The Choose Your Adventures of Turtle Boy  by Emmanuel Elpenord

With years of string puppetry expertise, Emmanuel presents the first marionette puppet he’s ever built from scratch. Through carving and jointing of wood, 3D sculpting and printing of resins, painstaking painting by hand, and by the grace and counsel of countless brilliant colleagues, comes another installment of the Choose Your Own Adventures of Turtle Boy, where the shy yet rowdy Turtle Boy leads you through an action movie of your own making. TMNT meets John Wick.

Elpenord is a Haitian-American actor, puppeteer, and voice-over artist from Brooklyn, NY. Select credits: Original cast of Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: A New Musical Adaptation; 1st national/international/Off-Broadway cast of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show (Rockefeller Productions); over 8 years puppeteering at Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater; member of Haiti Cultural Exchange’s LakouNOU Artist Residency; Puppet Showplace Theater’s Creative Residency for Black Puppeteers; and recipient of the Jim Henson Foundation’s ’24 Family Grant.

Photo Credit: Samantha Rayward.

Transmission: Three Dreams by Charlotte Lily Gaspard/Midnight Radio Show

In an enchanted realm of shadow puppetry, Charlotte Lily unfolds various surreal landscapes and potentially bizarre short tales, all based exclusively on her dreams. In this Midnight Radio Show : Transmission from a Fantastical Galaxy, find out what fairies dream of as “bona fide fairy princess” Charlotte Lily shares journeys through the adventures and landscapes of her sleeping subconscious. All tales are completely based on actual dreams, recorded upon return to waking, over the past 20 years of the artist’s life.

Gaspard is a shadow puppet artist, storyteller, and a “multi-faceted enchantress… the fanciful mastermind behind Midnight Radio Show” {Broadway World}.

Credits: Created by Charlotte Lily Gaspard; Music by Doc Frost

O’Die for watermelon and O’Died says “Help! Who will bury kids?” by lim mui

O’Die enters offering audience platter of watermelon, yum. O’Died enters with dead child, Help! Who will help bury kids?  Eventually, O’Died finds audience member to help bury kid.

 lim mui is a Brooklyn-based actor, writer, and puppeteer. Recently they performed in Maria Camia’s Healing Shipment (La MaMa). O’Die and O’Died have died with Puppets Come Home (Boxcutters & Ars Nova)- the puppet was created by Marte Joh Ekhougen during Object Movement Festival 2020. lim feels theatre and puppetry can transcend one’s inhibitions, allowing the tiny door of soul to open, and connection to the collective to blossom. lim also reads tarot! 

Collaborator: THE Marte Joh Ekhougen or Doctor Super Helga birthed O’Die(d)  [@doctorsuperhelga]

The Shape of Light by Andrew Murdock

A wooden figure with a lightbulb head illuminates the screen. A dream. A moment of reflection. A discovery. Perhaps, a journey.

Designer, director and performer, Murdock’s work often bridges the tangible and digital by utilizing techniques in video, animation, physical theatre and puppetry. He holds a BFA dual major in Sculpture and Film, Animation, Video (FAV) from RISD and an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence. Work presented at: New Ohio, HERE, La MaMa, Dixon Place, The Center at West Park, St. Anns Warehouse, The Brick, The Japan Society. Recent credits: Set & Sound Design for The Woman in Black dir by Gabrielle Schutz (UJAC, Upper Jay, NY); Video Design for Day Dream Tutorial by Maiko Kikuchi (La Mama Puppet Festival ’23, NYC); and Video Design for Co/Lab Puppet Production dir by Collin Meath & Emily Bruner (HERE, NYC). 

Puppeteers – Andrew Murdock & Gabrielle Schutz