Joan Of Arc Project

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Pandora Gastelum is the founder of The Mudlark Public Theatre and the New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival. She also serves as Festival Director and President of The New Orleans Giant Puppet Fest Inc. Puppeteer, playwright, designer and performer, Pandora graduated with honors from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a double major in Theatre and Sociology and has studied and taught puppetry and performance throughout Europe and Southeast Asia. Ms Gastelum is also the Artistic Director of her space's resident company, The Mudlark Puppeteers. As a company, the Mudlark Puppeteers specialize in puppet theatre that is innovative and unconventional, presenting original and little-told stories of heroic misfits and wayward love. The Mudlarks have a developing repertory of object-based works in a variety of scales. Mudlark work explores history and human experience through a lens of fable, waging a playful but determined battle for alternative modes of being. Mudlarks imagine hope in the form of new stories, reimagining the dispossessed as emerging heroes. The New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival invites this prospect to the world. ... See MoreSee Less