Artists & Projects Directory

• Africa Consortium
• Boyzie Cekwana
• Dan Hurlin
• David Roussève/REALITY
• Dean Moss
• Gregory Maqoma
• Los Muñequitos
• Marc Bamuthi Joseph
• Ralph Lemon
• Stories Left to Tell
• The America Project
• Yasuko Yokoshi

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; and 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 many artists including, Dan Hurlin, Basil Twist, MTV, Charged Productions, Paula Vogel, Lee Breuer and Mabou Mines, Nami Yamamoto, Chris Green, Lake Simons, Erin Orr, Oliver Dalzell, Erik Sanko, and The Metropolitan Opera's  Madama Butterfly. Matt wrote, co-directed and designed the film In the House of the Sin Eater, with Paul Kloss; the film has been touring internationally and as won several Audience Choice awards. Matt has also created musical scores for both film and dance projects including Lisa Gonzales's A Hope Absurd and You, My Dear, Are My Minor Death. Matt has also had the pleasure to be a guest professor at Sarah Lawerence College and is happily co-directing the St. Ann's Puppet Lab with Tom Lee.

Eric Wright - puppetry performances include: Dan Hurlin's Hiroshima Maiden (St. Ann's Warehouse); Erin Orr's Savage Nursery (HERE); Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty (Art Basel Miami) with Philip Huber; Lake Simons' What's Inside the Egg (HERE) and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (HERE); 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).

Chris M. Green - His puppetry has appeared over the past 12 years at venues ranging from The Philadelphia Museum of Art to Taiwan's legendary Gu-Ling Street Theater. Full commissions:  Lyubo (2005), Tin Lightning (2007). Recently: Founded Chris Green Kinetics, a design collective creating interactive installations with partners ranging from Anamnesia to Disney Imagineering. First project: Noah's Ark, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles. Awards: the American Association of Museums, Themed Entertainment Association, and the American Institute of Architects. Currently: Commissioned by the School Construction Authority to design a permanent outdoor installation in partnership with HOK Architects.

Tom Lee is from Miliani, Hawai'i.  Original puppet theater work includes Ko'olau, Hoplite Diary, Punch of the Dead, Odysseus & Ajax.  Sets & video for La MaMa, Kevin Augustine, Czechoslovak American Marionette Theater, among others.  Puppeteer for Dan Hurlin's Hiroshima Maiden, Madama Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera). Co-directs the St. Ann's Warehouse Puppet Lab with Matt Acheson.  Guest faculty Sarah Lawrence College.  www.tomleeprojects.com