The 2025 NoPro Audience Award Winners
The Immies Are Here!
Each year we here at No Proscenium check in with our team and our audience to put a spotlight on work that is deserving of special merit across all our coverage areas, both geographically and categorically.
Immersive is a tricky field to define. It encompasses both work performed at specific times and places, and that which is available on demand. Ambitious independent theatrical productions stand shoulder to shoulder with blockbuster digital efforts with budgets in the tens of millions of dollars.
All of them chasing an ineffable quality that almost always boils down to “you had to be there.”
This year’s nominees for Outstanding Immersive Work come from eight of the geographical regions where NoPro has a constant presence, and five categories that cover both location based experiences that are travel destinations or which do not rely on a specific place to be experienced.
The nominees were selected via a poll of the NoPro Review Crew and associated staff, with each category requiring three nominees to be viable for this year’s edition of the awards. Said nominees were then presented to the Patreon backers of NoPro to be voted on during a two week balloting window.
The results of that balloting follow.
Congratulations to all the winners and nominees. The effort you have put in to make exceptional work has made the world a better place, and we hope to see what comes from you next!
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— Noah Nelson, Publisher, No Proscenium
Chicago
The Last Days of Eden Creek — Birch House Immersive
Nominated: The Function — Erin Kilmurry + collaborators; House of the Exquisite Corpse IV: Superstition — Rough House Theatre Co.
Denver
Denver’s Chinatown: An Erasure — Kai Lin & Kyle Albasi
Nominated: Breathing Healing into the Banks of Sand Creek — Control Group Productions; Söm-Sãptälahn — itchy-O
Las Vegas
The House of Shattered Prisms — Particle Ink
Nominated: Discoshow — Speigelworld; Jane Austen’s Emma — Majestic Repertory Theatre
New York City
Life and Trust — Emursive
Nominated: The Birthday Party — Rara Avis; Winter’s Walk — Linked Dance Theatre
SF Bay Area
The Lost Inn — 13th Floor
Nominated: The Solano Human Project — Solano Human Project; The Twilight Aristocracy — Detour Dance
Southern California
The Ladder — Hatch Escapes
Nominated: Apple Avenue Detective Agency — Mister & Mischief; Pirates Wanted — Last Call Theatre
Toronto
Many Happy Returns — BEARS! In The City!
Nominated: The Hunt for the Brightwing Butterfly — Lockwood Immersive; The Perfect Bite — Secret City
United Kingdom
Viola’s Room — Punchdrunk
Nominated: The Key of Dreams — Lemon Difficult; The Manikins — Deadweight Theatre
Installation Art
Radio Tave — Meow Wolf Houston
Nominated: Hughmans by Hugh Hayden at Lisson Gallery; Olafur Eliasson: OPEN at MOCA Los Angeles
LARP
Real Royalty — Hanging Lantern
Nominated: The Forbidden History: Eden Unmasked — Atropos Studios; Lies and Liability — Grimmoire
Remote (non-VR)
Lennox Mutual — Candle House Collective
Nominated: BoxTWO — Neil Patrick Harris and Theory11; The Morrison Game Factory — Lauren Bello and PostCurious
Tour
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha — Julia Masli
Nominated: Coma/Flight/Seance — Darkfield; Fight Night — Ontroerend Goed
Virtual Reality
Batman: Arkham Shadow — Camouflaj
Nominated: Impulse: Playing with Reality — May Abdalla & Barry Gene Murphy; Starship Home — Creature
Discover the latest immersive events, festivals, workshops, and more at our new site EVERYTHING IMMERSIVE, home of NoPro’s show listings.
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