Category: Los Angeles

Special Project Fund – 2009 (support)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Addiction, Atlanta, Automata, Biopic, Body Modification, Bride of Wildenstein - The Musical, CalArts, Cameo Theatre, Comedy, Dance, Design, Durfee Foundation, Eugean Seo, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Fabrication, Gallery at Avalon Island, Heather Henson, Hunter Wells, Ibex Puppetry, Janie Geiser, Jocelyn Wildenstein, Josh Senick, LA, Lee Vargas, Leila Ghaznavi, LGBT, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, National Puppetry Conference, New Orleans, New Orleans Fringe, NYC, O'Neill Theater Center, Object Theatre, Olympia, Orlando Puppet Festival, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, PJ McWhiskers, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Weir, REDCAT, REDCAT Studio, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Velaslavaysay Panorama, Waterford, Written

On March 6th, 2009, I was the recipient of a Special Project Fund from the Theater School at CalArts for a workshop of Bride of Wildenstein – The Musical. 

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Interdisciplinary Project Grant – 2009 (support)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Addiction, Atlanta, Automata, Biopic, Body Modification, Bride of Wildenstein - The Musical, CalArts, Cameo Theatre, Comedy, Dance, Design, Durfee Foundation, Eugean Seo, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Fabrication, Gallery at Avalon Island, Heather Henson, Hunter Wells, Ibex Puppetry, Janie Geiser, Jocelyn Wildenstein, Josh Senick, LA, Lee Vargas, Leila Ghaznavi, LGBT, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, National Puppetry Conference, New Orleans, New Orleans Fringe, NYC, O'Neill Theater Center, Object Theatre, Olympia, Orlando Puppet Festival, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, PJ McWhiskers, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Weir, REDCAT, REDCAT Studio, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Velaslavaysay Panorama, Waterford, Written

On December 9th, 2008, I was the recipient of the Interdisciplinary Project Grant at California Institute for the Arts for my workshop production of Bride of Wildenstein – The Musical. 

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Growing Up Linda, Valencia, (workshop)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Addiction, Biopic, Birthday Trauma, CalArts, cantastoria, Comedy, DanRae Wilson, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe, Eugean Seo, Food, Fudgie's Death, Growing Up Linda, Jackie Kay Knox, Janie Geiser, Joel Egger, Juliana de Abreau, LA, Los Angeles, LSD Kills, Lynn Jeffries, Marsian De Lellis, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, PJ McWhiskers, Pop-Ups, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Weir, Song, Surrealism, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Valencia, Written
  • Growing Up Linda, poster 2008, Anne Mills Coté

From May 7th-10th 2008, The Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts and CalArts School of Theater presented a full workshop of Growing Up Linda in Valencia, California,

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CalArts, Office of the President (support)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, 14Karat Cabaret, Acting, Addiction, Anne Yatco, Baltimore, Biopic, Birthday Trauma, Brooklyn, CalArts, Calgary, cantastoria, Comedy, Cut Outs, Dance, Design, Dolls, Drama, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe, Eugean Seo, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Food, Fudgie's Death, Gainers and Feeders, Great Small Works, Growing Up Linda, Hunter Wells, Ibex Puppetry, International Toy Theater Festival, Janie Geiser, Joel Egger, Juliana de Abreau, Kari Rae Seekons, LA, Lantern Church, Lee Vargas, Liz Hara, Los Angeles, LSD Kills, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, National Puppetry Conference, NYC, O'Neill Theater Center, Object Theatre, Orlando Fringe, Orlando Puppet Festival, Park Theater, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, PJ McWhiskers, Pop-Ups, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Weir, REDCAT, REDCAT Studio, Shadow Puppetry, St. Ann's Warehouse, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Transmodern Festival, UNIMA-USA, Valencia, Venue 13, Video, Waterford, Winnipeg Puppet Collective, Xstine Cook

In 2008, I was the recipient of funding from the Office of the President at California Institute for the Arts for the workshop of Growing Up Linda and premiere at Venue 13 in Edinburgh. 

