https://www.joshriceprojects.com/projects daily 1.0 2024-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566390069545-YF4936FJY1D00MLPPIME/Theatre%4037+Painting Selected Projects Painting by local artist of Theatre@37 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566389577919-432K2CO8A6RD2KBWO2AB/IMG_2995.JPG Selected Projects Abandoned storefront turned performing arts space at 37 S. Main Street in Perry, NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566390009916-IXWJECEE440X51IKWPII/Ribbon+Cutting%4037.jpg Selected Projects Ribbon cutting, December 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/8f43f14e-1811-4273-9bd8-a43fc12e28a3/Shop+1.jpg Selected Projects The shop/makerspace, equipped with chop saw, band saw, drill press, tablesaw, drills, router, paint area, etc https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/026b2ded-f440-433e-b37b-a548e0acbd7a/Theatre+1.jpg Selected Projects Playing space with marley floor, at 15’ deep by 25” wide. Space seats 60 people https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/f5c12863-ade6-4cf1-b658-66b6e94ab827/Theatre%4037+Floorplan+JPG.jpg Selected Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566390243832-IBRI4K3FU5APLUV4RYYS/Panorama Selected Projects Panoramic shot of Theatre@37 in use during the New York State Puppet Festival’s performance of fifth-generation Japanese puppet master, Koryu Nishikawa V https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566402676210-8JYQ6LWZOQ7JFU2WIMHK/NYSPF_Opening_14June2018176.jpg Selected Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1618771353428-GB26B9RQD9LHCKMSGUYT/The+Joshes.jpeg Selected Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1618770165106-QRFJY6CG98BGQL383AU2/apple-podcasts.png Selected Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1595515152620-NQVLAQHFIOHYLMR7K40M/Logo.jpg Selected Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1618769651700-DK3ZJUZSSR003HIRPG4U/spotify-podcast-badge-wht-blk-660x160.png Selected Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566354258306-9NBZ2XNDR50OT6GLJFY1/Telescope.jpg Selected Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566339802278-IP1Z2XOY16G56ZB6PAB3/Shadow+Puppets.jpg Selected Projects - Shadows of the Future Designed by Josh Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566404658964-FNUVWPSXYEJBLMT0MPPP/NYSPF_Opening_14June2018176.jpg Selected Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1595515629161-PYDD9XLXCLS3NVCY7BTW/Josh+%26+Josh+Puppet+Pod.JPG Selected Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1595515780502-71P79VUISDJ6F14JT85H/The+Joshes.jpeg Selected Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1663427553894-CQTNT385QW1XAL8UAOU8/NYSPF2022_ShanksMare_02_CreditKatKuo.jpg Selected Projects Shank’s Mare by Tom Lee & Koryu Nishikawa V, NYSPF June, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566345378926-PW1Q543UD0CTNUKJVQV4/OldMan.jpg Selected Projects - Shank's Mare Created by Tom Lee & Koryu Nishikawa V Directed & Designed by Tom Lee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1663502111430-HYN6XHGBCH2EFHK7MYUK/Theatre+1.jpg Selected Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1663426893055-40PFB6S0UMES4OEXG1JY/SOTL_MXBETH2022_PromoPics_MacBethMacDuff_WebSize.jpg Selected Projects Macbeth (Rick Blunt) & Macduff (Tre Whitley) from 2022’s production of MACBETH. https://www.joshriceprojects.com/teaching daily 0.75 2019-08-21 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/t/5d5d74328f4df9000165966c/1566393993287/ Teaching - The Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University Josh is a Lecturer in Improvisation and an Alda-certified Facilitator at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, where his main focus is teaching scientists and researchers how to be better communicators using improv techniques. Though Josh began working with the Alda Center in March 2019, he has been a professional theatre & teaching artist all over the world (Japan, London, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Iceland, Italy, Spain, Amsterdam, Hawaii, Canada, Paris, Broadway/NYC) since 2003. Josh is a staunch advocate for finding “play in our everyday” and using this tool in applied improvisation techniques in conjunction with empathetic listening. Josh holds an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College. https://www.aldacenter.org/ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/5d5d38fde3bc4c000196ea7c/5d5d396d849b210001576534/1566393993287/48045056298_c74bcefdf2_o.jpg Teaching - The Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University Josh is a Lecturer in Improvisation and an Alda-certified Facilitator at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, where his main focus is teaching scientists and researchers how to be better communicators using improv techniques. Though Josh began working with the Alda Center in March 2019, he has been a professional theatre & teaching artist all over the world (Japan, London, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Iceland, Italy, Spain, Amsterdam, Hawaii, Canada, Paris, Broadway/NYC) since 2003. Josh is a staunch advocate for finding “play in our everyday” and using this tool in applied improvisation techniques in conjunction with empathetic listening. Josh holds an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College. https://www.aldacenter.org/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566396006007-1POLCZ9Z3NQRLZY5B28G/Alda.jpg Teaching - Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University Josh is a Lecturer in Improvisation and an Alda-certified Facilitator at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University where he works with scientists and researchers on how to better communicate their work/stories through improv techniques. Though he began working with the Alda Center in March 2019, he has been a professional theatre & teaching artist since 2003, teaching & performing all over the world (Japan, Iceland, Italy, Spain, Amsterdam, Canada, London, Paris, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Hawaii, NYC/Broadway). Josh is a staunch advocate for finding “play in our everyday” and using this tool in applied improvisation techniques in conjunction with empathetic listening. Josh holds an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College. aldacenter.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566403735676-J2T0QHYC6BVVZGM4Q2AZ/PCS+Groundlings+2.jpg Teaching - The Groundlings Program (2016-present) SOTL’s pre-professional training and residency program in collaboration with Perry Central School. Each spring, students are immersed in a intensive theatre-making process that culminates in a performance(s) at PCS, as well as during the summer as a pre-show “Green Show” before SOTL’s mainstage touring performance. The goal of the program is to introduce students to the process of theatre-making from creation to script to rehearsal to performances, while creating a homegrown pipeline of talent for the professional company shakeonthelake.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566402092660-4XK5N15N5GOKBUPT6TK9/IMG_1399.jpg Teaching - The Mnemonic Theatre Project (2013-2018) Founded in 2013 while a grad student at Sarah Lawrence College, the Mnemonic Theatre Project uses puppetry and improvisation to make puppetry and improv comedy performances for seniors living with Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Josh won a 2014 National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellowship for the program, and had it featured on the PBS documentary series, Visionaries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566402129679-GOT6HVBIU3BB5SPT8FQB/P8050211.JPG Teaching - Voices UnCaged (2016-present) Voices UnCaged is our theatre outreach program serving the incarcerated. Founded in 2015 by Associate Artistic Director Chad Bradford, Josh and Shake on the Lake (SOTL) has annually taught this program in residence at Groveland Correctional Facility since 2016, working with the incarcerated population to create devised performances inspired by Shakespeare and self-reflection by the inmates, for the inmates. SOTL also performs their annual summer touring productions inside Groveland Correctional Facility. shakeonthelake.