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About the Show
On an island in a faraway sea, a little girl tends a lighthouse and never ever smiles… Until one day, when she must set out for the horizon beyond the sea! With live ukulele tunes, a ticklish octopus, and a little help from the audience, this interactive shadow puppetry tale celebrates kindness, magic adventures, and friendship.
Inspired by the artist’s collection of lighthouses, this show is about finding your own light, and how your light can help even faraway friends through a hard time.
Meet the Puppets
Stay after the show to meet the artists and to see the puppets up close — the artists speak English, Russian, and French!
All ages welcome, recommended for 3 - 8
Shadow puppetry and interactive performance
Length: 45 minutes
Language: English, with few words
From Maryland!
Trailer for The Light House
About the Artists
Natasha Mirny is a teaching artist, performer, stage director, and founder of Happy Theater. She is currently working as a teaching artist and Arts Integration specialist at several theaters and educational programs in the Washington DC area — Inspired Child, Arts for Learning, and Wolf Trap — designing and implementing programs for teachers and students in public schools in DC, VA and MD. Her background is in pantomime, puppetry, and physical theater. For the past five years Natasha has devised and directed ten shows for children from 0 to 12 years old. Her show for young audiences, that she wrote and directed for Arts On The Horizon, was nominated for Helen Hayes award in 2019 as an outstanding theater for young audiences production.
Tia Shearer Bassett is an actor/creator who specializes in solo shows, children’s theatre, and playful theatre for grownups. She has been a member of Only Make Believe since 2017, bringing interactive theatre to children in hospitals. She also performs self-produced work, including an poetic Zoom show featuring her son’s toys. Acting credits include The Kennedy Center, The Second City, Imagination Stage, Baltimore Center Stage. She was an original company member at Arts on the Horizon, creating nonverbal shows for ages 0-6 and earning the title “Buster Keaton for babies.” She is a certified Audio Description writer, and co-creator of a web-series starring her leopard gecko, Eugene Cheese Gets It Wrong.
The Light House won the Spirit of the Fringe Award at Borderlight Fringe Festival in August 2023, for “inventive,” “entirely unexpected” work, and “redefining artistic norms.”
