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PATCH Artists, 2011-Present |
| Maria Camia
The Healing Shipment
September 18-22, 2023
Extraterrestrial, Maricama, gets stuck on Earth after her curious potato spaceship crashes into a bickering family’s backyard. She feverishly calls upon her granddaughter from the future to save her from the phone-addicted humans desperate to abuse her energy to actualize their own joy. PROGRAM PDF
2023 Production Grant, 2022 Workshop Grant |
| Concrete Temple Theatre
Ernie's Secret Life, (formerly titled Stranded)
May 22-26, 2023
A man, fearing something has happened to his son, builds a canoe and secretly sets off to find him, but what he finds instead - is himself. PROGRAM PDF
2023 Production Grant, 2022 Workshop Grant
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| Marcella Murray
Other Atlantas: A Prologue
October 31-November 4, 2022
The first installment of a ritual celebration of survival, we take time to remember why celebration is needed at all. A moment to remind ourselves of the cycles of destruction and dispossession throughout human history and to remember all those who kept on anyway. PROGRAM PDF
2023 Workshop Grant |
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| Sachiyo Takahashi & Rowan Magee
One Night in Winter
April 19-28, 2022
The story of a lonely old man who receives a surprise visit from a Tanuki (Japanese raccoon dog) on a cold winter night. (no work-in-progress showing due to Covid-19 Pandemic) PROGRAM PDF
2021 Workshop Grant
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| Andy Gaukel
Animist
April 1-10, 2022
A meditation on the stress of self-isolation, health, addiction, and the profound feelings of loss many of us experienced and felt more acutely during the COVID-19 pandemic. (no work-in-progress showing due to Covid-19 Pandemic) PROGRAM PDF
2022 Production Grant
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| Watoku Ueno
The Tall Keyaki Tree
August 23-27, 2021
The story of a peculiar carpenter who, motivated by the spirit of the Keyaki tree, undertakes the profound task of building a five-storied pagoda. (no work-in-progress showing due to Covid-19 Pandemic) PROGRAM PDF
2021 Production Grant, 2020 Workshop Grant |
| Lake Simons
Sorry About the Weather
October 19-23, 2020
Lifting the blanket of dementia and sliding in next to my mother I try to slip beneath her skin and unravel pieces of her life, tying them together with my own interpretation of what is in her weathered mind. (no work-in-progress showing due to Covid-19 Pandemic) PROGRAM PDF
2020 Production Grant, 2020 Workshop Gran |
| Eat, Drink, Tell Your Friends
Lectures of the Physics of Reversability
January 27-31, 2020
These lectures, delivered by our distinguished messenger professor, will examine the fundamental laws of physics as they pertain to time, its relativity, and its potential reversibility. PROGRAM PDF
2019 Workshop Grant |
| Brad Shur
Error Code 451
October 6-11, 2019
A show about uncertainty, trust, tribalism, and murder, all wrapped up in a detective story featuring robots and aliens inspired by mid-century pulp. PROGRAM PDF
2019 Workshop Grant |
| Doppelskope
The Amazing Story Machine
September 3-7, 2018
When the Grimm family's fabulous new story machine malfunctions, they have to invent a new way of storytelling on the spot. PROGRAM PDF
2018 Family Grant |
| Justin Perkins
Unicorn Afterlife
April 15-20, 2018
A Unicorn wakes in a black void and discovers, horrified, that it's dead; but in the hands of a team of puppeteers, it lives again and searches for a way to escape its past, and maybe escape its future too. PROGRAM PDF
2021 Production Grant, 2018 Workshop Grant |
| Nick Lehane
Chimpanzee
October 22-27, 2017
An aging, isolated chimpanzee pieces together the fragments of her childhood in a human family. PROGRAM PDF
2019 Production Grant, 2019 JHF Residency, 2017 Workshop Grant |
| Eric Wright
Stories About Exploring: Pt 1. Four Seasons in Buenos Dairies
September 6-16, 2016
Two cows in love find themselves in a tango with the law when pushed outside their ordinary pastures. PROGRAM PDF
2015 Family Grant |
| Dan Hurlin
Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed
March 12-25, 2016
A collection of four plays, written specifically for the puppet stage by Italian Futurist painter Fortunato Depero in 1917 revealing startling similarities between our world and the culture of WWI. PROGRAM PDF
2016 Production Grant, 2015 Seed Grant |
| Tom Lee
Shank's Mare
September 7-11, 2015
The story of two wandering travelers whose paths intersect in time and space. Created by Tom Lee with Japanese Master Puppeteer Koryu Nishikawa V. PROGRAM PDF
2015 Project, 2010 Seed |
| Spencer Lott
Blossom
April 6-10, 2015
