Tiresias Presents New Weird Future: A Work In Process
| Puppet Festival 2026
[Program tbd]
ASL interpreted performance:
November 15, Sunday, 5pm
Runtime: tbd
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, Angélica Negrón, and Tristan Allen
Production/Stage Manager: Celia Krefter
Lead Puppet Designer: Tom Lee
Puppet Captain: Tristan Allen
Puppet Builders: Zachary Sun, Averly Sheltraw
Costume Designer: Ezra Moth
Light Designer: Celia Krefter
Fairy Godfather: Theresa Buchheister
Dramaturge: Nicolas Baird
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.
The 12th La MaMa Puppet Festival Fall 2026 is made possible by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the Howard Gilman Foundation, The Jim Henson Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation. Additional support from Cheryl Henson is gratefully acknowledged.
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