From May 7th-10th 2008, The Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts and CalArts School of Theater presented a full workshop of Growing Up Linda in Valencia, California,
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In 2008, I was the recipient of funding from the Office of the President at California Institute for the Arts for the workshop of Growing Up Linda and premiere at Venue 13 in Edinburgh.
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In 2008, I was the recipient of funding from UNIMA-USA for the run of Growing Up Linda at the Edinburgh Fringe.
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In 2008, I was the recipient of an Interdisciplinary Grant from the California Institute of Arts for a workshop of Growing Up Linda and the premiere at Venue 13 in Edinburgh.
Continue reading “Interdisciplinary Project Grant – 2008 (support)”On the weekend of January 12th – 14th, 2007, I was in Chicago, to introduce and promote Handmade Puppet Dreams Volume 2 at Links Hall in Chicago. The screening was part of program 2 of Off the Map and Into the Murk: Spelunking into Puppetry, a 4-week puppet themed performance and film series curated by Barbara Whitney that ran from January 5th-28th, 2007.
On Sunday, November 5th, 2006, I curated and hosted Puppets from the Edge at Mad Cow Theatre in Orlando
with Heather Henson. Puppets from the Edge was an evening of short-form puppetry for adults at the 2nd annual Orlando Puppet Festival that ran from November 1st through November 5th. The lineup included Harmony McChesney and Gary Alexander with Medea, Mark Baratelli with Improv-Cabaret, Wavy Davy with Rant, Shitty Bedford and Kevin Huey with The Dawning of Melted Telephone, Tom Blasco with Fleece in Space, James Donmoyer and Scotty Shoemaker with Stupid SciFi, Elaine Corbitt with Zombie Vacation, and Omnipresent Toychest with Akshun Fogyerz
On March 9th, 2006 I launched Puppetslam.com, a website that cataloged, connected, supported, and generated awareness for adult evenings of short-form puppetry and what would evolve into the Puppet Slam Network over the next decade.
Continue reading “PuppetSlam.com – soft launch”On February 10th and 11th, 2006, I performed in Birthday Trauma, a segment from Growing Up Linda at The Carriage House in Providence.
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On October 27th, 2005, The Daytona Beach News Journal covered a residency I was part of at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the event in which I performed a scene from Growing Up Linda.
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