Category: Heather Henson

Growing Up Linda, Avalon Gallery, Orlando

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On Saturday, December 4th, 2010, I performed Fudgie’s Death, a segment of Growing Up Linda at Avalon Gallery. 

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Puppets from The Edge 2010, Orlando (curatorial)

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On Saturday, December 4th, 2010, I curated and hosted Puppets from the Edge with puppet artist, Hannah Miller at the Gallery at Avalon Island in downtown Orlando. Puppets from The Edge was an evening of short form puppetry for adults, during the 2010 Orlando Puppet Festival.

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Film Snobbery, Orlando (interview)

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On December 2nd, 2010, I appeared on Film Snobbery, hosted by Nic Baisley, with guests Sean Keohane from Pinnochio’s Marionette Theater and Heather Henson, founder of Ibex Puppetry.  We had a lively conversation about how the power of puppetry has flourished in recent years.

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Goblin Party Interactive – Orlando Film Festival (performer)

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On Friday, November 5th, 2010, I  performed David Bowie’s onscreen role of Jared, the Goblin King in Goblin Party Interactive – a theatrical screening of Jim Henson’s dark musical fantasy film, Labyrinth. Ibex Puppetry presented Goblin Party Interactive in a similar format of the Rocky Horror Picture Show with live actors performing in front of the screen, audience costumes and participation, and with the added touch of puppetry and indoor kites.  The performance was part of a special late-night screening of Labyrinth at the Orlando Film Festival at the Plaza Cinema Cafe Theater 7.

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CJOB, Winnipeg

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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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Growing Up Linda, Winnipeg

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Marsian and Susan Simpson, Chicago, 2010, Photo K Basta

On July 5th, 2010, I performed Fudgie’s Death at the at the Park Theatre in Winnipeg

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Dawn of the Apocalypse

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Carole D'Agostino, Heather Henson, Marsian De Lellis, Melissa Dunphy, Musical, National Puppetry Conference, Waterford

 

Marsian De Lellis, Dawn of the Apocalypse, 2010: Alex Griffin
2010, drawing: Marsian De Lellis

On June 19th, 2010, I performed as an anthropomorphized oil spill in Dawn of The Apocalypse, a song response to the Deepwater Horizon spill with music composed by Melissa Dunphy.  I performed Dawn of the Apocalypse at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center at the culmination of the 2010 National Puppetry Conference.

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Matt Rineveld Memorial Fund (support)

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In June 2010, 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 Dawn of the Apocalypse in which I portrayed an anthropomorphized oil spill, I performed puppets in Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, (a puppet film directed by Tim Lagasse and Martin Robinson), Fudgie’s Death at Blue Gene’s Pub, and Paul McGuiness’ table-top puppetry piece on split focus. While there I also hosted a puppet slam summit with Puppet Slam Network curators from around the country.

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Growing Up Linda, Orlando Fringe

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Addiction, Biopic, cantastoria, Comedy, Cut Outs, Design, Drama, Eugean Seo, Fabrication, Food, Fudgie's Death, Growing Up Linda, Heather Henson, Hunter Wells, Ibex Puppetry, Janie Geiser, Joel Egger, Kari Rae Seekons, Lee Vargas, Live Feed, Marsian De Lellis, Object Theatre, Orlando, Orlando Fringe, Performance Art, performing objects, PJ McWhiskers, Pop-Ups, Press, Puppetry, Rachel Weir, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Video, Violence, Written
2010, Photo: K. Basta
2010, Photo: K. Basta

In May, 2010,  I performed Fudgie’s Death, a section of Growing Up Linda at the Orlando Fringe Festival. 

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Watermark – Goblin Party, Orlando (press)

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On May 23rd, 2010, Watermark, Orlando had a write-up on Goblin Party Interactive, in which I performed David Bowie’s onscreen role of Jared, the Goblin King. Goblin Party Interactive was  a theatrical screening of Jim Henson’s dark musical fantasy film, Labyrinth. Ibex Puppetry presented Goblin Party Interactive in a similar format of the Rocky Horror Picture Show with live actors performing in front of the screen, audience costumes and participation, and with the added touch of puppetry and indoor kites.

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