Genderslime: Gastropod Love by Ashley Winkfield & Max Gayford. Original music by Xander Browne.  A person picks a pest off of a plant and is plunged into the wild world of snails & slugs, witnessing one of nature’s weird genderless romances. A reimagining of shadow puppetry via origami, live movement, and playful music, GENDERSLIME cultivates awe in the natural world and questions perceptions of nature’s laws.

Ashley Winkfield is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on puppetry, poetry, and performance art. They began their journey into professional performance at UNC-Chapel Hill where they were introduced to puppetry while workshopping Basil Twist’s Rite of Spring . After graduating with a degree in Performance Studies, Ashley began performing new works in NYC at locations such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Abrons Art Center, LaMama, and Greenwood Cemetery. Ashley has also puppeteered in Rachael Shane’s The Paper Piece, Mabou Mine’s China tour of Animal Magnetism, and Torry Bend’s The Paper Hat Game And Dreaming. Ashley is based in Brooklyn, NY, and Winston-Salem, NC.  www.ashleywinkfield.com @ashleyk.music.

Max Gayford is a puppeteer, maker, and care worker based in Perry, NY. Most recently, they performed Blown Away by Poetry virtually for Grand Pistachio theatre company. They were also a collaborator on Shake on the Lake’s Othello Project and Socially Distant Sea Serpent Parade, and a featured artist for the Arts Council for Wyoming County’s Tiny Concerts at Sunsets series. Max appeared in the radio play God Hates the Gays (and Other Daily Affirmations), produced by Invited Dress. Max is pursuing an M.S. in Dance/Movement Therapy at Pratt. Eternal gratitude to Ashley, Xander, Josh, and all the gastropods.

Bodywhere by Liz Oakley. Collaborators Ali Goss (video), Michaela Farrell (sound). A small, ever-evolving puppet creature explores the terrain of a human body. Bodywhere considers the body as both performance site and landscape, exploring questions of how we navigate, rely on, exploit, and dynamically relate to land and location. The piece asks us to see our bodies as places, and places as bodies.

Liz Oakley is a puppeteer, designer, performance-maker, and teaching artist. She is 1/3 of the Out of Work Puppeteers. Recent performance projects include Parades for All Occasions (with Ali Goss) at the Wassaic Project and Philadelphia Honk Festival, The Human Dream Project (Snake in the Boot Collective) at Opus 40, and Mortal Meal Services (Worm Games Collective) at Woodlands Cemetery. Her project The Anywhere Festival of Everywhere Stages, a collection of miniature site-specific puppet shows, appeared at the Art in Odd Places Festival and was the recipient of the May ‘21 NYC Awesome Grant. This year Liz was a summer artist-in-residence at the Sable Project; a resident in the spring ‘21 Object Movement Digital Puppetry Festival; and a fellow at the Headlong Performance Institute. She lives in Philadelphia. lizlizliz.com.

Ali Goss is a Philadelphia-based multimedia artist and puppeteer. They are 1/3 of the Out of Work Puppeteers. Since ‘17, they have toured and performed with Australia-based giant puppet troupe Snuff Puppets and German director Steffi Oberhoff performing in Taiwan, the UK, Germany, and most recently at the Basel International Figure Theatre Festival. Their own work spanning performance, puppetry and live-feed projection has been seen at The Tank, La Mama, Dixon Place, Coney Island Sideshows, Puppet Showplace Theatre, The Wassaic Project and in internet chat rooms. alexandragoss.com.

Michaela Farrell is a theater-esq-human-esq Train-Wreck grateful to share space with you tonight. She is 1/3 of The Out of Work Puppeteers and three thirds extremely excited to be performing at Dixon Place! If you want to see her outside of this dark room, go visit her at another dark room, The Kraine Theater, with the NY Neo-Futurists every Friday and Saturday night at 10:30 PM.

Eudora and the Blackest Crow by Rosalind Lilly & Gaby Febland. A mysterious mine shaft. A fresh grave. A sinister, long-lost relation. Set in a not-so bygone era of Appalachian grit, Eudora and the Blackest Crow is an original short shadow puppetry play that emerges from the ether, performed with four hands and an overhead projector.

Rosalind Lilly is a Puppetry Artist and Actor from Brooklyn, NY. She studied Acting at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London. She has performed as a puppeteer at venues such as Three’s Brewing, Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic, the Asheville Fringe Festival, and with Mabou Mines at the Wuzhen International Theatre Festival in China. Favorite acting roles include Inherit the Wind at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, and Law and Order: SVU. She teaches Puppetry and Theater to students throughout NYC.

Gaby FeBland is a playwright, performer, and illustrator from Brooklyn. Her plays have been produced off-Broadway through the Araca Project, at Northwestern University, and at the Frontier Theater in Chicago; and her writing has been published in McSweeney’s and Spider Magazine. Favorite acting credits include The Nutcracker (The House Theatre), Pericles (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), and Frederick (Chicago Children’s Theater). She’s represented by Big Mouth Talent, and you can help boost her website page views at gabyfebland.art.

New work by Xian Divyne. More info to come.