On December 16, 2003, The Boston Herald characterized my work in Ryan Landry’s Who’s Afraid of the Virgin Mary? as “delightful puppetry”.
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Edge, Boston (Press)
On December 12, 2003, from The Edge covered Who’s Afraid of the Virgin Mary?, Ryan Landry’s holiday adaptation of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf in which I designed, built, and performed puppets. In the write up, my contribution to the production was characterized as “dead funny puppeteering”
Bay Windows, Boston (review)
On December 11th, 2003, Who’s Afraid of the Virgin Mary was reviewed in Bay Windows by R.J. Grub, who mentioned my work. “As a special touch, Providence-based puppeteer, The Marsian, contributed playful puppets to illustrate Mary and Joseph’s long journey to Bethlehem”
Harvard Club, Boston (speech)
On December 10th, 2003, I delivered a speech at the Harvard Club in Boston on the tenth anniversary of the passage Gay and Lesbian Student Rights Law.
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Ryan Landry’s Who’s Afraid of the Virgin Mary? was reviewed by Carl A. Rossi in Theatre Mirror. In it, he mentioned the manger animals I designed including the “most startling entrance by a pig in years.” Continue reading “Theatre Mirror, Boston (press)”
Who’s Afraid of the Virgin Mary, Boston (theatre, puppet design)
From December 4th 2003 – December 27th, 2003, I performed in Who’s Afraid of the Virgin Mary with The Gold Dust Orphans at Machine (a.k.a. Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts) in Boston. Who’s Afraid of the Virgin Mary was an adaptation of Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? written by Ryan Landry and directed by James P. Byrne. In Virgin Mary, Mary and Joseph’s quarelling escalates when pagans, Nick Kringle and his wife, Honey Frost, set up shop in Jeruselum. While Joseph is threatened by Nick, Mary is set on seducing him. For this production, I designed, built, and activated barnyard puppets for Mary and Joseph’s manger and performed a nativity scene flashback with Barbie dolls. Continue reading “Who’s Afraid of the Virgin Mary, Boston (theatre, puppet design)”
The Gulls, Boston (theatre)
From September 26th through November 8th, 2003, I performed in Ryan Landry’s The Gulls with The Gold Dust Orphans at Machine (a.k.a. the Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts) in Boston. Based on Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, in The Gulls, a campy horror, deadly seagulls have terrorized the luxury gay resort destination, Provincetown amidst gentrification and overdevelopment. In The Gulls, I played Bundy, a lesbian ornathologist who warns the towns people about the onslought of sea gulls and Barbara Streissand’s corpse (after being pecked to death).
Strings Attached, Chicago (Exhibition)
On March 31, 2001 – Strings Attached, an installation of puppets and a doll I created while finishing my degree at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) opened at Gallery 2 in Chicago. Strings Attached was part of the 2001 Undergraduate Exhibition featuring the graduating BFA class at SAIC and ran through April 13th, 2001.
Gay + Lesbian Youth – Making History
Chicago Tribune 8/14/1994
On August 14th, 1994, The Chicago Tribune covered the passage of The Gay and Lesbian Student Rights Law which I worked on through the Coalition for Lesbian And Gay Civil Rights in Boston.
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