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566402069838-BGM9BURDKQSUDEB1L7M1/PCS+Puppets+copy.jpg Teaching - Puppetry Residency at PCS (2017) This two-week long puppetry residency in Ms. Adolf’s 3rd & 4th grade art classes culminated in the construction of 120 rod puppets, some of which were featured in the Perry District Art Show, as well as the dancing aliens of Mos Eisley spaceport in the PCS Groundlings performance of Shakespeare’s Star Wars https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566402108074-F4IJK978PQK8UTJG0REA/IMG_1950.jpg Teaching - The Mnemonic Theatre Project (2013-2018) Founded in 2013 while a grad student at Sarah Lawrence College, the Mnemonic Theatre Project uses puppetry and improvisation to make puppetry and improv comedy performances for seniors living with Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Josh won a 2014 National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellowship for the program, and had it featured on the PBS documentary series, Visionaries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566402187756-XA13HSZPI3KY8B00WGMU/Star+wars+1+copy.jpg Teaching - The Groundlings Program (2017) Shakespeare’s Star Wars, our 2017 Groundlings program, a mashup of Shakespeare, puppetry, and Star Wars. Adapted and directed by Josh Rice, in collaboration with the students of Perry Central School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566402259525-6Y12382RJEVIZP4M3A4R/IMG_9800.JPG Teaching - The Groundlings Program (2018) SHAKESPEAREMANIA!, our 2018 Groundlings program, mashing up the worlds of Shakespeare and WWE-style professional wrestling. Directed and designed by Josh Rice, in collaboration with the students of Perry Central School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566405418538-1YEVVBPZESJ1E7KTNUK5/YAWNY.png Teaching - Young Audiences of Western New York (2017-Present) Teaching Artist for Young Audiences of Western New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1566405587509-P9NJVL7W9QOT2YENFJ6U/new+vic.png Teaching - New Victory Theater (2014-present) Teaching Artist with New Victory Theatre https://www.joshriceprojects.com/kayfabe daily 0.75 2025-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1706301526956-2YFLYSCGWENLR7Q9QKNB/image-asset.jpeg Kayfabe - About the Show KAYFABE is a puppet wrestling entertainment spectacular! Table-top puppetry meets pro wrestling meets a rock show; high art meets low art meets Samuel Beckett! This 70-minute frenetic frenzy of puppet wrestling action is an aburdist love letter to professional wrestling through puppetry. For BOOKING INQUIRIES, tech rider, and press/show packet: please email at joshrice0730@gmail.com Cast of Kayfabe, January 2024. Pictured (from left) Emma Wiseman, Rowan Magee, Gus Badger (lower left), Josh Rice, and Madeleine Dauer. Portrait by Robert Doyle Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1706301526956-2YFLYSCGWENLR7Q9QKNB/image-asset.jpeg Kayfabe - About the Show KAYFABE is a puppet wrestling entertainment spectacular! Table-top puppetry meets pro wrestling meets a rock show; high art meets low art meets Samuel Beckett! This 70-minute frenetic frenzy of puppet wrestling action is an aburdist love letter to professional wrestling through puppetry. For BOOKING INQUIRIES, tech rider, and press/show packet: please email at joshrice0730@gmail.com Cast of Kayfabe, January 2024. Pictured (from left) Emma Wiseman, Rowan Magee, Gus Badger (lower left), Josh Rice, and Madeleine Dauer. Portrait by Robert Doyle Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1663421527159-OJ9HOQHNPPGLIJIB8IHX/NYSPF2022_Kayfabe_122.jpeg Kayfabe KAYFABE is a table-top puppet wrestling entertainment spectacular! Kayfabe uses Bunraku-style and kuruma ningyo-style cart puppetry (the main character), object puppetry (the ring, the ropes) dance (the puppet & puppeteers), costumes (puppeteers & puppet), and projection design, supported with sound design and original music. The piece was first developed as a ten-minute short as part of the Storefront Theatre Festival, July, 2021. It has since had three developmental residency periods in January, March, and June 2022, culminating in a work-in-progress showing. The piece is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts