Shayna Strype is a New York-based director and artist working in animation, film and puppetry performance. Her films and live performances utilize dark humor, playfulness, and mixed media techniques to explore humanity through nonhuman perspectives, including objects, animals, and elements of nature.

 

Her films have screened at festivals internationally including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Palm Springs ShortFest, and Anthology Film Archives. Her films has received awards at Brooklyn Film Festival, Thomas Edison Film Festival, Athens International Film Video Festival, among others. Her multimedia performance, MINE, received a Jim Henson Workshop Grant and has been performed at Dixon Place Theater and the NY State Puppet Festival.

 

Her 16mm animated film ‘Transitional Object’, was commissioned and presented by Mono No Aware, as the opening night film for their 18th Cinema Arts Festival. Shayna has participated in art residencies at School of Visual Arts: Art Practice and Mass MoCa's Assets for Artists program. She received her MFA in Theater from Sarah Lawrence College and currently teaches animation at Lehman College. @woosieparty