“When Grief shatters the world you know, Love becomes worth crossing the galaxy to reclaim…”
Midnight Radio Show, a Brooklyn-based science fiction fairytale theater company, needs to raise $35,000 to support the world premiere of our brand new shadow puppetry musical epic, Mia M.I.A, opening at LaMaMa Experimental Theatre Club this February 5th!
Written and created by company director Charlotte Lily Gaspard, Mia M.I.A. is a genre-bending theatre puppet experience that fuses lo-fi space pop, live hip-hop, and hand-cut shadow puppetry into an emotionally-charged journey through loss, love, and the impossible.
In development since 2021, the production has been shaped through residencies and workshops at La MaMa and the Jim Henson Carriage House.
After Mia vanishes without explanation, Ella is left to confront the brutal realities of grief and absence. Refusing to accept a world without her beloved, Ella launches into an enchanted, otherworldly dimension—one filled with space travel, unknown forces, and transformative encounters. What unfolds is a breathtaking odyssey where sorrow fractures into wonder, and healing emerges through courage, connection, and creation.
Told through live singing and original music, Mia M.I.A. pulses with energy and intimacy. Legendary griot and hip-hop artist Malik Work delivers electrifying live numbers bringing ancestral storytelling traditions into bold conversation with futuristic soundscapes, produced by Doc Frost. Mia M.I.A.'s original songs, written and produced by DJ Nebraska, bring you along for the emotional journey - as well as the galactic one. The production’s innovative shadow puppetry, hand-cut silhouettes, and striking costume design conjure entire universes onstage, transforming the theatre into a living, breathing cosmos.
At once epic and deeply personal, Mia M.I.A. is a spellbinding exploration of love that refuses to disappear—and a reminder that sometimes, the only way forward is through the impossible.
Join us this February for a limited time run! Bring your beloveds or anyone you’d venture into deep space with.
This major new work depends on *you* to launch. And we only have 35 days to do it!
While we are fortunate to have much of the original creative work in place, we still need to sustain our artists, performers, and the crew who make us look and sound otherworldly, as we devote day and night to rehearsal and polishing the performance.
We’re already behind the scenes applying the twinkle and warming up.
Your contribution today sustains these artists in their work, bringing dreams to life!
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Contact us to work out the details...
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ABOUT MIDNIGHT RADIO SHOW:
Building on the aesthetic of the fantastical, experimental theatre of Midnight Radio Show, Mia M.I.A. embraces the unique interplay between actor and silhouette, embracing shadow puppetry that performs both behind and in front of the shadow screen. The characters wander in and out of paper-cut, fantasy worlds, inviting the audience into an enchanted but simultaneously real, practical, and tangible space.
Midnight Radio Show is a multidisciplinary, sci-fi fairytale theatre collective based out of Brooklyn, NYC. The company creates collaborative works headed up by creative director and “bona fide fairy princess” Charlotte Lily Gaspard, joined by a diverse group of artists, musicians, actors and puppeteers. Inspired by the creation of science fiction fairytales, Afro-futurism, and the love of shadow puppets, Midnight Radio Show experiments with visual art, music, puppetry, and oral traditions of storytelling to create avant garde theatrical commentary on our modern world.