Susan Simpson – Page 2 – hausofmarsian

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.

Continue reading →

Puppet Cabaret, Storrs (host)

Posted on April 2, 2011January 3, 2020 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Art, Blood from a Turnip, Great Small Works, Ibex Puppetry, Improv, Janie Geiser, John Bell, Marsian De Lellis, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppetry and Post Dramatic Performance Conference, Puppets, Storrs, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Uconn, UNIMA-USA, Vanessa Gilbert

Vanessa Gilbert, Great Small Works, Marsian, 2011, Photos: Mark Dannenhauer — Vanessa Gilbert, Great Small Works, Marsian De Lellis, 2011, Photos: Mark Dannenhauer

On April 2nd, 2011, I hosted a puppet cabaret at the Nafe Katter Theatre with long-time Blood from a Turnip collaborator, Vanessa Gilbert. The line up included short-form puppet acts from Great Small Works, Big Nazo, Michael Sommers, and Kate Brehm. The cabaret was part of Puppetry and Post Dramatic Performance: An International Conference on Performing Objects in the 21st Century at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT.

Continue reading “Puppet Cabaret, Storrs (host)” →

The New American Vaudeville, Storrs, CT (artist talk)

Posted on April 1, 2011January 3, 2020 by hausofmarsian in Artist Talk, Heather Henson, Ibex Puppetry, Janie Geiser, Marsian De Lellis, Puppet Slam Network, Puppetry, Puppetry and Post Dramatic Performance Conference, Puppets, Spoken Word, Storrs, Susan Simpson, Uconn, UNIMA-USA

On April 2nd, 2011, I presented The New American Vaudeville: The Puppet Slam Network, at Puppetry and Postdramatic Performance – an International Conference on Performing Objects in the 21st Century hosted by the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. In The New American Vaudeville I contextualized growing field of puppet slams – evenings of short-form puppet and object theater for adult audiences. The presentation was informed by my position as co-founder of the Puppet Slam Network which ran from 2005 to 2016.

Continue reading “The New American Vaudeville, Storrs, CT (artist talk)” →

Object/Fetish, Storrs (Talk)

Posted on April 1, 2011January 3, 2020 by hausofmarsian in Allison de Fren, Animism, Artist Talk, Curatorial, Dolls, Figurines, Film, Janie Geiser, John Bell, Marsian De Lellis, Object Sexuality, Object Sexuals, Object/Fetish, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppetry and Post Dramatic Performance Conference, Puppets, Storrs, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Uconn, UNIMA-USA, Video

Marsian De Lellis, 2011, Photo: Uconn Puppetry Department

In Friday, April 1st, 2011, I presented my artist-talk, Object/Fetish: Staging the Suspension of Disbelief in Every Day Life at the University of Connecticut in Storrs for the Puppetry and Postdramatic Performance Conference.

Continue reading “Object/Fetish, Storrs (Talk)” →

Puppetry International – The North American Puppet Slam Scene in 2010 (press)

Posted on December 30, 2010October 14, 2017 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Activism, Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Art, Atlanta, Automata, Blood from a Turnip, Boston, Bride of Wildenstein - The Musical, Brookline, Brooklyn, cantastoria, Curatorial, Cut Outs, Dance, Design, Dolls, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Gallery, Great Small Works, Heather Henson, Ibex Puppetry, interview, Janie Geiser, John Bell, LA, Live Feed, Los Angeles, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, NYC, Object Theatre, Painting, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Perishable Theatre, Providence, Puppetry, Puppets, San Diego, Shadow Puppetry, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, UNIMA-USA, Vanessa Gilbert

In the “The North American Puppet Slam Scene in 2010”, I was interviewed by Teresa Smalec for Puppetry International on my work as a curator of short-form puppetry for adults and in my role as co-founder of the Puppet Slam Network.

Continue reading “Puppetry International – The North American Puppet Slam Scene in 2010 (press)” →

Object/Fetish, Valencia (guest teacher)

Posted on November 18, 2010November 22, 2017 by hausofmarsian in Allison de Fren, Animism, Artist Talk, CalArts, Curatorial, Dolls, Figurines, Film, Janie Geiser, John Bell, LA, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Object Sexuality, Object Sexuals, Object/Fetish, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppetry and Post Dramatic Performance Conference, Puppets, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Uconn, UNIMA-USA, Video

2010-16x7-Object-Fetish-300dpi Object/Fetish Calarts

On November 18th, 2010, I was a guest teacher for Susan Simpson’s History of American Puppet Theater course at CalArts through the Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts. For this class which included a mixture of graduate and undergraduate students, I presented my multi-media artist-talk, Object/Fetish: Staging the Suspension of Disbelief in Every Day Life.

Continue reading “Object/Fetish, Valencia (guest teacher)” →

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.

Continue reading →

Growing Up Linda, Chicago

Posted on May 7, 2010August 15, 2019 by hausofmarsian in cantastoria, Chicago, Comedy, Eugean Seo, Fausto Ferños, Fudgie's Death, Great Small Works, Growing Up Linda, Joel Egger, Kari Rae Seekons, Links Hall, Live Feed, Marc Felion, Marsian De Lellis, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, PJ McWhiskers, Pop-Ups, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Weir, Surrealism, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Video

May 7th through May 9th, 2010, I performed Fudgie’s Death, a segment from Growing Up Linda at Links Hall in Chicago.

Continue reading →

Exhibit A, Chicago (performer)

Posted on May 7, 2010June 1, 2018 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Links Hall, Marsian De Lellis, Puppetry, Puppets, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Video, Voice, Voice-over

While in Chicago at Links Hall, with Fudgie’s Death, I also narrated an excerpt from Susan Simpson‘s Exhibit A. Exhibit A, was an object theatre piece rooted in the utopian visions of early gay organizing and in the language and aesthetics of science fiction. Performances were the final weekend of the Banners and Cranks Festival of Cantrastoria May 7th through May 9th, 2010.

Continue reading “Exhibit A, Chicago (performer)” →

Time Out – Chicago (press)

Posted on April 22, 2010August 16, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Art, Chicago, Comedy, Eugean Seo, Fudgie's Death, Growing Up Linda, Hunter Wells, Joel Egger, Kari Rae Seekons, Lee Vargas, Links Hall, Live Feed, Marsian De Lellis, Performance, Performance Art, PJ McWhiskers, Press, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Weir, Surrealism, Susan Simpson, Theater, Video

On April 22, 2010, Time Out – Chicago published an image from Fudgie’s Death in their coverage of the Banners and Cranks Festival in which I was performing.

Continue reading →