Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art

Roberto Rossi

Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art
Region: Long Island City, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2005

Roberto is a member of Brooklyn-based Great Small Works theater company. He has toured with Bread & Puppet Theater and the Boston Puppeteers’ Cooperative and, for many years, has conducted intergenerational arts and performance workshops at schools across New York City with Elders Share the Arts (ESTA), the Waterways Project, and Young Audiences. Pageants and puppet shows he staged have been presented, among many venues, at Lincoln Center out of Doors, The Brooklyn Museum and New Haven’s Festival of Arts and Ideas.

At MacDowell, Roberto Rossi continued work on "Soil, Desire, People Dance," a toy theatre piece created in collaboration with Mark Sussman to be premiered at Great Small Works Toy Theater Festival in June 2005. He also scripted a first draft for "The DeSade Project," another toy theatre piece.

Studios

New Hampshire

Roberto Rossi worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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