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Puppets from the Edge 2006, Orlando (curatorial)

Posted on November 5, 2006February 8, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Art, cantastoria, Comedy, Curatorial, Cut Outs, Design, Dolls, Drama, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Heather Henson, Ibex Puppetry, Improv, Mad Cow Theatre, Marsian De Lellis, Object Theatre, Orlando, Orlando Puppet Festival, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Surrealism, Table Top Puppetry, Theater

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

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PuppetSlam.com – soft launch

Posted on March 9, 2006August 16, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Art, Atlanta, Baltimore, Blood from a Turnip, Bonnie Duncan, Boston, Brookline, Brooklyn, Calgary, cantastoria, Carole D'Agostino, Chicago, Christine Papalexis, Curatorial, Cut Outs, Dance, Design, Dolls, Eli Presser, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Heather Henson, Improv, Installation, interview, Janie Geiser, LA, Leslie Cararra-Rudolph, Live Feed, Liz Hara, Los Angeles, Lowell, MA, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, New Orleans, New Smyrna Beach, NYC, Object Theatre, Olympia, Orlando, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Phoenix, Providence, Puppet Slam Network, Puppetry, Puppets, San Diego, Seattle, WA, Shadow Puppetry, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Tim Lagasse, Toy Theatre, Valencia, Vanessa Gilbert, Winnipeg, Xstine Cook

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.

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Teaching artist-in-residence, Warwick, RI

Posted on April 22, 2005November 22, 2017 by hausofmarsian in Activism, Art, Artist-Educator, Cut Outs, Fabrication, Improv, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Object Theatre, Pawtucket, RI, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Providence, Puppetry, Puppets, Sculpture, Theater, Toy Theatre

In May 2005, I was a guest teaching artist-in-residence at Oakland Beach Elementary School in Rhode Island working with grades 1, 3, and 6. Lead artist-in-residence, Amy Lynn Budd, had students create a performance response to the film, Yellow Submarine. I came into the class room a handful of times to assist with mask work and puppetry and aspects of the project (both construction and performance).

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School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA (education)

Posted on May 1, 2001October 18, 2017 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Activism, Art, cantastoria, Curatorial, Dance, Design, Dolls, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Gallery, Improv, Marsian De Lellis, Painting, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Photographs, Press, Puppetry, Puppets, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Song, Stop-motion, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Video, Voice, Voice-over, Written

In May 2001, I graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with a BFA in Studio Art. At the graduation ceremony, DJ Spooky was a featured speaker and was awarded an honorary degree. While at SAIC, my focus was in Transdisciplinary Studies with a concentration on performance and puppetry.

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Nursey Nurse, Chicago Access Network

Posted on February 28, 1998November 9, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Alien Abduction, Art, Chicago, Chicago Access Network, Chicago Public Access, Comedy, Improv, Kathleen O'Shea, Marsian De Lellis, Performance, Performance Art, Pippin Roe, Surrealism

Screen Shot 2017-08-09 at 1.24.39 PM — *Nursey, Nurse*, 1998

On February 28th, 1998, I appeared on the first episode of Abuctions with Alterboy, a comedy talk show on Chicago Access Network hosted by creator, Mike Anthony. For the interview, Kathleen “Snatchleen” O’Shea and I appeared as Star and Twinkie – The Giovanni Sisters, identical twin sisters who grew up near a PCP testing plant just outside Gary, Indiana. While recounting our tale of alien abduction through hypnosis from our therapist, played by Motay, we aired a segment from Nursey Nurse, a surrealist video art piece Pippin Roe and I collaborated on.

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Feet, Chicago (installation performance)

Posted on March 23, 1997November 9, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Chicago, Improv, Kathleen O'Shea, LGBT, Marsian De Lellis, Performance, Performance Art, Radical Faeries, Randolph Street Gallery

Marsian Kathleen O'Shea, and Nett E. Brenner, Chicago, 1997 — Marsian Kathleen O’Shea, and Nett E. Brenner, Chicago, 1997

On March 23rd, 1997, Kathleen O’Shea and I collaborated on Feet an interactive performance-installation at Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago in which we performed alternative spa treatments on viewers. Feet was as part of Faeries to the Rescue, organized by the Chicago Radical Faerie Circle to support Randolph Street Gallery, an artist run space.