…Is the title of my most recent venture- a ritual theater piece told through movement, puppetry and song. We just performed it’s first incarnation at HERE Arts Center where I have been in residence with my collaborator and puppeteer Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith. The show was a great success- sold out both nights to audiences excited and [...]
This is a piece I developed with the jazz funk duo The Mimetiks (featuring Akie Bermiss and Kyle Jaster). I’ve performed it in a variety of settings- in prosceniums and on rooftops. It’s a delightful little piece- an encounter, a memory, a love story. Here is a video of the piece taken at the Sidwell [...]
My first assignment working at Amherst College after graduation was to design costumes for a production of The Pillowman. I was given relatively free reign on the design and really had a blast putting it together. It is the story of a story-teller in a police-run dictatorship (and lots more). Our production had puppets play [...]
This piece was created by Happenstance Theater (the company created by my father Mark Jaster and his wife Sabrina Mandell) for the first DC Fringe Festival. The role of the puppeteer was originated by Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith (a fascinating artist and puppeteer whose work is worth following). When they re-mounted the show for the Peabody Essex [...]
My Senior Honors Thesis for completion of the Theater and Dance major at Amherst College. I started brainstorming ideas in June of 2006 with no idea what the show would be, only that I had to make one. As I worked through the fall I developed a duet with a ghost puppet which eventually became [...]