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Fractured Atlas 2017

Posted on October 31, 2017August 21, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Art, Biopic, Comedy, Cut Outs, Dance, Dollhouses, Dolls, Drama, Fabrication, Figurines, Fractured Atlas, Gallery, Installation, LA, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Performance, Performance Art, Puppetry, Puppets, Surrealism, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Video, Voice-over

I am currently raising funds for the next iterations of Object of Her Affection and Model Killer. If you’d like to support my work you can make tax-deductible contributions through Fractured Atlas.

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Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun 2017 (puppet design)

Posted on October 13, 2017December 27, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Cavern Club Theater, Comedy, Design, Dolls, Drew Droege, Fabrication, Genre, Julie Brown, LA, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Musical, Performance, Puppetry, Puppets, San Francisco

October 13th-21st, 2017, Julie Brown’s Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun – The Musical, in which I designed a puppet opened at the Cavern Club Theater in Los Angeles for fourth run.

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

Posted on June 16, 2017September 23, 2023 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Art, cantastoria, Comedy, Derron Wood, Design, Dollhouses, Dolls, Drama, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Fabrication, Figurines, Marsian De Lellis, Miniatures, Model Killer, Munchausen by proxy, National Puppetry Conference, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Sculpture, Serial Killers, Sharon Challenger, Toy Theatre, Violence, Waterford

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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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, Portland Oregon

Posted on October 15, 2016December 27, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Comedy, Dolls, Gainers and Feeders, Marsian De Lellis, Performance, Performance Art, Puppetry, Puppets, Theater

The weekend of October 15th and 16th, 2016, I performed The Feeder at Beady Little Eyes puppet slam

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Gender is a Construct, Do-Si-Do, Funny or Die (Associate Producer, Puppeteer)

Posted on October 8, 2016December 27, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Comedy, Funny or Die, LA, LGBT, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Musical, Puppetry, Puppets, Song, Video

On October 8, 2016, Gender is a Construct, Do-Si-Do, a Funny or Die video I was an associate producer and puppeteer on dropped.

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A decade of the Puppet Slam Network

Posted on September 2, 2016August 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

On September 2nd, 2016, I finished my tenure at the Puppet Slam Network (PSN), which I co-founded in 2005 with Heather Henson through support from her production company, Ibex Puppetry.

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Puppet Up! Uncensored, Los Angeles

Posted on October 26, 2015August 24, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Chris Sheets, Comedy, Improv, Improvatorium, Jim Henson Company, LA, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Patrick Bristow, Performance, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Theater, Video

On October 26th, 2015, I performed in a private viewing of Puppet Up! Uncensored on the Charlie Chaplin Sound Stage at the Jim Henson Company Lot in Los Angeles.

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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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Homecoming Queen’s Got a Musical 2015 (puppet design)

Posted on January 13, 2015August 22, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Comedy, Los Angeles, Performance, San Francisco, Theater

January 24th, 2015, I performed in and designed puppets for Julie Brown’s Homecoming Queen’s Got a Musical at the Brava Theater in San Francisco for its third run.

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