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Feast of Fun – 2011: Year of The Glitter Bomb (guest blog)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Chicago, Comedy, Fausto Ferños, Feast of Fun, LA, LGBT, Los Angeles, Marc Felion, Marsian De Lellis, Podcast, Written

On January 11th, 2012, I guest blogged 2011: Year of The Glitter Bomb for Feast of Fun, a Chicago-based LGBTQ comedy podcast and website hosted by Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion.

Civil disobedience took a shiny new twist during the second half of 2011, with a sprinkling of glitter bombings that bedazzled a stunned nation in its wake of sparkles.  Thanks to glitter pranksters, or “the Glitterati”, as they like to be called, the “glitter bomb” hit the mainstream media and glimmered its way into an all but lackluster cultural lexicon.

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City Paper – 12/14/11, Baltimore (press)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in 14Karat Cabaret, Art, Artist Talk, Baltimore, cantastoria, Comedy, Fudgie's Death, Growing Up Linda, H&H Building, Live Feed, Marsian De Lellis, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, Pop-Ups, Puppetry, Puppets, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Transmodern Festival, Video

2011-12-14-CP-16x9-Body#1-100dpi City Paper Baltimore 2011 Fudgie Object/Fetish

On December 14, 2011, Baltimore’s City Paper included me in their Top Ten – The Year In Art, characterizing my work at the Transmodern Festival as “..a whole slew of WTF”.

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Wake Up Your Weird, Walnutt Creek (puppeteer, theatre)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Comedy, Improv, Lesher Center for the Arts, Leslie Cararra-Rudolph, Marsian De Lellis, Michele Spears, Musical, Performance, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Theater, Walnutt Creek, CA

On Friday, September 30th, 2011, Leslie Carrara-Rupdolph’s Wake Up Your Weird opened at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnutt Creek, CA.  I was the assistant puppeteer in Weird, in which Lolly Lardpop, a candy-obsessed five year old must deal with her feelings about being bullied out of a play-date.

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Puppet Slam Network: Informational Posts

Posted on 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.

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Web of Mystery, Los Angeles (performance)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Art, Dance, Design, Dolls, Fabrication, Improv, LA, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Rosenthal, Rachel Rosenthal Company, Sculpture, Surrealism, Theater

2011, Photo: Paula Sjunneson
2011, Photo: Paula Sjunneson

On July 9th and 10th, 2011,  I performed Web of Mystery at Rachel Rosenthal Company in Culver City, Los Angeles. In Web of Mystery, a spider dances with it’s puppeteers before overtaking one of them. Melissa Dunphy composed original music.

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Wake Up Your Weird, Waterford, CT (performance)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Cavern Club Theater, Comedy, Dance, Drama, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Fabrication, LA, Lesher Center for the Arts, Leslie Cararra-Rudolph, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Marsian De Lellis, Michele Spears, Musical, National Puppetry Conference, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Rosenthal, San Diego, Sharon Challenger, Song, Surrealism, Tim Lagasse, Violence, Walnutt Creek, CA, Waterford, Web of Mystery

In June 2011, 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 Web of Mystery,  in which a spider dances with it’s puppeteers before overtaking one of them, and as an assistant puppeteer on Leslie Cararra-Rudolph’s Wake Up Your Weird, in which a candy obsessed five year old must process her feelings after getting bullied out of a play date.

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Web of Mystery, Waterford, CT, (performance)

Posted on 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
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.

Connecticut Guild of Puppetry – 2011 (funding)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Cavern Club Theater, Comedy, Dance, Drama, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Fabrication, LA, Lesher Center for the Arts, Leslie Cararra-Rudolph, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Marsian De Lellis, Michele Spears, Musical, National Puppetry Conference, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Rosenthal, San Diego, Sharon Challenger, Song, Surrealism, Tim Lagasse, Violence, Walnutt Creek, CA, Waterford, Web of Mystery

In June 2011, 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 Web of Mystery,  in which a spider dances with it’s puppeteers before overtaking one of them, and as an assistant puppeteer on Leslie Cararra-Rudolph’s Wake Up Your Weird, in which a candy obsessed five year old must process her feelings after getting bullied out of a play date.

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Growing Up Linda, Transmodern, Baltimore

Posted on by hausofmarsian in 14Karat Cabaret, Art, Baltimore, Comedy, Eugean Seo, Film, Fudgie's Death, Growing Up Linda, H&H Building, Hunter Wells, Joel Egger, Kari Rae Seekons, Lee Vargas, Live Feed, Marsian De Lellis, Performance, Performance Art, PJ McWhiskers, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Weir, Surrealism, Theater, Transmodern Festival, Video, Written
  • Marsian De Lellis, Aaron Barlow, 14Karat Cabaret, Baltimore, 2011

On Friday, April 29th, 2011, I performed Fudgie’s Death, a segment from Growing Up Linda in which a woman who believes she’s the daughter of a famous ice cream mogul must come to terms with her troubled past.  The performance was at 14Karat Cabaret as part of Transmodern Festival in Baltimore.

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