MFA Directing, Brooklyn College, CUNY - Dean's List 2009 BA Theater Arts, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Original Work - Writer/Designer/Director 2010 THIRST: MEMORY OF WATER La MaMa 2010 FOLKTALES OF ASIA AND AFRICA BAM, NY 2005 UNIVERSE EXPANDING La MaMa, NY 2001 BED OF LIGHT La Mama 1998 THE LONE RUNNER La MaMa, and Theater For The New City NY, NY 1995 ANNA’S JOURNEY Women On Fire, Atlanta GA 1994 BURNING Women On Fire 1993 NOSTRADAMUS SPEAKS! 800 East Performance Gallery, Atlanta GA 1991 FOLKTALES OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA Center For Puppetry Arts, Atlanta, GA 1991 FAIRYTALES OF EUROPE Center For Puppetry Arts 1991 FOLKTALES OF ASIA AND AFRICA Center For Puppetry Arts 1990 BETWEEN A ROCK AND WHERE THE HEART LIES Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA 1990 A SLEEPWALKER ON EARL Center For Puppetry Arts XPT (Xperimental Puppetry Theatre) 1989 ON THE RED RIVER Center For Puppetry Arts XPT
Professional Experience - Collaborations Set Design 2010 Secret Love In Peach Blossom Land-Terry O'Reilly / Eugene Lang/Connelly Theatre Puppet and Mask Design and Construction-Gian Marco LoForte/ La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theatre 2010 I FIORETTI IN MUSICA Puppet Design and Construction-Weaver Academy 2010 THE LITTLE BABY SNOOGLE - FLEEJAR Director, Play reading -The Gallery Players, NY 2009 DOG SHOW
Puppet/Costume Design/Construction - NY Fringe Festival/Mind the Art 2009 MAY-DECEMBER WITH THE NOSE AND CLAMMY
Puppet Design/Construction -“tiyatro global” at the United Nations 2009 MIKA
Puppet Design/Construction-Samuel French New Play Festival 2008 CLOWN CHICKEN GOES TO BROADWAY
Co-Director/Puppetry Design/Construction - Matrix Music and Terry O’Reilly 2008 PETER AND THE WOLF
Puppet Design/Construction - Nancy Harrow 2008 THE CAT WHO WENT TO HEAVEN
Collaborator /Direction/Design/Construction with Susan Yankowitz – HERE Arts Center 2006/2007 THE LUDICROUS TRIAL OF MR. P
Collaborator Direction/Design with Ilir Dragovoja- International Centre Of Culture, Tirana, Albania 2006 THE MAGIC PITCHER
Puppet Designer/Builder - La MaMa, Ellen Stewart, Theodora Skipitares 2004 ISHARA PUPPET FESTIVAL, NEW DEHLI, INDIA
Puppet Designer/Director - Mabou Mines 2003 DOLLHOUSE 36 Marionettes operated in tandem by 6 Puppeteers from behind and below.
