New Works Festival: The Undercity

When an otherworldly artifact falls into her paws, Rat Girl uncovers a vast conspiracy that threatens the fate of the entire rat metropolis. Merging puppetry, toy theatre, and an original score, “The Undercity” navigates unchecked greed, climate catastrophe, and the engineered hopelessness of industrial life—a gnarly web of rat tails only our hero can untangle.

Thursday, 12/5

Doors 7:00 pm (preshow start)

Showtime 7:30 pm

Runtime 75 mins

Friday, 12/6

Doors 7:00 pm (preshow start)

Showtime 7:30 pm

Runtime 75 mins

Saturday, 12/7

Doors 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm (preshows start)

Showtime 2:30 pm & 7:30 pm

Runtime 75 mins

Sunday, 12/8

Doors 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm (preshows start)

Showtime 2:30 pm & 7:30 pm

Runtime 75 mins

Artist/Company Bio

Gaby FeBland is a writer, puppeteer, and illustrator born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She's a proud co-founder of Foreshadow, an overhead projector shadow puppetry company that performs macabre, fully-scored plays for adults. Foreshadow is a proud recipient of a 2024 Jim Henson Foundation Workshop Grant.

Gaby has performed puppetry at the La MaMa Puppet Festival, the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, “Nightfall” at Green-Wood Cemetery, Dixon Place, Coney Island U.S.A., Jalopy Theatre, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade, as well as on the TV show “Green Screen Adventures” and in commercials. Her plays have been produced off-Broadway, at Northwestern University, and at the Frontier Theater in Chicago, and her writing has been published in McSweeney’s and Spider Magazine. You can find her illustration work in American Libraries Magazine and South Side Weekly. She is currently working on her first children’s book.

Website - https://www.gabyfebland.art/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gabfeb/

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