Bunraku-style puppet
bunraku
Hand and Rod Puppet
Toy Theater Puppets from The Tempest
Shadow Puppets
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- education:
- Sarah Lawrence CollegeBA, Liberal Arts, May 2002
- Focus in Puppetry, Set Design, & Performance
- British American Drama Academy (BADA)London, UK, April 2001
- skills:
- Puppetry Training with Dan Hurlin
- · Hand/rod manipulation, shadow, bunraku, and marionette
- · Trained in constructing all types of puppets from scratch & puppet props & sets
- Master training with Fiona Shaw, Ian Wooldridge Dean, and Paul Rudd at BADA
- · Trained in Classical Stage and Television/Film acting, Comedic Performance, and Stage Combat
- Studied Voice with Eddy Pierce Young & Jed Distler
- · Trained in Italian Arias, Cabaret performance, & Rock/Classic musical
- performance:
- Jan. 2010: Porco Morto New York Theater Workshop, Lee Breuer, director/creator,
- Jessica Scott, puppet builder performer and props assistant
- Jun-Aug. 2009: The Addam’s Family build & Arias with a Twist Rebuild Basil Twist Studio, Prop/Puppet building
- Jan. 2009: Porco Morto Mabou Mines, Lee Breuer, director/creator, Jessica Scott,
- puppet builder
- July 2007: The Adventures of Charcoal Boy Pearson Theater, St. Paul, Puppet Rampage - International Puppetry Festival
- Mar. 2007: The Exiles · La MaMa Annex, Theodora Skipitares, director/creator
- April 2006: The Adventures of Charcoal Boy HERE Arts Center, Sarah Provost, Eric Novak & Elyas Khan
- Nov. 2005: The Adventures of Charcoal Boy Theatre for the New City,
- Sarah Provost, Eric Novak & Elyas Khan
- Mar. 2005: Iphigenia · La MaMa Annex, Theodora Skipitares, director/creator
- Nov. 2004: 3 Works (of Samuel Beckett) with Project B · Theatre for the New City, NYC Project B - Jane Stein, Nancy Salomon Miranda & Sarah Provost
- May 2004: The Adventures of Charcoal Boy · St. Ann’s Warehouse / Art at St. Ann’s, Brooklyn, NY Labapalooza: Mini Festival of New Puppet Theatre from the Lab, Sarah Provost & Eric NovakFeb.
- 2004: Odyssey - The Homecoming · La MaMa Annex, NYC, Theodora Skipitares, director/creator
- Aug. 2003: Hiroshima Maidens · Rehearsal Substitute Puppeteer, NYC, Dan Hurlin, director/creator
- May 2003: Permanent Disruption · St. Ann’s Warehouse / Arts at St. Ann’s, Brooklyn, NY Labapalooza: Mini Festival of New Puppet Theatre From the Lab, Chris Maresca, director/creator
- Feb. 2003: Helen · Queen of Sparta · La MaMa, ETC, Theodora Skipitares, director/creator
- Sept. 2002: Say Uncle!!! An Evening of Puppetry · SOHO Playhouse Not From France Performance Group, Co-Founder
- July 2002: The Anti-Cabaret Show · WOW Theater,
- NYC Original Drag King Performance of ‘Flash & Pumpkin’
- May 2002: Three Penny Opera , Whore # 1, Sarah Lawrence College, NY
- Mar. 1999: HAIR - The Musical, Dionne, Sarah Lawrence College
I know of no thinking person who does not, at heart, believe —when the miasma of free will is blown asunder, when the hubris of an existential essence is, in the court of the soul, revealed as a perjury —does not at heart believe they are a puppet.
– Lee Breuer - The Drama Review
