Olympia – hausofmarsian

A decade of the Puppet Slam Network

Posted on September 2, 2016August 17, 2019 by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, 14Karat Cabaret, Acting, Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Art, Atlanta, Automata, Baltimore, Biopic, Blood from a Turnip, Boston, Brookline, Brooklyn, CalArts, Calgary, cantastoria, Chicago, Christine Papalexis, Comedy, Curatorial, Cut Outs, Dance, Design, Dolls, Drama, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Gallery, Great Arizona Puppet Theater, Great Small Works, Heather Henson, Ibex Puppetry, Improv, Installation, International Festival of Animated Objects, interview, Janie Geiser, John Bell, Judson Church, LA, Lantern Church, Links Hall, Live Feed, Los Angeles, Mad Cow Theatre, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Musical, National Puppetry Festival, NYC, Object Theatre, Olympia, Orlando, Orlando Puppet Festival, Park Theater, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Perishable Theatre, Phoenix, Press, Providence, Puppet Showplace Theater, Puppet Slam Network, Puppeteers of America, Puppetry, Puppets, Revolving Museum, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, WA, Space Ark, Spoken Word, St. Ann's Warehouse, Surrealism, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Theatre for the New City, Tim Lagasse, Toy Theatre, Transmodern Festival, Uconn, Valencia, Vanessa Gilbert, Video, Winnipeg, Xstine Cook

On September 2nd, 2016, I finished my tenure at the Puppet Slam Network (PSN), which I co-founded in 2005 with Heather Henson through support from her production company, Ibex Puppetry.

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Portland Press Herald, (Puppet Slam Network)

Posted on January 28, 2013December 29, 2019 by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, 14Karat Cabaret, Acting, Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Art, Atlanta, Automata, Baltimore, Biopic, Blood from a Turnip, Boston, Brookline, Brooklyn, CalArts, Calgary, cantastoria, Chicago, Christine Papalexis, Comedy, Curatorial, Cut Outs, Dance, Design, Dolls, Drama, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Gallery, Great Arizona Puppet Theater, Great Small Works, Heather Henson, Ibex Puppetry, Improv, Installation, International Festival of Animated Objects, interview, Janie Geiser, John Bell, Judson Church, LA, Lantern Church, Links Hall, Live Feed, Los Angeles, Mad Cow Theatre, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Musical, National Puppetry Festival, NYC, Object Theatre, Olympia, Orlando, Orlando Puppet Festival, Park Theater, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Perishable Theatre, Phoenix, Press, Providence, Puppet Showplace Theater, Puppet Slam Network, Puppeteers of America, Puppetry, Puppets, Revolving Museum, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, WA, Space Ark, Spoken Word, St. Ann's Warehouse, Surrealism, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Theatre for the New City, Tim Lagasse, Toy Theatre, Transmodern Festival, Uconn, Valencia, Vanessa Gilbert, Video, Winnipeg, Xstine Cook

On January 28th, 2013, The Portland Press Herald briefly covered my work with the Puppet Slam Network as part of a larger story on Blainor McGough, curator of King Friday’s Dungeon in Portland, ME.

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The Puppetry Journal (Press)

Posted on May 1, 2012January 3, 2020 by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, 14Karat Cabaret, Acting, Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Art, Atlanta, Automata, Baltimore, Biopic, Blood from a Turnip, Boston, Brookline, Brooklyn, CalArts, Calgary, cantastoria, Chicago, Christine Papalexis, Comedy, Curatorial, Cut Outs, Dance, Design, Dolls, Drama, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Gallery, Great Arizona Puppet Theater, Great Small Works, Heather Henson, Ibex Puppetry, Improv, Installation, International Festival of Animated Objects, interview, Janie Geiser, John Bell, Judson Church, LA, Lantern Church, Links Hall, Live Feed, Los Angeles, Mad Cow Theatre, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Musical, National Puppetry Festival, NYC, Object Theatre, Olympia, Orlando, Orlando Puppet Festival, Park Theater, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Perishable Theatre, Phoenix, Press, Providence, Puppet Showplace Theater, Puppet Slam Network, Puppeteers of America, Puppetry, Puppets, Revolving Museum, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, WA, Space Ark, Spoken Word, St. Ann's Warehouse, Surrealism, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Theatre for the New City, Tim Lagasse, Toy Theatre, Transmodern Festival, Uconn, Valencia, Vanessa Gilbert, Video, Winnipeg, Xstine Cook

In the Spring of 2012, The Puppetry Journal ran a substantive cover story on the world of puppet slams, featuring my work as co-founder of The Puppet Slam Network and my interviews with puppet slam artists. The Puppet Slam Network fostered connections for independently produced puppet cabarets, so that puppet artists knew where they could perform, venues could find puppet artists, and audiences could enjoy an intimate, tactile, and compelling form of entertainment. Continue reading “The Puppetry Journal (Press)” →

