Forged in the flames of middle school friendship and polished during the pandemic, Foreshadow is the love child of Rosalind Lilly and Gaby FeBland, two lifelong Brooklynites and theatremakers. The duo has performed their fully-scored, macabre shadow plays at the La MaMa Puppet Festival, the Carnegie Hall Weimar Festival, Dixon Place, Green-Wood Cemetery, Puppet Showplace Theatre, Brick Aux, Coney Island U.S.A., Jalopy Theatre, the Owl Music Parlor, and the Coney Island Mermaid Parade. Foreshadow is a proud recipient of a 2024 Workshop Grant from The Jim Henson Foundation.
Rosalind Lilly is a puppetry artist and actor from Brooklyn, NY. She studied acting at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London. She has performed as a puppeteer at venues such as Three’s Brewing, Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic, the Asheville Fringe Festival, and with Mabou Mines at the Wuzhen International Theatre Festival in China. Favorite acting roles include Inherit the Wind at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina and Law and Order: SVU. She teaches puppetry and theatre to students throughout New York state.
Gaby FeBland is a playwright, performer, and illustrator from Brooklyn. She was a 2024 Emergence Artist Residence at Culture Lab LIC, where she developed The Undercity, a multidisciplinary rat pageant play about the climate crisis. Outside of her work with Foreshadow, Gaby has performed puppetry at the National Puppetry Conference, La MaMa, and 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 and at Northwestern University, her alma mater. Her writing has been published in McSweeney’s and Spider Magazine. You can find her illustration work in American Libraries Magazine, Sixty Inches From Center, and South Side Weekly and her paper-maché sculptures at the Brooklyn Pop Culture Museum. You can find more of her work at gabyfebland.art.
Triptych photos by Walls Trimble