ABOUT THE SHOW

BlueBeardGasLight is the story of a folklorist obsessed with nursery rhymes, fairy tales and other children’s ephemera. In this piece, the folklorist and her husband are working on anthologizing some fairy tales, including “Blue Beard.” In their process, the couple use the toys in their children’s abandoned nursery to do “embodied research” on the darker aspects of the tale that are too murky for them to discuss in daylight. The puppets, aka the “moveable objects,” include a doll house, two dolls inspired by japanese cart–puppetry, and a live-feed video component that exists in an imaginative space, out of time, revealing the miniature people and things inside the dollhouse, where the secret chamber becomes a metaphor for the secrets we all keep.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kyra Miller is an actor, singer and writer living in New York City. 

BlueBeardGasLight received a grant from the Muse Project and began workshopping at the Flea Theater in late 2018, with Katie Pearl directing and guiding its development. Kyra continued to work on it as a solo show at the So-Fi Festival at Westbeth this summer. She is thrilled to develop it further at BAC during this residency.

Kyra’s more traditional acting credits include playing Rebecca in Rags at the Tony-award-winning TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. She has worked at Seattle Rep, the Fifth Avenue Theater, A.C.T., Westport Country Playhouse, Southern Rep, the Philadelphia Theatre Company and the Pearl Theater Company. Her recent solo work includes Chosen at Joe’s Pub (with Matt Ray on piano) and Bridge and Tunnel Troubadour (about Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel, directed by Barb Jungr) at Pangea. 

Kyra was certified to teach the Alexander Technique at the Balance Arts Center (AmSAT) in 2016 under Ann Rodiger’s tutelage. She studies singing with Virginia Grasso. MFA, University of Washington. Proud member AEA.