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Kevin Augustine has been playing with puppets and exploring
his performance passion since his single digits...
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As artistic director of Lone Wolf Tribe, Kevin acts in the plays he writes while animating the puppets he makes. Ordinary foam, hand carved for maximum expressiveness, transforms into living breathing creatures-strangely unsettling while at the same time extremely tender.
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"In his hands the simplest act of bringing life to the inanimate becomes a hugely theatrical event...mysterious and frightening, full of emotion, tension, and magic that is satisfyingly total because it all springs forth from the mind and soul of one very talented man" says Basil Twist.
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Employing simple but elegant theatrics, Lone Wolf Tribe can conjure an entire three-ring circus or a simple duet between a mute woman and a monarch butterfly. Audiences can journey ten stories below the earth to a futuristic bio-research lab, or up to a 9th story walk-up to witness the birth of a creature whose sole purpose will be to dance to Tchaikovsky.
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Performing at theatres and festivals in the U.S. and abroad since 1997,
(The HARARE International Festival of the Arts in
Zimbabwe, The NYC Dream Music Trio sponsored by The Henson International Festival of Puppet Theatre, The Painted Bride in Philadelphia), the bizarre partnership of Augustine and his puppets searingly explores the edges of theatrical style and human experience.
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The Tribe's most recent work, ANIMAL, hailed
"Masterful and pulsating" by the Village Voice, was
commissioned and produced by HERE's Artist Residency
Program (HARP) in 2003, invited back in 2004 and
published in the 2005 NY Plays & Playwrights
Anthology. It will tour to the Atlanta Center for
Puppetry Arts in 2006/07. A revival of Mr. Augustine's
award-winning, "breathtaking" production, Big Top
Machine--a PICK in the Village Voice, enjoyed a
five-week, entirely sold-out run at the Brick Theatre in 2005.
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The company
has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Mid
Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Jim Henson Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation,The New York
State Council on the Arts, The Puffin Foundation, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts,
The Axe Houghton Foundation and Puppeteers of America . LWT is a proud member of the
Alliance of Resident Theatres, with studio space located at A.R.T./NY's
South Oxford building in Fortgreen, Brooklyn. Kevin Augustine has
created puppets for several other performance companies, and offers
master puppet classes in sculpting, technique and performance
for kids, professional performers and passionate amateurs. He
is a MacDowell Colony fellow and
a Teaching Artist with the Brooklyn Arts Council.
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