Miniature Curiosa

03/22/2018

Rocks is still trying to recover from Pittsburgh’s Day of Puppets. Puppetry Guild of Pittsburgh

12/06/2017

Looking for the perfect gift for all your weirdest and dearest? Murphi made an etsy shop stocked with hand puppets, ornaments, keychains, and custom anything you want.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DontCookMurphi

11/21/2017

Here's a sneak peek at our last show, The Clown Was Stung by Wasps.

Thank you Luminaria: Contemporary Arts Festival for giving us a parking lot to make a drive in movie theater in.

Premiering in San Antonio's 2017 Luminaria festival, Miniature Curiosa transformed a parking lot into a drive-in theater like no other. Audiences were invited…

11/08/2017

This Friday we will cram five teens into a car in our wildest show yet as part of Luminaria: Contemporary Arts Festival. Shows at 8 pm and 10pm in the Hemisfair parking lot. There will be spooky drama! An obscure silent movie filmed live right before your very eyes! And 150 handheld radios so you can hear just what’s going on!

06/26/2017

Murphi's newest cartoon features a cat with no teeth. He likes to eat apple sauce.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvzobEpxJC8&feature=youtu.be

Mr. Wicketts lived in a very small house on Butternut Lane. He also didn't have any teeth.

01/04/2017

Zach Dorn explores Kuro Tanino’s mythical Avidya: No Lights Inn, a ritualistic and darkly spiritual experience at the Kyoto International Performing Arts Festival in Japan.

07/16/2016

Zach and Murphi met in a University of Connecticut playwriting class back in 2008. They were both wearing cowboy boots.

Zach Dorn '10 (SFA) will spend a year studying with Japanese theater artists, thanks to a travel fellowship.

07/04/2016

Zach got the Outstanding Puppetry award at the San Diego Fringe Festival!

And the San Diego International Fringe Festival winners are... (I'll be posting some video later and congrats to all you fabulous artists!)

BEST OF FRINGE & OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
“Josephine”
Tymisha Harris (ORLANDO, FL)

CRITIC’S PICK
“1918”
Le Moana (NEW ZEALAND)

ARTISTS’ PICK & SPIRIT OF THE FRINGE
“Bella Culpa”
A Little Bit Off (PORTLAND, OR)

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
“A Regular Little Houdini”
Daniel Llewelyn-Williams / Flying Bridge Theatre Company (WALES)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTION
“I Got Guns”
Sanctuary Stage (PORTLAND, OR)

OUTSTANDING ACTOR
Tinamarie Ivey of “I Got Guns”
Sanctuary Stage (PORTLAND, OR)

OUTSTANDING PUPPETRY
“An Excruciatingly Ordinary Toy Theater Show”
Zach Dorn (ST. PETERSBURG, FL)

OUTSTANDING WRITING
“Bedrooms & Boyfriends”
Michael Mizerany / Compulsion Dance & Theatre (SAN DIEGO, CA)

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
“Bin Laden: The One Man Show”
Knaïve Theatre (ENGLAND)

OUTSTANIDING PHYSICAL THEATRE
“Cocooned in Kazan”
Royal Kung Foolery (ENGLAND)

OUTSTANDING MAGIC PERFORMANCE
“Distorted Reality (and Fuzzy Math)”
Kevin Viner Productions LLC (SAN DIEGO, CA)

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
“Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany”
Offending Shadows (FULLERTON, CA)

OUTSTANDING CIRCUS ARTS
“Embers”
Lighthouse Circus Theatre (CHULA VISTA, CA)

OUTSTANDING DRAMA
“Gifts From My Deaf Father”
Wink (WASHINGTON, DC)

FRINGE HUSTLE AWARD
“Hateful Hands”
Ellipsoid Players (SAN DIEGO, CA)

BEYOND THE FRINGE AWARD
“Hidden Geographies”
CONTRACUERPO LABORATORIO ESCENICO (TIJUANA, MÉXICO)

OUTSTANDING STORYTELLING
“Killing Buddha”
Theatre Dojo (DEMING, NM)

OUTSTANDING IMPROV
“Lipshtick”
National Comedy Theatre San Diego (SAN DIEGO, CA)

OUTSTANDING WORLD PREMIERE
MYTHOS - Opening Pandora's Box
Astraeus Aerial Dance Theatre (SAN DIEGO, CA)

OUTSTANDING WRITING
“Naked”
Strada Company (ARIZONA)

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFOMANCE
“Paper Glass”
MonTra Performance (BOULDER, CO)

OUTSTANDING VARIETY
“Scot Nery's Boobie Trap” presented by San Diego Theatres
Scot Nery (HOLLYWOOD, CA)

OUTSTANDING DANCE PERFORMANCE
“SILO”
somebodies dance theater (SAN DIEGO, CA)

OUTSTANDING MUSIC ENSEMBLE
“Still Moving”
bkSOUL/Collective Purpose (SAN DIEGO, CA)

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE
“Strangers, Lovers, Family, Friends”
Company of Cohorts (SALT LAKE CITY, UT)

OUTSTANDING COMEDY DUO
THE BLACK AND THE JEW GO BUDDHIST!
Epstein and Hassan (NEW YORK, NY)

OUTSTANDING ADAPTION
“The Heart of a Goof”
Green Raven Theatre (SAN DIEGO CA)

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL
“The Test”
Katie Brady Productions in partnership with Theatre Arts School of San Diego (SAN DIEGO, CA)

OUTSTANDING COMEDY / FRINGE OF THE FRINGE
“Will You Swear Your True Love?”
Theatre Group GUMBO (JAPAN)

TWISTED FRINGE AWARD
“Windy Wynazz : RICH & FAMOUS”
SAN FRANCISCO, CA

06/22/2016

Did you get your tickets to see Zach at the San Diego fringe yet? You better see him while you can because he's moving to Japan!

http://www.americantheatre.org/2016/06/21/julie-taymor-announces-3-recipients-of-world-theatre-fellowship/

Winners will each receive $30,000 to travel in Central/South America, Africa, Asia, or the Middle East for one year.

05/12/2016

Puppet show anyone? Looks like there's a new music we did for Pittsburgh's The Gothees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBA2SJY1ivY&feature=youtu.be

The film is by Miniature Curiosa. The music is by The Gothees. The tune is Puppet Show (video mix). The Puppet Show single will be available starting Friday,...

03/24/2016

The gates of Moon City open tonight!

03/15/2016

Pittsburgh's The Gothees asked us to make a music video and now Murphi Cook can't get the soap out of her eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saSjtWYxpJM

The Hell of It - Paul Williams' classic from The Phantom of the Paradise soundtrack as interpreted by The Gothees - available now via iTunes, Spotify, CD Bab...