La Divina Caricatura by Mabou Mines

After several years of work on tough bunraku style puppetry with the master of magic, Lee Breuer, and puppet director Jessica Scott, La Divina Caricatura came to life at La Mama theater in December 2013. I was pleased to play the feet of the dog, the feet of the preacher, and the sadomasochistic cat and telephone.

Firebird at City Center

My favorite parts to perform in the puppet ballet set to Strivainky's Firebird piece were: being the top of the tree, and puppeteering the cloak of the evil Koschei!  What a great team of people to work with! Thank you directors Chris Green and David Neumann.

Flying Squirrels

I'd been planning to be a flying squirrel for Halloween for two years.  This year I got it together and had a great time squirreling with Twist's giant spider at the library tower and again at the Taj Ma Harlem!

Dogugaeshi Tour

The serene and powerful and overwhelming puppet show, Dogugaeshi by Basil Twist came out of storage for a sweet Fall tour in 2013.  One of my favorite puppet shows, it was wonderful to perform again, with new and old cast members.  The Tandem Otter team performed at Hamilton College in NY (who knew a piñata and panaramic pictures could be so much fun), the Japan Society in NYC, Redcat in L.A. and U.C. Berkeley.

Halloween Puppet Parlor 2013

I performed in my Present Attention Disc mask at the Dream Music Puppet Parlor for Halloween.  I enjoyed creating a really simple, spooky, and weird piece.  Thank you Basil for the direction and thank you Wayne for your amazing piano fingers.  a bit of video

Forklift Ballet

I am ever proud of my courageous friends for mounting strange projects with heavy machinery.  This time I got to dance with a pallet jack in a forklift ballet designed by Sarah Mac.  Performed at the Queens Museum parking lot during the Empire drive-in installation.  Oct. 2013

Seafoam Sleepwalk

An intrepid journey by non-seafaring puppeteers led us to the La Jolla Playhouse to perform a new puppet show by Basil Twist in the Pacific Ocean in October 2013.  It was an adventure.

Burning Bathhouse

Burning Man was divine in 2013.  I camped with the Bathhouse in the French Quarter and enjoyed reading people's bath salts in the front room as well as assisting people in the showers at the back.  New friends and frolic mixed with wild abandon were highlights.

The Moving Party

Perpetually rising rents drove us out of our home and workspace last July 2013.  It was bittersweet, but the villagers threw a fantastic getting out party at the SheWok Village, which was open to the public.  The revelry was maintained primarily by our last minute booking of our weekend subletter's jazz band on the roof. But my favorite moment was kicking out a massive drunk man at 3 am in my sailor hat and silver short shorts.

Margolis Training

June 2013 I traipsed up to the catskills for another session of Professor Certification in the Margolis Method of Physical Acting.  I continued my research in performing with folding chairs.