This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

About "The Firefighters"

Set to audio interviews collected over the past six years, The Firefighters is a contemporary puppet performance illustrating the effects that redlining and disinvestment in Detroit neighborhoods have had on the physical bodies and mental health of its firefighters.

About Carrie Morris

Carrie Morrisis a director and puppeteer who choreographs handmade objects to tell stories. The plays she stages are well-researched, involve multiple performers, and typically designed for adult audiences. Her works can be large scale (using life-sized elephant puppets) or small scale (3” silhouettes). In her performances, puppets are representations of bodies whose stories require clarity, urgency, and care to transmit.

Carrie is interested in performance that includes multimedia elements, performing objects, and performance in experimental spaces. She was a Fulbright grantee in the field of performance art for multimedia shadow puppetry in Indonesia. Her creative work has been seen at NYC Fringe Festival, Detroit Institute of Art, Seattle’s Annex Theater, Detroit’s DLECTRICITY, and as a guest artist with the Grand Rapids Symphony. Her work has been supported by the Jim Henson Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. Morris holds a BFA in directing from NYU and an MFA in studio art from the University of Michigan. She is the director of Carrie Morris Arts Production (CMAP), an intimate performance space and forum for puppetry and theater in Detroit.

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