Michelle Beshaw

En Mer Avec Louise Bourgeois | Puppet Festival 2026
December 3-6

[Program tbd]

Runtime: 50 Minutes

A haunting found-object theatre piece

where discarded things reveal fragments of the memories, and obsessions that animated Louise Bourgeois’s work well into her 90s.

Michelle Beshaw:Creator/Performer/Designer

Deborah Beshaw-Farrell:Performer

The artists

Michelle Beshaw
@beshawmichelle

Michelle Beshaw is a Brooklyn-based theatre artist and performer whose work has appeared at La MaMa, PS 122, city parks, community centers, stairwells, and even a broom closet. Her original works include The Napier Project, developed as a resident artist in the Mabou Mines Suite; Sheep Musing, presented in St. Ann’s Warehouse’s Labapalooza; and Wave: An Incantation, featured in La MaMa’s 2019 Puppet Slam. Michelle is a company member of the Czech-American Marionette Theatre and a longtime collaborator with the Puppeteers Cooperative. She is delighted to be working once again with one of her favorite performers, Debbie Beshaw-Farrell, with whom she has shared a lifelong creative partnership.

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