Contact / Resume
For project inquiries and hellos!
email: emmaSwiseman@gmail.com
instagram: @emma_wiseman
Emma Wiseman
Multidisciplinary Performance / Puppetry
Education & Training /
Sarah Lawrence College / Bronxville, NY / B.A. 2010 / Theater, Puppetry
Accademia dell’Arte / Arezzo, Italy / Spring 2009 / Mask Theater
Fellowships & Residencies /
2019 / Theatre @37 Puppetry Residency for OOO: Out of Office / Perry, NY
2018 / Eugene O’Neill Theater Center / Jim Henson Foundation Puppetry Residency for Chimpanzee / Waterford, CT
2015-16 / St. Ann’s Warehouse Puppet Lab / Brooklyn, NY / Lab Co-Directors: Matt Acheson and Krissy Smith
2015 / Upper Jay Arts Center / Upper Jay, NY / Developmental Residency with The Space We Make
2014 / Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program / New York, NY / Program Mentors: JoAnne Akalitis, David Neumann and Sharon Fogarty
2012 / St. Ann’s Warehouse Puppet Lab / Brooklyn, NY
2012 / Upper Jay Arts Center / Upper Jay, NY / Developmental Residency with The Space We Make
Awards & Nominations /
2016 / Die Puppenstars -International Televised Puppet Competition / 2nd Pl. for The Pigeoning - dir. Robin Frohardt
2016 / Creative Arts Emmy Nomination / “Animated Life” / Sweet Fern Productions / NYTimes Op-Docs
2016 / The Sarahs International Audio Fiction Award, Best New Artist / “Quadraturin”
Original Projects /
mimosa pudica / INSITU Site-Specific Dance Festival / Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC
OOO: Out Of Office / Puppet Blok @ Dixon Place, NYC / Theatre@37, New York State
Get Ready for One Hundred Owls in a Room / LINECONF and POP! Theater Fest, NYC
Part of You / Original Puppetry Music Video for singer-songwriter Nellen Dryden
Untitled Mindfulness Project - Session 1 and 2 / Puppet Lab @ St. Ann’s Warehouse, NYC
RAILS / Puppet Slam @ LaMama, NYC / Brooklyn Studios for Dance, NYC
Another Lonely Astronaut / Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program @ Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, NYC / Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, Chicago
The Radium Play / Puppet Lab @ St. Ann’s Warehouse, NYC
Performance /
Chimpanzee / dir. Nick Lehane / HERE Arts Center, NYC / Charleville Festival, France / London Mime Festival, London
The Plastic Bag Store / dir. Robin Frohardt / Carolina Performing Arts, North Carolina / Times Square Alliance, NYC (upcoming)
Gestures / dir. Megan Murtha and Claire Moodey / Target Margin, NYC
And Here We Are / dir. Jeanette Yew with Experiments in Opera / National Sawdust, NYC
The Pigeoning / dir. Robin Frohardt / International Tour
Come Back Richard Simmons / dir. Kelly Kerwin / Ant Fest @ Ars Nova, NYC
Songs of Go and Pending / dir. Megan Murtha / Uncanny Valley, NYC
Are You With Us, Graham Grant Graven? / dir. Megan Murtha, NYC
Tough the Tough: (Redux: Steve) / David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group / Victory Dance @ The New Victory, NYC