composer
Created by Christine Marie.
Music by Daniel Corral, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and Laaraji.
Features excerpt from my pieces Polytope, Diamond Pulses, and One Line
Variety: “The vivid choreography and score leave a lasting impression within one’s psyche…”
NBC: Sundance Film Festival ASCAP 21st Anniversary Lineup
Cool Hunting: “Marie’s work reminds all visitors of the power in exploring all manners of reality modification.”
Featuring Catherine Strecker
Music by Daniel Corral
Cinematography by Nicole Emmons and Helder K. Sun
Sound Design by He Yin and Sage Lewis
Art Direction by Jesse Ayala and Sarah Sowell
Set Design by Sarah Sowell
Owl Puppet design by Celeste Leipham
Saorsa and Monster design by Nicole Emmons
Animation by Nicole Emmons, Celeste Leipham, and Kelsey Stillmaker
Mirror Mountain Film Festival, Ottawa. Canada
Quoting Artist Gallery, Femme Cinebox Screening, LA, CA
Citizen Jane Film Festival, Columbia, Missouri
Budapest Short International Film Festival, Hungary
Blue Plum Animation Festival, Tennesee
Savannah International Animation Festival, Georgia
Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, California
Home Room Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Cinetoro, Columbia
Premis Ciutat De Palma, Spain
PACT Zollvervein, Germany
Red Cat Theater, Los Angeles, California
Beijing Film Academy Modern Creative Media College
Qingdao, China
Official Invitation from the Akbank Short Film Festival
Istanbul, Turkey
Zagreb at ASIFA Croatia World Animation Day at Art Cinema Tuškanac
Antwerp, Belgium at Cinema Zuid
Oslo, Norway at Sound of Mu Gallery
The adventurous puppet theater company Tandem and groundbreaking glam opera band Timur and the Dime Museum joined forces in Daniel Corral’s new puppet-opera, Zoophilic Follies. With comedic relish, Zoophilic Follies, explores the lesser-known stories about the famed inventor Daedalus and illuminates how technology can give flight to our wildest dreams and grusesome failures.
Zoophilic Follies premiered at REDCAT in September, 2011.
Music by Daniel Corral
Directed by Caitlin Lainoff
Libretto by Sibyl O’Malley
Times Quotidian: “That he is comfortable drawing from the whole world of music is no surprise given his musical pursuits, nor that the results are entertaining, beautiful, and interesting.”
LA Stage Times: “We relish the comedy involved, and also pause to consider the transcendent power of hopes so large.
Out West Arts: “It is hard to ignore the musical energy of the piece… Zoophilic Follies cries out for further development and performances.”
Times Quotidian: “This thrilling, precious project was as entertaining as it was unique, driven by ever-engaging songs, instrumental solos, and tight ensemble playing.”
Lolo and Lola is a puppetry piece about my grandparents’ experiences during WWII in the Philippines. It premiered in 2010 at the Boulder Fringe Festival.
A WWII-era puppet show based on a true story tells the haunting tale of the romance between a Filipino guerrilla fighter and a young schoolteacher.
Set to an original score, puppets travel through unfolding landscapes, transforming the lives of two young people struggling to survive in the war-torn Philippines.
In 1942, Mauro returns home after a grueling stint in a Japanese POW camp. Half dead from disease and scarred by the cruelties of war, he discovers solace through the letters of Olga, who lights a candle in her window as a signal to her love. Caught between the island’s volcano, the explosions of war, and sustaining power of love amid struggle, LOLO AND LOLA is an inspiring tale told in a theatrical, visually evocative style.
LOLO AND LOLA is the second puppet epic created by Caitlin Lainoff and Daniel Corral. Their previous show starring Catherine Strecker premiered at the Great Small Works International Toy Theater Festival and played at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
By Alison Heimstead and Sibyl O’Malley
Music composed by Daniel Corral and performed by Daniel Corral and Andrew Tholl
Premiered at Walt Disney Concert Hall’s 2008 Toy Theatre Festival on June 14 and 15, 2008
Inspired by “Le Grand Macabre” by György Ligeti
Premiered at The Great Small Works Toy Theater Festival, Saint Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn NY, May 2008
Puppeteers: Catherine Strecker, Danielle Ash, BeomSik Shim, Jesse Ayala
Video Design: Roz Fulton
Singing: Harmony Jiroudek
Voice of Venus: Kari Rae Seekins
Conceived and directed by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
Designed and Drawn by Cristina Paulos
This is a toy theater adaptation of a contemporary fairy tale with the same title by Seattle playwright and writer Bret Fetzer.
This production was invited to PQ06 (Prague Quadrennial 2006).
