagos Astonishing Acquisitions From the Perisphere The time and labor behind creation of props that must look authentic How their version of immersive theater is like four dimensional chess Integrating puppetry into immersive theater and haunted houses All space has something to say and all humans are storytellers Fun ScareHouse fact: The eerie chanting you heard in Forsaken and The Summoning was actually Ursula! Glenn manipulated her voice to create some of the creepiest voices heard in ScareHouse. For more information about Submersive Productions visit http://www.submersiveproductions.com Check out Submersive Productions Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/submersiveproductions/   Please subscribe to our podcast and leave feedback. We appreciate it!   Follow the ScareHouse podcast hosts: Scott Simmons (@ScareHouseScott) and Katie “Dudders” (@kdudders)   Visit us www.ScareHouse.com Watch us Youtube.com/TheScareHouse Like us https://www.facebook.com/ScareHouse Follow us https://twitter.com/ScareHousePGH