El Niño has come and gone! It’s been so exciting to work on this new production at The Metropolitan Opera. The creative team was incredible and lead by Lilena Blain-Cruz. Our puppet team was lead by James Ortiz with a killer ensemble of puppeteers. I was a cover for three of the puppeteers and got to perform on stage twice!
I’ll miss this piece but hopefully it will find its way back on stage!
Today was a surreal gig sort of day! I got to puppeteer on set with the all star cast of FX’s Dying For Sex. The cast includes Michelle Williams, Sissy Spacek, Jenny Slate, Jay Duplass, Paula Pell, and more. I can’t tell you what I puppeteered yet….but once you see….you’ll know how truly surreal it was. Keep an eye for the series coming to FX and Hulu!
I had a fun couple of days puppeteering furniture for a new short film by Ticking Clock Productions under the puppet leadership of Rowan Magee
I’m very excited to see how this wild ride of a film turns out!
What a time! I was so honored to be asked to direct a main stage production at NYU Tisch’s Experimental Theatre Wing. It was a fast and furious proccess but I was very happy and proud of what we made. My good friend and playwright Jaclyn Backhaus and I collaborated on an idea for an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. She wrote us a really wonderful script! Hopefully there will be more from this show in the future!
Official show pics hopefully coming soon!
I’ve been in preproduction for the past couple of months on Anastasia Olowin’s new film “Emmanuelle” directed by me!
It’s been so fun working on this piece that has ZERO puppets in it with such a wonderful group of people. We’re jumping in to post production now and are hoping to have the film in the world starting in the fall!
I made the beginnings of a new piece as a part of Dixon Place’s Puppet Blok curated by Emma Wiseman and Josh Rice. It was great to have an excuse to make something new and gather some great folks to perform it with me! Hopefully there will be more of this in the future!
Created by: me!
Peformed by: Betsy Rosen, Nick Lehane, Max Gayford, and myself
For the third year in a row I got to puppeteer Tip Toe the reindeer in the Macy’s Thanksgivign Day Parade! It’s been a wondeerful (that was a typo….but the pun works so it’s staying) way to ring in Thanksgiving and usher in the Christmas season! Hopefully we do it for many years more!
After almost a decade of development we finally opened the fully staged version of Aaron Haskell’s “The Pact”. I have worked on various versions of the piece over the years and this time I served as associate director helping guide and shape the puppetry.
Photo by Richard Termine
I had such a wonderful time teaching puppetry at NYU Tisch’s Experimental Theatre Wing to a group of upper level students. They were wonderful and we had seven weeks to really dig in to the foundations of puppetry!
I had the pleasure of consulting on Nehprii Amenii’s new production “Human”. It’s a wonderful, sad, fun, epic tale questioning our own humanity through puppets and songs. I helped strategize and choreograph some puppet moments before they headed off to perform at the Center For Puppetry Arts!