Puppet Slam Network: Informational Posts

Posted on September 3, 2011August 17, 2019 by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, 14Karat Cabaret, Acting, Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Art, Atlanta, Automata, Baltimore, Biopic, Blood from a Turnip, Boston, Brookline, Brooklyn, CalArts, Calgary, cantastoria, Chicago, Christine Papalexis, Comedy, Curatorial, Cut Outs, Dance, Design, Dolls, Drama, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Gallery, Great Arizona Puppet Theater, Great Small Works, Heather Henson, Ibex Puppetry, Improv, Installation, International Festival of Animated Objects, interview, Janie Geiser, John Bell, Judson Church, LA, Lantern Church, Links Hall, Live Feed, Los Angeles, Mad Cow Theatre, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Musical, National Puppetry Festival, NYC, Object Theatre, Olympia, Orlando, Orlando Puppet Festival, Park Theater, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Perishable Theatre, Phoenix, Press, Providence, Puppet Showplace Theater, Puppet Slam Network, Puppeteers of America, Puppetry, Puppets, Revolving Museum, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, WA, Space Ark, Spoken Word, St. Ann's Warehouse, Surrealism, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Theatre for the New City, Tim Lagasse, Toy Theatre, Transmodern Festival, Uconn, Valencia, Vanessa Gilbert, Video, Winnipeg, Xstine Cook

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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CJOB, Winnipeg

Posted on July 7, 2010August 16, 2019 by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, 14Karat Cabaret, Acting, Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Art, Atlanta, Automata, Baltimore, Biopic, Blood from a Turnip, Boston, Brookline, Brooklyn, CalArts, Calgary, cantastoria, Chicago, Christine Papalexis, Comedy, Curatorial, Cut Outs, Dance, Design, Dolls, Drama, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Gallery, Great Arizona Puppet Theater, Great Small Works, Heather Henson, Ibex Puppetry, Improv, Installation, International Festival of Animated Objects, interview, Janie Geiser, John Bell, Judson Church, LA, Lantern Church, Links Hall, Live Feed, Los Angeles, Mad Cow Theatre, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Musical, National Puppetry Festival, NYC, Object Theatre, Olympia, Orlando, Orlando Puppet Festival, Park Theater, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Perishable Theatre, Phoenix, Press, Providence, Puppet Showplace Theater, Puppet Slam Network, Puppeteers of America, Puppetry, Puppets, Revolving Museum, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, WA, Space Ark, Spoken Word, St. Ann's Warehouse, Surrealism, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Theatre for the New City, Tim Lagasse, Toy Theatre, Transmodern Festival, Uconn, Valencia, Vanessa Gilbert, Video, Winnipeg, Xstine Cook

On July 7th, 2010, Dan Walechuck appeared on CJOB (Winnipeg) to talk about The Puppet Slam Network and the Winnipeg Puppet Slam, in which I performed Fudgie’s Death, a segment from Growing Up Linda.

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Bride of Wildenstein, Olympia

Posted on September 19, 2009August 6, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Bride of Wildenstein - The Musical, Comedy, Dance, Hunter Wells, Josh Senick, Lee Vargas, Musical, Olympia, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, PJ McWhiskers, Plastic Surgery, Puppetry, Puppets, Theater, Toy Theatre

On Saturday, September 19th, 2009, I performed “Pump that Pussy”, and excerpt from Bride of Wildenstein – the Musical at The Fall of Puppetry, hosted by PLOP! (Performance Laboratory for Objects and Puppets) in Olympia, curated by Dan Luce.

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CalArts – Student Council (support)

Posted on March 16, 2009August 6, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Addiction, Atlanta, Automata, Biopic, Body Modification, Bride of Wildenstein - The Musical, California Institute for Abnormal Arts, Cameo Theatre, Comedy, Dance, Design, Drama, Durfee Foundation, Eugean Seo, Fabrication, Gallery at Avalon Island, Heather Henson, Hunter Wells, Ibex Puppetry, Janie Geiser, Jocelyn Wildenstein, Josh Senick, LA, Lee Vargas, Leila Ghaznavi, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Musical, National Puppetry Conference, New Orleans, NYC, O'Neill Theater Center, Object Theatre, Olympia, Orlando Puppet Festival, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, PJ McWhiskers, Plastic Surgery, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Weir, REDCAT, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Velaslavaysay Panorama, Waterford, Written

In March 2009, I was the recipient of funding from the Student Council at California Institute for the Arts for my workshop production of Bride of Wildenstein – The Musical. In Bride of Wildenstein – The Musical, an aging socialite grows fur and claws to recapture the attention of her philandering game hunter husband.

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Special Project Fund – 2009 (support)

Posted on March 6, 2009August 6, 2019 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 December 9, 2008August 6, 2019 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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PuppetSlam.com – soft launch

Posted on March 9, 2006August 16, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Art, Atlanta, Baltimore, Blood from a Turnip, Bonnie Duncan, Boston, Brookline, Brooklyn, Calgary, cantastoria, Carole D'Agostino, Chicago, Christine Papalexis, Curatorial, Cut Outs, Dance, Design, Dolls, Eli Presser, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Heather Henson, Improv, Installation, interview, Janie Geiser, LA, Leslie Cararra-Rudolph, Live Feed, Liz Hara, Los Angeles, Lowell, MA, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, New Orleans, New Smyrna Beach, NYC, Object Theatre, Olympia, Orlando, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Phoenix, Providence, Puppet Slam Network, Puppetry, Puppets, San Diego, Seattle, WA, Shadow Puppetry, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Tim Lagasse, Toy Theatre, Valencia, Vanessa Gilbert, Winnipeg, Xstine Cook

On March 9th, 2006 I launched Puppetslam.com, a website that cataloged, connected, supported, and generated awareness for adult evenings of short-form puppetry and what would evolve into the Puppet Slam Network over the next decade.

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