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| Age: | 39 years old |
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| BodyType: | Athletic |
| Last Login: | Dec 31, 2009 (0 days back) |
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About Me |
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| Ian Thal is a multimedia artist who works in the media of poetry, mime, and puppet theatre, frequently collaborating with Cosmic Spelunker Theater , a troupe he co-founded with William J. Barnum and James Van Looy in 2001. Ian has performed his poetic, choreographic, and theatric material in many venues: Artists-At-Large, Inc. , AS220 , Bowery Poetry Club , Casa Nia , Club Passim , Evos Arts Institute, Green Street Studios, Mobius Art Space, Puppet Showplace Theatre , Revolving Musem , Warwick Museum of Art , and the Zeitgeist Gallery . In addition, he has performed with Bread & Puppet Theater (about which he has blogged extensively here ), i Sebastiani , and the Dresden Dolls' Brigade. His poetry has appeared in Out of the Blue Writers Unite edited by Timothy Gager and Deborah M. Priestly (Crooked River Press, 2003) Tokens: Contemporary Poetry of the Subway edited by Peggy Garrison and David Quintavalle (P&Q Press, 2003) Becoming Fire ( Andover Newton Publications , 2006) and has work forthcoming in Crude: Poems at the End of the Age of Oil ( Pudding House Publications ) and in such magazines as Boom! For Real , Crooked River Press, Flash!Point, Ibbetson Street Press , Poesy . His work also appeared as part of an installation during the 2003 Boston CyberArts Festival. He also served as a mime instructor at Brookline Community Center for the Arts and Open Air Circus . Ian also appears in the film, Circuit , currently in production, and recently played the role of a foppish highschool classics teacher in The Adventures of CMYK . SomerVaudeVille -- Ian Thal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ac_KSVrMXI
May 28, 2008: SomerVaudeVille @ Johnny D's, Somerville, MA Playwright Binge http://ianthal.blogspot.com/2009/03/playwright-bin... Acting as my own literary agent... Motionary Contest http://ianthal.blogspot.com/2009/04/motionary-cont...
Vote for me! A whopping FIFTY AMERICAN DOLLARS is at stake! Big money! Aggravation of Prometheus http://ianthal.blogspot.com/2009/10/aggravation-of...
Have you heard the story about the event promoter who advertises a reluctant artist with the full expectation that it will force the artist to perform at an event, even after the artist says, "no?" No? With the internet and just a little bit of insanity, anything is possible! |
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I'd like to meet:(the proper phrase is "Whom I'd like to meet:") Dario Fo, Terry Gilliam, Bill Irwin, Franca Rame.If we do not know one another and you think we should be friends, please send a message along with your friend request so that I know who you are. Teatro Punto Workshop http://ianthal.blogspot.com/2008/04/teatro-punto-w...
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Single |
| Ethnicity: | Other |
| SexualOrientation: | Straight |
| Hometown: | Boston, MA / Washington, D.C. |
| Religion: | Jewish |
| Smoker: | No |
| Drinker: | No |
| Children: | Undecided |
| Education: | Grad / professional school |
| Occupation: | mime, poet, puppeteer, performance artist |
My Blog |
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Response to My Modest Proposal |
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So now there's an "Ian Thal method" and the fellow who coined the term wasn't being sarcastic. Posted by on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:57:00 GMT |
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A Modest Proposal |
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Theatre critic, Thomas Garvey, calls me "mischievous." He meant that as encouragement, right? Posted by on Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:17:00 GMT |
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Total War on bushgreen |
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Entering the 21st century as a playwright may mean using social network sites like bushgreen. Posted by on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:11:00 GMT |
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Copley Square Farmers' Market, 2003 |
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A brief performance video from 2003 that I hadn't seen until this morning. Posted by on Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:18:00 GMT |
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Brother Blue 1921-2009 |
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On November Third, Brother Blue (Dr, Hugh Morgan Hill) left the land of the living. He took the title of "storyteller" but cou... Posted by on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:24:00 GMT |
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Notes on Class |
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A class at Royal Halloway, University of London, I am following because the prof put my blog on the reading list. Posted by on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:47:00 GMT |
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Nobody Sucks... Except That Guy |
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In which I meet the one and only actor I didn't want auditioning for my play. Posted by on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:17:00 GMT |
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Not Only Do I Use Facebook... |
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Not only do I use Facebook, but I am in the Facebook movie. Posted by on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:10:00 GMT |
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Time Question |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext Posted by on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:29:00 GMT |
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Barney Does Google |
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In which the blog author watches you read his blog. Posted by on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:50:00 GMT |
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