ShadowLight Productions

ShadowLight Productions creates innovative, multi-disciplinary performances that are rooted in traditional Balinese shadow puppet theater. Its productions around the Bay Area draw from traditional Balinese shadow theater, and incorporate contemporary and experimental techniques including video projections, reflections, and musical accompaniment. Through ShadowLight’s educational workshops, residencies, and performances, students and audience members of all ages gain first-hand experience in shadow puppetry. The organization reaches 500 people each year. In addition, ShadowLight’s master-level workshops, geared toward accomplished artists, teach advanced techniques developed and perfected over decades.

ShadowLight Productions creates experimental, inter-disciplinary live performances that showcase the unique medium of Balinese shadow theater. ShadowLight’s performances combine traditional shadow casting with contemporary technology and stagecraft, based in a diverse cultural tradition. The organization reaches approximately 4,000 Bay Area residents each year, and hundreds more see its work on national and international tours. ShadowLight is grounded in its education workshops for K-12 students, and after-school programs that reach 2,000 youth each year. Renewed funding would support ShadowLight in implementing findings from its strategic learning process, funded by a Hewlett Organizational Effectiveness grant, to strengthen organizational infrastructure and invest in the founding artistic director Larry Reed’s living legacy.