Pousette & the Pirates

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1 Double Image Theater Lab F-5 CONTACT Margot Fitzsimmons 201 East 17th Street Apt 11D New York NY Project Budget Grant Request $9,800 $4,000 PAST GRANTS AWARDED 2013 Project - A Chance Shadow 2012 Seed - A Chance Shadow doubleimagetheaterlab@gmail.com doubleimagetheaterlab.com 501 (c)(3): Chinese Theatre Works Pousette & the Pirates "Pousette and the Pirates", a simple story with great imagination, brought to life with poetic language that is supported by moving images and music. The audience travels on a sea voyage with Pousette, using her imagination to overcome great obstacles. We will build the stage, puppets and shadows in front of the audience to transform time and space-- starting with one piece of paper. VIDEO SAMPLE Title: "Pousette and the Pirates" Dates it was filmed June 3rd 2015 and May Artists: Director and Puppeteer: Margot Fitzsimmons Performer: Sarah Grace Fitzsimmons Performer: Callie Brennan Puppet Designer: Spica Wobbe Musician: Daniel Townson Videographer: Kelsey Faamausili Description: The "Pousette and the Pirates" video is collage of two different renditions of workshop performances. One takes place in Virginia performed indoors, while the other was performed in an outdoor location in Hawaii. FAMILY

2 Pousette and the Pirates...Project Description Double Image Theater Lab, yearns to explore the world of the past and the present through object and light manipulation, music, dance and poetry. In this project, Pousette and the Pirates is a story passed down from Margot s Grandfather. Pousette is a little girl who gets kidnapped by pirates, cooks them pancakes that have too much yeast and after eating them the pirates float away. A simple story with great imagination, brought to life with poetic language that is supported by moving images and music. The audience travels on a sea voyage with Pousette, using her imagination to overcome great obstacles. The two major elements that are used in this piece are shadow and paper. We will build the stage and puppets in front of the audience to transform time and space starting with one piece of paper. Through manipulation, a piece of 2D paper will come to life and transform into a 3D character in the form of object puppetry, hand puppet and Bunraku style puppet. The paper is used as a vehicle to communicate the scenery, props and sound effects. Shadows are porjected on the performer s body, different objects and surfaces. We annimate the shadow by moving the projected surfaces in order to create depth. Shadows will be seen all around the audience. The quality of transparent, transluscent and opaque shadows are used to create a collage of mysterious and transformative images. This project has been workshoped in Virginia at the Charter House School 2015 and in Hawaii at the University of Hawaii at Manoa 2016 and the Variety School With the support of the Jim Henson Foundation Family Grant we will be able to continue to develop the project into a full legnth show and perform with live music by Daniel Townson, a musician from Brooklyn who specializes in acoustic guitar. We will present a new section of our work in progress from Pousette and the Pirates in 2017 at The Mandell School in Manhattan and then present the full length show in the 2017 New York International Fringe Festival.

3 Pousette & the Pirates by Double Image Ttheater Lab Project Expenses Personal 2017 Family Grant Budget Project Income Sales & Earned Writer 500 Box Office 800 Puppet Designer 800 Merchandise 2000 Set/ Instillation Designer 800 Composer 800 Total 2800 Director 800 Puppeteer x Stage Manager 300 Contributions Technician 300 Individuals 3000 Musician 500 Jim Henson Foundation 4000 Total: 5800 Total 7000 Materials Puppets 500 Set 800 Lights 300 Total 1600 Total Project Income: 9800 Marketing/ Promotion Postcard/ Flyer 300 Website 300 Postage 100 Total 700 Others Office supplies 100 Transportation 400 Space Rental 1000 Benefit party 200 Total Total Project Expense:

4 Pousette and the Pirates.Artist Bio Spica Wobbe (co creator, puppeteer, designer, co founder of Double Image Theater Lab) is an independent puppetry artist, originally from Taiwan, where she worked with Shiny Shoes Children s Theater. She has studied with master puppeteers Damiet van Dalsum (Netherlands), Albrecht Roser and (Germany), Pak Suratno (Indonesia), Peter Schumann and Ralph Lee (U.S.). Recent works: The Adventures of Big Belly (3bean Children s Theater, Brooklyn Children s Museum), Thirst: Memory of Water (Jane Catherine Shaw, La MaMa ETC.), Yanagai! Yanagai!( AATI, La MaMa E.T.C.), Coming Aphrodite (Watson Arts, La MaMa E.T.C.), Eumenides ( NYU Educational Theater Program), Return (Shiny Shoes Children s Theater, Taiwan). In 2008 Spica created So Close & Yet So Far in collaboration with Flying Group (Taiwan) which toured Japan, Taiwan, Netherlands and the U.S. M.A. in Educational Theater (NYU, 2003). Margot Fitzsimmons (co creator, puppeteer, co founder of Double Image Theater Lab) is an independent puppetry artist in NYC. Her love of puppetry began when she did an apprenticeship in Málaga, Spain with Acuario Teatro. She has studied with master puppeteers Ralph Lee, Landis Smith (U.S.), Diego Guzman (Malaga, Spain), Damiet van Dalsum (Netherlands) and Norbert Goetz (Germany). Recent works: Thirst: Memory of Water (Jane Catherine Shaw, La MaMa ETC.), African Drum (Sandy Robbins, Shadow Box Children s Theater). She works as a teaching artist for The New Victory Theatre and Young Audiences New York. Her work has been seen in Holland, Israel, Taiwan, Austria and Germany. B.A. in Theater and Spanish (Dickinson College, 2004), M.A. in Educational Theater (NYU, 2007) and an MFA in Theater for Young Audiences with a concentration in Puppetry (University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2016). Danny Townsend Danny has been playing music since he was a young boy. He hails from Baltimore, but lives in Brooklyn, where he composes music for plays, podcasts, cartoons, you name it. By day, Danny is an urban planner/policy analyst for New York City government; by night, a writer, composer, and performer.

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