Quarantine Kitchen

On Thursday April 30th, our first musical, “Quarantine Kitchen": the Musical!” debuted on Facebook as part of Great Small Works’ Virtual Toy Theater Festival. Quarantine Kitchen is a cooking show musical spectacular dealing with the existential dread of COVID-19

Skeleton Soiree

Our next project was “Skeleton Soiree: A puppet newscast.” Local Floridian reporter Lerida Flerida interviews undead skeletons about their experience with plagues in their lifetimes, hoping to gain insight and lead the good people of Lorida to better health and safer conditions. She finds them at their annual mixer, aptly titled, "The Skeleton Soiree." In addition to discovering some new silly voices for Lerida, Ima Ditz, and Ann Fibbian, I also got to flex my sewing skills as I constructed a 10 foot party tent from old bedsheets. I hate to say it, but I may have used some high school calculus to get the slope right as well.

Allston Christmas Story

Our most recent piece, my personal favorite, and a piece of work I am deeply proud of, is a crankie* called “Allston Christmas Story, or How I moved 3 Times in 4 Months.” We tell the story of our friend Emy, a 23 year old grad student experiencing housing insecurity in Boston. For this piece, I wrote a script based on personal narrative, and got to use skills I learned in bookbinding classes to cut paper and create a story scroll. As the eviction moratorium ended, I was grateful to combine my art with my activism, and encourage viewers to take a stand against housing insecurity through puppetry and paper arts.

*a 19th century puppetry technique with a story bound on scrolls and cranked through a box