Artist Biography

Dave is a painter, performer, puppet & mask maker based in North Adams, Massachusetts. He was one of the original members of the Old Trout Puppet Workshop, and more recently worked on their original television special From Naughty to Nice, co-produced by National Film Board of Canada. Once upon a time he and a rag tag group of artists created a legendary Fringe Show called The Death of Benvenuto Cellini with the Green Fools Theatre Society in Alberta, Canada.

Dave has led workshops across New England and at Dell’Arte International in Blue Lake, California. His street performances of Punch and Judy toured coast to coast in the both the US and Canada including at New York City’s Lincoln Center’s Out-of-Doors Festival, the Calgary International Children’s Festival, the Edmonton International Street Performing Festival, and many more.

Dave helped to found The Newfoundland Puppet Collective which brought the community together over the course of two summers, to create a puppet-adaptation of the traditional Newfoundland “Jack” tale adapted  by Andy Jones and Mary Fearon. This work has led to the formation of the Berkshire Lantern Walk, and became the design aesthetic for the intercultural project, Iniskim, Return of the Buffalo, celebrating the return of Buffalo to Banff National Park.

Dave is a, Jim Henson Foundation grant recipient for his original plays The Chronicles of Rose, and Émile Zola’s The Belly of Paris.

 

Artist News/Workshops

Visit the following links for news and information about workshops and shows.

https://newenglandpuppet.org/

https://www.davidlane-theatre.com/

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