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Puppetry in Higher Learning : Colleges and Universities in the Northeast Region that offer Education Opportunities in Puppetry
Moderator: Homeslice (Eric Weiss), Northeast Regional Director
Bart Roccoberton- University of Connecicut
Kate Brehm – Harvard University
Dinaïg Stall – Université du Québec à Montréal
Mark Sussman – Concordia University
Lake Simons – Sara Lawrence College
Carol Fisher – University of New Hampshire
KATE BREHM directs and designs visual theater with puppets, physical acting, and scenic dramaturgy. Her New York based company, imnotlost, has produced original theater and interactive events since 2003. She is an accomplished international puppeteer and movement director certified to teach the Margolis Method of Physical Theater. Her research into the performing body of the puppeteer and visual storytelling for the stage are taught as studio puppetry classes. She has taught full semester courses at Harvard University, and workshops and lectures at Yale, the University of Connecticut, Exeter College, Royal Holloway University, Central School of Speech and Drama, Cave Art Space, and Puppeteers of America. She is published in the Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance.
She is a close associate of Basil Twist and has toured the world performing and developing his works of puppet theater since 2005. She has received various awards including a NYSCA Individual Artist Award, Henson Foundation Workshop Grant, Puffin Foundation Ltd. Award, and multiple residencies with organizations such as Here Arts Center, Chashama, Galapagos Art Space, St Anne’s Warehouse, Mabou Mines, and the Center at Westpark.
Credits: (creator – imnotlost) The Poofs, Dark Space, Things Fall Apart, Discrepancies, The Eye Which We Do Not Have, Dance Halls, Fireside Puppet Chats; (Puppet/ Movement Direction) Hansel and Gretel – Michigan Opera Theater, Dorothy and the Prince of Oz – Tulsa Ballet/ Ballet Met, Beauty and the Beast National Tour – Bdway, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory National Tour – Bdway, Paper Hat Game, Dreaming – Torry Bend; (puppeteer – Basil Twist) Symphonie Fantastique, Dogugaeshi, Rite of Spring, Arias With a Twist, Petrushka, Sister’s Follies, Seafoam Sleepwalk; (Puppeteer) Unicorn Afterlife (Justin Perkins), La Divina Caricatura, Animal Magnetism (Mabou Mines), El Niño (John La Bouchardière), Ship of Fools (Jessica Scott).