Creative Partners

Molly Bain is a poet, English teacher, one-woman performer and chocolate connoisseur based in Pittsburgh. She and Johanna are working together to develop public television programming for children that mixes an emphasis on literacy and narrative with song, dance, movement phonics and air swimming. Info about The Factory can be found here.

Christophe Fricker, recipient of this year’s Herman Hesse Förderpreis, is a poet, travel writer and biographer of the German poet Stefan George. He has translated my essay “Fork it Over” into German, for publication with photographic stills from paper roll puppetry in an upcoming edition of Belletristik magazine. His website is www.aufenthalte.info.

Tim Hanson is a madcap inventor who constructed the mechanical contraptions and puppet frame for the SJK3000 puppet show. Tim has constructed several prototypes for different kinds of gadgets that I won’t divulge here, some based on his work as a neuroscientist, including a massive robot that is collecting data as we speak. If you would like to know more, you can contact Tim at sideskate at gmail dot com. He would like to be paid in cheese.

Brian Lobel is a one-man performance juggernaut based in London. Brian and Johanna have previously collaborated on several sound and theater performance projects, and Brian is featured in Johanna’s interview collection Superqueers. His website is www.blobelwarming.com.

Samatha St. Pauli, Dagmar von Lindenhoos and Heike Kleene-Jungfrau, together with xylophonist Jörg Öztürk form German Hair Syndrome, an East German comic glam band. Reviews, interviews and downloads can be found here.