Feisty Elephant, Little Shadow Productions and Pam Arciero Productions from Connecticut and New York
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Week of March 25 – 31
Mar 29
Fri, 2pm
Mar 30
Sat, 12pm
Sat, 5pm
Mar 31
Sun, 12pm
Get to know the performers and creative team at a Talk-Back!
Sun, 4pm
Week of April 1 – 7
Apr 06
This performance has live sign-interpretation.
Apr 07
Sun, 5pm
Live audio-description provided
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Adventure into the African savanna with Aanika, a Kenyan girl who befriends a baby elephant she names Little. Their bond of sisterhood shows that a family can be anything—an animal orphanage, a widowed father and daughter, a herd of hunted elephants. With music, a variety of puppets and gentle humor, the stirring story of Aanika’s Elephants by Annie Evans, an Emmy Award-winning writer for Sesame Street, entertains and educates on the present-day plight of Africa’s elephants.
I’ll find you again. I’m part of the herd. I’ll feel you in my feet.
The show on stage is just one act of your family’s visit! Come early and stay late for free lobby activities and kid-friendly amenities—part of the New Victory Experience.
Feisty Elephant is the production company started by Annie Evans. Her plays have been produced around the world, and she has written for many children’s TV programs, most notably Sesame Street, for which she has received 13 Emmys. She wrote on the U.S. version of the show for 22 years, story-edited other versions in Bangladesh, India and Indonesia, and led writing workshops in Mexico, Northern Ireland and South Africa.
From their original play Zwerge to the short film Adventures of Liverwurst Girl, puppets large and small are in Little Shadow Productions’ DNA. Helmed by producer Jean Marie Keevins, Little Shadow aims to shine a light on meaningful stories and the people who tell them. Producing can call for everything from puppetmaking to screenwriting, but a healthy dose of curiosity is constant.
When she’s not wearing the director’s hat for Aanika’s Elephants, Pam Arceiro is also co-producing the show! Pam serves as the Artistic Director of the National Puppetry Conference at the O’Neill Theater Center and has been a principal puppeteer on Sesame Street for more than 30 years, performing numerous characters, most notably the trash- and Oscar-loving Grundgetta Grouch.
Producers Annie Evans, Jean Marie Keevins, Pam Arciero
Writer Annie Evans
Director Pam Arciero
Choreographer Pam Arciero
Production, Set, Puppet and Costume Designer Martin P. Robinson
Lighting Designer Andre Allen
Sound Designer and Composer Paul Rudolph
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