Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew is a puppetry artist and a theater designer in lighting and video. Through puppetry, Jeanette has created innovative and interactive performances. Her most recent production, Are They Edible? (premiered at La Mama ETC), was a multi-sensory performance that engaged and challenged all senses through food and puppetry in a non-traditional audience setting. It played to sold-out houses and was described as “bold, inventive experience”.
Other productions included The Butcher Men a toy theater production (invited to the 2006 Prague Quadrennial), HEARTBEAT, a shadow puppet show based on short stories by Franz Kafka, Slept, a corporeal study on narcolepsy on a cellular level of forgetting, a parlor show based on Rip Van Winkle and American’s empathy towards voting, and her digital puppetry adaptation of the Book of Genesis, MILK, was first work-shopped at Labapalooza 2007 presented at St. Ann’s Warehouse (NYC).
Jeanette have received support from the Jim Henson Foundation, the Urban Artist Initiative/NYC Fellowship, Artist Trust’s GAP program, Queens Council on the Arts’ Queens Arts Fund, the Puppeteers of America Rose Endowment Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Puffin Foundation, and Stony Brook University. She was also the recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program.
Learn More: http://www.jeanetteyew.com