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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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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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Transparent, Amazon (background)

Posted on December 11, 2015December 27, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Film, LGBT, Los Angeles LGBT Center, Marsian De Lellis, Performance, Video

On December 11 , 2015, Season 2 of Transparent was released on Amazon Prime. In episode 8 Oscilate, I was a background performer in a yoga class at The LGBT Center doing sun salutations alongside Alexandra Billings.

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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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Contemporary Performance Almanac 2015 (book)

Posted on December 30, 2014August 26, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Animism, Birthday Trauma, Bride of Wildenstein - The Musical, Fudgie's Death, Gainers and Feeders, Growing Up Linda, LSD Kills, Marsian De Lellis, Michele Spears, NYC, Object of Her Affection, Object Sexuality, Object Sexuals, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Photographs, Plastic Surgery, Press, Puppetry, Puppets, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Video, Written

On December 30th, 2014, an entry on Object of Her Affection was published in the 2015 Contemporary Performance Almanac.

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Not Alone, 2014 Brooklyn (puppets on film)

Posted on June 8, 2014July 26, 2017 by hausofmarsian in Adrian Rose Leonard, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Dance, Film, Jim Henson Foundation, LA, Los Angeles, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Musical, Performance, Puppetry, Puppets, Song, The Jim Henson Foundation, Trish Sie, Video

On June 8th, 2014 Trish Sie’s short film – Not Alone, which I puppeteered in, was screened for a 2nd time 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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Speed Police (commercial, puppets on film)

Posted on February 19, 2014December 29, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Comedy, Commercial, LA, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Puppetry, Puppets, Video

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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Not Alone, Brooklyn (puppets on film)

Posted on October 26, 2013October 4, 2017 by hausofmarsian in Adrian Rose Leonard, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Dance, Film, Jim Henson Foundation, LA, Los Angeles, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Musical, Performance, Puppetry, Puppets, Song, The Jim Henson Foundation, Trish Sie, Video

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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That EFFN Show (puppet + doll design)

Posted on September 15, 2013July 26, 2017 by hausofmarsian in Alison Mork, Design, Dolls, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Jess McKay, Kate Katz, LA, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Puppetry, Puppets, Video

I designed and fabricated an operational ventriloquist dummy and a doll for the sports comedy reality pilot, That EFFN Show, shot on September 15th, 2013. The ventriloquist dummy was supposed to be in the likeness of Peyton Manning as Frankenstein, while the prop doll was made to resemble, one of the hosts, comedian Sean O’Conner in the style of Chuckie, the protagonist from the Child’s Play franchise. Continue reading “That EFFN Show (puppet + doll design)” →