I was brought in as a last minute sub for the Olivier Award nominated show “Dragons and Mythical Beasts”. I spent two days rehearsing with them in Detroit before sending them on their way for the rest of the US tour.
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Bill across the country
Well, “Bill’s 44th” is having quite a journey. We’ve performed the show in New York, Chicago and now in Oklahoma City and Atlanta.
It’s been a joy sharing Bill’s birthday here in the US but our next stop is London!
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Tip Toeing for Macy's
For the second year in a row I puppeteered Tip Toe the reindeer in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It’s a wild and fun time bringing some whimsical Christmas joy at the start of the season. And this year we got to performa alongside 50 flag twirling dancers!
"The Walk"
I was commissioned to build a puppet for the massive international art project “The Walk” here in NY
“The Walk” has followed the giant puppet Amal who is a young girl who has fled fro Syria as a refugee. The project follows her across the world as she seeks home.
I was commissioned by Shadow Box Theatre and the Jamaica Center for Arts and learning to make a puppet of Rufus King that would greet Amal at his house in Jamaica. It was great to plat a small part in the project and finally meet Amal in person!
"demons." at New York Stage and Film
What an amazing two weeks! Myself and the team for Keelay Gipson’s new play “demons.” got to spend two weeks in Poughkeepsie, NY with New York Stage and Film working o the show. The first week was centered on puppet development and the second week was a staged reading.
We learned so much about the show and I can’t wait until we get to share it with the world! Keep your eyes peeled for announcements!
New York State Puppet Festival
I had a blast the past week at the New York State Puppet Festival!
I performed in Emma Wiseman’s piece “Remember When They Told You This Was a Helicopter”. We’ve been working on the show for a while and it was nice to get to do a portion of it for an audience alongside all of the other great puppet work going on at the festival.
I also took part in “The Lat Night Puppet Talk Show With Special Guest” in it’s first live on stage iteration!
Ra: Songs of the Past, Voices of the Future
This past weekend I participated in a public community art piece produced by The Metropolitan Opera called “Ra: Songs of the past, Voices of the future”.
I was puppeteering an incredibly beautiful Ra puppet designed by Lexy Ho-Tai and directed by Miguel Alejandro Castillo. We performed in four of the five boroughs on NYC with some incredible jugglers, a rockstar choir, and the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. It was a joyous and uplifting event to be a part of.
Apple TV+ show wrapped!
Well, after four months of filming we finally wrapped “Hello Tomorrow” for Apple TV.
I can’t say much about the show yet but it stars Billy Crudup and Hank Azaria…..and maybe features some pretty cool puppet robots ; ) For now you’ll just have to settle for this weird picture of us in green screen suits.
I can’t wait to see the finished show!
Teaching in China
Well….not in China…..but on Zoom to theater makers in China!
I just wrapped a four session workshop with some really wonderful theater practitioners in China through an educational company called Parallel Universe Studio. We dug into object theater and experimented with making our own object theater stories over Zoom.
The participants were really kind, bright, and creative and I loved watching them confront the storytelling capabilities of object puppetry!
Bill's at St Ann's
This weekend we presented a shortened version of “Bill’s 44th” as a part of the St Ann’s Warehouse Puppet Lab. The show was developed in the lab and this was our chance to share it with the community of makers, puppeteers, and audience who helped make the show happen.
The audience was incredible and we couldn’t have asked for a bigger party for Bill!
