Meet the Composer

Amy Denio

Who's Hungry-Santa Monica is a program of three 20-min toy theater plays with live music, based on the lives of homeless and hungry residents of Santa Monica, CA. Toy theater is miniaturized puppetry on tabletop stages. Theater artist Dan Froot will transcribe his interviews with three community narrators which will be adapted into theatrical form with puppeteer Dan Hurlin designing the sets and puppet figures and Denio composing a prelude, a score for each play, and interludes to tie everything together. The work will be for small ensemble and musicians will be choreographed into the action and may interact with the puppets.

World premiere: January 2012