Resumé

Design

    • 2010
    • Set & Puppet Design, Puppet Direction
    • THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE
    • Adapted from the the novel by Haruki Murakami and Directed by Stephen Earnhart at the OHIO Theatre, Manhattan. Lighting Laura Mroczkowski, Video Adam Larsen, Sound Jane Catherine Shaw, Costumes Oana Botez-Ban, Live Music Bora Yoon.

    • 2009
    • Scenic elements
    • The Golden Legend
    • Choreographed by Christopher Williams with puppets by Christopher Williams, Eric Wright and Lake Simons, lighting by Joe Levasseur . Dance Theatre Workshop, NYC.

    • 2009
    • scenic design
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • directed by John Dillon, Lighting by Mike Post, Georgia Shakespeare Festival

    • 2009
    • Production Manager, Projection Design
    • Happy Birthday, Mr. O Horgan!
    • A memorial celebration of the life and legacy of Tom O'Horgan, original director of Hair & Jesus Christ Superstar, with live performances and archival photos and video. La MaMa Annex. May 3, 2009

    • 2009
    • scenery
    • The Secret of O-Sono
    • by Elsa Okon Rael, directed by Ron Nakahara, music by Shigeko Suga, movement by Sachiyo Ito, Costumes by Carol Pelletier, Lighting by Rocco Disanti. Produced by Pan Asian Rep at the West End Theatre, NY.

    • 2009
    • scenic design
    • Urinetown
    • Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Program, directed by James Veitch, lighting Greg Macpherson, costumes Katie Bainbridge

    • 2008
    • Set Design
    • The Very Sad Story of Ethel & Julius..
    • "The Very Sad Story of Ethel & Julius, Lovers and Spyes, and about Their Untymelie End, while Sitting in a Small Room at the Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y." Written & Directed by Vit Horejs, Lights Federico Restrepo, Costumes Michelle Beshaw, Music by Kenny Wollesen, Carmen Staaf & Michael Kiaer. Theater for the New City, Nov 28 - Dec 14, 2008.

    • 2008,2007
    • Direction, Puppets, Animation, Projection
    • KOOLAU
    • La MaMa Club. Music by Yukio Tsuji and Bill Ruyle. Lighting by Miranda Hardy. With Marina Celander, Matt Acheson, Frankie Cordero, Yoko Myoi, Nao Otaka Original Workshop 2007 Rhodopi International Theater Laboratory, Workshop production 2007 Chocolate Factory Theatre, LIC

    • 2008
    • puppetry
    • The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
    • Adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel by writer/director Stephen Earnhart. Workshops at Morishita Studios, Tokyo and Asia Society, NYC.

    • 2008
    • Co-director, puppets & set elements
    • DIRT PROJECT
    • Collaboration with Matt Acheson -- FIrst workshop at the Rhodopi International Theater Laboratory, Bulgaria.

    • 2008
    • Set & projection design
    • BRIDE
    • produced by Lone Wolf Tribe at PS 122 Mar 17-30 Puppets/Script/Direction Kevin Augustine w/ Ken Berman, Lighting Miranda Hardy, Sound Dave Malloy, Props Gloria Sun

    • 2007
    • Set
    • Doppelganger
    • Play by Simon Heath, directed by Manny Bocchieri at 3LD in Lower Manhattan. Lighting Tom Ontiveros. Projections Jeff Gray

    • 2007
    • Set
    • Once There Was a Village
    • Czechoslovak American (Marionette) Theatre at La MaMa Annex. Written & directed by Vit Horejs, lighting by Federico Restrepo

    • 2006
    • Set, Puppets, Direction
    • Odysseus and Ajax
    • Chamber opera by Martin Halpern with puppets based on kuruma ningyo, wheeled puppet theatre of Japan. Lighting by Miranda Hardy

    • 2006
    • Set
    • Operetta
    • La MaMa ETC Annex. With director/designer Zishan Ugurlu

    • 2006
    • Set
    • Vorkuta
    • Sarah Lawrence College. Director John Dillon

    • 2005
    • Masks
    • Cambodia Agonistes
    • Pan Asian Repertory Theatre. Director Tisa Chang

    • 2005
    • Set, Puppets
    • Punch of the Dead
    • A collaboration with illusionist Adam Cardone through the St. Ann’s puppet Lab

    • 2005
    • Set, Puppets, Animation
    • Firewater
    • Collaboration with video artist Brian Nishii and director Mitsuru Tamatsuka Selected for 40th BAC International Film and Video Festival and 29th Asian American International Film Festival

    • 2005, 2004, 2003
    • Puppets, Set, Video Animation, Direction
    • Hoplite Diary
    • Adaptation of Homer's ILLIAD for puppets with large scale wooden machinery, video animation and Eastern European epic singing. Developed at St. Ann's Puppet Lab 2003. Premiere at La MaMa ETC 2004. Co-production / residency Buffalo Seminary 2005. Co-production Sarah Lawrence College 2006

    • 2004
    • set
    • Trojan Women
    • La MaMa's signature production, from an original design by Jun Maeda. Staged in the ruins of a farmers' cooperative in Gardzienice, Poland

    • 2003
    • set
    • The Yellow Room
    • National Irish Tour of Yoshiko Chuma's dance/theatre work. Opened in Dublin and toured throughout Ireland.

