PUPPETRY
ORIGINAL WORK
HOW TO KISS
2023
Short piece satirizing the practice of giving universal romantic advice by asking the advisee to practice kissing with an octopus.
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A BRIEF LECTURE
2023
A simple, tabletop puppet gets up to give a lecture to the audience and finds a pair of underwear. They accuse members of the audience and the puppeteer of leaving their underwear on the stage before finally realizing the underwear is their own.
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BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING
2024
Remade a Hannah Hoch collage of a shell with legs and boots as a large, flat surface puppet and had it dance to Nancy Sinatra's ‘These Boots are Made for Walking’
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SOME SLIGHT PRESSURE
2024
Satirical piece about inserting an IUD. A woman goes to get an IUD inserted and absurd things are done to her uterus in shadow.
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R3AL EYES SEE PAST UR PASTEURLIES,
2024
Satirical piece about the #tradwife movement, using unpasteurized milk as a physical representation of the harmful practices tradwives promote. Tradwife, played by an actor in a grotesque burlap bodysuit, offers the audience a taste of unpasteurized milk through her breasts. She then dies from drinking the unpasteurized milk herself.
PUPPET PERFORMANCE
CREDITS
Thumbelina
The Lady from the...
Forest Treás
Alice in Wonderland
War of the Worlds
The Old Man and...
Midnight Louie's
The Infinite Tales
Watergate with...
How to Kiss
(An Audio Guide for...
Bronx Express
Imagination Stage
Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival
Pointless Theatre Co
National Players
Connecticut Repertory Theatre
Connecticut Repertory Theatre
Lilypad Puppet Theatre
4615 Theatre Co
AnyStage Theatre
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
Manhattan Theatre Club, Reading
Theatre J, Reading
Natsu Onoda Power
Natsu Onoda Power
Kelly Colburn
Natsu Onoda Power
Jaron Hollander
Matthew Sorensen
Tom Tuke
Gregory Keng Strasser
John-Nicholas Walsh
Mel Carter
Natsu Onoda Power
Natsu Onoda Power
PUPPET PERFORMANCE
pictures
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PUPPET FABRICATION
CREDITS
LADY FROM THE VILLAGE OF FALLING FLOWERS
2019
Built finger puppets for the world premiere of this production at the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival.
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PILOBOLUS DANCE COMPANY
2021
Assisted the props master of Pilobolus with the fabrication of a large goat skull.
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DEAR MABEL
2022
Helped build puppets and a collapsible miniature proscenium for this production at Mosaic Theatre.
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WAR OF THE WORLDS
2023
Designed flat surface puppets for this production at Connecticut Repertory Theatre.
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ODDFELLOWS CIRCUS
2024
Designed and built puppets for children's circus in Middletown Connecticut.
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THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON
2024
Designed and built found object, direct manipulation puppets and a giant fish for this production with Connecticut Repertory Theatre.
PUPPET FABRICATION
PICTURES
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