“A second dance number, performed by Veronica Barron and Rachel Wiese, was a mesmerizing piece featuring Barron’s “Be Clean When We Die” spiritual from her 2015 Gather ‘round the Mic…
I spent a week in beautiful Guadalajara puppeteering Nufonia Must Fall at the International Film Festival there. It was amazing to perform for such lovely audiences, and to be hosted so warmly! I…
Rebecca McGowan, Julia Friend, and I spent a very satisfying day in Connecticut after the Ballard Institute Puppet Slam experimenting with this question: how can we use lights and shadows…
Friday, 8pm, Storrs Connecticut: I’ll be presenting Black is the Color, in which I am both puppeteer and singer of a plaintive traditional ballad of love longed for; and My…
Always a pleasure to be back on the road with these fine people, puppets, and robots. A little peek "backstage": Our hosts at SFJAZZ were amazing (thank you for the…
So delighted to be on the road again with Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall, puppeteering in this rather magical live cinema version of a graphic novel come to life. Want…
I was out with my tree costume and bluebird puppet (tree and puppet made by me! The mask, however, was not) as one of the guest artists at Umbrella Community Arts Center’s Earth…
What a great way to wrap up a tour: in Oregon, in the spring, with two of my dearest friends, Elizabeth and Jenna, in the audience :) Thank you for hosting…
We had a couple of days off in Minneapolis, then hopped over to Oklahoma City, where we were warmly welcomed by the fine folks at Oklahoma City Community College’s Performing…
Last show in Minneapolis tonight at the Walker Art Center, then on to Oklahoma City and Eugene, OR! Here’s some pics: I promise, I’m in this picture (holding Hexabot in my…
I’m pumped to be hanging with Kid Koala & crew as a puppeteer in Nufonia Must Fall, for a run of spring U.S. tour dates. Much gratitude to Faye Dupras, the wonderful puppetry designer from ICARUS, who…
I am so delighted to be joining the cast of Central Square Theater’s Arabian Nights for it’s fifth (and final!) year. We’ve got your nefarious thieves, clever servants, greedy rich men,…
Here we go again, dusting off the ol’ dust bowl for a one-night engagement at the National Puppetry Festival! I’ll get to share the stage once more with Aimee Rose…
What a delight! I got to join in as a guest performer for Jaggery’s stellar da Vinci-inspired show at the Museum of Fine Arts. Tony Leva made a crankie (his…
I’ll be joining UNIMA-winning puppeteers Sarah Frechette and Faye Dupras as the third puppeteer/performer in Sarah’s/PUPPETKABOB’s What the Moon Saw, a fairy tale for kids and grownups adapted from Hans Christian…
So I recently had an experience I never thought I’d have: I performed in a musical on 42nd Street in New York. Why did I never think I would have…
This summer, I learned about the existence of a thing called a Spiegeltent. photo by Lorianne DiSabato Apparently, the word is Dutch for “mirror tent”, though it seems that a…
I recently collaborated with Brad Shur, Brenda Huggins, Phil Berman, Kaitee Tredway, and others under the direction of Roxanna Myhrum for an outdoor giant puppet show! Goldie, a Puppet Showplace…
I spent last weekend performing in the premiere of Icarus, a new songplay developed and presented by Liars and Believers. It was a real pleasure to perform this show, set in…
Another show for Winning Higgins’s Love, a clown tragedy co-created and performed by my collaborative cohort-in-crime Aimee Rose Ranger and me. We’ve been fortunate enough to present this piece at…