Puppet Design/Construction/Director - Tooth and Nil Theatre Company/Theatre On Two 2003 BALLAD OF YACHIO
Director - Ed Woodham/St Ann’s Puppet Lab 2002 USEFUL TABLES
Collaborator/Skeletal Dog Puppet Design/Construction - Lee Breuer/Mabou Mines 1999 RED BEADS Workshop, Walker Center, Minneapolis
Collaborator Direction/Design/Construction - Erica Bilder/La MaMa - Assos Theater Festival, Turkey 1995 YOUTH WITHOUT AGE, LIFE WITHOUT DEATH
Collaborator/Human Shadow Director/Puppet Design/Construction/Director - Sandy Corley, Atlanta Georgia 1994 WE REMEMBER, WE DO NOT FORGET 1993 PYRAMID OF LIGHTS
Puppet Building Theodora Skipitares 2009 THE TRAVELING PLAYERS PRESENT THE WOMEN OF TROY, 2008 MEDEA, 2004 THE ODYSSEY, 2003 HELEN QUEEN OF SPARTA, 2001 OPTIC FEVER, 1999 BODY OF CRIME, 1996 UNDER THE KNIFE
Ellen Stewart’s Great Jones Repertory Company, La MaMa 2009 ASCLEPIUS 2004 MOTEL Mabou Mines, Lee Breuer 2002 ECCO PORCO 2000 ANIMAL MAGNETISM 1996 PETER AND WENDY (also Co-Puppetry Director, original cast)
Julie Taymor 1999 THE GREEN BIRD
Millennium Celebrations, Stephan Kaplan 1999-2000 Under the Sea puppets for the Times Square Parade
Sundance Summer Children’s Theatre, Theodora Skipitares 1997 THE ENCHANTED PIG
Director/Puppet Builder/Costumer for Vagabond Marionettes 1995 ANANSI 1994 HANSEL AND GRETEL 1993 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Master Puppeteer Inkfish Productions, NY, NY 2006 THE NOSE
Mabou Mines, Lee Breuer 2002 ECCO PORCO (Directed puppetry sequences) 1996 PETER AND WENDY (also co-Puppetry Director) 1995 EPIDOG
Theodora Skipitares 1999 BODY OF CRIME 1998 HARLOT’S PROGRESS 1996 UNDER THE KNIFE 1991 THE RADIANT CITY
Lincoln Center Lab 1997 A VISIT TO THE FOOTBINDER
Janie Geiser 1994 EVIDENCE OF FLOODS
Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA 1994 DESOTO
Theatrical Outfit/Neil Bogan, Atlanta, GA 1992 THE DEAD COULD NOT AFFORD HEAVEN
1987-1992 Resident Artist at the Center For Puppetry Arts; character voices and puppet manipulation: SNOW WHITE, BRER RABBIT, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, PINNOCHIO, JUST SO STORIES, HANZEL AND GRETEL, GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, WINNIE THE POOH, DINOSAURS(ORIGINAL CO-AUTHOR), PUSS IN BOOTS, WIZARD OF OZ, CINDERELLA, PETER PAN, HEAVEN HELL TOUR(ALSO COSTUME DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION), DEFENDERS OF THE CODE, AGE OF INVENTION, THE BOX OF NIGHT, ALICE IN WONDERLAND(ADULT), THE COMET OPERA
Media Master Puppeteer - Turner Interactive 1995 DINOTOPIA Interactive game
Master Puppeteer - Children’s show pilot 1994 Zarrf’s World
Overhead Projector Shadow Puppetry/Graphics – Design/Construction/Execution - CNN Special Reports 1993 MURDER BY NUMBER
1987-1992 PSA puppetry announcements filmed at Atlanta, GA area television studios
Acting Atlanta, GA 1993 THE LAST FAIRY TALE- Actress/Puppeteer Alliance Theater 1985 ATLANTA MIME FESTIVAL Mime 1984 TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY MERCER Soloist 1983 CHAMBER MUSIC Amelia Earhart 1982 THE FLYING DOCTOR and CALLINDRINO’S ILLNESS- Commedia ensemble member
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 1980 CABERET - Sally Bowles 1980 Jacques brel is alive and well and living in paris- Soloist 1979 LOVERS WINNERS - Mag 1978 ANTIGONE - Chorus
Technical Experience 1997-2009 - Costume Construction and Repair - Ellen Stewart’s Great Jones Repertory Company, La MaMa
Stage Management - Inkfish Art & Little Angel Theatre, Suspense Festival, London 2009 THE BRAIN
Stage Management - Brooklyn College 2008 LOBBY HERO
Spotlight Operator - Virginia Museum Theater 1981 GODSPELL
Light/Sound Board OP/Light Tech 2006 Major Kovalev’s Variety Show
Light Board OP- Theater For The New City 2006 - 2007 LES Festival
Street Performance-Mime Piedmont Arts Festival - Atlanta, GA - four festivals MARTA Summer Festival - Atlanta, GA Little Five Points Street Festival - Atlanta, GA
Street Performance-Puppetry 2007 Lincoln Center - Summer of Love Festival Underground Atlanta - Atlanta, GA South Street Seaport - NY
