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Ian Thal is a multimedia artist who works in the media of poetry, mime, and puppet theatre, frequently collaborating with Cosmic Spelunker Theater , a troupe he co-founded with William J. Barnum and James Van Looy in 2001.
Ian has performed his poetic, choreographic, and theatric material in many venues: Artists-At-Large, Inc. , AS220 , Bowery Poetry Club , Casa Nia , Club Passim , Evos Arts Institute, Green Street Studios, Mobius Art Space, Puppet Showplace Theatre , Revolving Musem , Warwick Museum of Art , and the Zeitgeist Gallery . In addition, he has performed with Bread & Puppet Theater (about which he has blogged extensively here ), i Sebastiani , and the Dresden Dolls' Brigade.
His poetry has appeared in Out of the Blue Writers Unite edited by Timothy Gager and Deborah M. Priestly (Crooked River Press, 2003) Tokens: Contemporary Poetry of the Subway edited by Peggy Garrison and David Quintavalle (P&Q Press, 2003) Becoming Fire ( Andover Newton Publications , 2006) and has work forthcoming in Crude: Poems at the End of the Age of Oil ( Pudding House Publications ) and in such magazines as Boom! For Real , Crooked River Press, Flash!Point, Ibbetson Street Press , Poesy . His work also appeared as part of an installation during the 2003 Boston CyberArts Festival.
He also served as a mime instructor at Brookline Community Center for the Arts and Open Air Circus .
Ian also appears in the film, Circuit , currently in production, and recently played the role of a foppish highschool classics teacher in The Adventures of CMYK .
SomerVaudeVille -- Ian Thal
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May 28, 2008: SomerVaudeVille @ Johnny D's, Somerville, MA


Playwright Binge
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Acting as my own literary agent...


Motionary Contest
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Aggravation of Prometheus
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Response to My Modest Proposal

Powered by ShareThis So now there's an "Ian Thal method" and the fellow who coined the term wasn't being sarcastic.
Posted by on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:57:00 GMT

A Modest Proposal

http://ianthal.blogspot.com/2009/12/modest-proposa...Powered by ShareThis Theatre critic, Thomas Garvey, calls me "mischievous." He meant that as encouragement, right?
Posted by on Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:17:00 GMT

Total War on bushgreen

http://ianthal.blogspot.com/2009/12/total-war-on-b...Powered by ShareThis Entering the 21st century as a playwright may mean using social network sites like bushgreen.
Posted by on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:11:00 GMT

Copley Square Farmers' Market, 2003

http://ianthal.blogspot.com/2009/12/copley-square-...Powered by ShareThis A brief performance video from 2003 that I hadn't seen until this morning.
Posted by on Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:18:00 GMT

Brother Blue 1921-2009

http://ianthal.blogspot.com/2009/11/brother-blue-1...Powered by ShareThis On November Third, Brother Blue (Dr, Hugh Morgan Hill) left the land of the living. He took the title of "storyteller" but cou...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:24:00 GMT

Notes on Class

http://ianthal.blogspot.com/2009/11/notes-on-class...Powered by ShareThis A class at Royal Halloway, University of London, I am following because the prof put my blog on the reading list.
Posted by on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:47:00 GMT

Nobody Sucks... Except That Guy

http://ianthal.blogspot.com/2009/11/nobody-sucks-e...Powered by ShareThis In which I meet the one and only actor I didn't want auditioning for my play.
Posted by on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:17:00 GMT

Not Only Do I Use Facebook...

http://ianthal.blogspot.com/2009/10/not-only-do-i-...Powered by ShareThis Not only do I use Facebook, but I am in the Facebook movie.
Posted by on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:10:00 GMT

Time Question

http://ianthal.blogspot.com/2009/10/time-question....Powered by ShareThis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext
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Barney Does Google

http://ianthal.blogspot.com/2009/10/barney-does-go...Powered by ShareThis In which the blog author watches you read his blog.
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