Robin Frohardt | |
|---|---|
| Known for | puppet design, playwright |
| Movement | social practice art, environmentalism |
| Website | http://www.robinfrohardt.com |
Robin Frohardt is an American playwright, puppet designer, visual artist, and director based in Brooklyn, NY. [1]
Frohardt constructs her sets for films and plays completely from cardboard. [2] She also uses plastic, [3] wood, [4] cloth, [5] and other recycled materials [6] to make puppets and installations. Some of her puppets are realistic people [7] while other objects take abstract forms. [8] Frohardt uses Bunraku-style puppetry, most notably in her show The Pigeoning. [9] Bunraku is a traditional Japanese form of performance that involves puppeteers, chanters, and musicians. [10]
Environmentalism is the primary theme in Frohardt’s work, specifically in Bag Movie, [2] The Plastic Bag Store, [11] and Dumpster Monster, [6] which all focus on the prevalence and permanence of human waste. [3]
The Plastic Bag Store [11] is an installation in the form of a fully stocked grocery store. [3] Created to look realistic, all products are hand crafted from single-use plastic. [12] This exhibition transformed into a three act live puppet performance at night [3] with original music by Freddi Price. [13] The theme is that humans can never really throw away trash. [3] She tells the journey of plastic waste, [12] and criticizes mass consumption. [3] The Plastic Bag Store was awarded the Creative Capital Award in 2016 [12] and before COVID-19 was scheduled to reappear in March 2020 in Times Square. [3]
The Pigeoning [14] is a puppet show that debuted at HERE Arts Center in 2013 [15] about an obsessively clean office worker who believes that pigeons are plotting against him. [16] It won the Arlyn Award [17] in 2014 for Outstanding Design in Puppet Theater [18] and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Best Music in a Play for its original music by Freddi Price. [13] Dumpster Monster is a 10-minute puppet performance including audience participation centered around a creature constructed entirely of trash that explodes from a dumpster. [6] It debuted in 2015 at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. [19]
Frohardt created puppets for Anna Fitch and Banker White’s documentary film Heaven Through the Backdoor. [20] She designed the sets for Nick Jones’s play Jollyship the Whizbang. [21] [22] She worked on the additional set pieces for a theater piece on the subway [23] titled IRT: A Tragedy in Three Stations [24] [25] by Jeff Stark. She designed the snack bar and ticket booth [26] for Jeff Stark and Todd Chandler’s installation Empire Drive-In. [4] She was a puppet designer for the play Salt of the Earth [27] [5] by Zvi Sahar. [28] Frodardt worked with Dream Community [29] as a director and creator of floats, costumes, and puppets in the Dream Parade [30] in Taipei, Taiwan. She designed puppets [8] for the New York and Norway based puppet company Wakka Wakka. [31]
Along with other artists Kirk Lombard, Freddi Price, Ben Burke, Jesse Roadkill, Duskin Drum, and Caryl Keintz, Frohardt founded Apocalypse Puppet Theater [32] which ran from 2005 to 2010. The artists built puppets and wrote plays for the mobile theater that ran out of a wagon pulled by bikes. [32] Frohardt worked with the Cardboard Institute of Technology [33] from 2008 to 2012 to make cardboard installations. [34]
- 2019, Made In NY Women’s Fund Grant Award
- 2018, Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2016, DisTIL Fellowship at UNC
- 2016, Olson Kundig Artist in Residence
- 2016, Creative Capital Award for “The Plastic Bag Store”
- 2016, Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant
- 2016, Residency at The MacDowell Colony
- 2016, Jim Henson Foundation Seed Grant for “The Plastic Bag Store”
- 2014, Mid-Atlantic Arts Fund USArtists International Grant Award
- 2014, Arlyn Award for Puppet Design for “The Pigeoning”
- 2013, Peggy Irvine Foundation Award for Artistic Excellence
- 2013, Artist in Residence St. Anne’s Warehouse’s Puppet Lab
- 2012, Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant for “The Pigeoning”
- 2012, Artist in Residence at HERE Arts “Dream Music Puppetry” Program
- 2011, Artist in Residence St. Anne’s Warehouse’s Puppet Lab
- ^ "Robin Frohardt". Creative Capital. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ a b "Robin Frohardt". Bag Movie. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Times Square Arts: The Plastic Bag Store". arts.timessquarenyc.org. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ a b "Empire Drive-In". Empire Drive-In. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ a b "Robin Frohardt". Salt of the Earth. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
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a
b
c Apr 21st 2019 - 12pm, Ruth Nerhaugen | (21 April 2019).
