Growing Up Linda

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Growing Up Linda was an ensemble actor-puppetry performance in which a woman who believes she’s the daughter of a famous ice cream mogul must come to terms with her troubled past.  

SYNOPSIS

A giggly grinning ice cream cake flies Linda off to Planet Birthday, where she is briefly happy and loved. Moments later, Linda stares in horror as a piece of her new friend is cut and served to her on a plate. Its sugary severed mouth hisses up at her, “You let them kill me!” So begins fictitious ice cream heiress Linda Carvel’s long troubled relationship with food, as told in a psychedelic puppet fantasia by Marsian De Lellis.  (More)

Lynn Jeffries, Puppetry International

PRESS + MEDIA

During its Edinburgh run, The Scotsman distinguished Growing Up Linda as “colorful, elaborate” and “nightmarish”. (More Press)

CREATIVE TEAM

Written, designed and directed by Marsian De Lellis, written with P.J. McWhiskers and Joel Egger, Scenic Design: Juliana de Abreau, Costume Design: Rachel Weir, Lighting Design: Brandon Sterling Baker, Sound Design: E M Giminez, Kari Rae Seekons, Video Design: Roz Fulton, Technical Director: Jeff Arbuckle, Properties: Merrianne Nedreberg, Pop-Ups: EuGean Seo (Read More)

CHRONOLOGY

Premiere

2008 Venue 13
Edinburgh

Work In
Progress

2008 CalArts
Valencia

Excerpts

2011 
14Karat Cabaret
Baltimore
2010 
Avalon Gallery
Orlando
2010 
Park Theatre
Winnipeg
2010 
Blue Gene’s
Waterford
2010 
St. Ann’s
Brooklyn
2010 
Links Hall
Chicago
2008 
REDCAT
L.A.
2007 
Space Ark
Pasadena
2007 
CalArts
Valencia
2006 
Judson Church
New York
2006 
Carriage House
Providence
2005 Coolidge Corner
Boston
2005 
Perishable
Providence
2005 
Mad Cow
Orlando
2005 ACA
New Smyrna
2004 
Comedy Studio
Cambridge
2004 
Perishable
Providence

Gallery

2009 Avalon Gallery
Orlando
2008 St. Ann’s Warehouse
Brooklyn
2007 Acorn Gallery
Los Angeles
2007 Grand Central Art Center
Santa Ana, California
2006 
Guilford Art Center
Guilford, Conn.
2004 
AS220 
Providence
2004 
Woods-Gerry Gallery
Providence

SUPPORT