Thank you to everyone who came out on Sunday, November 15th, to UrbanGlass’ Agnes Varis Art Center in Brooklyn. Thanks to Amy Lemaire and Maria Aroche for being amazing mentors and teachers and to my Bead Project cohort of talented and beautiful ladies! It’s been a great journey!
Here is some of the work I created:
If you are looking for a really magical experience this Halloween, come to 
the Halloween Extravaganza Friday Oct. 30th, at St. John’s of the Divine! There is organ music to accompany the F.W. Murneau’s silent classic Nosferatu (1922) and the procession of Ralph Lee and the Mettawee River Theater Company’s ghosts and ghouls. It’s my Halloween tradition to dress up in Ralph’s beautiful work! He taught me mask making and is such an amazing artist and person! There are still tickets for the 10PM!
My ten minute play Darn It Darla, was part of Lady Plays Podcast, a fabulous podcast presenting female playwrights. Stick around for an interview following the play.
Special thanks to producers Kate O’Phalen & Lynde Rosario, director Sarah Chichester, and actors Kate O’Phalen, Erin Soler, Elisa Pupko, and Ken Arpino. Sound recording & mixing Sound Haus Audio. Original music Theo Tasker.
Lady Plays Episode 3: Darn It Darla.
Here is a recent collaboration with the lovely Nisa Ojalvo aboard the Lilac!
Lilac Art Series, Lilac Preservation Project, Museum Ship, Manhattan, NY
Model & Masks: Lavinia Roberts
Photography: Nisa Ojalvo
Fashion: Ben Philipps
Copyright Nisa Ojalvo 2015
Here is a recent collaboration between some very talented and beautiful artists in Brooklyn.
Fashion: Tamara Leacock
Sculpture: Chris Marshall
Models: Adriana Jones & Jennifer Stepanyk
Photography & Masks: Lavinia Roberts
Copyright 2015 Lavinia Roberts
I will be part of The Bead Project at Urban Glass in Brooklyn, NY, Fall 2015.
The Bead Project is a glass beadmaking and jewelry design and construction course and scholarship program for women.
A cohort of nine women create and learn the business and craft of glass beadmaking.
Here are our production photos from our second day of filming on Governors Island. I created costumes, masks, puppets, props, and an art installation. Karin Crighton directed the piece.
Special thanks and much love to the artist collective, Exquisite Corpse Company, for our wonderland filming location on Governors Island!
I have been creating puppets, costume pieces, and masks for a film collaboration, Wonderland 150, with director Karin Crighton, produced by The Pharos Arts Foundation and released through Orchard Classics March 2016. Here are some production stills.
“Sometimes we forget with all the flashy shows out there what can be done with a minimal bit of stage wizardry and a whole lot of talent. But then a new company comes along just starting out and they remind us. The New Alchemists may be brand new and small but they know how to tell a good little story with their first production, Eaten Voices.”
BWW Review: Sweet Fairytale from New Alchemists’ EATEN VOICES, Broadway World, by Jay Irwin, August 31, 2015
“Poor People: A Stage Adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Novel Poor Folk written by Lavinia Roberts and created/directed by Irene Kapustina is a detailed and heartfelt encounter with loneliness and longing that draws shockingly strong parallels between 19th century St. Petersburg and 21st century New York. The struggle to make it through today. The struggle to imagine a bright tomorrow. Too many people, but few friends. Too much work, but little money.
The production is unapologetically cold and minimal — an exact mirror of the lives of the characters. Lavinia Roberts’ script is beautifully written bringing colorful words to an otherwise gray world. This adaptation, told primarily through letters and silent dream montages, brings Dostoyevsky’s characters to life. The characters share the stage, share dialogue, share their homes, their work, and their hopes for tomorrow but they never seem truly together. They are all alone. “
Poor People, Fringe Review, by Greer Gerni, August 24, 2015
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