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Ian Thal is a multimedia artist who works in the media of poetry, mime, and puppet theatre, frequently collaborating with Cosmic Spelunker Theater, a troupe he co-founded with William J. Barnum and James Van Looy in 2001. He also works with i Sebastiani: "The Greatest Commedia dell'Arte Troupe in the Entire World!"
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Ian has performed his poetic, choreographic, and theatric material in many venues: Artists-At-Large, Inc., AS220, Bowery Poetry Club, Casa Nia, Club Passim, Evos Arts Institute, Green Street Studios, Mobius Art Space, Puppet Showplace Theatre, Revolving Musem, Warwick Museum of Art, and the Zeitgeist Gallery. In addition, he has performed with Bread & Puppet Theater and as part of the Dresden Dolls' Brigade.
His poetry has appeared in Out of the Blue Writers Unite edited by Timothy Gager and Deborah M. Priestly (Crooked River Press, 2003) Tokens: Contemporary Poetry of the Subway edited by Peggy Garrison and David Quintavalle (P&Q Press, 2003) Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writings from Rising Generations (Andover Newton Publications, 2006) and has work forthcoming in Crude: Poems at the End of the Age of Oil (Pudding House Publications) and in such magazines as Boom! For Real , Crooked River Press, Flash!Point, Ibbetson Street Press, Poesy. His work also appeared as part of an installation during the 2003 Boston CyberArts Festival. In 2006, he had work exhibited as part of the Mayor's Prose and Poetry Program at Boston City Hall.
He also served as a mime instructor at Brookline Community Center for the Arts and Open Air Circus.
Ian also appears in the film, Circuit, currently in production.
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