Category: Waterford

Model Killer – Model Victims, Waterford, CT (workshop performance)

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Model Killer, 2017, Photo: Richard Termine
Model Killer, 2017, Photo: Richard Termine

On June 16th + 17th, I presented an initial scene from Model Killer: Giant Crimes & Tiny Cover-Ups, as an artist-in-residence at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center at the culmination of the National Puppetry Conference. Model Killer is a morbid comedy centered on Vivian Nutt, a disgruntled dollhouse maker turned investigator. Vivian builds dioramas of unsolved murders, only for it to be revealed that she is a serial killer.  In Model Killer, I am creating a universe in which I invite the viewer to reconsider female serial killers, the historically feminine craft of miniatures, and murder as entertainment.

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Walt Disney Co. + Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (support)

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Model Killer, 2017, Photo: Richard Termine

In  June 2017, The Walt Disney Company and the Eugene O’Neill Center underwrote an artist-in-residence for Model Killer as part of the National Puppetry Conference.

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American Theatre (magazine)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Art, cantastoria, Comedy, Derron Wood, Design, Dollhouses, Dolls, Drama, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Fabrication, Figurines, Marsian De Lellis, Melissa Dunphy, Miniatures, Model Killer, Munchausen by proxy, National Puppetry Conference, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Sculpture, Serial Killers, Sharon Challenger, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Violence, Waterford

On April 20th, 2017, American Theatre, announced the 2017 season at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, including my artist-in-residence for Model Killer.

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Model Killer – 2016, Waterford, CT (private reading)

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Model Killer

On June 17th, 2016, I presented a private reading of excerpts from Model Killer at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut.

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The Feeder, Waterford, CT (performance)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Comedy, Design, Dolls, Drama, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Fabrication, Figurines, Food, Gainers and Feeders, Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry, Marsian De Lellis, Melissa Dunphy, National Puppetry Conference, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Ronnie Burkett, Sharon Challenger, The Feeder, Theater, Waterford
Photo: Sean P. Higgins

On  June 12th and 13th, 2015, I performed The Feeder, a short solo tabletop puppetry piece that explores the unintended consequences of a complicated relationship.

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Terry + Taylor Fator Fund (support)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Biopic, Drama, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, National Puppetry Conference, Object of Her Affection, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Table Top Puppetry, Toy Theatre, Waterford

In June 2013, I was the recipient of the Terry and Taylor Fator Fund to attend the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT as part of the National Puppetry Conference. At the conference, I worked with Jim Kroupa on mechanisms, Jim Rose on marionette construction, and on my participant piece, Ashes to Ashes, Rust to Rust, an excerpt from Object of Her Affection with Sharon Challenger.

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Alumni Travel Fund (support)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Biopic, Drama, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, National Puppetry Conference, Object of Her Affection, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Table Top Puppetry, Toy Theatre, Waterford

In June 2013, I was the recipient of the Alumni Travel Fund to attend the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT as part of the National Puppetry Conference. At the conference, I worked with Jim Kroupa on mechanisms, Jim Rose on marionette construction, and on my participant piece, Ashes to Ashes, Rust to Rust, an excerpt from Object of Her Affection with Sharon Challenger.

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Object of Her Affection, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (reading)

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On June 16th, 2012,  I read an excerpt from Object of Her Affection at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut 

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The New American Vaudeville, Waterford, CT (presentation)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Artist Talk, Artist-Educator, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Heather Henson, Marsian De Lellis, National Puppetry Conference, Performance, Performance Art, Puppet Slam Network, Puppetry, Puppets, Table Top Puppetry, Waterford

On June 2012, I hosted The New American Vaudeville, at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT as part of the National Puppetry Conference.  In The New American Vaudeville, I contextualized evenings of short-form puppet and object theater for adult audiences in intimate settings. The New American Vaudeville was informed by my position as co-founder and coordinator of the Puppet Slam Network from 2005 to 2016. Continue reading “The New American Vaudeville, Waterford, CT (presentation)” →