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DeliaDelia / Pussypaws Puppetry

DeliaDelia / Pussypaws Puppetry

When

Jun 3 & Jun 4

Where

Domino Square

Details

Shared Evening: DeliaDelia + Pussypaws Puppetry

Time

7 pm

Event Details

7 pm Doors / 8 pm Show

DeliaDelia! The Flat-Chested Witch!

Artists

Amando Houser (they/them) is a transmasculine actor and clown born and based in NYC, hailed as “having talents that are otherworldly” (The Brooklyn Rail) and a “tour de force” (Topical Cream). Their alter ego DeliaDelia! The Flat-Chested Witch! has performed their breakout solo hour to sold out crowds at Soho Theatre, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Philadelphia Fringe, Union Hall, The Elysian, The Brick, and even on the Staten Island Ferry. As well as opening for pop musician Dora Jar’s No Way to Relax When You’re on Fire tour, Houser has also appeared in Becca Blackwell’s Obie Award–winning Snatch Adams and Tainty McCracken Present: It’s That Time of the Month at Soho Rep—named one of Vulture’s Best Theatre Productions of 2023, citing their performance as “particularly funny.” A graduate of École Philippe Gaulier in France, Houser previously trained with Pig Iron Theatre Company and Julia Masli.

Credits

Created by Amando Houser

Directed by Kedian Keohan

Sound design by Kaye Hurley


Pussypaws Puppetry: That Paradise Place

Artists

Pussypaws Puppetry is an inclusive puppet troupe of visual artists, musicians, and performers with and without disabilities. They are enchanted by all things silly, spirited, and sensual. They are inspired by puppetry’s legacy as a medium of the people: inherently playful, provocative, and predominantly existing outside art world norms and trends. Pussypaws offers a freewheeling, experimental, accessible creative space where artists of all persuasions, backgrounds, and abilities can make puppet shows and have fun. Pussypaws was founded in 2023 by sisters Priscilla Frank and Alana Hauser. They are named after the Pussypaws flower, whose magical properties open us to the healing powers of physical touch.

Credits

Created, directed, and choreographed by Priscilla Frank

Produced by Alana Hauser

Music by Graeme Daubert

The Troupe: Miriam Abrahams, Tim Allan, Lucie Allouche, Everette Ball, Ithai Benjamin, Baruch Bourdeau, Jonny Campolo, Angelina Cavallini, Chris Chronopoulos, Chloe Claudel, Sophia Cosmadopoulos, Diogeneis Costa, Emily Davis, Brian Dyer, Dave Ercolini, Helena Frances, Gabriella Herrera, Tristan Higginbotham, Camille Holvoet, Simone Johnson, Brason Jones, Ariella Kadosh, Amanda Kauftheil, Hannah Kaplan, Zoe Malley, Lauren McArthur, Dean Millien, Ruby Mizrahi (Mx Enigma), Dominica Montoya, Magen Nieves, John Peery (Pizza), Maddie Pelz, Mallory Perry, Leroy Pettaway, Eleanore Pienta, Mitchell Polonsky, Natalie Power, Jonathan Putz, Jennifer Quinones, Dyer Rhoads, Oswald Saenz, Kerry Santullo, Anna Schechter, Tayloe Schinz-Devico, Emma Singer, Anton Spivak, Ellie Sondock, Felicity Stevenson, Shmuel Taurog, Jimmy Tucker, Margot Werner, Anna Witiuk, Ky Wyman, Kenneth Youngblood, Jenna Zacharia, and more 

This project has received support from New York State Council of the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Fund, Indie Space, Bronfman Alumni Venture Fund, The Andy Warhol Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, Summertime Gallery, Center for Performance Research, Soap Library, and so many beloved members of the Pussypaws community.


DeliaDelia! The Flat-Chested Witch!

Actor and clown Amando Houser invites you to an unhinged clown hour of self-discovery. Spurred by the witch hunt on trans rights in the United States, Houser’s alter ego DeliaDelia is a flat-chested witch from the swamps who happens to be as nasty on the eyes as she is on the basketball court. She’s on a quest to become a “real girl” and join a human basketball team. Will she finally get her shot at greatness, or will she be cursed forever and turned into a serpent?

“Houser is a mesmerizing performer” —Chortle

Pussypaws Puppetry: That Paradise Place

Welcome to the garden of otherworldly delights!

Inclusive puppet troupe Pussypaws Puppetry’s presents an exuberant performance in which the love, sex, and fantasy lives of artists with disabilities blossom, pulse, sing, and sparkle. Based on 12 original love stories shared by disabled artists and adapted into puppetry spectacles, this musical celebrates eroticism as an essential element of our shared humanity.

A collaboration by over 60 artists with and without disabilities, That Paradise Place features demon daddies, big-breasted goddesses, shapeshifting fish, robot dinosaurs, and more, all exploring the infinite shapes our inner lives and erotic experiences can take. Join the sensation and let the puppet love wash over you!

A shared evening of performance curated by Theresa Buchheister.

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