Support For Artists Grant (2022) and the Arts Council for Wyoming County Community Arts Grant (2022). Photo by Kat Kuo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1715958089247-OAWQI54NZGIEUMLBSLB4/image-asset.png Kayfabe - KAYFABE Trailer (30 sec) Trailer for KAYFABE by Josh Rice on YouTube. This 70-minute frenetic frenzy of the absurd, is non-linear, divided into segments & vignettes (like a televised wrestling program) that connect thematically & stylistically around one puppet character, all building toward the climatic “main event” of Puppetmania. Segments will include puppet wrestling matches, stylized dances by the puppet and puppeteers using the gestural vocabulary of pro wrestling, commercials inspired by early 90’s era wrestling, and promos (monologues), by the puppet, but also by the wrestling ring itself, brought to life by the puppeteers. We also make use of the motif of instant replay using live-feed video and projection. PWE Artwork by Tim Livingston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726694865866-5BY2ILXXGKUGZMU2XRSB/NYSPF2022_Kayfabe_100.jpeg Kayfabe Philosopher Roland Barthes wrote, “the function of the wrestler is not to win; it is to go exactly through the motions that are expected of him.” What is expected of a puppet when the persona of Dr. Kiss, and the tropes and trappings of the professional wrestling world are thrust upon them, as they barrel toward their destiny as the main event of PuppetMania?? Expect the unexpected when form meets function, when reality and fantasy collide, when the lines between real and fake blur—this is KAYFABE. Photo by Richard Termine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726694945792-Q9MOKH2IDAHJZX1MK8E9/Kayfabe+Pose+1.jpeg Kayfabe Kayfabe is a puppet entertainment spectacular, epic in dramatic-style, rock-show spectacle, and emotional scale, but is designed in one-third-sized puppet scale (ie. a life-sized wrestling ring is 18 ft wide, the puppet-sized ring will is 6 ft wide). The piece uses Bunraku-style table-top puppetry, cart puppetry, live-feed projection (instant replay) & object performance, as well as the wrestling tropes of matches, monologues, and music & video. Kayfabe is the term used in professional wrestling to describe the adherence to not acknowledging the scripted nature of the world of wrestling. In kayfabe, wrestling is a legitimate sporting contest. Vince McMahon, CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, famously broke kayfabe in 1997 by admitting on-air that wrestling was scripted, and redefined the form as “sports entertainment,” acknowledging the reality of fakery we were in on all along. This Oz-like reveal of the behind-the-scenes mechanizations of the form shattered the fourth wall, yet fans continue to suspend their disbelief because they yearn for the glimpses of reality that creep into the form, blending our perceptions of fiction, fantasy, and the real. This blending of worlds is where wrestling best succeeds, as does puppetry. We map our humanity onto these performing objects to see glimpses of reality within them, animating the inanimate. In the kayfabe of puppetry, these performing objects are alive. This metaphysical approach to wrestling and puppetry is the essence of KAYFABE, examining how the ritual of performance bleeds into reality and how reality bleeds into performance. Photo by Richard Termine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726693782679-51KCMJ3N7ZU69OO0VOIJ/Kat+Kuo+Slam+Photo.JPG Kayfabe Puppet for final dance inspired by Hachiōji Kuruma Ningyō (a hybrid Kuruma-ningyō-style/otome Bunraku-style puppet). Puppet Design by Tom Lee. Additional assistance from Zachary Sun, Averly Sheltraw (studio assistants) & Jacky Kelsey (costume design). Photo by Kat Kuo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726695760555-GR6119H83W0C6X79ANJR/Replay+1.jpeg Kayfabe Live-feed projection & green screen of backstage interview motif. Photo by Richard Termine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1706301798892-5FB2CXLC8EC72OKPRIPY/attachment_0000.JPEG Kayfabe Kayfabe: how the ritual of performance bleeds into reality and how reality bleeds into