PROJECT B (Nancy Salomon Miranda, Sarah Provost, Jane Stein) THREE WORKS Thursday, November  4 - 9:30 pm Friday, November 5 - 8:00 pm Saturday, November 6 - 9:30 pm Sunday, November 7 - 4:30 pm

STILL SOUNDS Photos by Richard Termine Project B is a collaboration between director Nancy Salomon Miranda, actor/puppeteer Sarah Provost and designer Jane Stein. Project B’s work has been supported by The Jim Henson Foundation.

This evening consists of three works of contemplation, unsolicited recollections and internal monologues featuring live video and Bunraku style puppets. Expansive outdoor settings and intimate interior environments form the background against which these characters examine their lives. The program combines the stunningly detailed puppets of Jane Stein, the masterful puppetry of Sarah Provost, and theatrical vision of director Nancy Salomon Miranda to create an evening of extraordinary theater. The keystone piece, "Still Sounds," is an original sound/text collage jointly written by this collaborative team. A gray haired woman is seen on her porch rocker surveying the nocturnal woods. Four stark birch trees and a stone path glisten in the moonlight. This is the visual ground for a poetic sound/text collage based on solitude and memory. As she surveys the woods around her, she remembers her past. During this contemplation, unsolicited recollections interrupt her internal monologue as she tries to remember a childhood song. Her recollections take the form of overlapping songs, sounds and text that propel her to a realization that is visible to the audience through her dream-like, weightless state of joy and grace. The evening will also include two other works (to be announced). Nancy Salomon Miranda – Co-Creator, Director Nancy Salomon Miranda has been creating theater for almost 20 years in New York and Chicago. Known for her original adaptations of novels and short stories and her collaborations with both visual and musical artists, she has in recent years worked in experimental puppet theater. Nancy’s collaborations in puppet theater include PROJECT B’s work as well as IF YOU TAKE A FISH OUT OF WATER WILL IT SWIM? seen at the Puppet Lab this past spring. Her adaptations include: THE FOUR DIRECTIONS, a visual/performance-art collaboration with an installation artist, BOMBAZEEN a music/theater performance piece and BESTIARIO a movement/theater performance piece. Both BOMBAZEEN and BESTIARIO are collaborations with the same designer and composer and adapted from the magic realism literature of South America. Nancy’s work has been seen at One Dream, HERE, Naked Angels, Downtown Art Company, Six Figures, Bank Street Theater, Charas/El Bohio and St. Ann’s Warehouse as part of the Puppet Lab. Nancy holds a B.S. from Northwestern University and a M.F.A. in Directing from Columbia University. Sarah Provost – Co-Creator, Performer Sarah’s work includes the THE ADVENTURES OF CHARCOAL BOY developed through the Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program and the Arts at St. Ann’s Puppet Lab in 2004. In addition to her work with Project B, she has created two original solo works, combining monologue, puppetry and object theatre. ANTARCTICA HANGS UP performed at Todo Con Nada, and A PIPE DREAM, performed at the First Annual New York Fringe Festival and at the Painted Bride in Philadelphia. In addition to creating original work, she has fostered ongoing relationships with numerous artists and companies, most notably with Mabou Mines and with Theodora Skipitares’ Skysaver Productions. Performances with Skipitares include OPTIC FEVER, A HARLOT’S PROGRESS, BODY OF CRIME, UNDER THE KNIFE and UNDERGROUND, at La Mama. Performances with Mabou Mines include the Obie-award-winning production of PETER AND WENDY at the New Victory Theater and various tours, ECCO PORCO at PS 122, and EPIDOG at Here. Other performance credits include THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME at the Vineyard Theatre, MAYA THE BEE at the Culture Project, THE LONERUNNER at La Mama, INTERESTING TIMES at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival. Sarah has done voice-over work for USA Network’s interactive website SEEING EAR THEATRE, and was a regular player on WBAI’s monthly radio play, AUTOMATIC VAUDEVILLE. Jane Stein – Co-Creator, Designer Jane Stein is a sculptor who has created masks, props and puppets for the theater. Her work has appeared in productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in dance, opera and television. She began her theatrical work as a mask maker for the New York Shakespeare Festival and has contributed work to many Broadway shows including LENNY, JESUS CHRIST SUPER STAR, PIPIN, CHICAGO, THE MAGIC SHOW, EQUUS, and Bette Middler’s CLAMS ON THE HALF SHELL REVIEW. Her dance credits include masks for Martha Graham, Rod Rodgers Dance Company, and the New York Baroque Dance Company. She has worked conceiving, designing and performing with Peter Lobdell in a movement theater piece, MASQUERADE, which appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, toured Europe and regional U.S. theaters including NYC. A collaboration with the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble produced L’AMFIPARNASO, a madrigal comedy with puppets, which toured the U.S. She created a life size deer puppet for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, after Freida Kahlo’s self-portrait “The Wounded Deer”. In addition, six portrait puppets made for John Jeserun’s POINT OF DEBARKATION were nominated for the American Theater Wing Award. Recently she has designed sets and puppets for Inverse Theaters New York productions of MIDNIGHT BRAINWASH REVIVAL, AMERICAN REVOLUTION and LOST.