“The Marble in My Mouth is a show filled with precision, love, humor, theatrical joy, and rigor. It really is a lesson on how the simplest things can have the biggest impact. ”
Lyra Butler-Denman (she/her)
Lyra is a performer, creator, Alexander Technique teacher, and visual artist exploring the quality of the physical experience of our lives. Her work lives at the intersection of the individual body and the social body, and the fractal interplay of the two. Her research is grounded in relationality, living systems, and liberatory practice. She works with bodies as the primary way we encounter the world, record our past, and access choice in the present. Lyra is a steward at FLOCK Dance Center and a collaborator with Our Bodhi Project and SSoMA. She identifies as a White, heterosexual, cisgender woman with a history of chronic pain and illness. She is obsessed with mycelium, anatomy as metaphor, how dams affect rivers over time, and what happens when we remove them.
Graham Cook (he/they)
Graham is a theater artist based in Philadelphia, PA. His practice is one of delight, of illuminating the divine in the mundane, of quiet spectacle. He is a graduate of the Pig Iron Theater Company Masters program, has been the recipient of the Best of Fringe for a TYA musical. His art aims to celebrate the miraculous connections we forge, and the truth that we have always been and always will be people in community with one another.
Elizabeth Feinschreiber (she/her)
Elizabeth is an artist-educator originally from New England with an MFA in Devised Performance from Pig Iron School/Rowan University and a BA in Acting & Directing and Secondary Education in Theatre from The University of New Hampshire. She has a dual foundation in theatre-making and pedagogy, blending a love of creative exploration with a commitment to student growth. Elizabeth is passionate about working with youth and committed to fostering inclusive, engaging, and play-based learning environments where students are encouraged to take creative risks and develop confidence. Experienced in teaching children of all ages, with a deep belief in theatre’s ability to nurture essential life skills such as collaboration, communication, and self-expression, she seeks roles where she can support young artists and create a dynamic space for discovery, growth, and meaningful learning.
Tyler Leif Catanella (he/they)
Tyler (he/they) is a multi-disciplinary teaching artist, performer, deviser, music producer and composer. Before receiving an MFA in Devised Performance with Pig Iron/Rowan University, Tyler lived in Boston where he taught Acting, Devising, Dance Composition & Improvisation at Emerson College as an Adjunct Faculty in the Performing Arts Department. Tyler was the Co-founder and Artistic Director of ParadiseMoves, a non-profit performance company with a mission to share stories through movement that inspire conversation, and make dance improvisation accessible to all regardless of physical ability or experience.
Tyler creates art that makes people feel first and think later. They create, facilitate, celebrate, and holds space for artistic and intimate moments of human connection.As a music producer, they harness this power of vibration as “The Science of Sexy Squiggles” traveling through the air to create music that makes people MOVE. Big, terrifying, colorful music that sings to listeners now the things that I wish someone had sung to me then. As an educator, they cultivate feeling into empathy and compassion through kinesthetic experiential learning, and facilitate space for any and all to courageously self-express and discover deeper connection with both themselves and others.
“The four performers use the simplest of tools to conjure a world free from cliche that tackles loss and emptiness.”