Godzilla Emergence! New work by Kate Brehm.  In this new piece, Kate is working with a flat cardboard medium, somewhere between toy theater and shadow puppets with a hint of a comic book style.

Kate Brehm directs and devises visual theater with puppets, physical acting, and scenic dramaturgy.  She has toured extensively with Basil Twist as a puppeteer and movement director. She is certified in the Margolis Method of Physical Theater. Her New York based company, imnotlost, has devised original theater and interactive events since 2003. She teaches Movement for Puppeteers and Performing Design.

The Black Scarf by Margarita Blush & Ian Farley. A one-man clown show exploring identity and freedom combines contemporary clown work with puppet theatre (object theatre, shadow imagery), unique scenography, and live music. The project is driven by the quote “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free” (Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man). The Black Scarf follows the journey of a naïve clown, Yelraf, who explores his personal and cultural identity through the past, present, and future. His own stories and memories intertwine with historical moments in search of belonging and freedom. Figures from Black American history and lore (WWII “Wereth Eleven” soldiers, Ian’s grandfather, Invisible Man, Elijah McClain) rouse and intertwine with Yelraf’s own life. Together, they paint a powerful image of a contemporary Black man’s experiences, thoughts, feelings, and aspirations. Humor and woe juxtapose to take us on a deeply felt journey of discovery and personal introspections of the role we all play in the fight for justice, equity, and belonging.

Margarita Blush is a Bulgarian-American theatre artist who holds a BFA in Performance and an MFA in Directing for Visual & Puppet Theatre from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, and a certificate in Devised Physical Theatre from Embodied Poetics in London. Margarita is passionate about meaningful collaborations and partnerships with artists and organizations from around the world. She has performed, taught, directed, and studied in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Turkey, Germany, France, the UK, Japan, and the U.S. Margarita is Artistic Director of Margarita Blush Productions, an ensemble-based company that creates original work blending live acting, puppetry, movement, unique design, and live music to produce imaginative, aesthetically captivating, and thought-provoking theatre experiences. www.MargaritaBlush.com

Chicago born and world-raised, Ian Farley has studied many disciplines of performance, including Lecoq-based physical theater, red-nose clown, and long form improvisation. Ian began his training at Washington Improv Theatre where he also taught improvised scene work in Washington D.C. He has traveled to Padova, Italy and London, England to broaden his theater training specifically in comedy forms including absurd and surrealist theater. Currently living in Los Angeles, CA, Ian has been featured in many live shows performing original clown pieces such as The Spelunker, The Tailor, and The Paperless Man along with performing in a monthly show with the physical comedy troupe Deep Squeeze, which is an ensemble of clowns, improvisers, and musicians who perform in the style called IDIOT, created by John Gilkey, a former Cirque de Soleil clown.

Marikata’s Abduction Games! by Maria Camia. Marikata is asleep. A little bucket head character eats something from her third eye, then she wakes up and plays a game with the audience. Come aboard The Healing Shipment Spaceship where Marikata plays with the humans on her earth abduction! (I mean… Expedition!) Be prepared to heal the entire planet and galaxy.

Maria Camia (@theMARICAMA) is a Filipino American Visual Theatre Artist who creates Spiritual Theater, Visual Art, and Fashion with the intention to globally inspire healing and play. Her first full length puppet show, NEW MONY! was commissioned and first presented in NYC by Dixon Place with support from The Jim Henson Foundation, Jerome Foundation; the New York State Council on the Arts, and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. She has also performed original work at La Mama, Concrete Temple Theater, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, The Object Movement Residency, The Henson Company, The Puppet Slam Network, Coney Island USA, Great Small Works, and The International Puppet Fringe Festival. maricama.com.

Other Atlantas: A Prologue by Marcella Murray. Other Atlantas: My People Be Mermaids ‘n Shit will eventually be a celebration of the marginalized who remain in spaces left behind, swallowed up, disappeared, decimated, used up, and ignored for the sake of some other entity’s idea of progress. This is the prologue of all that.

Marcella Murray is a NYC-based theater artist from Augusta, Georgia. She is a playwright, performer, collaborator, and puppeteer whose work is heavily inspired by the observed ways in which people tend to segregate and reconnect. Her work tends to focus on themes of identity within a community and (hopefully) forward momentum in the face of trauma. Performances include The Slow Room, a piece by Annie Dorsen at Performance Space New York; a workshop of Ocean Filibuster, co-created by the team Pearl D’Amour (Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl) with composer Sxip Shirey (Abrons Arts Center); I Don’t Want to Interrupt You Guys created in collaboration with Leonie Bell and Hyung Seok Jeon during RAP (Mabou Mines); NEW MONY! created by Maria Camia (Dixon Place); and Shoot Don’t Talk by Andrew Murdock (St. Ann’s Warehouse/Puppet Lab). Along with David Neumann, she recently co-created Distances Smaller Than This Are Not Confirmed (Obie Special Citation for Creation and Performance) which opened at Abrons Arts Center, co-produced by Chocolate Factory, in January of 2020.