Melissa Dunphy – hausofmarsian

The Austin Chronicle

Posted on December 6, 2018December 27, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Addiction, Austin, Comedy, Dolls, Drama, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Fabrication, Figurines, Food, Gainers and Feeders, Guilford, CT, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Melissa Dunphy, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Press, Puppetry, Puppets, Table Top Puppetry, The Feeder, Theater, Tim Lagasse, Voice

On December 7, 2018, The Austin Chronicle covered The Austin Puppet Incident in which I performed The Feeder, a short tabletop puppetry piece about complicated relationship.

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Sitelines

Posted on December 2, 2018December 27, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Addiction, Art, Austin, Comedy, Design, Dolls, Drama, Fabrication, Figurines, Gainers and Feeders, LA, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Melissa Dunphy, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Ronnie Burkett, Table Top Puppetry, The Feeder, Theater, Tim Lagasse

On December 2nd, 2018, Site Lines covered The Austin Puppet Incident in which I was performing The Feeder, a short tabletop puppetry piece about complicated relationship.

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American Theatre (magazine)

Posted on April 20, 2017August 22, 2019 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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The Feeder, Waterford, CT (performance)

Posted on June 12, 2015July 25, 2019 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

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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Web of Mystery, Waterford, CT, (performance)

Posted on June 18, 2011June 1, 2018 by hausofmarsian in Dance, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Melissa Dunphy, National Puppetry Conference, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Sharon Challenger, Surrealism, Theater, Waterford

Jess Simon, Marsian De Lellis, Sharon Challenger, Waterford, CT, 2011, Photo: Richard Termine

On Saturday, June 18th 2011, I performed Web of Mystery with Sharon Challenger and Jessica Simon at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center at the culmination of the National Puppetry Conference. In Web of Mystery, a spider dances with it’s puppeteers before overtaking one of them. Melissa Dunphy composed original music.

Dawn of the Apocalypse

Posted on June 19, 2010June 1, 2018 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)

Posted on June 1, 2010October 16, 2017 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Art, Artist-Educator, cantastoria, Carole D'Agostino, Dance, Eugean Seo, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Food, Fudgie's Death, Growing Up Linda, Heather Henson, Hunter Wells, Jim Henson Foundation, Joel Egger, Lee Vargas, Live Feed, Marsian De Lellis, Melissa Dunphy, Musical, National Puppetry Festival, Performance, Performance Art, Puppet Slam Network, Puppetry, Puppets, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Tim Lagasse, Toy Theatre, Waterford

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 Craf t, (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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