ScareHouse Podcast 112: Macabre Noir, Aaron Doctor Morose, and The Mad Muse Lori Howsare Discuss Wearing Your Weird on the Outside and Atrocity Exhibition IX

Sorgatron Media — Sun, 07 May 2017 22:00:00 -0400

The award winning Atrocity Exhibition’s ninth performance will take you to hell. Katie “Dudders” caught up with Macabre Noir, Aaron Doctor Morose, and Lori Howsare “The Mad Muse” at Atrocity’s command center, aka Macabre’s living room. They talk about the creative process, theater theory, and Atrocity Exhibition IX: Inferno.

Lori credits her theater education and experience for her ability to be such a successful stage manager
Macabre and Aaron Doctor Morose discuss how the Atrocity Exhibition grew and matured with each new member that joined the family
Through increased expectations from the audience and crew, the performance gets bigger and better every year
Using technology to keep yourself on track
Why “no pants and fire everywhere” would be an excellent tagline for Atrocity
The creative process and how it’s enjoyable torture as opposed to pointy stick torture
Lori discusses turning people back onto literature with her Literary Brothel, where you leave reality, enter a sacred space, and hear good stories
Realizing that your own true story is a good story
How theater helps promote empathy
What is weird to you is someone else’s normal
Lori explains how Atrocity is an example of theatre of cruelty, an academic theory of theatre. Cruelty is not violence; it is the ability to use visions that you’re not usually subjected to reach into the repressed, dark area of the human mind. It is an assault on the senses that heightens your emotions.
Wearing your weird on the outside
How Atrocity Exhibition creates a space for everyone
35 minute mark begins the conversation about Atrocity Exhibition IX: Inferno
The importance of putting together artists that genuinely love their craft and trust each other to make something exciting
Shout out to Zeke’s Coffee for creating the Atrocious Paradiso brew and providing coffee and snacks for the Atrocity Exhibition crew
They appreciate everyone that donates to the Kickstarter. It helps the show grow every year

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ScareHouse Podcast 111: Over Caffeinated Chat with Rob Johnston About Social Media, Adapting, and Being Genuine with Your Audience

Sorgatron Media — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 10:00:00 -0400

Scott Simmons and Katie “Dudders” hang out on a loading dock in Pittsburgh’s Strip District with Rob Johnston to talk about social media and the importance of being genuine with your audience.

Highlights:

Rob, former ScareHouse Podcast host, reminisces about his favorite ScareHouse Podcast episodes
Discussing the rise and fall of Vine
Why Vine was such a great fit for Rob’s creative vision and how enjoyed the challenge
Using old school techniques and humor to engage with today’s audience
Rob’s one Vine that went horribly wrong
Having to let things go in order to grow
Rob talks about his most elaborate Vines and the clean up involved
The importance of using customer data and analyzing engagement in haunt building and social media content creation
Being relatable to your audience
Rob talks about his coffee dumping Vine that turned into a gif sensation
Trying to protect the content you’ve created in a social media world
Why the top 20 content creators of Vine were responsible for its downfall
What’s next for social media platforms
ScareHouse and Rob’s big payoffs for taking a chance and changing to anticipate where their audiences are going
Scott discusses The Simpsons and how they “got it” all those years ago
The importance of being honest and genuine with your audience