Visiting Artist, Los Angeles LGBT Center (Los Angeles)

On March 6th, 2014, I was a visiting artist at the Los Angeles LGBT Center to teach a workshop on puppetry and performing objects at sparQ!, an activist theatre mentoring program produced by LifeWorks. There were 8 young people in the sparQ! program who ranged in age from 18-23. Continue reading “Visiting Artist, Los Angeles LGBT Center (Los Angeles)”

Speed Police (commercial, puppets on film)

On February 19th, 2014, TaylorMade began airing two commercials I worked on from their Speed Police campaign for JetSpeed metal woods and drivers.  In “Stakeout” and “The Pull Over” , I operated the faces of “Team America” style marionettes in the likeness of professional golfers Sergio Garcia, Jason Day,  Justin Rose, and Dustin Johnson with with radio controlled servos.

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Object of Her Affection, REDCAT (excerpt)

Marsian De Lellis, 2013, Photo: Steve Gunther
Marsian De Lellis, 2013, Photo: Steve Gunther

On December 7th + 8th, 2013, I performed an excerpt from Object of Her Affection at REDCAT in Los Angeles. 

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Not Alone, Brooklyn (puppets on film)

On October 26th, 2013, Trish Sie’s short film – Not Alone,  which I puppeteered in, had it’s premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Not Alone, the official music video for Ben Taylor’s song, follows a lonely sock who searches everywhere for a soulmate.

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Homecoming Queen’s Got A Musical 2013 (puppet design)

  • humanette puppet design Julie Brown's Home Coming Queen's Got a Musical with Drew Droege, Los Angeles, 2013
  • humanette puppet design Julie Brown's Home Coming Queen's Got a Musical with Drew Droege, Los Angeles, 2013
  • humanette puppet design Julie Brown's Home Coming Queen's Got a Musical with Drew Droege, Los Angeles, 2013
  • humanette puppet design Julie Brown's Home Coming Queen's Got a Musical with Drew Droege, Los Angeles, 2013
  • humanette puppet design Julie Brown's Home Coming Queen's Got a Musical with Drew Droege, Los Angeles, 2013

On October 25th, 2013, Julie Brown’s Homecoming Queen’s Got a Musical, a musical comedy about a school shooting and demon possession opened at the Cavern Club in Los Angeles.

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Object of Her Affection, Muckenthaler Cultural Center (excerpt)

©2013, Marsian De Lellis
©2013, Marsian De Lellis

On October 17, 2013, I performed an excerpt from Object of Her Affection at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton, California.

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Object of Her Affection, Automata (reading)

Marsian De Lellis, 2013, Photo: Gina Marie Napolitan
Marsian De Lellis, 2013, Photo: Gina Marie Napolitan

On August 11th, 2013,  Automata hosted a private reading of the script for Object of Her Affection, 

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