I am currently working on Chapter 6: Pig and the Pepper for The Wonderland Project, collaborating with director Karin Crighton, and internationally celebrated and award-winning composer Carl Davis. The Wonderland Project is produced by The Pharos Arts Foundation and The International Motion Festival Cyprus. The Wonderland Project is released on DVD through Orchid Classics in November 2015 and marketed globally. All proceeds from the film will go to the Lenny Trusler Children’s Foundation, which provides relief from suffering and illness for very sick infants and children globally. The film also will be screened internationally with live orchestral accompaniment written by 12 world renowned composers.

I am so excited to begin this process!

Artwork by Emily Carew Woodard

Puppeteer Justin Perkins and I are looking forward to creating some robotic puppets this summer at Standard Toykraft for our webseries, going into production late summer.  Thank you Standard Toykraft and Artistic Director Daniel Fay!

Thank you everyone who came out for Bushwick Open Studios and to see my show!

Special thanks to Nisa Ojalvo, Sarah Nicolls, Basement Babes, and GAMBA Zine.  I had a lovely day!

Greetings to my creative village based in Seattle; If you know any singers, dancers, actors, movers, who would be artistically fulfilled and nurtured by magic, shows performed site specifically in the woods around bonfires, live music, masks, puppets, and working with an amazing, talented, and dedicated artistic team you certainly should invite them to come audition for Eaten Voices.

Audition Information.

Eaten Voices, was the winner of the 2012 Thespis Theatre Festival (NYC), and produced at Dixon Place(NYC) and with Goblin Baby Theatre Co. (London, UK). Eaten Voices, will be the inaugural production of The New Alchemists, which I am excited to be the Literary Manager/Playwright for!

ABOUT OUR COMPANY

The New Alchemists are a budding performance collective dedicated to making experiential theatre that brings enchanting stories that “need” to be told to life. Our members are multi-disciplinary artists who believe in the transformative power of theatre to model better solutions for an equitable future.

We believe that theatre should:

Be Equitable & Diverse
Be Built for Communities
Be Transformative
Be Experiential & Non-traditional
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Our Team: Lily Raabe (Artistic Director), Kristie Dutra (Managing Director), Brandon Estrella (Director of Communications & Marketing), Lavinia Roberts (Literary Manager/Playwright), Ahmed Alabaca (Music Director/Composer)

My good friend, playwright Inna Tsyrlin, and I will be playwrights for;

A Rising Sun Performance Company’s Theatre Mash Up! SECRETS Part 2

Using anonymous submissions and the App “Whispers” RSP will curate real life secrets into plays

Rising Sun’s Writers, Directors and Actors will whip up some fun short plays in 24 hours for your viewing pleasure.

June 6th

Doors open for Seating at 7:30 PM
Show begins at 8PM
There will be one 15 minute intermission

Theater Lab
357 W 36th St
3rd Floor
New York NY 10018

Tickets & More Show Information

I will be doing an exhibition with an opening Bushwick Open Studios weekend, and in the presence of some amazing zinesters/artists.  I hope I can share my work with you!  Special thanks to Ebru Brun!

A Personification: Masked/Unmaked is an exhibition of masks exploring transformation, identity, and our relationship to nature. The work will be displayed for the month of June at Fairweather Bushwick.

274 Wyckoff Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237
http://fairweatherbushwick.com/

Live Music and Special Drinks will be offered at the Opening!
Bushwick Open Studios Weekend
Saturday, June 6th, 2015
12:00 to 3:00

GAMBA Zine, Brainwashing from Phone Towers, and Basement Babes will also be sharing their work during this time.

I have collaborated with both GAMBA Zine and Basement Babes and am delighted to share their work.  I also am excited/humbled to be in the same space as Sarah Nicholls; she’s an incredible artist and I have a huge respect and appreciation for her creative practice!

Basement Babes is a collection of art, writing and thoughts related to or inspired by feminism and Boston’s underground music. Borne out of a kick-ass female friendship, this zine aspires to create an inclusive creative space for people of all genders, races, sexualities and backgrounds who are interested in a more forward-thinking art community. Submissions and inquiries can be made at basementbabeszine@gmail.com. Full issues can be read online at issuu.com/basementbabes.

Proceeds from every zine goes to women’s charities.

GAMBA Zine is a provocative new literary magazine created to inspire passion and thoughtfulness outside the politics of mainstream publication, founded by Melissa Gurney and Christoph Carr.
http://issuu.com/gambazine

Sarah Nicholls is a visual artist who makes pictures with language, books with pictures, prints with type, and animations with words. She often uses found language and metal type, combining image, visual narrative, and time. She has written a collection of self-help aphorisms, publishes a series of informational pamphlets, and is currently working on a field guide to extinct birds.

www.sarahnicholls.com
www.brainwashingfromphonetowers.com
www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com

Photos Above: Sculpture by Chris Marshall, Fashion by Reciclagem by Tamara Leacock, Modeled by Jennifer Stepanyk and Adriana Jones, Masks and Photography by Lavinia Roberts.

Here are some photos I took before the opening night reception of the Lilac Arts Series and a photo of me taken by Nisa Ojalvo.  I have masks being displayed there currently.

I’m looking forward to a collaboration with photographer Nisa Ojalvo and an  artist talk on May 30th at 3Pm with Jenny Wong-Stanley.

The Lilac Arts Series is a contemporary art exhibition and public events series aboard the historic museum ship Lilac. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Lilac was built in 1933 and is America’s only surviving steam-powered lighthouse tender. The Lilac is currently being restored as a unique vehicle for maritime education and community activities and is berthed at Hudson River Park’s Pier 25 in New York City. The Lilac Arts Series will run from May 19 to August 15, 2015 and will focus on three themes inspired by the ship’s story – “Steam”, “Work + Labor” and “Restoration/Reinvention“.

http://www.lilacarts.org

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“Saints,” is a new project I’m working on; here are some of the masks.

Special thanks to the holistically beautiful Tamara Leacock of Reciclagem for fashion and playwright Inna Tsyrlin for modeling.

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Here are some photos taken of the first incantation of Novel Space, Two Midnights in a Jug, the installation based on the novel “The Grapes of Wrath,” by John Steinbeck

Thanks Brooklyn Fireproof for hosting us!

“NovelSpace interprets great American novels & creates immersive art installations to inspire our audience through exploration, interaction & ambiance.”

Created by Christina Alford;

Artists:
Christina Alford
Aimee Hertog
Lavinia Roberts
Suzanne Soliman

http://www.novelspace.co/

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I will be exhibiting masks and giving an artist talk as part of the Lilac Arts Series.

The Lilac Arts Series is taking place aboard the historic museum ship Lilac, an industrial archaeological artifact. The Lilac is a 1933 lighthouse tender that once carried supplies to lighthouses and maintained buoys for the U.S.

The opening is Tuesday, May 19th, 6 PM.

I also will be giving an artist talk and mask making demo on Saturday, May 30th, at 3 PM.

HUDSON RIVER PARK’S PIER 25

West Street, cross at N. Moore Street in Tribeca

Subway:
1 train to Franklin Street
A/C/E train to Canal Street (exit at Walker Street)

For more information and things to do at Pier 25, visit www.hudsonriverpark.org

Lilac Arts Series