Ballad of the Platypus and  Freaks and Fortunes 2009

An inventive combination of puppet theater, improv story-telling and personal narrative with ukulele interludes.

The performance offers a glimpse as to where the chaotic,  somewhat irreverent personal process  can lead when transgender identity conflicts with mainstream  notions of what is “normal”: the politics and comprimise of passing.

Both performance are stand alone though have a tendency to fuse with each other along with other whimsical vignettes so that no performance is ever exactly the same.

Performances have been featured across the country as part of  The Tranny Roadshow, The Femme Show, and currently the Dysphoric Cyborgs tour.

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Hear Them Howling

A collection of cryptic fables and stories featuring an array of dark, whimsical creatures that reflect on the transitory mind and body in the context of mental health. Stories are presented through d.i.y. publication, short film, and puppet theater.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hear Them Howling advocates that language around mental health needs (at times) to be cryptic, dwell in macabre, and never shy from whimsy.

 

pictures above: puppets from The Neckhater

 

 

 

writing sample: The Drowning Mermaid

She dove below into the lull then hastily swam to the fierce surface for a quick breath as the striking of a match.

During the final excursion, the pouring rain cleared salt away from her eyes

so gracefully

as the sea ran down throat into lungs as if by invitation.

She sank down through the lull to the darker, deeper depths

and the heart of song.

The mermaids can sense a drowning victim from miles away like a storm can project tension.

And they came in swarms.

click the tangled mess for an extended portfolio