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This week host Noah Nelson is joined by esteemed members of the NoPro New York Review Crew: Curator Allie Marotta, East Coast Editor at Large Blake Weil, and Senior Correspondent Nicholas Fortugno for an often feisty conversation about what's happening in the NYC immersive scene in what has been a very busy year.

This week our staff has prepared three substantial courses for you that will promenade you around DUMBO, lure you into a liminal space in North Hollywood, and invite you into Brooklyn town home. Unusual theatre in unusual spaces, that's (one of) our (nineteen) motto(s) here.

One of the more buzzed about happenings in the NYC indie theatre scene this summer is the conversion of a former sweater factory in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens into a new performance space.

During the time that we were all online, Marino developed Planet of the Grapes, his "epic, tabletop, sci-fi adventure," as a piece that played out over Zoom. Now Marino and director Michole Biancosino are transforming the show into live, in-person experience that brings all kinds of tools and tricks to the table.

How do you create a truly replayable escape room experience? How can choice meaningfully impact game design, story, and player agency within the framework of an escape room? Doors of Divergence, now remounted in Charlotte, NC following a critically-acclaimed run at its original location in Brooklyn, NY, is tackling these questions by pushing the boundaries at the intersection of escape rooms, immersive theater, and replayable narratives.

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Shelley Snyder, London & UK Curator: Another year of Voidspace Live in the bag; London's own little immerso-fest weekend where it feels like pretty much everyone doing cool stuff in England ends up in town either showcasing, playtesting, or networking. Thomas was even staging his own production, weren't you? Thomas Jancis, London Correspondent: I was once again fortunate enough to come to VOIDSPACE as an audience member on the Saturday and performer of 'OTKAS' on the Sunday.

This week on the show, a very Season One style episode wherein host Noah Nelson talks to Ellie and Alex DiBerardino of Say Nothing and Leave, the creative team behind the Test Pilots series, along with their oftentimes collaborators Sarah Lew and Danthony, the director and creator of Baby Man. All of which was at Second Place Studios at the Hollywood Fringe Festival last month.

Welcome to CALL SHEET, our ongoing roundup of gigs, grants, deadlines, and other professional opportunities in the realms of physical and digital immersive. The monthly sheet UPDATES regularly with the latest listings. Note: while we are happy to receive the full text of a job listing for reference, we only publish summaries with links to full job listings/casting breakdowns. To be considered your listing must be published somewhere else online.

L.A.'s DrownedOut Productions has made a name for themselves over the past few years with spooky, small scale work that harkens back to the vibe of the early days of the Southland's immersive scene. A good deal of that is a matter of the company leveraging the skills its team has honed working at the big local theme parks, and taking that kind of environmental storytelling an applying it to intimate scaled work.