Curating/Producing XPT experimental new works for puppetry for adult audiences - Center For Puppetry Arts FTW new works for puppetry for family audiences - Center For Puppetry Arts CoFounder/Curator Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival 2004-2007 & 2009 at Theater for The New City, NY Founder/Director - Mime Troupe, Theatre Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Publications and Panels Theater for the New City 2008 Puppetry with a Social Conscience-Panelist Puppetry Journal Rehearsing RC - Spring 1992 Vol 43 # 3 Teaching - Workshops 2010 NYU - Guest Speaker-puppetry 2009 NYU - Shadow Puppetry; construction and techniques 2009 Manchester Community College Festival, CT - Shadow Puppetry; construction and techniques 2008 Children’s Museum, NY - Shadow Puppetry; construction and techniques 2008 NYU - Rod Puppets; construction and techniques 2007-2008 Rikers Island, NY - Shadow Puppets for literacy 2004-2006 Pratt Institute, NY - Light and Shadow techniques with emphasis on Overhead Projector 1995 TAL, Istanbul, Turkey- Light and Shadow techniques with emphasis on Overhead Projector 1994 Piccadilly Puppets - Callaway Gardens Hand/Glove Puppet Construction/ Vocal techniques for characterization for company members Atlanta, GA. 1992-1993 Vagabond Marionettes, Atlanta, GA - Marionette manipulation and vocal techniques for characterization for company members 1993 Cool Girls After School Club, Atlanta, GA - Found Object Puppetry Workshop 1992 Youth Summer Camp, Atlanta, GA - On Screen shadow puppet construction and manipulation improvisations 1991 Kennesaw State Park, Atlanta, GA - Hand and rod puppet manipulation workshop 1990 Atlanta Puppetry Guild - Found Object Puppetry Workshop and improvisation 1982-1985 Company Kaye Dance /Mime Company Atlanta, GA - Mime techniques—various workshops in Metro Atlanta area /Valdosta College - Mime techniques
Teaching - Artist in Residence 2010 PS 245 Brooklyn, NY rod puppets design, construction and performance for second and third graders (Brooklyn Arts Council) 2010 PS 191 Brooklyn, NY hand puppets design, construction and performance for second and third graders (Brooklyn Arts Council) 2010 PS/IS 192 Brooklyn, NY rod puppets design, construction and performance for second and third graders (Brooklyn Arts Council) 2004 PS 220 Queens - Hand Puppets and Folktales for second graders 2003 PS 220 Queens - Hand Puppets and Shakespeare for second graders 2002 PS 220 Queens - Shadow Puppets and Fairy Tales for second graders 2001 PS 99 Queens - Hand Puppets and Shakespeare for third graders 1999 PS 99 Queens - Hand Puppets and Shakespeare for third graders
1997 The Old Stone House in Byrne Park, Brooklyn - After School Program for high school students; puppet construction, script writing and performance.
1996-1998 Puppetry In Practice, NY - Taught in schools and After School Programs throughout Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx and Staten Island - shadow puppetry, toy theatre, hand puppets, hand and rod puppets and pop up cards and books, from grades one through high school. Shadow puppetry techniques for a teacher enhancement program at Brooklyn College.
1982-1985 Company Kaye Dance /Mime Company - Mime techniques for full time students at the studio.
Awards/Grants Joel Zwick Directing Scholarship Award - Brooklyn College Dean’s List - Brooklyn College Who’s Who in American Colleges - Brooklyn College Henson Foundation Production Grant - UNIVERSE EXPANDING HERE Dream Music Grant – BED OF LIGHT Henson Foundation Seed Grant through HERE Dream Music - Susan Yankowitz’s THE LUDICROUS TRIAL OF MR P Mabou Mines RAP 2004 and 2005, Arts at St Ann’s Puppet Lab/Labapalooza 2001 and 2002, UNIMA USA and Institut International de la Marionette - Grant for studies of Bunraku sculpting and Kuruma Ningyo manipulation in Charleville-Mezierre, France. Helen Hayes Award for Contributions to Theater - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. |