Details & Registration
Oct 12 (Sat): 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
$80, sliding scale $60 & $100
$5 materials fee (required)
Location: Puppet Showplace Theater
Puppets at Night members receive 15% off
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Registration Deadline: Oct 3
Deadline Extended: Oct 10
About the Workshop
Immerse yourself in the world of shadow puppetry! Step behind the shadow screen with Foreshadow, an NYC-based shadow puppetry company, in a hands-on workshop exploring movement, light and mask. This workshop will include an introduction to overhead projector shadow puppetry, theatre games, physical improvisation, and art-making, as participants design and create their own shadow mask to transform their silhouette into a character of their choice. The focus will be on experimentation, as we delve into the transformative and imaginative potential of this traditional storytelling medium.
Adults & teens 13+
From New York!
And, don’t miss Foreshadow’s The Spinner on October 11 & 12!
About the Instructors
Foreshadow is an award-winning experimental shadow puppetry company whose macabre original plays evoke the timeless mystery of a story told around a campfire. Co-founded by Gaby FeBland and Rosalind Lilly, two puppeteers who have been making theatre together since middle school, Foreshadow has performed at the Carnegie Hall Weimar Festival, Green-Wood Cemetery, Dixon Place, Brick Aux, The Owl Music Parlor, Duane Park, and the Coney Island Mermaid Parade. They are thrilled to be sharing their work with The Puppet Showplace Theater community for the very first time.
Gaby FeBland is a playwright, performer, and illustrator from Brooklyn, NY. 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. She’s puppeteered on TV for Green Screen Adventures, in commercials for UiPath, and onstage at the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Center, the La MaMa Puppet Festival, and with Bread and Puppet at Theater for the New City. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Culture Lab LIC, where she’s developing a new full-length play.
Rosalind Lilly is a puppetry artist and actor from Brooklyn, NY, who is now based in the Hudson Valley. 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 theatre to students throughout New York state.
Leah Levine is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. She has experience teaching drawing, painting, portfolio development, set design, and puppetry. Her personal artwork tends to be narrative, focusing on physicality and the unconscious. Leah’s work has been featured at the La Mama Puppet Slam, the Object Movement Festival, the WADE Pride Festival, as well as in film and TV. Leah holds a BA in Psychology and Studio Art from Wesleyan University.
