The first of the four videos I am producing for 14hands is online now. www.14handsagency.com More to come soon! 

I’m directing/producing 4 internet shorts for a company on the west coast, involving puppets on location in NYC, shadow puppets, paper cut-outs, and various other styles. Here is a sneak peek of one of the characters:I’m directing/producing 4 internet shorts for a company on the west coast, involving puppets on location in NYC, shadow puppets, paper cut-outs, and various other styles. Link to come when the videos are complete… Here is a sneak peek of one of the characters:14HANDS-PLACEHOLDER

It is National Hamburger Month again, and Comedy Central is currently airing short movie trailer spoofs featuring puppets. Look for me as Big Mac, Nuggets, and others… 

Check out Tally Hall’s Blog on the making of the video their single, “The Whole World and You”www.tallyhall.com/blog  

Kat Pleviak (seabeastpuppetry.com) started a new project, where puppet film challenges are given every other month on her website. This month, vending machine items were to be incorporated into the videos. Here is the video I made with  puppeteers Alissa Hunnicutt, Stacey Weingarten, and Nate Begle:

If you can’t catch either of the last two performances of Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera this season, you can always catch it live and in HD during the telecast in movie theaters on March 7th! There will also be several encore showings this month.  Go here for more info and to purchase tickets: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/broadcast/countries/hd_events.aspx?id=4654  

I’ll be performing in “Don Cristobal, Billy Club Man” by Erin Orr and Rima Fand on January 14th and 15th at HERE Arts Center. More info can be found here. 

Check out www.tallyhall.com to see the music video I directed for Tally Hall.  Many talented people worked on this video, including Ken Berman, who art-directed and co-designed the puppets/sets/props with me, and Marcus Lehmann, the director of photography.  The episode is also viewable at Myspace, and the standalone video can be found at Facebook and YouTube

I am very excited to announce the release of a music video I produced/co-designed/directed for Tally Hall. The song is called “The Whole World and You,” off their album, “Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum.” The music video can be seen at Tally Hall’s website, www.tallyhall.com, starting on December 22nd. It will be within an episode from their webseries, a co-production between the band and Atlantic Records   

I’m back as an understudy puppeteer in “Madama Butterfly” at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC. It performs for the next few weeks, and will be back for a short stint in Feb/March of 2009. Go to www.metopera.org for tickets and more info.

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