Category: Serial Killers

Model Killer at LAX Festival

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Automata, Dollhouses, Eli Presser, Figurines, Hunter Wells, LA, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Michele Spears, Miniatures, Model Killer, Munchausen by proxy, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Serial Killers, The Jim Henson Foundation, Theater, Tim Lagasse, Violence
photo: Richard Termine

Saturday, October 21 and Sunday, October 22, I will be presenting episode one from Model Killer: Giant Crimes + Tiny Cover-Ups at Automata in Los Angeles as part of the Live Arts Exchange [LAX] Festival. A disgruntled dollhouse maker turned investigator transforms herself into a blood thirsty serial killer in this noir walk-through puppetry experience that uses fragments of dollhouses as staging areas. Space is limited to 12 participants at a time. Get tickets.

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24700 Automata Residency

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Art, Automata, Comedy, Cut Outs, Design, Dollhouses, Dolls, Drama, Fabrication, Figurines, Gallery, Installation, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Model Killer, Munchausen by proxy, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Serial Killers, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Violence, Written

On July 9th, 2020, 24700, news from California Institute for the Arts blog announced my individual artist residency Automata to develop Model Killer: Giant Crimes + Tiny Cover-ups.

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Model Killer, American Puppetry Today, The Photography of Richard Termine, Charleville-Mézières

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Dollhouses, Dolls, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Figurines, Guilford, CT, Marsian De Lellis, Miniatures, Model Killer, National Puppetry Conference, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Photographs, Puppetry, Puppets, Serial Killers, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Violence

From September 20th-29th, 2019, a photograph from Model Killer will be part of American Puppetry Today, The Photography of Richard Termine in Charleville-Mézières, France.

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How We Got Stuck Together

Posted on by hausofmarsian in (In)/Animate Objects, Acting, Animism, Art, Artist Talk, Automata, Biopic, Comedy, Debra Broz, Design, Dollhouses, Dolls, Fabrication, Figurines, Gallery, Installation, LA, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), Marsian De Lellis, Miniatures, Model Killer, Object of Her Affection, Object Sexuality, Object Sexuals, Object Theatre, Object/Fetish, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, REDCAT, Serial Killers, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Track 16, Violence
Detail from (In)/Animate Objects Panel #1, 2019,  photo: Track 16

Whether it’s disintegrating dolls, mutant ceramic bunnies, or rescue animal pinups, the artists of Stuck Together: Marsian De Lellis, Simone Gad, Debra Broz, playfully handcraft responses to mass-produced objects and images charged with autobiographical fragments. Join me on a virtual tour, where we can survey the work for context… Continue reading “How We Got Stuck Together” →

24700 (Blog)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in (In)/Animate Objects, Acting, Art, Automata, Biopic, CalArts, Comedy, Design, Dollhouses, Dolls, Drama, Fabrication, Figurines, Gallery, Installation, Janie Geiser, LA, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Model Killer, National Puppetry Conference, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Press, Puppetry, Puppets, Sculpture, Serial Killers, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Track 16, Violence

On March 29, 2019, 24700, News from California Institute of the Arts featured my D+R Residency at Automata for Model Killer in their blog article by Katie Dunham.

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Model Killer – Model Victims, Waterford, CT (workshop performance)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Art, cantastoria, Comedy, Derron Wood, Design, Dollhouses, Dolls, Drama, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Fabrication, Figurines, Marsian De Lellis, Miniatures, Model Killer, Munchausen by proxy, National Puppetry Conference, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Sculpture, Serial Killers, Sharon Challenger, Toy Theatre, Violence, Waterford
Model Killer, 2017, Photo: Richard Termine
Model Killer, 2017, Photo: Richard Termine

On June 16th + 17th, I presented an initial scene from Model Killer: Giant Crimes & Tiny Cover-Ups, as an artist-in-residence at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center at the culmination of the National Puppetry Conference. Model Killer is a morbid comedy centered on Vivian Nutt, a disgruntled dollhouse maker turned investigator. Vivian builds dioramas of unsolved murders, only for it to be revealed that she is a serial killer.  In Model Killer, I am creating a universe in which I invite the viewer to reconsider female serial killers, the historically feminine craft of miniatures, and murder as entertainment.

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American Theatre (magazine)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Art, cantastoria, Comedy, Derron Wood, Design, Dollhouses, Dolls, Drama, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Fabrication, Figurines, Marsian De Lellis, Melissa Dunphy, Miniatures, Model Killer, Munchausen by proxy, National Puppetry Conference, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppets, Sculpture, Serial Killers, Sharon Challenger, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Violence, Waterford

On April 20th, 2017, American Theatre, announced the 2017 season at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, including my artist-in-residence for Model Killer.

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Model Killer – 2016, Waterford, CT (private reading)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Dollhouses, Dolls, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Figurines, Marsian De Lellis, Miniatures, Model Killer, Performance, Performance Art, Puppetry, Puppets, Serial Killers, Spoken Word, Theater, Violence, Waterford
Model Killer

On June 17th, 2016, I presented a private reading of excerpts from Model Killer at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut.

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