Artists & Projects Directory

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• Dan Hurlin
• David Zambrano
• Dean Moss
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• Ralph Lemon
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Dan Hurlin

Darius Mannino  Other works of puppetry include: REDCAT's Center for New Theater world premiere production of Janie Geiser and Erik Ehn's Invisible Glass; Frankenstein: Mortal Toys with Janie Geiser and Susan Simpson; Erik Ehn's The Saint Plays with Alison Heimstead, performed both in Los Angeles and at the Open Eye Figure Theater in Minneapolis; a puppet film version of Dante's Inferno with Paul Zaloom; Peter Schumann's Insurrection Mass with Funeral March for a Rotten Idea with the Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts; Alice in Wonderland adapted by Sibyl O'Malley, performed as part of the Los Angeles Music Center's Walt Disney Concert Hall Toy Theater Festival. As director and puppet designer, Darius collaborated with playwright Joy Tomasko on The Divide, the first chapter of an original shadow puppet trilogy. Darius is an M.F.A. graduate of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).

Matthew Acheson has had the pleasure of performing, building, and touring extensively with Dan Hurlin's productions of Hiroshima Maiden and Disfarmer and Basil Twist's productions of Symphonie Fantastique, Petrushka, Master Peter's Puppet Show and La Bella Dormente nel Bosco; Mabou Mines' Peter and Wendy; Lee Breuer's A Prelude to Death in Venice; Paula Vogel's A Long Christmas Ride Home; and as the puppetry rehearsal director for The Metropolitan Opera's Madama Butterfly. Matt has also worked with choreographer Nami Yamamoto on A Howling Flower and Flying with my Shooting Stars and directs the St. Ann's Warehouse Puppet Lab with Tom Lee. Film credits include In the House of the Sin Eater, which Matt wrote, directed, and designed with film maker Paul Kloss. Most recently Matt designed and built the marionettes and supervised the puppetry for Rinna Groff's Compulsion directed by Oskar Eustis.

Eric Wright  Puppetry performances include: Compulsion (Yale Rep); Sinking Ship's Powerhouse; The Culture Project's The Cat Who Went To Heaven; Dan Hurlin's Disfarmer (St. Ann's Warehouse) and Hiroshima Maiden (St. Ann's Warehouse); Basil Twist's La Bella Dormente nel Bosco (Lincoln Center) and Petruska (Lincoln Center); Anthony Minghella's Madama Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera);  Mabou Mines' Peter & Wendy (Arena Stages); Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty (Art Basel Miami) with Philip Huber; Erin Orr's Savage Nursery (HERE); Lake Simons' What's Inside the Egg (HERE) and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (HERE). He can be seen on PBS's SeeMore's Playhouse. He is also a regular performer at Puppet Playlist, a cabaret of new puppetry and music at The Tank. His design and construction credits include: Hamlet (The Public), TheaterWorks U.S.A.'s Seussical: the Musical and The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, Hiroshima Maiden, Animal Farm: the Musical, and most recently, Christopher Williams' The Golden Legend (DTW). He works with Emily DeCola and Michael Schupbach as part of The Puppet Kitchen, LLC, a puppet and specialty prop design and construction studio in the East Village. www.puppetkitchen.com

Chris M. Green  His puppetry, music, and stage designs have appeared over the past 15 years at venues ranging from The Philadelphia Museum of Art to Taiwan's legendary Gu-Ling Street Theater. Full Theater Commissions: Lyubo (2005), Tin Lightning (2007). Endeavors: Founded Chris Green Kinetics, a design collective creating interactive installations with partners ranging from the Peabody Essex Museum to Disney Imagineering. First project with CGK: Noah's Ark, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles. Currently: Commissioned by the School Construction Authority to design a permanent outdoor installation in partnership with HOK Architects. Upcoming: Performance installation Ultra-Local Sublime using video and shadow-play to examine overlooked stories from the changing landscape of New Delhi and other sites in flux. Awards: the American Association of Museums, Themed Entertainment Association, and the American Institute of Architects. Grants: TCG/ITI 2003, 2004, & 2005; Jim Henson Foundation 2004, 2006; Creative Capital 2009. 

Tom Lee recently completed a four island tour with his puppet piece Ko'olau to his home state of Hawai'i, followed by a residency in Japan with master puppeteer Koryu Nishikawa V of Hachioji Kuruma Ningyo (Wheeled Puppet Theatre of Japan). His work includes sets & video for La MaMa, Kevin Augustine, Czechoslovak American Marionette Theater, Georgia Shakespeare Festival & others. He was a puppeteer for Dan Hurlin's Hiroshima Maiden and Metropolitan Opera's Madama Butterfly. Tom co-directs the St. Ann's Warehouse Puppet Lab with Matt Acheson and is guest faculty at Sarah Lawrence College.  www.tomleeprojects.com