Immersive, promenade theater piece produced at Prototype 237 in Paterson New Jersey.
Conceived, designed, built, and performed toy theater and shadow puppet show for the play. Puppet design and construction help from Kate Budney, performed puppets with Piper Hill.
Also played the role of Tim and other roles: 2 arms of a puppet umbrella creature and 2 “mascot” style characters.
Directed by Liza Couser, produced by Attractive Nuisance Theater Company.
Puppet Design and Performance
Katie Laid an Eggy by Robert Leverett
Workshop production at VoxLab 2022 at Dartmouth College. Designed and built quick puppets for “The Things.” Instructed and coached students in puppet performance.
Directed by Liza Couser, performers Kate Budney, Robert Leverett, David Katz, Owen O’Leary, Zahra Ruffin, Omala Snyder.
Photos by Rob Strong.
We Do the Same Thing Every Week by Robert Leverett
Puppeteer for the first iteration of this piece by Opal Elwell, performed at Rubulad with Opal Elwel.
Christabel by Opal Elwell
Puppeteered the rug Qali for this silent short, shot on a Bolex 16mm camera. Directed by Ali Noori. Clip and behind the scenes:
Qali by Ali Noori
Participated in “Puppets, Robots, and Hybrid Marionettes” strand, instructed by Alice Gottschalk.
Designed and 3D printed a puppet head, soldered and constructed Arduino wheeled puppet-bot, and coded it to behave in various ways, including a choreographed dance for multiple puppets.
National Puppetry Conference, 2024
Participated in “Toy Theatre Workshop” strand, instructed by Carlo Adinolfi.
Devised, built, and performed The Breakup (Worms on the Brain) with cocreator Rocio “Chio” Cabrera.
National Puppetry Conference, 2023
Participated in “Manipulation and Storytelling with Tom Lee” strand, instructed by Tom Lee, Andrew Kim, and Mark Blashford.
Performed in Experiments in Scale: Puppetry by Tom Lee, directed by Tyler Thomas. Large Puppet Specialist Andrew Kim, Associate Designer Mark Blashford.
Performed in Flicker by Ellis Lalonde, with Ellis Lalonde.
Performed in Where Earth Meets Sky or My Little Hell Hole by Michelle Finston, with Michelle Finston, Jess Rassp, and Lucy Wirtz.
Photos by Richard Termine.
National Puppetry Conference, 2022
Participated in “Cyber Shadow Puppetry” strand, instructed by Jim “Nappy” Napolitano.
Created and performed shadow puppet piece “Egg Life Cycle”.
National Puppetry Conference, 2020
In the Convict Gang, images sourced from the British Library.