The Fat Ninja, 1999
Fort Lewis College
CREDITS

The stage production of The Fat Ninja is an adaptation of a comic book published by Silver Wolf Publishing in 1986 with the same name with art by Gary Amaro.  Alex found and purchased a copy of Vol. 1 of the Fat Ninja at a small flee market and was intrigued by the over sized hero who had taken a vow of silence and had a deep love of all things fried. Alex chose to adapt the basic story and characters introduced in the comic into a script and then a stage production.

Alex was heavily influenced in this work by his studies in Wayyang Kulit, also known as Balinese shadow puppetry. In this work he incorporated certain conventions of blocking and story structure in his writing and staging of the performance.