La MaMa Puppet Slam returns this year with new short works of genius! These condensed works of puppetry are original, compelling, brilliant, witty, tragic, funny, stunning, startling, ironic, exotic, political, lyrical, musical, beautiful, intellectual, experimental, wild...and always demonstrate genius in a matter of minutes!
Rain Sounds for Sleeping
Amanda Card and Clayton Landiss
MAW
Cabot Parsons
The Autopsy of Lambchop Suey (Part One)
Mery Y.Y. Cheung
KIRDAAR: A Roleplay
Shraddha Tiwari
HIDE AND SEEK
Spica Wobbe, Margaret Yuen
Dreams of Peace
Katya Popova and Natasha Mirny (2 nights only)
SEDNA
Katherine Fahey (puppetry by Dan Van Allen)
(A Slice of) “Adventure Pizza” for Monsterface Industries
Marty Allen, Dan Brennan, and Leigh Walter
The Dandelion’s Wish
Fatima Sambo Schoenfelder
Sweet Potato
Lizzy DuQuette
Documentary: Illaria Comiso Puppet Designer and Maker Extraordinaire
Puppeteer and theatre artist Jane Catherine Shaw is a passionate creator, director, designer, writer, curator and educator. Ms. Shaw was co-founder and co-curator of the VOICE 4 VISION PUPPET FESTIVAL, a festival that was devoted to presenting New York artists making work for puppetry.
The 2023 La MaMa Puppet Slam is generously supported by
