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White Rooster – LookingClass
I will be teaching shadow puppet 101 workshops in conjunction with Lookingglass Theatre’s phenomenal world premiere…
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Cut It Out: Papercutting Traditions and Beyond
My two shadow lanterns from SENZA LUCE are currently on display at Racine Art Museum as…
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Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s THE TEMPEST
This was my first summer stock theater show. I built and choreographed shadow puppetry sequences for…
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Potential Energy: Chicago Puppets Up Close
Holy cow (or should I say, rhino?), our superstar curatorial team managed to bring the POTENTIAL…
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Platform Awards
I’m still in disbelief about this but holy cow…I was selected as one of the Walder Foundation’s…
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Potential Energy
Puppets from GOODNIGHT SHADOW, STRING OF ECHOES, and CYMBELINE will be on display in a special…
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The Flat Lab: Innovating Paper Puppets with Modern Tech
October 4-21, 2023(5 sessions over 3 weeks)Wednesdays: 6 – 8pm and Saturdays: 10am – 12pm CDT**There…
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A Handmade Halloween
I’m excited to announce that my film, GOODNIGHT SHADOW, can now be viewed on The Roku…
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Crankies Take New York!
I’ll be performing INKED! with some amazing crankie artists in New York. This will be the…
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APIDA Arts Festival
May 7, 202311:00am – 3:00pm Museum of Contemporary Art220 E. Chicago Ave FREE | Click here…
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Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
Check out this incredibly creative toy theater adaptation of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities by Matt Gawryk…
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House of the Exquisite Corpse
I made some shadow puppets for the heart pod in Rough House’s HOUSE OF THE EXQUISITE…
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Bonnaroo 2022 Music & Arts Festival
My short film, Goodnight Shadow, will be shown along with other Handmade Puppet Dreams films at…
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Kasey Foster Presents
Straight off the heels of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, I’ll be performing INKED! at…
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Invitation to a Beheading
I created shadow puppets and helped choreograph a short sequence towards the end of Michael Brown…
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I, Object!
I will be opening for the Neo-Futurists’ I, Object! as part of the 2022 Chicago International…
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London International Mime Festival
Copied from original post here Film – watch online World PremiereWed 12 – Sat 6 Feb…
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Guild of American Papercutters Workshop
See original post here Winter Paper MagicWorkshop: Introduction to Shadow Puppets with Myra SuSunday, December 12…
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Forbidden Spaces Cabaret
I’ll be presenting INKED! in a music-centric virtual cabaret, Forbidden Spaces. Dec 11, 20217:00pm (CT) Forbidden…
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Prints Unedited Podcast
My podcast interview with Thumbprint Studios is up!https://anchor.fm/prints-unedited Prints Unedited is Thumbprint Studios’ straight-up, no-nonsense theatre…
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La MaMa Puppet Slam
It was a huge honor to be invited to share THROUGH THE LOOKINGGLASS at the La…
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International Puppet Fringe NYC
GOODNIGHT SHADOW and the rest of the 2020 Handmade Puppet Dreams Quarantine Film cohort will screened…
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National Capital Puppet Slam
I’ll be sharing a brand new video of COPY & PASTE (featuring never before seen in-action…
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Chicago Takes 10
“Performing arts organizations were the first to shut down and will be the last to fully…
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Open Eye Figure Theater Workshop
Original post on Open Eye Figure Theater’s website Workshop Cost: $25 for 2 sessions In this…
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Festival of Animated Objects
GOODNIGHT SHADOW is being screened as part of the 2020 Handmade Puppet Dreams Quarantine Film cohort…
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Puppet Showplace Slam
For World Puppetry Day, I’ll be performing INKED! for the Puppet Showplace Slam. Mar 20, 20218:00pmVirtual…
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Duke University Workshop
January 28th, 12-1:30 PM (ET)Free and open to the publicRegistration here This hands-on workshop serves as…
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American Theatre Interview
I was contacted for an interview after performing on the National Puppet Slam livestream. Thank you,…
