Category: UNIMA-USA

UNIMA-USA, Board of Directors (organizational)

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IMG_1079-web-edit 2011 UNIMA
photo: Jonny Gomez

In the Spring of 2012 I was elected to the  Board of Directors for UNIMA-USA. My term ran from July 2012- August 2015. While on the Board, I served as Secretary and the inaugural Social Media chair.  Based in Atlanta at the Center for Puppetry Arts, UNIMA-USA is the North American Center of Union Internationale de la Marionnette, the oldest international theatre organization in the world. UNIMA-USA’s mission is to promote international understanding and friendship through the art of puppetry.

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Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry, Board of Directors

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Adrian Rose Leonard, Christine Papalexis, LA, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry, Marsian De Lellis, performing objects, Puppet Slam Network, Puppetry, Puppets, Shadow Puppetry, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, UNIMA-USA

On July 24th, 2011 I was elected to the board of the Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry where I served as the group’s secretary.

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Puppet Cabaret, Storrs (host)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Art, Blood from a Turnip, Great Small Works, Ibex Puppetry, Improv, Janie Geiser, John Bell, Marsian De Lellis, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppetry and Post Dramatic Performance Conference, Puppets, Storrs, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Uconn, UNIMA-USA, Vanessa Gilbert
Vanessa Gilbert, Great Small Works, Marsian, 2011, Photos: Mark Dannenhauer
Vanessa Gilbert, Great Small Works, Marsian De Lellis, 2011, Photos: Mark Dannenhauer

On April 2nd, 2011, I hosted a puppet cabaret at the Nafe Katter Theatre with long-time Blood from a Turnip collaborator, Vanessa Gilbert. The line up included short-form puppet acts from Great Small Works, Big Nazo, Michael Sommers, and Kate Brehm. The cabaret was part of Puppetry and Post Dramatic Performance: An International Conference on Performing Objects in the 21st Century at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT.

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The New American Vaudeville, Storrs, CT (artist talk)

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On April 2nd, 2011, I presented The New American Vaudeville: The Puppet Slam Network, at Puppetry and Postdramatic Performance – an International Conference on Performing Objects in the 21st Century hosted by the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT.  In The New American Vaudeville I contextualized growing field of puppet slams – evenings of short-form puppet and object theater for adult audiences.  The presentation was informed by my position as co-founder of the Puppet Slam Network which ran from 2005 to 2016.

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Object/Fetish, Storrs (Talk)

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Marsian De Lellis, 2011, Photo: Uconn Puppetry Department
Marsian De Lellis, 2011, Photo: Uconn Puppetry Department

In Friday, April 1st, 2011, I presented my artist-talk, Object/Fetish: Staging the Suspension of Disbelief in Every Day Life at the University of Connecticut in Storrs for the Puppetry and Postdramatic Performance Conference.

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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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Object/Fetish, Valencia (guest teacher)

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2010-16x7-Object-Fetish-300dpi Object/Fetish Calarts

On November 18th, 2010, I was a guest teacher for Susan Simpson’s History of American Puppet Theater course at CalArts through the Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts. For this class which included a mixture of graduate and undergraduate students, I presented my multi-media artist-talk, Object/Fetish: Staging the Suspension of Disbelief in Every Day Life.

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Puppetry International

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Art, Atlanta, LA, Los Angeles, Lynn Jeffries, Marsian De Lellis, Performance, Performance Art, Plastic Surgery, Press, Puppetry, Puppets, Theater, UNIMA-USA, Video

In the Spring of 2009, Lynn Jeffries wrote about my work in Puppetry International’s “40 Under 40” edition, in which she likened my performances as  “a crazy hall of mirrors, flashing bits of a story from multiple angles [..] held together by a strong idosyncratic personal aesthetic. And lots of fake fur”

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Growing Up Linda, Edinburgh (Premiere)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Comedy, Dance, DanRae Wilson, Dolls, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe, Eugean Seo, Figurines, Fudgie's Death, Gainers and Feeders, Growing Up Linda, Heather Henson, Jackie Kay Knox, Janie Geiser, Joel Egger, Live Feed, LSD Kills, Lynn Jeffries, Marsian De Lellis, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, PJ McWhiskers, Pop-Ups, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Weir, Song, Surrealism, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, UNIMA-USA, Venue 13, Video

On Friday, August 8th, 2008  Growing Up Linda premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 

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CalArts, Office of the President (support)

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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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