The Falcon King
See an excerpt as part of the
NY Puppet Fringe Festival
MICRO THEATER segment...
Thursday 8/13 at 10pm
Friday 8/14 at 10:30pm
Saturday 8/15 at 10:30pm
Drama of Works and TLab Shares presents
the world premiere of...
THE FALCON KING
December 3rd - 13th, 2026
Thursday - Saturday at 7pm
Saturday - Sunday at 2pm
Tickets available this fall!
Photos from our work in progress showings at the
La Mama Puppet Slam and Puppet Blok Dixon Place.
The newest original work by Drama of Works
(with help from Rachel Carson, Wagner, Tom Cade, T.S. Eliot, and many others...)
Coming December of 2026 - our newest Henson award-winning production "The Falcon King."
All puppets are made using only found, natural, and recycled materials. We hope this piece will inspire humanity to take better care of nature and each other.
The frogs tried to warn them, but when the birds' babies all start dying panic ensues and they don't know who's to blame or who to turn to. Will the cursed King help save them or sit idly by, watching from his castle on the hill? In a world where humans have declared war on their main food source, the birds are left hoping they can find a miracle. Will humans learn from their arrogance or damn the birds to extinction?
Proud recipient of a 2025 Henson Foundation Workshop Grant and 2026 Production Grant.
Drama of Works was also awarded an ART/NY Creative Fund grant for their season.
HUMANS
Gretchen Van Lente, director and lead text editor/researcher, co-puppet designer
Sonya Sobieski, dramaturg
Taylor Harrison, co-puppet designer/costume designer
Aaron Dugan, composer/musician
Amy Carrigan, music director
Meghan Williams, text researcher/consultant
Curtis Flees & Daisy Martin, assistant directors
BUILDERS: Hailey Bendar, Curtis Flees, Edison Hale, Brittany Bartely, Maggie McGrath,
Daisy Martin
CURRENT ENSEMBLE: Emmanuel Elpenord, Deborah Beshaw-Farrell, AnJu Hyppolite,
Suzanne Temple, Hailey Bendar, Maggie McGrath, Daisy Martin
“The world of systemic insecticides is a weird world, surpassing the imaginings of the brothers Grimm — perhaps most closely akin to the cartoon world of Charles Addams. It is a world where the enchanted forest of the fairy tales has become the poisonous forest in which an insect that chews a leaf or sucks the sap of a plant is doomed. It is a world where a flea bites a dog, and dies because the dog’s blood has been made poisonous, where an insect may die from vapors emanating from a plant it has never touched, where a bee may carry poisonous nectar back to its hive and presently produce poisonous honey.”
- Rachel Carson