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 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.

In silhouette, a stork-shaped Fate holds a thread.

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. Her plays have been produced off-Broadway through the Araca Project, at Northwestern University, and at the Frontier Theater in Chicago, and her writing has been published in McSweeney’s and Spider Magazine. She’s puppeteered on TV for Green Screen Adventures, in commercials for UiPath, and onstage at the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Center, the 2023 La MaMa Puppet Festival, and with Bread and Puppet at Theater for the New City. She is currently developing a children’s book as part of the 2024 Woodward Residency. You can find her illustration work at gabyfebland.art.

 

Triptych photos by Walls Trimble