Category: Animal Cracker Conspiracy

A decade of the Puppet Slam Network

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
Jen Lynn, photo: Doug Wong

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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Portland Press Herald, (Puppet Slam Network)

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

On January 28th, 2013, The Portland Press Herald briefly covered my work with the Puppet Slam Network as part of a larger story on Blainor McGough, curator of King Friday’s Dungeon in Portland, ME.

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The Puppetry Journal (Press)

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 Spring of 2012, The Puppetry Journal ran a substantive cover story on the world of puppet slams, featuring my work as co-founder of The Puppet Slam Network and my interviews with puppet slam artists. The Puppet Slam Network fostered connections for independently produced puppet cabarets, so that puppet artists knew where they could perform, venues could find puppet artists, and audiences could enjoy an intimate, tactile, and compelling form of entertainment.   Continue reading “The Puppetry Journal (Press)” →

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, San Diego, (performance)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Dance, Dolls, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Rosenthal, San Diego, Sharon Challenger, Theater, Web of Mystery

 

Marsian De Lellis, San Diego, 2011
Animal Cracker Conspiracy – Adult Puppet Cabaret, 2011

On July 29th, 2011 I performed Web of Mystery at the Warehouse (a secret location) in San Diego where Animal Cracker Conspiracy held it’s Adult Puppet Cabaret. 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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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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Puppetry International – The North American Puppet Slam Scene in 2010 (press)

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Puppetry International Fall/Winter 2010
Puppetry International Fall/Winter 2010

In the “The North American Puppet Slam Scene in  2010”, I was interviewed by Teresa Smalec for Puppetry International on my work as a curator of short-form puppetry for adults and in my role as co-founder of the Puppet Slam Network.

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CJOB, Winnipeg

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

On July 7th, 2010, Dan Walechuck appeared on CJOB (Winnipeg) to talk about The Puppet Slam Network and the Winnipeg Puppet Slam, in which I performed Fudgie’s Death, a segment from Growing Up Linda. 

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