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EDUCATION

2017: Master of Fine Arts in Theater at Sarah Lawrence College
2013: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture + Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University

ENERGY WORK

2020: Introspective Hypnosis Practitioner
2018: Reiki Level 2

HONORS/AWARDS

2025: The Puppetry Guild Of The Greater New York Annual BIPOC Scholarship
2023: The Miranda Family Grant for The Healing Shipment
2023: The Puffin Grant for The Healing Shipment
2023: NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music, and Theatre for The Healing Shipment
2023: Jim Henson Production Grant for The Healing Shipment
2022: Jim Henson Workshop Grant for The Healing Shipment
2021: City Arts Corps Grant
2021: AIR Residency at Dixon Place funded by Cheryl Henson
2021: Covid Relief Puppeteers of America
2020: Jim Henson Workshop Grant for NEW MONY!
2013: Ruth Camp Foundation Scholarship in Honor of Han Schroder
2013: Naomi Winston Scholarship in Art
2012-2013: Richard Carlyon Student Research Fund for Independent Study

RESIDENCIES

2025: Kino Saito, Verplank, NY
2024: Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
2023-2024: Museum of Chinese in America, Chinatown NY
2023: PATCH: Puppetry at the Carriage House, NY
2022: La Mama Experimental Club Puppet Residency
2020: Dixon Place Residency supported by the Henson Foundation
2018-2019: Object Movement at The Center @ West Park

REVIEWS / NEWS

2025: Maria Camia- Episode 06.01 SLC Performance Lab
2024: Daily Inspiration Meet Maria Camia / Canvas Rebel
2024: Episode 102 - Experimental Puppet Theater with Maria Camia | Mx Asian American Podcast
2024: Meet Maria Camia | Canvas Rebel
2023: La MaMa Puppet Festival / ARTEIDOLIA
2023: Tales That Crackle With Vitality, With or Without a Puppeteer / New York Times
2023: Museum of Chinese in America launches residency program / The Villager
2023: Fil-Am puppeteer conjures imaginary friends | USA Inquirer
2022: The World of Aricama: A Conversation with Maria Camia About Virtually-Performed Puppetry, Hypnotism, and Coloring Contests | The HOLE NYC
2022: Maria Camia’s Maria Reads a Book at Coney Island: Vaudevisuals
2022: Vaudevisual Interview with Maria Camia ~ “Maria Reads a Book” | Vaudevisuals
2021: NEW MONY! and Interview with Playwright Maria Camia | HVY
2018: Making History with the Mural Festival | Fourth Estate
2016: ARICAMA: A Galactic Landing Review
2013: Gothamist: The Cutest Bookworms of NYC Book Fair (lol)
2013: Translations RVA RAW Artists Show (at 17: 42)
2013: The Soul of the American Actor- Bread and Puppet Theater
2013: The Naomi Winston Scholarship in Art
2013: The Commonwealth Times