"'Dumpster Monster' brings garbage to life". RiverTowns. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link) - ^ "Robin Frohardt". Heaven Through the Backdoor. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ a b "Robin Frohardt". Wakka Wakka. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Plotting Pigeons: Juniata Presents Robin Frohardt's "The Pigeoning"". Gale OneFile.
- ^ "Bunraku", Wikipedia, 2020-07-29, retrieved 2020-09-22
- ^ a b "Plastic Bag Store". Plastic Bag Store. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ a b c "The Plastic Bag Store". Creative Capital. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ a b "Freddi Price | Jumping into the vat…". Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- ^ "Theater". The New York Times. 2014-08-15. pp. C15. ProQuest 1941419743. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Robin Frohardt". The Pigeoning. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ Collins-Hughes, Laura (2014-08-16). "A Puppet Who Just Wants to Eat His Sandwich". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Arlyn Award for Outstanding Design in Puppet Theatre". arlynaward.org. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "The 2014 ARLYN AWARD". Puppetry Journal. 65 (3): 25. Spring 2014.
- ^ "Robin Frohardt". Dumpster Monster. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Heaven Through The Backdoor". Mirabel Pictures. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ Genzlinger, Neil (2008-07-20). "Seafaring Puppets Rock on a Trip to Party Island". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Nick Jones | Jollyship the Whiz-Bang". www.thewhizbang.org. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "irt". www.nyc.subwaytheater.com. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ Mallozzi, Vincent M. (2009-02-01). "In the Subway, Moving Theater, in More Ways Than One". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Robin Frohardt". IRT. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Robin Frohardt". Empire Drive In. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Salt of the Earth". PUPPETCINEMA, ITIM ENSEMBLE. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "PUPPETCINEMA, ITIM ENSEMBLE". PUPPETCINEMA, ITIM ENSEMBLE. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Robin Frohardt". Dream Community. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Top 4 Taiwan Parades to Check Out This Year". Taiwan Tour - Loci Amica Travel Inc. 2019-09-23. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Wakka Wakka Productions". Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ a b "Robin Frohardt". Apocalypse Puppet Theater. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Cardboard Institute of Technology". Exploratorium. 2011-02-02. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Robin Frohardt". Cardboard Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
Robin Frohardt | |
|---|---|
| Known for | puppet design, playwright |
| Movement | social practice art, environmentalism |
| Website | http://www.robinfrohardt.com |
Robin Frohardt is an American playwright, puppet designer, visual artist, and director based in Brooklyn, NY. [1]
Frohardt constructs her sets for films and plays completely from cardboard. [2] She also uses plastic, [3] wood, [4] cloth, [5] and other recycled materials [6] to make puppets and installations. Some of her puppets are realistic people [7] while other objects take abstract forms. [8] Frohardt uses Bunraku-style puppetry, most notably in her show The Pigeoning. [9] Bunraku is a traditional Japanese form of performance that involves puppeteers, chanters, and musicians. [10]
Environmentalism is the primary theme in Frohardt’s work, specifically in Bag Movie, [2] The Plastic Bag Store, [11] and Dumpster Monster, [6] which all focus on the prevalence and permanence of human waste. [3]
The Plastic Bag Store [11] is an installation in the form of a fully stocked grocery store. [3] Created to look realistic, all products are hand crafted from single-use plastic. [12] This exhibition transformed into a three act live puppet performance at night [3] with original music by Freddi Price. [13] The theme is that humans can never really throw away trash. [3] She tells the journey of plastic waste, [12] and criticizes mass consumption. [3] The Plastic Bag Store was awarded the Creative Capital Award in 2016 [12] and before COVID-19 was scheduled to reappear in March 2020 in Times Square. [3]
The Pigeoning [14] is a puppet show that debuted at HERE Arts Center in 2013 [15] about an obsessively clean office worker who believes that pigeons are plotting against him. [16] It won the Arlyn Award [17] in 2014 for Outstanding Design in Puppet Theater [18] and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Best Music in a Play for its original music by Freddi Price. [13] Dumpster Monster is a 10-minute puppet performance including audience participation centered around a creature constructed entirely of trash that explodes from a dumpster. [6] It debuted in 2015 at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. [19]
