Rabbits, Rabbits (excerpt)  – Camille Cooper

“Rabbits Rabbits”, a new puppet work, explores the nature of luck, superstition, and ritual in a small desert town. When dreams bleed into reality how will Jack, on the eve of his wedding, make sense of this surreal and ever-changing world?

Camille Cooper is a senior(-ish) at Sarah Lawrence College from Northern New Mexico. They have been puppeteering for about six years, and have worked on projects in New York City such as The Human Dream Project at last year’s PuppetLab, and Unicorn Afterlife at Dixon Place. They have poured their heart into this piece, and truly hope that you enjoy the show. Collaborators: Lola Votruba: “The Coyote”, Bella Civorelli: Puppeteer & Assistant Fabricator, Miranda Reynolds: Puppeteer, Julia Cowitt: Puppeteer, Max Hagen: Creative Assistant/ Stage Manager/ Tech genius

Tin Iso and the Dawn (excerpt) – Tristan Allen  

Tin Iso and the Dawn is shadow puppet symphony performed alongside an original, full-length album. The project shares the origins of an imaginary world created to give age-old magic life through puppetry and music.

Tristan Allen is a composer and puppeteer based in Brooklyn, NY. Tristan’s work employs the narrative power of instrumental music and puppetry to create an imaginary world. With a background in piano, bass, electronic music, and marionette theater, Tristan applies an experimental mode of storytelling to create rich works of wordless fantasy. Tristan’s ambitions to combine their music with puppetry is underway, beginning with a shadow puppet symphony named Tin Iso and the Dawn. Technical Director – Jim Freeman

Lil Amanda’s Lil Memories – Amanda Card

Lil Amanda’s Lil Memories is a toy theater exploration of the memories that make us cringe, the daydreams that get us through adolescence, and the glory of embracing your mortifying teenage self. 

Amanda Glynn Card (she/her) is a multidisciplinary theatre artist. Her work has appeared at Object Movement’s 2021 and 2022 Puppetry Festivals, La MaMa etc., Puppets Come Home, Teatro SEA’s Micro Theater Festival, Dixon Place’s Puppet BloK, Great Small Works’ Toy Theater Festival, Nasty Brutish & Short, Bee Hall’s music video Park Song, and most recently in Maiko Kikuchi and Spencer Lott’s 9000 Paper Balloons. She received her MFA in Theatre Arts from Sarah Lawrence College. amandacard.com. Original Music written & performed by Bee Hall

PORTALS – Janel Schultz

PORTALS is a wandering puppet journey through dream-like transitory scenes. The puppeteer as puppet, both one and the same, explores imagination and wonder in passing moments and memories. PORTALS goes through, in, out, and around,.. opening pathways into imagination.

Janel Schultz is a visual artist, painter, sculptor, creator, and musician, whose roots soak in deep imagination. She created a puppet look-a-like as a playful way to share ephemeral moments, memories, and dreams, and a few hypothetical vacations. Pandemic isolation evolved into a live-streamed puppet DJ set as part of REACHout RADIO at Cactus Club. After that, Janel was in the Object Movement Puppetry Residency where she created “Memory Spells” a puppet film with themes that continue to develop in PORTALS. She also had a solo exhibition of puppet films, props, and window video installation at Calico Gallery in Brooklyn. Currently, she is working on a longer puppet film to follow up “Memory Spells.”