On Friday, November 18th, 2005, I performed Birthday Trauma, an episode of Growing Up Linda at Perishable Theatre in Providence.
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On Friday, May 20th, 2005, Vanessa Gilbert and I curated and hosted another edition of Blood from a Turnip, Rhode Island’s only late night puppet salon at Perishable Theatre in Downtown Providence.
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In May 2005, I was a guest teaching artist-in-residence at Oakland Beach Elementary School in Rhode Island working with grades 1, 3, and 6. Lead artist-in-residence, Amy Lynn Budd, had students create a performance response to the film, Yellow Submarine. I came into the class room a handful of times to assist with mask work and puppetry and aspects of the project (both construction and performance).
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In February 2005, I was a teaching artist-in-residence with Maureen Maher’s 7th and 8th graders at Dr. Earl Calcutt Middle School in Central Falls, Rhode Island as part of the Arts Talk at Channel One program. Students were tasked to create puppet shows based on story tellers from variety of cultures using recycled materials and perform them for first grade reading buddies
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In 2005, Women And Performance: A Journal Of Feminist Theory published photos from my installation, Finocchio: The Holiday Classic. For Finocchio I reimagined the idea of a commercial holiday window injected contemporary themes including gender, technologies that can alter the body, and addiction. The narrative was centered on a marionette “trapped” in the body of a boy-gyrrrl and hir journey to self-actualization. I created the original installation during the holiday season at the Dirt Palace, a feminist art space located in an abandoned library building in Olneyville, RI .
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On January 28th, 2005, Vanessa Gilbert and I curated and hosted Blood from a Turnip – Rhode Island’s only late night puppet salon at Perishable Theatre in Providence.
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From December 17th 2004 – January 11th, 2005, I exhibited LSD Kills, a video installation at Woods-Gerry Gallery in Providence.
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On November 19th, 2004, I curated and hosted Blood from a Turnip, Rhode Island’s only late night puppet salon, with Vanessa Gilbert at Perishable Theatre in downtown Providence. The evening, featured short-form live puppetry for adults, including performances by Bonnie Duncan, Liz Joyce and Tim Lagasse, Jenine Bressner, and Marya Errin Jones.
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On October 15th, 2004, I performed The Adventures of Michael Jackson and the Animals of Neverland Ranch at Perishable Theatre as part of Blood From A Turnip, Rhode Island’s Only late night puppetry salon.
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On September 20th, 2004, I performed The Adventures of Michael Jackson and the Animals of Neverland Ranch at Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The performance was as part of Lymphomania, an evening of vaudeville, variety, and live music to benefit artist, Jen Swain who was battling lymphatic cancer.
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