It's award season and that means its time for The Immies – our annual No Proscenium Audience Awards.

Like last year, this crop of nominees was put together by the globe spanning and globe trotting NoPro Review Crew, with a few simple rules:

  • There had to be at least three nominees for a category to hit the ballot
  • No category could have more than five nominees
  • A nominee must have debuted, be a new production of an existing work, or began a new tour in 2025

For transparency's sake we'll also point out two nominees that the Crew has a role in making: Kathryn Yu was senior technical gameplay designer on Deadpool VR, she did not nominate the game for the VR Game category. Alec Zbornak, who did not provide nominees this year but who has written for us this past year, was involved in the production of Masquerade.

In both cases I made the call to not disqualify the nominees, as both have been broadly recognized as significant works, and our nominee list would be diminished by their absence.

Voting is open to all active members of No Proscenium – including subscribers of the newsletter, members of the Discord, and paid members of the Patreon – and will close at 12PM Pacific Time on Thursday March 12, 2026.

The ballot can be found here (requires login), as well as on Discord and Patreon.

Winners will be revealed on Friday, March 13, 2026.

--Noah J. Nelson, Publisher

United Kingdom

    • Grease: The Immersive Movie Musical - Secret Cinema
    • Uncle Barry's Birthday Party - Uncle Barry
    • Key of Dreams: Chapter 2 - Lemon Difficult
    • Storehouse - Sage & Jester
    • Alibi: Dead Air - Dean Rogers & Tom Black

New York City

    • The Death of Rasputin - Artemis is Burning
    • Masquerade - LW Entertainment
    • Drinking Brecht - Sister Sylester
    • Ballz: The Monster-Catchin' Musical Comedy - Brandon Zelman & Harrison Bryan 
    • Pineapple - Candle House Collective

Southern California

    • Election Day - Appleseed Avenue
    • HAG - The Queen's Fools
    • The Man in the Tuskhut - Incident
    • Universal Fan Fest Nights - Universal Studios
    • The Willows - JFI Productions

Toronto

    • Elephant - bluemouth inc.
    • Flux - Lockwood Immersive
    • Ophis - Transcendance
    • Performance Review - Outside the March
    • Sweet Sorrow - A Toi Events

Chicago

    • CATACOMBS – Dorothy/Whitney LaMora
    • House of the Exquisite Corpse V: Blood & Puppets - Rough House Puppet Arts
    • Lonely Hearts: The Big Dance - Birch House Immersive

Mid-Atlantic

    • Deepfake - 404 Theater
    • Deadwax - Spektra Pulse
    • Monstrosity - Sinking Ship Creations

Other North America

    • Compton’s Cafeteria Riot - Tenderloin Museum (San Francisco)
    • Darkmoor & Berk - Universal's Epic Universe (Orlando)
    • Escape Plan - Escaparium - (Montréal)
    • John Wick Experience - Egan Escape Productions, Lionsgate, AREA15 (Las Vegas)
    • Pompeii - Detour (San Francisco)

International

    • Cat Town (Nekomachi) - Daiseydoze (Shimokitazawa, Tokyo)
    • Sleep No More - Punchdrunk presented by Ms Jackson (Seoul, South Korea
    • teamLab Biovortex - (Kyoto, Japan)

Tour

    • Burnout Paradise - Pony Cam
    • Deep Fake - 404 Theatre
    • Phenomenomaly - Meow Wolf
    • The Unfair Advantage - Pemberley Productions
    • Viola’s Room - Punchdrunk

VR - Experiential

    • A Long Goodbye - Kate Voet, Victor Maes
    • Blur - Craig Quintero, Phoebe Greenberg
    • The Clouds are Two Thousand Meters Up - Singing Chen
    • In the Current of Being - Cameron Kostopoulos
    • Less Than 5GR of Saffron - Négar Motevalymeidanshah

VR - Game

    • Deadpool - Twisted Pixel
    • Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked - Resolution Games
    • Ghost Town - Fireproof Studios

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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