Category: Los Angeles

Puppet Slam Network: Informational Posts

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In the fall of 2011, I started a series of informational posts on the Puppet Slam Network website about organizing evenings of short-form puppetry and object theatre for adults.

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Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry, Board of Directors

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Adrian Rose Leonard, Christine Papalexis, LA, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry, Marsian De Lellis, performing objects, Puppet Slam Network, Puppetry, Puppets, Shadow Puppetry, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, UNIMA-USA

On July 24th, 2011 I was elected to the board of the Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry where I served as the group’s secretary.

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Web of Mystery, Los Angeles (performance)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Art, Dance, Design, Dolls, Fabrication, Improv, LA, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Rosenthal, Rachel Rosenthal Company, Sculpture, Surrealism, Theater

2011, Photo: Paula Sjunneson
2011, Photo: Paula Sjunneson

On July 9th and 10th, 2011,  I performed Web of Mystery at Rachel Rosenthal Company in Culver City, Los Angeles. In Web of Mystery, a spider dances with it’s puppeteers before overtaking one of them. Melissa Dunphy composed original music.

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Wake Up Your Weird, Waterford, CT (performance)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Cavern Club Theater, Comedy, Dance, Drama, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Fabrication, LA, Lesher Center for the Arts, Leslie Cararra-Rudolph, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Marsian De Lellis, Michele Spears, Musical, National Puppetry Conference, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Rosenthal, San Diego, Sharon Challenger, Song, Surrealism, Tim Lagasse, Violence, Walnutt Creek, CA, Waterford, Web of Mystery

In June 2011, I was the recipient of the Connecticut Guild of Puppetry Scholarship to participate in the the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. While at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center I worked on Web of Mystery,  in which a spider dances with it’s puppeteers before overtaking one of them, and as an assistant puppeteer on Leslie Cararra-Rudolph’s Wake Up Your Weird, in which a candy obsessed five year old must process her feelings after getting bullied out of a play date.

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Connecticut Guild of Puppetry – 2011 (funding)

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In June 2011, I was the recipient of the Connecticut Guild of Puppetry Scholarship to participate in the the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. While at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center I worked on Web of Mystery,  in which a spider dances with it’s puppeteers before overtaking one of them, and as an assistant puppeteer on Leslie Cararra-Rudolph’s Wake Up Your Weird, in which a candy obsessed five year old must process her feelings after getting bullied out of a play date.

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Puppetry International – The North American Puppet Slam Scene in 2010 (press)

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Puppetry International Fall/Winter 2010
Puppetry International Fall/Winter 2010

In the “The North American Puppet Slam Scene in  2010”, I was interviewed by Teresa Smalec for Puppetry International on my work as a curator of short-form puppetry for adults and in my role as co-founder of the Puppet Slam Network.

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Object/Fetish, Valencia (guest teacher)

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2010-16x7-Object-Fetish-300dpi Object/Fetish Calarts

On November 18th, 2010, I was a guest teacher for Susan Simpson’s History of American Puppet Theater course at CalArts through the Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts. For this class which included a mixture of graduate and undergraduate students, I presented my multi-media artist-talk, Object/Fetish: Staging the Suspension of Disbelief in Every Day Life.

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Rachel Rosenthal Co. (education / support)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Art, Dance, Dolls, Figurines, Improv, LA, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), Marsian De Lellis, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Rosenthal, Rachel Rosenthal Company, Surrealism, Theater, Voice

with Rachel Rosenthal and Josue Martinez at Rachel Rosenthal Company, 2010, photos: Ann Yatco, Josue Martinez
Marsian De Lellis, Rachel Rosenthal, and Josue Martinez at, 2010, photos: Ann Yatco, Josue Martinez

In 2010, I was the recipient of an Emerging Artist Scholarship to study with pioneering performance artist, Rachel Rosenthal and her DbD (Doing by Doing) performance improvisation technique at the Rachel Rosenthal Company in Culver City, Los Angeles. The workshop ran from September 10th – September 12th, 2010. The Emerging Artist Scholarship was made possible in part with funding from Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

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LA County Arts (support)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Art, Figurines, Improv, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Rosenthal, Rachel Rosenthal Company
2011, Photo: Paula Sjunneson
2011, Photo: Paula Sjunneson

In September 2010, I was the recipient funding from LA County Arts Commission which enabled me to  work with Rachel Rosenthal and Company in both her DbD (Doing by Doing) weekend workshop in September 2010 and her  8-week class in May 2011, where I developed Web of Mystery.

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An Actress in Search of an Exit, (actor, voice-over, film)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Film, LA, LA 48 Hour Film Project, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Voice-over

I was an actor and did voice-over work in Jane Pickett’s short adventure serial,  “An Actress in Search of an Exit”.  In it, I played an eccentric gutter punk.  The film screened on August 24th, 2010 at Laemmle Monica 4-Plex in Santa Monica, for the LA 48 Hour Film Project.

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