PRESTON FOERDER
LONERS
Thursday, November 11 - 9:30 pm
Friday, November 12 - 8:00 pm
Saturday, November 13 - 9:30 pm
Sunday, November 14 - 3:00 pm
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LONERS
LONERS is an insightful and often extremely humorous journey through
the worlds of the alone. Preston Foerder, using a variety of puppet techniques, examines
the people society tends to ignore.
Through a series of short sketches we enter the worlds of these
characters, in life, fantasy, and classic works of art. From the ridiculous to the sublime, he
presents puppet characters that will not soon be forgotten.
Preston Foerder - Creator,
Director
Amongst the companies and puppeteers he has worked
with are Poko Puppets, Puppetworks,
the Yueh Lung Shadow Theatre, Bill Baird's
Marionettes, the Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts, Theodora Skipitares, Mabou Mines'
production of PETER AND WENDY and the Metropolitan Opera. Preston designed, built and played the title
character in both the theatrical production and film of Patrick Breen's play
PHINEHAS. He has twice studied at the prestigious Institut
International de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mezieres, France on scholarship from UNIMA-USA and the Institut.
In 1991, Preston produced his first show, SLOVENLY PETER, an adult
puppet theatre piece. This piece went on to receive the UNIMA-USA Citation
of Excellence. Preston has produced six puppet theatre pieces for both adult
and family audiences. He has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, and Mexico, at both national and international festivals.
Preston was a '95/'96 recipient of a New Jersey
State Council on the Arts/Department of State Fellowship in Interdisciplinary
Performance. His last piece INTERESTING TIMES, an adult puppet theatre
piece based on chance, chaos and complexity theories was commissioned
by the Contemporary American Theater Festival. That piece was funded
in part by a Jim Henson Foundation Grant. Preston received another Jim Henson Foundation
Grant for his solo piece, LONERS. In the summer on 2002, Preston was guest artist at the Eugene O'Neill
Theatre Center Puppetry Conference, where he created a production based
on Lewis Carroll's HUNTING OF THE SNARK.
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