PERFORMANCE
SHOWING
Showing is a film adaptation of a live performance that is somewhere between show-and-tell and sacred ritual. Objects are revealed and arranged around a green H.
A camera and CRT television create a second observation, blurring the boundaries between live performance, presentation, and recorded image.
Created for my Directing for the Puppet Theater course during my Puppet Arts Masters program at the University of Connecticut.
ME IN MY H
A performance done with video projection and live green screen.
The piece was made and presented during the 2026 National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.
Photos by Richard Termine.
STRAIGHT FORWARD
A live puppet performance presented under UV black light.
An ambiguous figure emerges from darkness, performing a series of dances and gestures.
PLEASE RESPOND
Using the language of everyday digital exchange, two shadow figures partake in a relentlessly mannerly conversation as responses progress into estrangement.
Presented with overhead projectors in the 2026 Uconn Winter Puppet Slam under the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry.
YOUR MOUTH
Your Mouth is a live shadow performance using the Karagöz style of shadow theater. On the front of the screen hangs a static sculpted mouth, while on the inside the performers’ hands gesture in unfamiliar choreography.
The piece combines puppet and body, teeth become objects, hands become characters, and the mouth becomes a stage.
Performed as a final for my Shadow Theater course at the University of Connecticut during my Puppet Arts Masters program in 2025.
EVERYTHING LOOSE ALL THE TIME
Everything Loose All the Time is an exploratory reinvention of relationships formed through the creative "birthing" process. Anneta, the pregnant spider, will be guided by her garnered community of bugs toward a miraculous birth.
Performed in the Detroit Puppet Slam under the Detroit Puppet Company at Planet Ant Theater, 2022