    • 2003
    • set
    • The Last Two Jews of Kabul
    • A new play by Josh Greenfeld, directed by George Ferencz at La MaMa

    • 2002
    • set
    • Phoenix Park
    • a new opera by David Strickland. Libretto Ilsa Gilbert. Conducter Mimi Stern Wolfe. Directed by Tom O'Horgan at Theatre for the New City,

    • 2002
    • set
    • PI = 3.14...
    • Bonnie Stein's meditation on Sarajevo and Afghanistan, with the School of Hard Knocks directed and choreographed by Yoshiko Chuma. La MaMa Club.

    • 2002
    • set
    • The Foundation
    • Antonio Buero-Vallejo's play directed by Brian Snapp at Trilogy Annex Theatre

    • 1997
    • masks, set
    • Oedipus Rex
    • Harry PartchÕs microtonal opera with NewBand and the original Partch instruments. Directed by Tom OÕHorgan at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.

Performance

    • 2009
    • puppeteer
    • DISFARMER
    • Dan Hurlin's examination of the world of Mike Disfarmer, whose portraits of rural Arkansas in the 30s and 40s are now considered masterpieces of American photography. Premiere January 2009 St. Ann's Warehouse.

    • 2008, 2007
    • principal puppeteer
    • Madama Butterfly
    • Anthony Minghella and Carolyn Choa's production at the Metropolitan Opera with puppets by Blind Summit Theater.

    • 2006
    • puppeteer
    • In the House of the Sin Eater
    • Matt Acheson and Paul Kloss' beautiful marionette film that premiered at the Labapalooza Festival 2006

    • 2004-2006
    • puppeteer
    • Hiroshima Maiden
    • created by Dan Hurlin. Obie Award Best Original Music 2005

    • 2005
    • puppeteer, singer, dancer - Sun God
    • Bokan
    • Federico Restrepo's giant puppets in an indigenous Amazon creation myth.

    • 2005
    • actor, Dionysus
    • Dionysus Filius Dei
    • Great Jones Repertory Company directed by Ellen Stewart

    • 2003
    • actor - Biondello
    • Taming of the Shrew
    • Yale Repertory Theatre, directed by Mark Lamos.

    • 2000 - 2004
    • actor - The Good Soldier, Company
    • Fragments of a Greek Trilogy
    • MEDEA, TROJAN WOMEN and ELECTRA with Great Jones Repertory Company at La MaMa and on tour: Japan, Austria, Italy, Greece. Music by Liz Swados. Original direction by Andrei Serban. Produced by Ellen Stewart.

    • 1997
    • actor
    • Virtual Souls
    • Collaborative music theatre work between Yara Arts Group and Buryat Mongolian artists from Buryatia, Siberia. La MaMa production and tour to Kyiv and Siberia. Directed by Virlana Tkacz

Education

    • 2000
    • St. Petersburg Academy of Drama, Russia. 4 month residency.

    • 1995
    • BFA cum laude in Theatre, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Awards & Honors

    • 2008
    • for contributions to the cultural landscape
    • nytheatre.com Person of the Year

    • 2008
    • TCG/ITI Travel Grant with Matthew Acheson
    • Dirt Project, RITC, Bulgaria

    • 2007
    • Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant
    • KOOLAU

    • 2007
    • TCG/ITI Travel Grant
    • KOOLAU workshop in Bulgaria

    • 2005
    • Jim Henson Foundation seed grant
    • The Story of Kaluaikoolau

    • 2004
    • NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers

    • 2003
    • Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant
    • Hoplite Diary

Related Work Experience

    • 2005 - present
    • Guest Faculty in Scenic Design and Puppetry
    • Sarah Lawrence College

    • 2008
    • Co-Director
    • Puppet Lab at St. Ann's Warehouse
    • Co-Director with Matt Acheson of St. Ann's 10 year old development workshop for experimental puppet theater. http://www.stannswarehouse.org/puppet_lab.php

    • 2007
    • Projection programmer, Isadora
    • Griffelkin by Lukas Foss at MSM
    • Erhard Rom, set and projection designer

    • 2006
    • Builder
    • Chris Green installation, LA
    • Responsible for building portions of Chris Green's sculptures for the Noah's Park permanent exhibition at Skirball Center, Los Angeles

    • 2005
    • Guest Artist
    • Buffalo Seminary
    • 2 week residency and production of Hoplite Diary in Buffalo, NY. With theatre director Toni Wilson

    • 2005
    • Guest Artist
    • The Dalton School
    • Created and rehearsed a giant puppet with students for the Seven Deadly Sins. Dir. Robert Sloan.

    • 2005
    • Assistant Director
    • Basil Twist's La Bella Dormente nel Bosco
    • Large scale marionette version of 1920s Italian opera SLEEPING BEAUTY OF THE WOODS. Workshop at Mass MOCA. Final production at Spoleto Festival and Lincoln Center.

    • 2001-2005
    • Master Carpenter, Asst. Technical Director
    • La MaMa Experimental Theatre