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Puppet Slamwich: Footlong Edition
SPOT OF BOTHER will be joining Black Cherry Puppet Theater virtually on June 13! See original…
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Puppet Playlist #30: Home
I put together a music video for Puppet Playlist, a puppet slam based in New York.…
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National Puppet Slamdemic
A special online edition of The National Puppet Slam presented by The Puppet Slam Network and…
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Nasty, Brutish & Short: Puppet Quarantine II
I’ll be showing a short segment from STRING OF ECHOES on the second edition of Nasty,…
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Green Line Puppet Slam
Sam Lewis and I are on a double bill for the inaugural Green Line Puppet Slam,…
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Stage X Screen
I was invited to present the film version of SPOT OF BOTHER at Stage X Screen,…
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FIMFA Festival 2019
Thanks to a Professional Advancement and Creative Research Grant from the City of Chicago’s Department of…
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MCA Family Day
I was invited to design and facilitate a kids-friendly workshop for MCA Family Day on April…
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The Puckin’ Fuppet Show
The illustrious Beau Brown invited me as the featured guest artist for this year’s Valentine’s Puckin’…
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Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival 2019
On the heels of the Baltimore Crankie Festival, I will be performing an extended version of…
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Baltimore Crankie Fest 2019
I’m pleased to announce that I was invited to rejoin the Baltimore Crankie Fest in 2019!…
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Manual Cinema’s FRANKENSTEIN
For the past few weeks, I’ve been in rehearsals full-time for Manual Cinema’s FRANKENSTEIN at Court…
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Nasty, Brutish & Short: Sep 10, 2018
I’m pleased to announce that I will be performing INKED! at Nasty, Brutish & Short next…
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National Puppet Slam 2018
COPY & PASTE was selected to perform in the 2018 National Puppet Slam at the Center…
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Shadow’s Play @ Elastic Arts
The wonderful Tatsu Aoki and Asian Improv aRts Midwest is helping me produce a show featuring…
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THAW 2018
I am a featured artist at Links Hall’s benefit party, THAW, this year! This will be…
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Baltimore Crankie Fest 2018
The Chicago-Baltimore exchange continues! Emily Schubert invited me to present at the 2018 Baltimore Crankie Fest!…
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Trade Routes
The wonderfully talented Emily Schubert and I met at the National Puppetry Slam last year, and…
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Chi-More Puppet Exchange
With assistance from the Midwest Nexus Touring Exchange Grant, I will be bringing a few shadow…
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UMBRA: The Shadow Panel
On Jan 26, 2017, I was invited to participate in a panel at the Museum of…
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Chicago International Puppet Festival 2017
I will be debuting a new piece, AN INTER-DIMENSIONAL LOVE STORY, at the 2017 Chicago International…
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A-Squared Asian American Performing Arts Festival 2016
SPOT OF BOTHER opens tonight as part of the A-Squared Asian American Performing Arts Festival! We…
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Dragon Con 2016
While we are in town for the National Puppet Slam, we will also be participating in…
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National Puppet Slam 2016
THROUGH THE LOOKINGGLASS was selected to participate at this year’s National Puppet Slam in Atlanta, GA!…
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Illinifest 2016
My short film version of SPOT OF BOTHER was selected for Illinifest 2016, a film festival…
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Nasty, Brutish & Short: Mar 28, 2016
I performed my first non-shadow puppetry piece at Nasty, Brutish & Short! This was a solo…
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The Nine-Tailed Fox
This past November, I visited the Kansai region in Japan for the first time! After discovering…
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Nasty, Brutish & Short: Mar 16, 2015
Come see my newest shadow puppet collaboration with Mitch Salm (fellow Manual Cinema co-puppeteer) next Monday,…
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Chicago International Puppetry Festival 2015
SPOT OF BOTHER will be making a reappearance during the Chicago International Puppetry Festival this month!…
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Nasty, Brutish & Short: Sep 29, 2014
Check out a preview of my newest project, THE CAT DAYS OF CHRISTMAS this coming Monday…