|
|
PUPPET GOVERNMENT
See
appliance puppets sing...dance...
start wars... and Behave Very Badly.
With a mandate from America,
this musical satire
Smokes 'Em Out and Brings It On!
|
"sharp
political jabs"
The Daily Texan
Best
of Fest
2006 FronteraFest
Austin, TX
|
|
|
SMALL
APPLIANCE PUPPET THEATER
The
people behind the puppets
|
|
Steve Barney
(writer, George
W. Bush) is making his second trip
to FringeNYC,
where he performed his show Wade
in 2005. In 2003 he wrote and performed
the one-man, sixteen-character show Radio
Free Dave at the Hyde Park Theater
in Austin, Texas. Steve also spent two
years acting with the Shanandoah Shake-speare
Express, a touring company based in Harrisonburg,
VA from 1989-1991. He currently works
for the City of Austin in the Department
of Neighborhood Housing and Community
Development.
|
Joe
Bowen (The
WrongCo Salesman) is an actor enjoying
theater in all its forms through roles in
plays such as Camelot, The
Merchant of Venice, The Recruiting
Officer, The Normal Heart
and The Seven Year Itch. In Austin's
local theater, he also enjoys helping backstage,
as well as being in the audience. Also a
classical choral singer, he is currently
touring Wales with the Texas
Choral Consort, performing
Mozart's Requiem.
|
 |
|
Paula
Gilbert (Laura
Bush, Condalzza Rice, Cindy Sheehan, Reporter,
assistant puppet designer) was educated
in New Mexico where she discovered the joy
of telling stories. After many years and
many adventures, she still enjoys storytelling
through the medium of live performance.
Paula currently serves on the boards of
The
Vortex and Different
Stages in Austin, Texas. When
she's not acting, directing, costuming or
puppeteering, she is an opera diva dresser
for the Austin
Lyric Opera. A winner of a
B. Iden Payne award for her performance
in Medea, Paula was also nominated
for her roles as Narrator in Rocky Horror
Show and Lady in Orpheus Descending.
Paula has studied with Mark Medoff,
Paul Baker, Preston Jones, more recently
with Norman Blumensaadt, Susan Dillard,
Barry Pineo, and now with Steve Barney and
Chris Humphrey and this wonderful cast.
Learning is just pure fun with these folks.
Paula is thrilled to be among those who
are responsible for this production of Puppet
Government.
|
Ben
Johnston (Dick Cheney, Colin
Powell, Reporter) has played banjo
in a folk trio, tap danced in Anything
Goes, sung in Annie Get Your Gun,
danced in a ballet version of Carmina
Burana, played fiddle and trumpet in
a dance band, competed as an Irish set dancer,
danced in English and Hungarian folk dance
groups, played accordion for morris dancers,
performed with the visiting dance theater
groups of Susan Marshall and David Rousseve,
and tangoed in the movie Waking Life.
He is choreographer for Austin based Occasional
Terpsichore, has performed with the Prattsbottom
Mummers, and has designed and built sets
for Yellow
Tape Construction Company.
He was an original cast member of A
Ride With Bob: From Austin to Tulsa,
with whom he toured in 2005. Ben is a charter
member of Small Appliance Puppet Theater.
|
|
|
Jeff
Swearingen
(Donald Rumsfeld, Scotty McClellan, Tony
Snow, Michael Brown) is excited to
be involved with the production of Puppet
Government at The
New York International Fringe Festival.
He will be returning to the festival from
last year were he performed the one man
show The Last Castrato. A few other
notable performances this last year: the
title role in the musical The Stinky
Cheese Man in L.A. and Seattle, Mugsy
in Dealers Choice in Dallas, as
well as performing Improv with Mild Dementia,
French Club Dropouts, and Fun Dip in Austin,
Dallas and New York. |
Chris
Humphrey (director, composer,
arranger, puppet designer) has appeared
in over a dozen films including Richard
Linklater’s seminal work Waking
Life as well as Alex Holdridge’s
critically acclaimed Sexless, and
in theatrical performances such as Eve Ensler’s
Vagina Monologues and David Rousseve’s
Love Songs. The multi-media piece
Lucy Dies in Fives, for which Chris
wrote the original score, was “Best
of the Fest” in Frontera Short Fringe
2004. She is the director of The Pratts-bottom
Mummers and co-director of Occasional Terpschicore.
Chris was an original cast member of A
Ride With Bob: From Austin to Tulsa,
and toured with the show in 2005. She is
currently performing in I Love My Dead
Gay Son: The Musical! with Austin based
Yellow
Tape Construction Company and
is a charter member of Small Appliance Puppet
Theater. Please visit Chris here. |
|
Your
Name Here...
Small
Appliance Puppet Theater is a sponsored
project of
Women and Their Work,
a local non-profit
arts organization. Contributions on behalf
of
Small Appliance Puppet Theater
may be made payable to Women and Their
Work and are tax-deductible to the extent
permitted by law.
Checks
can be made out to Women and Their Work
with
'Small Appliance Puppet Theater' in the
memo line, and mailed to:
Small
Appliance Puppet Theater
103 Laurel Lane
Austin, TX 78705 |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
