On December 7th, 2017, Center Theatre Group interviewed Gina Young, Hana Kim, and myself as finalists for the 2018 Sherwood Award about our art/lives in L.A. Read the full story on the Center Theatre Group Blog.
Continue reading “2018 Sherwood Award Finalists Interview (CTG Blog)”October 13th-21st, 2017, Julie Brown’s Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun – The Musical, in which I designed a puppet opened at the Cavern Club Theater in Los Angeles for fourth run.
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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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The weekend of October 15th and 16th, 2016, I performed The Feeder at Beady Little Eyes puppet slam
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On August 31st, 2015, HowlRound published Why Puppetry? Musings of a Solo Puppet Artist, an essay I wrote for their week on American puppetry.
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On June 12th and 13th, 2015, I performed The Feeder, a short solo tabletop puppetry piece that explores the unintended consequences of a complicated relationship.
Continue reading “The Feeder, Waterford, CT (performance)”On June 3, 2015, I interviewed Jean Marie Keevins, Fred Thompson, Iain Gunn, and Bridget Rountree as part of a video diary in which I interviewed puppet artists and documented my experiences at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.
Continue reading “Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Video Diary: June 3, 2015”In June 2015, the Los Angles Guild of Puppetry supported my time at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut.
Continue reading “LA Guild of Puppetry (support)”Mentors, Influences, Inspiration, + Legends
In 2015, I was nominated for Ronnie Burkett’s Puppetry Heroes: Mentors, Influences, Inspirations + Legends Challenge… And so began five days of writing on instagram and facebook about artists like Nancy Andrews, Paul Mc Carthy, JoJo Baby + Greer Lankton, Janie Geiser, and the style of puppetry known as kuroko.
Nancy Andrews is the intersection of puppetry, fine arts, experimental film, and performance art. (More)
In this abject exploration of bodily fluids, ketchup and fudge transcend into blood and feces. McCarthy examines the symbolic contagion of identity by having audience members dress in similar Pinocchio masks and costumes, blurring the line between witness and participant. (More)
Lankton made meticulous elaborate dolls of varying body types and genders with exhibitions at the Mattress Factory and a piece in the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Jojo’s armatures included entire chakra systems comprised of precious stones and bodily artifacts. (More)
I first met Janie Geiser at a puppet festival in Chicago where she performed a walk-through series of dioramas showing a woman fleeing domestic violence while being chased for a crime she didn’t commit. (More)
Kuroko:
Nagi Noda / Basil Twist / Japanese Gameshow
I have seen limbs torn from bodies, sudden drastic shifts in perspective, hyper-flexibility, slow motion, and weightlessness. (More)
In 2015, Object of Her Affection was the recipient of a Project Grant from the Jim Henson Foundation.
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