From a profile in the NY Times
EVERY weekend morning, David Marin leaves his home in Rosedale, Queens, to catch the 9:22 train to Penn Station and lugs stereo equipment and a duffel bag full of handmade puppets to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, on the sidewalk, he sets up the guerrilla version of his “Castle Critters” show, an all-puppet, all-singing street performance in which his creations lip-sync to catchy tunes like Prince’s “Kiss” and Joe Cocker’s “You Are So Beautiful.”
On a good weekend, Mr. Marin can pull in a few hundred dollars. He dresses in regular street clothes, except for a pair of reflective sunglasses and a floppy tube hat that covers his curly black hair. The glasses, Mr. Marin explains, are a psychological barrier, a little trick to get people to look at the puppets and not into his eyes.
He knows that people assume that he’s homeless — that goes with the territory of street performing — but his weekend work makes up only part of his income. Monday through Friday, Mr. Marin works for a graphics studio in Midtown, constructing hundreds of packaging prototypes for makeup companies. The work drains him, but it pays the bills.
| Credit Type | Production | Season |
|---|---|---|
| Actor | Waltz of the Stork Boogie | 1984-85 Season |