The play follows the deterioration of James Blossom, a former Hollywood set painter, as he loses his place in the present and starts slipping further into his own cinematic memories. PROGRAM PDF
2016 Production Grant, 2015 Seed Grant |
| Emily DeCola
Remote Sensing
January 26-30, 2015
A collision of stories between a father and daughter struggling to negotiate the durability of secrets, memories and history twenty years after the end of the Cold War. PROGRAM PDF
2014 Project Grant, 2013 Seed Grant |
| James Godwin
The Flatiron Hex
September 29-October 3, 2014
Wylie Walker, a contract shaman who works for NYORG, a city in the middle of a swamp, peeking inside a parallel world of weird magick and an impending super-storm. PROGRAM PDF
2015 Project Grant, 2014 Seed Grant |
| Laurie O'Brien
The Collector of Lies
May 20-24, 2013
A haunting tale about two neighbors, a reclusive woman and a shady pilot and how their past lives are linked through the walls of their rooms. PROGRAM PDF
2011 Seed Grant |
| Spybird Theater
Eye of the Storm
April 15-19, 2013
As the inhabitants of a small disintegrating island struggle to cling to their dreams, we begin to wonder what is actually eroding out from underneath them. PROGRAM PDF
2013 Project Grant, 2012 Seed Grant |
| Stefano Brancato & Michael Bush
Icarus
March 18-29, 2013
The ancient Greek myth of the boy that flew too close to the sun told through puppetry, poetry, drama, acrobatics and song. PROGRAM PDF
2011 Project Grant |
| Roman Paska
Echo in Camera
February 15-March 1, 2013
Following a dramatic decent into the netherworld of the subconscious, the protagonist encounters a cast of self-referential characters and explores the relationship between hearing and understanding in an internal world of the puppet fabulist. PROGRAM PDF
2007 Project Grant |
| Kevin Augustine's Lone Wolf Tribe
The God Projekt
December 3-7, 2012
A raucous, darkly humorous investigation into the mysteries of the universe, uncovering ancient history while dissecting contemporary events. PROGRAM PDF
2013 Project Grant, 2012 Seed Grant |
| Stefano Brancato & Michael Bush
Icarus
November 12-16, 2012
The ancient Greek myth of the boy that flew too close to the sun told through puppetry, poetry, drama, acrobatics and song. (3rd floor only, no public showing)
2011 Project Grant |
| Melissa Creighton
Love Me Knot
October 8-12, 2012
The story of an engaged woman trying to get a grip on her own sense of self (sometimes warily) amidst the conventions that surround the act of getting hitched. PROGRAM PDF
2013 Project Grant, 2012 Seed Grant |
| Leila Ghaznavi
Beyond the Light
September 17-21, 2012
One soul split into two must find its way back to completeness by journeying through a treacherous path of lost love, rebirth, and magic. PROGRAM PDF
2014 Project Grant, 2012 Seed Grant |
| Double Image Theater Lab
A Chance Shadow
April 16-20, 2012
Inspired by the Chinese poet Xu Zhimo and the Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, their passion for literature, social reform and true love changed society. PROGRAM PDF
2013 Project Grant, 2012 Seed Grant |
| Evolve Puppets
HOME
March 26-30, 2012
The human desire to put down roots and live in comfort versus our equal desire to pull them up and live a life of freedom. PROGRAM PDF
2011 Project Grant |
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| Amanda Maddock
Do Elephant's Dream of Eclectic Sheep?
October 24-28, 2011
Wander inside the head and bedroom of a giant sleeping elephant, who perhaps controls the world... PROGRAM PDF
2014 Project Grant, 2009 Seed Grant |
| Mary Nagler
Terran's Aquarium
September 26-30, 2011
Discover what a closed system is, how water works in our bodoes, the community - through the water treatment system, and in the world through the water cycle. PROGRAM PDF
2011 Family Grant |
| Stefano Brancato & Michael Goldfried
The Indelible Mark on Edward Barron
May 23-June 3, 2011
A beautiful, toy theater puppeteer suffering from dementia has secluded himself in his home and is haunted by the memory of the one man he could have loved – and the work they could have made together. PROGRAM PDF
2015 Seed Grant |
| Amanda Villalobos
Light Keepers
March 28-April 1, 2011
A fading lighthouse, a tiny model town, and books with waterlogged spines come together to tell the story of an androgynous orphan taken in by a mysterious and ancient lighthouse keeper. PROGRAM PDF
2012 Project Grant, 2011 Seed Grant |
| Bradley Kemp
Triangle
March 7-11, 2011
Joan, a forewoman in a shirtwaist factory, and Blanck, the Triangle factory owner–two very different survivors of the fire that occurred seven years before at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. PROGRAM PDF
2012 Project Grant, 2011 Seed Grant |
