STAR, A Play for Puppets explores the compulsion for revenge within the emotional aftermath of the Tulsa Race Riots. The piece features an original score by Erik Lindley.

STAR is one of 17 new plays in Erik Ehn’s Soulographie cycle, which looks at America’s relationship to genocide in the 20th century. The plays make meditative space for considering the nature of genocide directly. Ehn’s writing for the cycle has been described (by Laura Edmondson) as "generating an aesthetic of discomfort through systematic dismantling of boundaries between nightmare and reality, poetry and fact, the quotidian and the extreme". The entire cycle (including Star) was presented at LA MAMA in New York in November of 2012.

These performances of STAR inaugurated Automata’s new home in Los Angeles' Chinatown Arts District.