ORIGINAL WORK / DIRECTING

UPCOMING: 2026: Higher Eyes on Aricama, JACK, Brooklyn Exponetial Festival
2025: Higher Eyes on Aricama, Kino Saito, Verplank NY
2025: Maria Reads a Book: Ari’s Anger Eating Dragon & F*cked Flower into Speedy Vibrations,
Puppet Blok!, Dixon Place, NYC
2025: Maria Reads a Book: Ari’s Anger Eating Dragon & F*cked Flower into Speedy Vibrations,
Chicago Women’s of Color Puppet Festival, Chicago IL
2024: Maria Reads a Book: Ari’s Anger Eating Dragon, BROOKLYN BOO!, Downtown Brooklyn, NY
2024: Maria Reads a Book: Ari’s Anger Eating Dragon,
Mid Autumn Festival, Queens NY
2024: Aricama Liberation, Museum of Chinese in America, NY
2024: Maria Reads a Book: F*cked Flower’s Flight Into Speedy Vibrations,
Blood From a Turnip Puppet Slam, Firehouse Theatre, Richmond, VA
2024: The Creative Counseling Cuisine Retreat to Revive Dead Broken Dreams,
GRAY SPACES Curated by Lisa Clair, wildproject NYC
2023: The Healing Shipment, La MaMa Puppet Festival, NY
2023: Maria Reads a Book: F*cked Flower’s Flight Into Speedy Vibrations,
secret pour, NY
2022: The Healing Shipment Excerpt, La Mama, NY
2022: Maria Reads a Book, Marikata’s Sweaty Power Hour Coney Island, NY
2022: Maria Reads a Book: F*cked Flower’s Flight Into Speedy Vibrations,
Village Works, NY
2022: Maria Reads a Book: F*cked Flower’s Flight Into Speedy Vibrations, The Tank, NY
2022: Maria Reads a Book: F*cked Flower’s Flight Into Speedy Vibrations,
Asian Film Thing, littlefield, NY
2022: NEW MONY!, Chopin Theater, Chicago International Puppet Festival, IL
2021: NEW MONY!, Dixon Place, NY
2021: Aricama Programming Ceremony, Winter Wonderland Online,
La MaMa Kids, NY
2021: Marikata’s Abduction Games, Puppet BloK! Dixon Place, NY
2021: Floral de Epic, Jalopy Theater, NY
2021: Floral de Epic, Queens Botanical Garden, NY
2021: Maria Reads a Book, Puppet's Come Home Online Puppet Slam,
Coney Island USA
2021: BOOB RADIO, The Bawdy Naughty Puppet Cabaret, Puppet Fringe NYC
2021: Marikata Abduction Games, Asian AF, Squirrel at The Caveat, NY
2021: Aricama Herstory Toy Theater, The Living Room Tour, IL & WI
2020: Aricama Crispy Patta, La Mama Puppet Slam Online Stream, NY
2020: TRANSMUTATION STAYTION'S BOOB RADIO!,
Object Movement Puppetry Short Works, Online, NY
2020: Aricama Play!, La Mama Kid's Workshop, Online Stream, NY
2020: NEW MONY COMMERCIAL, FEAST: SNACKTIME Online Stream, NY
2020: TRANSMUTATION STAYTION'S BOOB RADIO,
Great Small Works Online Toy Theater Festival, NY
2019: 2020 Manifestation Ritual, La MaMa’s Kids Winter Wonderland, NY
2019: ALLIMAH'S ARICAMA DREAM, La Mama's Puppet Slam, NY
2019: NEW MONY! PART 3, Concrete Temple's Concrete Boom Vo.2 at Dixon Place, NY
2018: NEW MONY! PART 3,
Object Movement Puppetry Festival at The Center @ West Park
2018: NEW MONY! PART 2, Dixon Place Presents Puppet Blok, NY
2018: ARICAMA PROGRAMMING CEREMONY, La Mama Puppet Slam, NY
2018: THE HEALING SHIPMENT PROLOGUE NuWorks Festival at Pan Asian Repertory, NY
2017: TRANSMUTATION STAYTION (Solo) , Sarah Lawrence College, NY
2017: THE HEALING SHIPMENT PROLOGUE, Dixon Place Presents Puppet Blok, NY
2016: THE MARICAMA ROOM, Sarah Lawrence College, NY
2016: ARICAMA: A GALACTIC LANDING, Sarah Lawrence College, NY
2013: THE GENTLE BREEZE, Café Bread, Bread and Puppet, VT
2013: ANG PALANSAK: THE COLLECTIVE with Filipino Americans Coming Together Student Organization, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA

RELATED WORK

2007-current: Founder, MARICAMA, Fashion, Spiritual Clothing
2025: Puppeteer, SUMMON Dir. Lim Mui, La MaMa Creatures Festival, 74 E4th St NY
2025: Puppeteer, CUMULO Dir. Emily Batsford, LIC Lab, NY
2025: Puppeteer, BISMARCK Dir. Dan Hurlin, A Tectonic Caberet, Tectonic Theater Project Gala NY
2025: Puppet Fabricator, Metamorphoses (or A Few Ways of Keeping a Child from Running Around
at His Great Uncle’s Funeral), Krymov Lab, La MaMa Experimental Club, NY
2025: Red Team Leader, Pride Eve with Greedy Peasant, The Cathedral Church of Saint John The Divine, NY
2025: Puppet Designer, Builder, and Performer, We’ll Rise Up! Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
Interactive Performance, Dir. Nehprii Amenii, Brooklyn’s Children Museum
2024: Puppeteer, Transhuman Dir. Monica Lerch, La MaMa’s JUMPSTART Festival
2024: Red Team Leader, Pride Eve with Greedy Peasant, The Cathedral Church of Saint John The Divine, NY
2024: Puppetry, Jupiter’s Descent to Earth, The Little Opera of NY
2024: Puppet and Hypnosis Workshop, Museum of Chinese in America, NY
2023: Guest Speaker, The School of The New York Times, NY
2023: Puppet Consultant / Puppet Design / Builder, STRATA, Directed by LILLETH, Center of Performance Research, BK, NY
2023: Puppet Designer/ Builder, BIG ZOO Workshop, Directed by Nana Dakin, NY
2023: Director/Pianist, Grimmigration: Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happily Ever After Workshop by Liz Morgan, Broadway Advocacy Coalition,
Goddard Arts Community Center, NY
2023: Co-Director/Puppet Designer/ Builder, Learning How to Read by Moonlight
by Gaven Trininad, Leviathan Lab, Actor’s Guild, NY
2022: Puppeteer, Fire in The Head, Directed by Chris Meyers,
Chinese Community Center, NY
2022: Puppeteer, BISMARCK, Directed by Dan Hurlin, DUKE University, NC
2022: Puppeteer, A Few Deep Breaths, Directed by Culture Hub,
Collaboration with Seoul Arts
2022: Puppeteer, HUMAN, Directed by Nephrii Amenii,
Chelsea Factory/New Victory Theater, NY
2021: Puppet Advisor, Henry 6, Stairwell Theater, The Old Stone House, BK, NY
2015-2020: Painting Instructor, MUSE Paintbar, Yonkers and NYC
2020: Aricama Ambassador, 7 Daughters of Eve Church Service,
Directed by Sibyl Kempson, NY
2020: Sound Demon, P*ssyc#ck Know Nothing! Directed by David Herskovitz,
Target Margin Theater NY
2020: Puppeteer, Bismarck, Directed by Dan Hurlin, Sarah Lawrence Showing, NY
2020: Puppeteer, FEAR IN THE WESTERN WORLD, Creators: David Commander,
Target Margin, NY
2018: Animator, Summer Solstice, Sibyl Kempson, Whitney Musem
2018: Puppeteer, Mommy and Me Director Leonie Bell, Barn Arts Collective, ME
2018: Puppeteer, Unicorn Afterlife Creator/Director Justin Perkins, FLAMECON, NY
2018: Puppeteer, And Here We Are Visual Dir. by Jeanette Yew
National Sawdust Theater, NY
2018: Performer, Mommy and Me Dir. by Leonie Bell Dixon Place, NY
2017: Comedian, Stand Up Comedy, Three of Cups, NY

WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS/PANEL TALKS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2025: Puppet Energy Painting Workshop, Greenfeather Foundation NY
2025: Handy Ancestors Workshop, Kino Saito, Verplanck NY
2025: Energy Hygiene Puppet Making Workshop, Kino Saito, Verplanck NY
2025: Energy Hygiene Ceremony Workshop, Green Feather Foundation,
Jim Henson Carriage House, NY
2024: Puppetry Workshop, Mid Autumn Festival, Queens, NY
2024: Performance Lab Guest Artist, Energy Hygiene ET Workshop
Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Graduate Program, NY
2024: Maria Camia, Blue Mountain Center, NY
2024: The Spirit Inside and Outside the Puppet and Puppetry Workshop,
Museum of Chinese in America, NYC
2023: Special Guest: Maria Camia, New York Neofuturists
2022: Staging the Non-Human Character; Animal, Alien, or Architecture part of Chicago International Puppet Festival's Online Symposium presented by Howl Round Theatre Commons with Nick Lehane, Marsian De Lellis, and Basil Twist, Chicago, IL
2022: Aricama Toy Puppetry, Puppets Homecoming Festival, Coney Island NY
2020: Puppetry Workshop, Hedgepig Ensemble NY

SET DESIGN

2017: You For Me For You Dir. by Ernest Abuba Sarah Lawrence College, NY
2017: Traces Dir. by Julia Free Sarah Lawrence College, NY
2017: Pretentious Young Ladies Dir. by Leonie Bell Sarah Lawrence College, NY
2016: Poptoy Playground Dir. by Kristina Auten Sarah Lawrence College, NY
2016: Marie Antoinette (Assistant Set Design/Projection Designer to Tom Lee) Dir. by Christine Farrell Sarah Lawrence College, NY

SELECTED ART GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018: Murals at Masons Festival
2016: Comic and Cartoon Art Annual, Society of Illustrators, New York NY
2015: Greenpoint Gallery, People's Choice Salon Show, Brooklyn NY
2013: VCU Arts Commencement (seven puppets in recessional), Richmond VA
2013: Cafe Ragoon Club, Capital One, Richmond VA
2012: Art 180 Paint the Town Charity Art Gala, Richmond VA

COMIC CONVENTIONS

2018: VanCaf Comic Arts Festival
2016: Small Press Expo SPX
2015: Katsucon Convention

SOLO ART SHOW

2017: NEW MONY Elk Cafe, Brooklyn

PUBLISHED WORKS

2018: Wake Up Screaming #11 - Alchemy
2017: Broken Yolk
2017: The Cliffhanger (cover)
2017: LAKAS ZINE
2016: Society of Illustrators Comic & Cartoon Art Annual
2016: SLC Dark Phrases (cover)
2016: SLC Review
2016: The Cliffhanger
2016: Lumina Journal
2012: Quail Bell Magazine- Editors Pick

SELF PUBLISHED BOOKS

2015: ARICAMA 3
2015: Focused Magnificence
2015: ARICAMA 2
2014: ARICAMA

APPRENTICESHIPS/INTERNSHIPS

2014: Basil Twist: Tandem Otter Productions, New York NY
2014: Saya Woolfalk, Brooklyn NY
2013: HERE Theater, New York, NY
2013: Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover VT

COLLABORATION

2017: Private Investigator : Collaboration with Leonie Bell
2013: ANG PALANSAK: The Collective with special guest Maria Camia
The Filipino Americans Coming Together Student Organization, Richmond VA