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A Few More Words About Dan Hurlin


Hiroshima Maiden. Photo: Kat Kuo


A retrospective exhibit, The Brutal Made Beautiful, Dan Hurlin: Puppets & Objects 1995-2018. Photo: Kat Kuo


The Day the Ketchup Turned Blue. Photo: Kat Kuo, courtesy of Josh Rice and the New York State Puppet Festival.


Puppet Theater as a Total Theatrical Experience By Tom Lee


“Dan Hurlin gave me my first job as a puppeteer in Hiroshima Maiden. He taught me how to make puppet theater as a total theatrical experience and how a narrative is developed through meticulous design and wild improvisation. He introduced me to the most ambidextrously creative people in the world: puppeteers.”


Tom Lee was the principal puppeteer in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Madama Butterfly and was in the original Broadway cast of War Horse at Lincoln Center. He has worked with Theodora Skipitares, Lee Breuer, Basil Twist, and Dan Hurlin and studied with Koryu Nishikawa V in Japan. His works Hoplite Diary and Shank's Mare received excellent reviews.


He Was Very Hard On Us to Be Better By Josh Rice


“Dan said he would teach us puppetry the way his Mom taught him how to swim: paddle out to the middle of the lake, then throw you overboard and say, swim! He was saying that you learn by doing. You have to jump in with both feet (your whole body really) and figure it out. Puppetry is such a practical art form, from design to fabrication to manipulation—you have to physically do it.


As graduate students, we coveted Dan’s feedback about our work. He was honest, blunt, and saw what we uniquely were trying to say, and tried to bring that out in us. He was very hard on us to be better. He wanted us to be artists, with a capital A, intentional, innovative, and technical. The highest possible compliment was the coveted “F__k you.” If he said that, you knew he liked it. He was jealous you thought of something he didn’t, and he approved. We strived for a Dan Hurlin “f__k you.”


Josh Rice (MFA in theater, Sarah Lawrence College 2014), director of the New York State Puppet Festival, curated a retrospective exhibit, The Brutal Made Beautiful, Dan Hurlin: Puppets & Objects 1995-2018.


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