Category: Directing

  • Asylum Song

    Asylum Song

    World Premiere  Director: Elizabeth Ostler Playwright: Jeanne Marie Beaumont Producers: Adjusted Realists  What really happened to Anna K., whose fate has been a long-guarded family secret? As her granddaughter attempts to patch together from historic documents the true story of her Slovakian immigrant grandmother, she finds the trail leads into the frightening halls of a 1927 state…

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  • Invasion

    Invasion

    Director: Elizabeth OstlerPlaywright: Lisa BrunaProducer: EstroGenius Festival Creative Team  Lighting Designer: Kia RogersCostume Consultant: Candice KnoxSound Designer: Michael FeldSet Designer: Sandy Yaklin Cast Candice: Renee StorkBlue: Trey K. Blackburn

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  • The Yellow Wallpaper

    The Yellow Wallpaper

    World Premiere  Director: Elizabeth OstlerPlaywright: Elizabeth OstlerProducer: St. Ann’s Warehouse, Labapalooza Puppet Lab Adapted from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.”  Creative Team Set Designers: Elizabeth Ostler & Steve SmithComposer: Steve SmithPuppet Design & Construction: Elizabeth OstlerPuppet Illustrator/Painter: Jennifer Sorenson Puppeteers Katie ProulxNicole BanksRicki Lynee Musicians Steve SmithOliver HsuAaron Harkus Recordings

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  • Flyin’ West

    Flyin’ West

    Director: Elizabeth OstlerPlaywright: Pearl CleageProducer: Brooklyn College Creative Team Lighting Designer: Haejin HanCostume Designer: Amanda WhitfieldSet Designer: Pei-Wen HuangComposer: Shane Chapman Cast Sophie: Kharyzma RaphaelFannie: Nicole BanksMinnie: Tricia DavidsonMiss Leah: Christina MagardinoWil: Mervyn MorrisFrank: Kirill Sheynerman

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  • A Mother’s Legacy

    A Mother’s Legacy

    World Premiere Director: Elizabeth Ostler Playwright: Elizabeth OstlerProducer: Sarah Lawrence College  Based on the life and writings of Mary Wollstonecraft. Creative Team  Costuming, Set, Media, and Puppets: Elizabeth Ostler Puppeteers Tara FenamoreDaniella BenavidesCaitie Cunningham

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  • This Property is Condemned

    This Property is Condemned

    Director: Elizabeth Ostler Playwright: Tennessee WilliamsProducer: Brooklyn College Creative Team Costume Designer: Amanda WhitfieldSet Designer: Pei-Wen Huang Cast Willie: Adrianna RioloTom: Bret Richard Hoskins

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  • StoryTime 2024 Choral Concert

    Director: Elizabeth Ostler Choral Conductor: Vince Peterson Producer: Choral Chameleon Creative Team  Puppetry Designer: Elizabeth Ostler Composers: Rob Mosher, George Burton, Rex Isenberg, Sydney Guillaume, Eric Tsavdar Assistant & Movement Director: Matt Mastromatteo  Environmental Designer: Daniel Patrick Hogan Line Producer: Sandra Garner Lightning Designer: Lucky  Puppet Construction: Elizabeth Ostler, Micah Heiselt, Brianna Lucero, Isaac Lucero,…

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  • Memoriam

    Memoriam

    World Premiere  Director: Elizabeth OstlerPlaywright: Stephen KaliskiProducers: Hypnic Theatre Company in association with Adjusted Realists Creative Team Lighting Designer: Alex DeNeversCostume Designer: Marisa KaugarsSet Designer: Ann BeyersdorferComposer: Steve Smith Cast Alcestis: Jenna ZafiropoulosAdmetos: Jeremiah Maestas Heracles: Fito Alvarado Gus: Benjamin BercotSpiros: Bryce Crumlish Pavlos: Matt Mastromatteo Death/Avra: Lizzie Thompson God/Servant: Kenny Wang 

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  • The Briefly Dead

    The Briefly Dead

    Director: Elizabeth OstlerPlaywright: Stephen KaliskiProducers: Adjusted Realists Creative Team Stage Manager: Gabbie AmbrusAssistant Director: Matt MastromatteoChoreographer: Katie ProulxCostume Designer: Peri Grabin LeongSet Designer: Kyu ShinLighting & Sound Designer: Jessica GreenbergComposer: Steve SmithLighting Assistants: Tiffany Campbell & Daniel GarnerSound Assistant: Korey LambProps Master: Brittney BenavidesTechnical Director: Greg Brown CastAlcestis: Jenna ZafiropoulosAdmetos: Ben KaufmanHeracles: Paul HinkesDeath: Mia…

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