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Interdisciplinary Project Grant – 2008 (support)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, 14Karat Cabaret, Acting, Addiction, Anne Yatco, Biopic, Birthday Trauma, Brooklyn, CalArts, Calgary, cantastoria, Chicago, Comedy, Cut Outs, Design, Dolls, Drama, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe, Eugean Seo, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Fabrication, Figurines, Food, Fudgie's Death, Gainers and Feeders, Gallery at Avalon Island, Growing Up Linda, Hunter Wells, International Toy Theater Festival, Janie Geiser, Joel Egger, Juliana de Abreau, Kari Rae Seekons, LA, Lee Vargas, Links Hall, Live Feed, Liz Hara, Los Angeles, LSD Kills, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, National Puppetry Conference, O'Neill Theater Center, Object Theatre, Orlando, Orlando Puppet Festival, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, PJ McWhiskers, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Weir, REDCAT, REDCAT Studio, Shadow Puppetry, Slides, St. Ann's Warehouse, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Transmodern Festival, UNIMA-USA, Valencia, Video, Waterford, Winnipeg, Winnipeg Puppet Collective, Xstine Cook

In 2008, I was the recipient of an Interdisciplinary Grant from the California Institute of Arts for a workshop of  Growing Up Linda  and the premiere at Venue 13 in Edinburgh. 

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New Technologies in Puppetry: I-MAG (paper)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in LA, Live Feed, Los Angeles, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Tim Lagasse, Toy Theatre, Video, Written

There have been many exciting developments integrating new technologies with puppetry – from the machinima’s live manipulation and rendering of three-dimensional graphics found in the virtual puppetry of the Jim Henson Company’s Meet the Skrumps, to advances in robotics, like wireless servos responsible for the facial expressions of the puppets in Team America. Audiences have witnessed the combination of video and puppetry in the development of video ventriloquism (central in Evan O’Television’s cabaret acts), the use of video Foley tables in Cynthia Hopkins Accidental Nostalgia and most popularly, the use of live feeds, otherwise known as “I-MAG”. In puppetry, I-MAG, an abbreviation for “image magnification”, involves  creating a live feed of all a performance captured with video camera and viewed simultaneously on a monitor or projection screen. In this paper, I will be exploring the use of I-MAG in contemporary puppet theatre – excavating its roots and looking at its evocative range such as uncanny doubling, changes in scale, cinematic effects, economy of space, and a reframing of the proscenium).

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Winter Windows (puppets on film)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Cat Solen, Eli Presser, Film, Katie Shook, LA, Los Angeles, Musical, Object Theatre, Performance, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Video

 

For the official music video for Sea Wolf’s Winter Windows I animated the leaves of a forrest, and operated some hard to categorize puppets (including  flying books, a spinning globe that transforms into a feline, a table that transforms into some sort of mammal, and a suitcase that transforms into a turtle).

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Feast of Fun #622, Chicago (appearance)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Chicago, Comedy, Fausto Ferños, LA, LGBT, Los Angeles, Marc Felion, Marsian De Lellis

On October 2nd, 2007, I appeared on Feast of Fun, a Chicago-based LGBTQ comedy podcast.  On show #622 – Baby Can Dance, I spoke with Fausto Ferños and Marc Felion about my life after moving to Los Angeles, the global art scene, and trends and predictions.

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Lead Feet & Nothing Upstairs, LA (puppeteer)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Anne Yatco, Automata, Dolls, Figurines, Jackie Kay Knox, Katie Shook, LA, Los Angeles, Manual Archives, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater

From June 7th-30th, 2007, I was a puppeteer in Lead Feet and Nothing Upstairs: A History of the Lifelike at the Manual Archives in Los Angeles.  Lead Feet, written and directed by Susan Simpson, was a puppet play that focused on female triplets raised their grandmother and ideas about originality and personal identity. In Lead Feet, performed in the role of the grandmother, a marionette which I also voiced. There were 15 performances during the run of the show.
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