The Gottabees : Go Home Tiny Monster Family Program
Mar 15, 2025 - 2:15 PM
SAT, MARCH 15, 2025
1pm (30-45 minute) Yarn Monsters workshop
2:15pm performance for families
General Admission: $15 Adults / $12 Member Adults / $8 Children
Go Home Tiny Monster
Told entirely without words, this show features The Gottabees’ signature mix of puppetry, live music, physical theater, and joyously absurd silliness.
After a sudden storm, Sylvie and her loving family of homespun creatures find themselves in need of a new home. Luckily, they have an audience full of people who can help them out! Go Home Tiny Monster is a wildly creative theatrical ode to a community's generosity.
About the Artists
The Gottabees
The Gottabees started making super fun theater for families in 2013. They regularly sell out venues, inhabit computer screens, and inspire homemade puppet shows throughout the US, Canada, and beyond. They aim to inspire community, connection, and autonomy by providing an outlet for families to giggle, gasp, sigh, and cheer in forty-five minutes or less. The Gottabees' stories reflect children's everyday aspirations, concerns, and emotional experiences.
Bonnie Duncan (creator/performer) has blended puppetry, dance, and physical theatre in surprising and delightful ways for the past 16 years. Her work has been described as “an artful world of silent dreams, mime, and dance” (Austin Live Theatre). She worked as one half of They Gotta Be Secret Agents with Tim Gallagher touring worldwide and winning accolades along the way. Prior to her work as a Secret Agent, Bonnie was a company member of Snappy Dance Theater for 8 years, collaboratively creating and performing sculptural, acrobatic dances internationally. Her movement was called both “breathtakingly simple” and “delightfully crafty” by the Boston Globe
The Gottabees’ work has been performed in 18 states, 5 countries, for over 43,000 people and was awarded an UNIMA-USA Citation of Excellence. Their projects have been funded by the Jim Henson Foundation, Puppeteers of America, USArtists International, Boston Cultural Council, and the Boston Foundation.
Brendan Burns (music) is a composer, producer & educator. He released his debut album, TimeStamp, in 2012 and was featured in the Boston Globe. Brendan is Chair of the Guitar Department at Brookline Music School, founder of Guitober, and produces Brookline Porchfest.
Tony Leva (music) can often be found on stages throughout the US playing songs or accompanying theater and puppetry with The Dylan Jack Quartet, Bury Me Standing, and Brian Carpenter’s Group, to name a few. He is also an active educator/collaborator at Tunefoolery, an artist collective of musicians in mental health recovery. He just earned a Masters of Music at Longy School of Music.
Dan Milstein (director/co-creator) is the founding Artistic Director of Boston’s Rough & Tumble Theater with whom he made over thirteen original plays. He holds fast to his quixotic belief that theater should be cheap, fun, and deeply satisfying.
Penney Pinette (costumes) is a Boston-based designer focusing on dance and theater. She has been a draper at Huntington Theatre Company and is currently Costume Shop Manager at Boston University. She has designed costumes for Boston Conservatory, Prometheus Dance, and Contrapose, among others.
Marte Johanne Ekhougen (puppets) is a Norwegian artist living in New York. Marte also operates under the pseudonym Doctor Superhelga. She has designed for theater in Norway, UK and the US. Most notably, she designed the original puppets for Robert Atkins’ Tony-nominated Hand To God on Broadway and West End, London.
Harrison Pearse Burke (lights) is a Boston-based Lighting Designer and Production Manager at The Yard, Assistant Lighting Director for Boston Ballet, and Dance Production Manager for Celebrity Series.
SAT, MARCH 15, 2025
1pm (30-45 minute) Yarn Monsters workshop
2:15pm performance for families
General Admission: $15 Adults / $12 Member Adults / $8 Children
Go Home Tiny Monster
Told entirely without words, this show features The Gottabees’ signature mix of puppetry, live music, physical theater, and joyously absurd silliness.
After a sudden storm, Sylvie and her loving family of homespun creatures find themselves in need of a new home. Luckily, they have an audience full of people who can help them out! Go Home Tiny Monster is a wildly creative theatrical ode to a community's generosity.
About the Artists
The Gottabees
The Gottabees started making super fun theater for families in 2013. They regularly sell out venues, inhabit computer screens, and inspire homemade puppet shows throughout the US, Canada, and beyond. They aim to inspire community, connection, and autonomy by providing an outlet for families to giggle, gasp, sigh, and cheer in forty-five minutes or less. The Gottabees' stories reflect children's everyday aspirations, concerns, and emotional experiences.
Bonnie Duncan (creator/performer) has blended puppetry, dance, and physical theatre in surprising and delightful ways for the past 16 years. Her work has been described as “an artful world of silent dreams, mime, and dance” (Austin Live Theatre). She worked as one half of They Gotta Be Secret Agents with Tim Gallagher touring worldwide and winning accolades along the way. Prior to her work as a Secret Agent, Bonnie was a company member of Snappy Dance Theater for 8 years, collaboratively creating and performing sculptural, acrobatic dances internationally. Her movement was called both “breathtakingly simple” and “delightfully crafty” by the Boston Globe
The Gottabees’ work has been performed in 18 states, 5 countries, for over 43,000 people and was awarded an UNIMA-USA Citation of Excellence. Their projects have been funded by the Jim Henson Foundation, Puppeteers of America, USArtists International, Boston Cultural Council, and the Boston Foundation.
Brendan Burns (music) is a composer, producer & educator. He released his debut album, TimeStamp, in 2012 and was featured in the Boston Globe. Brendan is Chair of the Guitar Department at Brookline Music School, founder of Guitober, and produces Brookline Porchfest.
Tony Leva (music) can often be found on stages throughout the US playing songs or accompanying theater and puppetry with The Dylan Jack Quartet, Bury Me Standing, and Brian Carpenter’s Group, to name a few. He is also an active educator/collaborator at Tunefoolery, an artist collective of musicians in mental health recovery. He just earned a Masters of Music at Longy School of Music.
Dan Milstein (director/co-creator) is the founding Artistic Director of Boston’s Rough & Tumble Theater with whom he made over thirteen original plays. He holds fast to his quixotic belief that theater should be cheap, fun, and deeply satisfying.
Penney Pinette (costumes) is a Boston-based designer focusing on dance and theater. She has been a draper at Huntington Theatre Company and is currently Costume Shop Manager at Boston University. She has designed costumes for Boston Conservatory, Prometheus Dance, and Contrapose, among others.
Marte Johanne Ekhougen (puppets) is a Norwegian artist living in New York. Marte also operates under the pseudonym Doctor Superhelga. She has designed for theater in Norway, UK and the US. Most notably, she designed the original puppets for Robert Atkins’ Tony-nominated Hand To God on Broadway and West End, London.
Harrison Pearse Burke (lights) is a Boston-based Lighting Designer and Production Manager at The Yard, Assistant Lighting Director for Boston Ballet, and Dance Production Manager for Celebrity Series.
