Tiresias & The New Weird Future
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a speculative eco-opera and puppet pageant-in-process that imagines futures of multispecies flourishing in the ruins of the Anthropocene.
Tiresias Presents New Weird Future: A Work In Process is a speculative eco-opera and puppet pageant-in-process that imagines futures of multispecies flourishing in the ruins of the Anthropocene. A collective act of radical queer defiance against apathetic submission to climate apocalypse, New Weird Future promises utopian visions of eclectic, non-innocent entanglements on Future Earth.
Credits
Writer, Director, Composer: Tiresias
Performers: Synead, Wes Garlington aka Klondyke, Ellen Zahniser, Mizuho Kappa, Nicki Kissil, Emily Batsford, and Tiresias
Musicians: Darian Donovan Thomas and Tristan Allen
Creative Manager: Theresa Buchheister
Lead Puppet Designer: Tom Lee
Puppet Captain: Tristan Allen
Puppet Builders: Zachary Sun, Averly Sheltraw
Costume Designer: Ezra Moth
This work-in-process presentation is made possible with the generous support of Cheryl Henson and The Jim Henson Foundation. New Weird Future is fiscally sponsored by the cell theatre, and is being developed through residencies at Ucross, Bogliasco, Millay Arts, Monson Arts, The Mercury Store, NACL Deep Space Performance Lab, Chicago Puppet Studio, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, as well as through the Jim Henson Foundation Puppetry Residency at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.
The artist
Tiresias
@whoistiresias
bio
a hybrid writer, director, composer, performer, puppeteer, mythmaker, shapeshifter, drag-thing, songbird and ritualist whose work explores queer ecologies, weird mythologies, and speculative futures. They have presented dozens of original performance works around the world, and received fellowships, residencies, and awards from Ucross, MacDowell, Sitka, Millay Arts, Bogliasco, The Jim Henson Foundation, The Princess Grace Foundation, The Mercury Store, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Luce, Marshall, Fulbright, and elsewhere.
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