MFA Directing, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Dean’s List 2009 BA Theater Arts, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Co-Founder/Curator, Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival, Theater for the New City, NYC Member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab Founder/Director, Mime Troupe, Theatre Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Original Work - Writer/Designer/Director 2012 Pelandok the Mouse Deer and Other Tales from MalaysA. Commissioned work for Stepping Stones Museum for Children, CT. 2010 FOLKTALES OF ASIA AND AFRICA. La MaMa International Puppet Series 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, NY 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 2012 La Liberazione di Ruggiero Ongoing, production design, puppetry direction. Morningside Opera, NYC PROMETHEUS Within Puppet technical design/construction and rigging-Theodora Skipitares
2011 LYSISTRATA Puppet technical design/construction and rigging-Theodora Skipitares Arjuna’s Dilemma Mask and Puppet design-Pioneers Go East, Opera America Competition
2010 SECRET LOVE IN PEACH BLOSSOM LAND Set Design-Terry OReilly/New School for Drama I FIORETTI IN MUSICA Puppet and Mask Design and Construction-Gian Marco LoForte/ Pioneers Go East
Puppet Design and Construction-Weaver Academy THE LITTLE BABY SNOOGLE - FLEEJAR 2009 DOG SHOW Director, Play reading -The Gallery Players, NY MAY-DECEMBER WITH THE NOSE AND CLAMMY Puppet/Costume Design/Construction - NY Fringe Festival/Mind the Art MIKA Puppet Design/Construction -“tiyatro global” at the United Nations
2008 CLOWN CHICKEN GOES TO BROADWAY Puppet Design/Construction-Samuel French New Play Festival
PETER AND THE WOLF Co-Director/Puppetry Design/Construction - Matrix Music and Terry O’Reilly
THE CAT WHO WENT TO HEAVEN Puppet Design/Construction - Nancy Harrow
2006 THE MAGIC PITCHER Collaborator Direction/Design with Ilir Dragovoja- International Centre Of Culture, Tirana, Albania 2006/2007 THE LUDICROUS TRIAL OF MR. P Collaborator /Direction/Design/Construction with Susan Yankowitz – HERE Arts Center
2004 ISHARA PUPPET FESTIVAL, NEW DEHLI, INDIA Puppet Designer/Builder - La MaMa, Ellen Stewart, Theodora Skipitares
2003 DOLL HOUSE Puppet Designer/Director - Mabou Mines 36 Marionettes operated in tandem by 6 Puppeteers from behind and below. BALLAD OF YACHIO Puppet Design/Construction/Director - Tooth and Nil Theatre Company/Theatre On Two
2002 USEFUL TABLES Director - Ed Woodham/St Ann’s Puppet Lab
1999 RED BEADS, Workshop, Walker Center, Minneapolis Collaborator/Skeletal Dog Puppet Design/Construction - Lee Breuer/Mabou Mines
1995 YOUTH WITHOUT AGE, LIFE WITHOUT DEATH Collaborator Direction/Design/Construction - Erica Bilder/La MaMa - Assos Theater Festival, Turkey 1993-1994 WE REMEMBER, WE DO NOT FORGET PYRAMID OF LIGHTS Collaborator/Human Shadow Director/Puppet Design/Construction/Director - Sandy Corley, Atlanta Georgia
Puppet Building Theodora Skipitares 2010, LYSISTRATA, 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, Times Square, Stephan Kaplin 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 1996 PETER AND WENDY 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 1995 DINOTOPIA Interactive game- Turner Interactive Master Puppeteer 1994 ZARRF’S WORLD- Children’s show pilot Master Puppeteer 1993 MURDER BY NUMBEROverhead Projector Shadow Puppetry/Graphics –- CNN Special Reports Design/Construction/Execution 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 CABARET Sally Bowles 1980 Jacques brel is alive and well and living in paris- Soloist Technical Experience 2011 Angels of Swedenborg, Ping Chong/La MaMa Great Jones Rep Costumes and angel wing construction. 1997-2009 Ellen Stewart’s Great Jones Repertory Company, La MaMa Theater Costume Construction and Repair - 2009 THE BRAIN Stage Management - Inkfish Art & Little Angel Theatre, Suspense Festival, London
2008 LOBBY HERO Stage Management - Brooklyn College
2006 - 2007 LES Festival Light/Sound Board OP/Light Tech Light Board OP- Theater For The New City 2006 Major Kovalev’s Variety Show
1981 GODSPELL Spotlight Operator - Virginia Museum Theater 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 Teaching - Workshops 2012 HB Studios, Alec Harrington, Director. Selected scenes King Henry VI: Puppet design, construction, and direction. 2010 Barnard College-Guest Workshop Instructor in Shadow Puppetry, Masks and Rod Puppetry 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 2012 Laura Adasko Lenzner Art Residency-Bank Street College/ School for Children: Shadow Puppet construction 2010-2012 Brooklyn Arts Council: After school Puppetry Workshops: Rod or Marionette puppet making and manipulation. 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 teacher enhancement program at Brooklyn College. 1982-1985 Company Kaye Dance /Mime Company - Mime techniques for full time students at the studio. Publications and Panels 2011-2012 Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival Blogspot http://voice4visionpuppetfestival.blogspot.com/ Various articles and posts. 2008 Theater for the New City. Puppetry with a Social Conscience, Panelist Rehearsing RC, Puppetry Journal. Spring 1992. Vol 43 # 3 Awards/Grants Dean’s List - Brooklyn College; 2009 Who’s Who in American Colleges - Brooklyn College; 2009 Joel Zwick Directing Scholarship Award - Brooklyn College; 2008 Mabou Mines RAP 2004 and 2005, Henson Foundation Production Grant - UNIVERSE EXPANDING; 2004 Arts at St Ann’s Puppet Lab/Labapalooza 2001 and 2002, HERE Dream Music Grant – BED OF LIGHT; 2000 Henson Foundation Seed Grant / HERE Dream Music - Susan Yankowitz’s THE LUDICROUS TRIAL OF MR P; 2006 UNIMA USA and Institut International de la Marionette - Grant for studies of Bunraku sculpting and Kuruma Ningyo manipulation in Charleville-Mezierre, France; 1987
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