ATA: Possibly Puppets
With:
Rohini Moradi:
Rohini Moradi is an author, storyteller, and musician whose work explores the space where memory, myth, and imagination converge. Born in Tehran and shaped by a life lived between cultures, she creates songs and stories that weave together themes of wonder, grief, transformation, and the search for meaning. Whether through music, books, film, or immersive narrative experiences, her work invites audiences into worlds that feel both deeply personal and universally resonant. Through intimate songwriting and evocative storytelling, she seeks to illuminate the unseen threads that connect us to one another and to ourselves.
Risa Lenore of Possibly Puppets:
Risa Lenore Anderson Dye is known for her creative energy in teaching and for her engaging puppet shows for family audiences. She is the founder and artistic director of Possibly Puppets (www.possiblypuppets.com), a handmade visual theater company that received a Jim Henson Foundation grant in 2024. Risa attended Jacques LeCoq’s school of international Theatre in Paris, France; the physical theater school and the laboratory of movement studies.
Risa creates all of her work by hand and has performed in museums, schools, libraries, theaters, music venues and parks For over 20 years, she has been teaching theater, storytelling, creative movement, puppetry and visual arts at elementary schools, preschools and beyond in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her students inspire and shape her work and she loves sharing her passions with learners of all ages.
Puppeteers of the 8 Fables Shadow Puppet Orchestra:
Emory Lewman:
Emory is a multimedia artist focusing in film and puppetry performance arts. She has been working teaching to children and adults art for over 10 years, and performing as a puppeteer since 2024. She first was drawn to work with puppetry as a form of expanded cinema performance. Emory is the creator of 8 Fables Shadow Puppet Orchestra and has written all the stories and built all of the puppets for their current performances and shows. She is inspired by collaborations with fellow artists and whimsical creative processes. She is currently looking forward to studying puppets with Peter Schumann at Bread and Puppet Theatre this summer!
Milo:
Milo is a performance artist in San Francisco.
Elisha Aflalo:
Elisha Aflalo is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in San Francisco. She attended Bennington College and received a BFA in 2022. Elisha’s work is driven by her relationship to the human body and nature with a focus on exploring the effects of the sexualization and commodification of the body. Her practice consists of writing, printmaking, textiles and wearable sculpture, photography, painting, and performance.
Sophia Grimani:
Sophia Grimani is a Bay Area based artist working in the mediums of dance, photography, and filmmaking. She obtained her BA from Bennington College in 2022 and is now freelancing in San Francisco. Within her multidisciplinary practice, the majority of her work orbits around the “feminine.” As a performer, she is used to being in the place of viewing, of being seen; this experience of the gaze becomes a throughline in her artistic work. In photography, this manifests as self-portraiture and portraits of careful observation that explore the relationship of nature and the body. Her work plays with forms found in nature, connecting those to forms within ourselves, and placing the cycles of nature in conversation with the cycles of femininity.
She works both as a solo and collaborative artist and is especially interested in interdisciplinary making. Her photographic work has been displayed at Harvey Milk photo center, KnK Gallery, and featured in publications of Pamplemousse magazine. As a choreographer and dancer, Sophia has shown work at Dance Mission Theater and SAFEhouse Arts and works as a collaborator with site- specific dance company Moving Ground.