Join us Saturday January 18th to witness and discuss in-progress works from puppeteers in NYC!
Puppet Sketchbook is a recurring evening in which puppet artists and other performance makers present first-stage work and solicit feedback from audience participants. Each evening includes four performers presenting 10-15 minutes of work. The audience is asked to respond to the presentations in provided notebooks, and following the presentations, in lieu of a traditional panel-style talkback or group discussion, the artists and audience mingle and share questions and feedback, over drinks and snacks.
On February 8th, Sam Jay Gould will be presenting!
Bio:
Sam Jay Gold is a puppeteer, theater artist, and filmmaker based in New York.
With the support of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Sam studied traditional forms of puppetry around the world. He trained in marionettes in the Czech Republic, Noh and Bunraku in Japan, and Wayang Kulit in Bali, while exploring empathy, imagination, and projection across the animate/inanimate divide. These experiences cemented Sam’s belief in the primal power of the puppet, of the shadow, of the not-quite-lifelike, as vessels for surprising, delighting, and challenging audiences with transformative storytelling.
Sam’s original work has been supported by the Jim Henson Foundation and featured at venues including St. Ann’s Warehouse, BAM, and the New York State Puppetry Festival. He has performed in shows at Lincoln Center, Mass MoCA, The Watermill Center, The Merry-Go-Round Theater, The Eugene O’Neill Theater, HERE Arts, and La MaMa, as well as toured works in France, Poland, and Indonesia.
Sam is co-founder of The Brothers Campur, a Balinese/American shadow puppet company performing classic and contemporary Wayang Kulit throughout the US and Bali. His writings on theater and pu ppetry have been featured in Bauhaus Magazine, Puppetry International, and Mime Journal.
When not performing, writing, or making new shows, Sam assists in puppet fabrication at AchesonWalsh Studios and works as a teaching artist at The New Victory Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, and CO/LAB Theater Group, where he offers individuals with developmental disabilities a creative and social outlet through puppetry and other theater arts.
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Ages Teen and adult!
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Pay-As-You-Wish (Suggested $10-20)
BIO:
Justin Perkins is a puppet artist and performer. Recent puppet performance includes Madama Butterfly at Met Opera (cover), and Hansel and Gretel at Michigan Opera Theater (principal). He has appeared in works by Ping Chong+Company (Alaxsxa|Alaska, LaMama, US tour), Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew (And Here We Are, National Sawdust), Tom Lee (Shank’s Mare, NYC, Paris, US tour), Lake Simons, Patti Bradshaw, Puppet Cinema, Unitards, imnotlost and more. In 2019, his most recent work, DIANAMAS, was developed at Puppet Lab at St Ann's Warehouse. Justin's puppet ballet Unicorn Afterlife was the recipient of a Workshop Grant from the Jim Henson Foundation and residencies at the Jim Henson Legacy Carriage House and Center at West Park, and has been presented at has been presented (in progress) at Carriage House, Dixon Place, Center at West Park, and FlameCon. Justin is a curator at Object Movement Puppetry Festival, a year-long development residency program for puppet artists with new works in development, currently in its third year. He is also the Program Director at New Country Day Camp in Staten Island.
