Puppetry to Take the Fort Point Theatre Channel Stage in GREAT SMALL WORKS

On Sunday, January 15, Fort Point Theatre Channel presents Great Small Works. This free evening offers the work of Trudi Cohen and John Bell, theater makers, puppeteers, festival organizers, musicians, and founding members of Great Small Works, a visual theater collective.

Created in 1995 in New York City by six people with roots in Bread and Puppet Theater, Great Small Works seeks to draw on folk, puppet, avant-garde, and popular theater traditions to address contemporary issues. The members of Great Small Works are now dispersed, with outposts in Brooklyn, Montreal, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bell and Cohen anchor the New England base in Massachusetts.

Great Small Works is set for Sunday, January 15, 7 pm at Midway Studios, 15 Channel Center Street, Boston. For more information, visit www.fortpointtheatrechannel.org or call 617-750-8900. Free. Reservations optional at www.eventbrite.com/e/great-small-works-tickets-29988382058.

John Bell directs the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and is Associate Professor of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut. He was a member of the Bread and Puppet Theater company from 1976 to 1986 and received his doctoral degree in theater history from Columbia University in 1993. He is an editor of Puppetry International, the publication of the U.S. branch of the Union Internationale de la Marionnette; an organizer of the Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands in Somerville; and a trombonist in the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band.

Trudi Cohen was a full-time member of Bread and Puppet Theater's resident company in Vermont for 10 years and has performed as puppeteer in productions directed by Peter Schumann, Janie Geiser, Amy Trompetter and David Neumann. She directed Great Small Works' 2008, 2010 and 2013 International Toy Theater Festivals and has curated dozens of the company's Spaghetti Dinner events. She plays bass drum with the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band and is a founder and organizer of the HONK! Festival in Somerville. She is secretary of the board of Bread and Puppet Theater and on the board of Parts & Crafts, a maker space for young people in Somerville.

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