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“The Whole World and You,” by Tally Hall

   This is a song from “Pinokenstein: The Musical, written by Chris McLaughlin, and composed by Mark LaPierre. I am performing Pinokenstein’s head and voice, along with Will Pike and Alissa Hunnicutt, filling out the rest of the limbs.

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McDonald’s and Comedy Central Presents…Dish America from Frankie Cordero on Vimeo.I puppeteered and voiced the “McNuggets” and “Big Mac” characters for this commercial that ran during National Hamburger Month on Comedy Central.Ohio Lottery Sock Puppet Theater from Frankie Cordero on Vimeo. I worked on this commercial for the Ohio Lottery in December of 2007. I play the reindeer who performs the voice-over and the other is performed by Abby Roderick.Untitled from Frankie Cordero on Vimeo. This is a trailer for Dramaton Theater’s theatrical production of “The Traveler,” a trilogy of ghost stories that follow vagabonds on the road between “here” and “there,” confronting forces that hold them back in their journey. It opens with “The Road,” an adaptation of Richard Middleton’s “On the Brighton Road” (1911), in which a tramp awakens on a snow-covered road, wondering how he got there. A young boy that might have the answer he seeks soon joins him. In the second tale, William Yeats’ “Purgatory” (1922), a desperate father tries to redeem himself and his son by ending the cycle of transgression that has defined their lives. The final tale, “K,” was written for Dramaton Theater by Enma Ito, Artistic Director of Fantoma Theater Company of Osaka, Japan, and translated by Shima Ushiba. Camera/Editing: Sasa Kostic (Kostic Films) Directors: Tim Lee, Ken Berman, and Frankie Cordero. Puppeteers: Ken Berman, Frankie Cordero, Sasha Painter, and Maria Cerretani. “The Painted Rose,” is an original rod-puppet opera using life-size rod puppets in a wordless drama about a painter teetering between passion and reality.The painter does not allow himself to admit the love he holds for Rose, his teacher’s daughter. His mounting and stifled desire eventually gives life to a spirit borne from the student’s paintings. This embodiment of the unfulfilled captures Rose and returns to the canvas with her, leaving the painter at a crossroads of reality and imagination…and the choice to realize his love or let it slip away.”The Painted Rose: A Puppet Opera” is inspired by a ghost story, “Schalken the Painter”, written by JS LeFanu in 1830. The performance creates a surreal world without gravity, inhabited by articulate three foot high rod puppets adorned in flowing silk costumes, operated by shrouded puppeteers and accentuated by handheld fans. The story is conveyed through wordless action, accentuated by a female operatic voice coloring the story with emotional tones and accompanied by an original avant-garde score by Chicago-based composer, Devin Shepherd.