performance. January 2024 rehearsals. Photo by Bob Doyle. Special Thanks to the Indiegogo Crowdfunding Support From: Puppetmaniacs: James Alefantis, Bill Heller, and Norm Gayford & Mary Conable Fans: Sarah Studwell, Derek Crowe, Molly Umble, Liz Eberle, Jesse Edwards, Jon Riddleberger, Sifiso Mabena, Libby Rice, Andrea Krisko, Maggie Jett, Tom Halstead Superfans: Jill Gould, Megan Loomis, Ryan Fitzsimmons, Dan Carter, Lauren Jost, Maura Umble, Owen Buehler Fanatic: Jana Zimmerman, Andy Lawrence, John Earle Marks: Claudia Orenstein, Brian Nathanson, Barret Buehler & Ashley Drew, Franky Kline, Andy Manjuck & Dorothy James, Brendan Reid, Brad Flower, Travis Rice, Tyler 2E Rice, Matty Mlyniec, Brian Reno Rice Smart Marks: Laura Galgowski & Kevin Murphy, Donors: Sarah Keeler, Alexandra Nathanson, Kevin Marcks, Rob McDougall, Mary Rice, Ben Rice, Tom Lee, Renee Marie Philippi, Carlo Adinolfi, Bob & Jane Jacobs, Ruth Lichtman, Leah Ogawa, Eileen Wiseman, Leigh Walter, Luke Daly, Kim Stauffer, Ebeth Bojsza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1645975976103-IH5ZF2992Q29YK6VQ7BT/Maggie+Belt+Pic.jpeg Kayfabe Kayfabe (work-in-progress) is an absurdist puppet wrestling entertainment. The piece explores fantasy, reality & the spaces in-between, using Bunraku-style puppetry, dance, projections, & the stylistic lens of professional wrestling. Photo: Maggie Jett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726695185907-LVOIGFZND2HPCSCB6HOW/NYSPF2022_Kayfabe_019.jpeg Kayfabe Puppet reaching for the world championship belt. Photo by Richard Termine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726698184454-1EIL9GPA0ZUA4K4DM9J9/Kayfabe+Review+VULTURE+JPEG.jpg Kayfabe - VULTURE Review by Sara Holdren "In Kayfabe—the juiced-up and joyful collision of director Josh Rice’s obsessions—puppets and pro wrestling turn out to be a match made in some kind of wacko theatrical heaven. The title term is wrestling slang for the suspension of disbelief practiced by the sport’s true devotees, who are honor-bound never to acknowledge its staged performances as anything other than authentic — and, following suit, Rice’s show inducts us into a world of glorious, hilarious, and ultimately deeply moving artifice. We become fans of the “babyface” wrestler Dr. Kiss, a puppet whose “big Leo energy,” fabulous purple get-up, and sick finishing move (the Kiss of Death) are enough to make us forget the fact that he’s just so much wood and wire, manipulated by three top-notch puppeteers, all sporting lucha libre masks and given plenty of their own very funny opportunities to take the spotlight. With Rice as an emcee who knows every crowd-pumping turn of phrase, Dr. Kiss’s bid for stardom is an enthusiasm-fueled lesson in imagination: We learn the vocabularies of puppetry and of wrestling, and we see all the strings — but that doesn’t stop us from hollering along, gasping and booing and longing, through all the fakery, for a real victory. A love letter to a 1990s childhood, a virtuosic bout of object manipulation, and a celebration of the strange magic of performance, Kayfabe has a big, authentic soul inside its little wooden body." -Sara Holdren, Vulture and New York Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1706302055949-RAKD6ZKGX18BM4CYXXYY/JHF_logo_ForScreen.jpeg Kayfabe Kayfabe by Josh Rice is the recipient of a 2024 Jim Henson Foundation Production Grant and a 2023 Jim Henson Foundation Workshop Grant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726697691572-Z0ZHC9KW0XIWUDPZKGOV/NYSCA+Logo+-+Black.jpg Kayfabe KAYFABE has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant (2022) with support from the Office of the Governor and the NYS Legislature https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726694991291-UGSKVCBUZZLQ4MNJK319/Superteers.jpg Kayfabe SuperTeers (superstar puppeteers, from left) Madeleine Dauer, Ash Winkfield, Rowan Magee (lower middle), Emma Wiseman. Photo by Richard Termine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726695097572-1HNMGRNOQOABJWAWU46O/attachment_0000+3.JPEG Kayfabe Live-feed action figure commercial, made live during the show. Photo by Richard