Frohardt created puppets for Anna Fitch and Banker White’s documentary film Heaven Through the Backdoor. [20] She designed the sets for Nick Jones’s play Jollyship the Whizbang. [21] [22] She worked on the additional set pieces for a theater piece on the subway [23] titled IRT: A Tragedy in Three Stations [24] [25] by Jeff Stark. She designed the snack bar and ticket booth [26] for Jeff Stark and Todd Chandler’s installation Empire Drive-In. [4] She was a puppet designer for the play Salt of the Earth [27] [5] by Zvi Sahar. [28] Frodardt worked with Dream Community [29] as a director and creator of floats, costumes, and puppets in the Dream Parade [30] in Taipei, Taiwan. She designed puppets [8] for the New York and Norway based puppet company Wakka Wakka. [31]
Along with other artists Kirk Lombard, Freddi Price, Ben Burke, Jesse Roadkill, Duskin Drum, and Caryl Keintz, Frohardt founded Apocalypse Puppet Theater [32] which ran from 2005 to 2010. The artists built puppets and wrote plays for the mobile theater that ran out of a wagon pulled by bikes. [32] Frohardt worked with the Cardboard Institute of Technology [33] from 2008 to 2012 to make cardboard installations. [34]
- 2019, Made In NY Women’s Fund Grant Award
- 2018, Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2016, DisTIL Fellowship at UNC
- 2016, Olson Kundig Artist in Residence
- 2016, Creative Capital Award for “The Plastic Bag Store”
- 2016, Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant
- 2016, Residency at The MacDowell Colony
- 2016, Jim Henson Foundation Seed Grant for “The Plastic Bag Store”
- 2014, Mid-Atlantic Arts Fund USArtists International Grant Award
- 2014, Arlyn Award for Puppet Design for “The Pigeoning”
- 2013, Peggy Irvine Foundation Award for Artistic Excellence
- 2013, Artist in Residence St. Anne’s Warehouse’s Puppet Lab
- 2012, Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant for “The Pigeoning”
- 2012, Artist in Residence at HERE Arts “Dream Music Puppetry” Program
- 2011, Artist in Residence St. Anne’s Warehouse’s Puppet Lab
- ^ "Robin Frohardt". Creative Capital. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ a b "Robin Frohardt". Bag Movie. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Times Square Arts: The Plastic Bag Store". arts.timessquarenyc.org. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ a b "Empire Drive-In". Empire Drive-In. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ a b "Robin Frohardt". Salt of the Earth. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^
a
b
c Apr 21st 2019 - 12pm, Ruth Nerhaugen | (21 April 2019).
"'Dumpster Monster' brings garbage to life". RiverTowns. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link) - ^ "Robin Frohardt". Heaven Through the Backdoor. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ a b "Robin Frohardt". Wakka Wakka. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Plotting Pigeons: Juniata Presents Robin Frohardt's "The Pigeoning"". Gale OneFile.
- ^ "Bunraku", Wikipedia, 2020-07-29, retrieved 2020-09-22
- ^ a b "Plastic Bag Store". Plastic Bag Store. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ a b c "The Plastic Bag Store". Creative Capital. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ a b "Freddi Price | Jumping into the vat…". Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- ^ "Theater". The New York Times. 2014-08-15. pp. C15. ProQuest 1941419743. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Robin Frohardt". The Pigeoning. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ Collins-Hughes, Laura (2014-08-16). "A Puppet Who Just Wants to Eat His Sandwich". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Arlyn Award for Outstanding Design in Puppet Theatre". arlynaward.org. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "The 2014 ARLYN AWARD". Puppetry Journal. 65 (3): 25. Spring 2014.
- ^ "Robin Frohardt". Dumpster Monster. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Heaven Through The Backdoor". Mirabel Pictures. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ Genzlinger, Neil (2008-07-20). "Seafaring Puppets Rock on a Trip to Party Island". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Nick Jones | Jollyship the Whiz-Bang". www.thewhizbang.org. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "irt". www.nyc.subwaytheater.com. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ Mallozzi, Vincent M. (2009-02-01). "In the Subway, Moving Theater, in More Ways Than One". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Robin Frohardt". IRT. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Robin Frohardt". Empire Drive In. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Salt of the Earth". PUPPETCINEMA, ITIM ENSEMBLE. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "PUPPETCINEMA, ITIM ENSEMBLE". PUPPETCINEMA, ITIM ENSEMBLE. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Robin Frohardt". Dream Community. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Top 4 Taiwan Parades to Check Out This Year". Taiwan Tour - Loci Amica Travel Inc. 2019-09-23. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Wakka Wakka Productions". Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ a b "Robin Frohardt". Apocalypse Puppet Theater. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Cardboard Institute of Technology". Exploratorium. 2011-02-02. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
- ^ "Robin Frohardt". Cardboard Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-09-22.