ScareHouse Podcast 114: Glenn and Ursula from Submersive Productions

Published: May 22, 2017, 4 p.m.

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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.

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  • Scott and Glenn first worked together in sixth grade on a friend\\u2019s basement haunt then again at the Cloverleaf YMCA and ScareHouse
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  • How Sleep No More and Then She Fell inspired The Basement and Submersive Productions
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  • The struggle to define what immersive theater is and isn\\u2019t
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  • How the audience is crucial to the immersive theater experience
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  • Glenn\\u2019s trip to London to experience The Drowned Man
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  • Glenn and Ursula talk about taking their experiences and unique skill sets to create their own immersive theater shows
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  • How your space can influence the story you are telling
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  • Submersive Productions strives to combine intimacy, free-roaming, and exploratory elements in their shows
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  • Glenn and Ursula describe their first two shows The Mesmeric Revelations! of Edgar Allan Poe and H.T. Darling\\u2019s Incredible Musaeum Presents the New Galapagos Astonishing Acquisitions From the Perisphere
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  • The time and labor behind creation of props that must look authentic
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  • How their version of immersive theater is like four dimensional chess
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  • Integrating puppetry into immersive theater and haunted houses
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  • All space has something to say and all humans are storytellers
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  • 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.
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For more information about Submersive Productions visit http://www.submersiveproductions.com

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