Termine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726696080948-P0DOEFT79IBDH0U9PWO9/NYSPF2022_Kayfabe_049.jpeg Kayfabe Opening puppetry scene in KAYFABE. Photo by Richard Termine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726693686074-4XPGNX0H9IWRKZ8XND9F/photo+16.jpeg Kayfabe Puppet for final dance inspired by Hachiōji Kuruma Ningyō (a hybrid Kuruma-ningyō-style/otome Bunraku-style puppet). Puppet Design by Tom Lee. Additional assistance from Zachary Sun, Averly Sheltraw (studio assistants) & Jacky Kelsey (costume design). Photo by Kat Kuo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726695244112-NYMCWLTAJ3NB1BFVGNID/NYSPF2022_Kayfabe_240_WideAngleLens.jpeg Kayfabe Image from the opening dance sequence by the puppeteers. The choreographic score is devised from actual wrestling moves and poses, with the goal of introducing visual vocabulary from the world of wrestling and starting the show with vibrant color, sound, and movement. Photo by Richard Termine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726696055815-VWWGJUKVH68KIDSJG0RL/2024-05-29+KAYFABE-Dixon+Place+001+copy.jpg Kayfabe Josh Rice as Ring Announcer and Color Commentator throughout the show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1663421013065-LEZY9BJXMCDE6JOI27NP/NYSPF2022_Kayfabe_002.jpeg Kayfabe Puppeteer Rowan Magee. At the top of the show, the puppeteers will be bombastically costumed and supported with theme music and montage video projections of them puppeteering, to evoke the over-the-top entrances of pro wrestlers in televised wrestling programming. The goal is to make the puppeteers as seen as possible at the top of the show, as opposed to keeping them hidden or a tertiary focus. Photo by Kat Kuo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1663420900124-1Q0REJYC1CG0N1L5HJ2D/NYSPF2022_Kayfabe_122.jpeg Kayfabe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726696512792-07SGWPRPL65G0XGOAEQK/Kayfabe_PromoImages2024_03_02feb2024a.jpg Kayfabe Promo Art by Kat Kuo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726695278734-IRL54E2A4MMXBGT7KZRN/NYSPF2022_Kayfabe_090.jpeg Kayfabe Inspired by Samuel Beckett’s Not I, the ropes of the ring made into mouths, speaking lines from wrestling promos.Puppeteered by Rowan Magee and Emma Wiseman. Photo by Richard Termine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726697454732-LX19QJFM0XYLZ0T9GCA0/Screen+Shot+2024-05-19+at+10.32.17+AM.png Kayfabe - Photo Art Book of KAYFABE by Robert Doyle Photography Order from BLURB for $18 https://www.blurb.com/b/12007431-kayfabe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726696633566-9HFAXBATPGXJA218GWA1/Screen+Shot+2024-02-29+at+10.52.57+AM.png Kayfabe Dr. Kiss logo by Tim Livingston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726696760980-QX7BRJPLQ5BZIVR5YZAH/Screen+Shot+2024-02-27+at+2.09.50+PM.png Kayfabe Dr. Kiss t-shirts, for sale during the show. Art by Tim Livingston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726696710993-KQQS0BFWEHYYG6XBEUVI/Puppet+Mania+Tee.jpg Kayfabe Puppetmania t-shirts, for sale during the show. Art by Tim Livingston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1726696728296-802EXNGP1GOTMIY3CYE6/T-shirts+2.png Kayfabe Puppet World Order (PWO) and Puppet 3:16 t-shirts, for sale during the show. Art by Tim Livingston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5c6e3bf0260a0001d8aa92/1645975970201-WZ1NCOV42CBPW2DWG2IW/IMG_5444+copy.JPG Kayfabe The term “kayfabe” is used in professional wrestling for presenting staged performances/wrestling matches as genuine or authentic. I am a theatre artist, a comedy improviser, and a puppeteer, and a lifelong fan of professional wrestling. This intersection of roles, interests, art forms, and ideas of what is real/authentic is very exciting to me. It was only recently that I realized my performative style and sensibilities are informed by professional wrestling. Wrestling is over-the-top, stylized, comedic & dramatic, physically demanding and spectacle-oriented. It’s a pageant of emotion, athleticism, projection, costume, sound, and lights. Wrestling is collaborative, often improvisational, and audience-driven. 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