We offer a variety of hands-on puppet making and performance workshops.  Programs can be customized to meet your individual group's age and skill level.  Residencies are available for multiple days and weeklong sessions. 

PUPPET MAKING WORKSHOPS

Children create their own masterpiece!

Choose from variety of puppet styles: pantomime hand puppets, mechanized rod puppets, hand-in-mouth puppets and finger puppets.  Characters can be created from paper mache, latex, clipped foam, wood, feathers, material, paper, socks, paper bags and more!

PERFORMANCE WORKSHOPS

Calling all future entertainers!

Workshops introduce a variety of puppetry styles: pantomime hand puppets, mechanized rod puppets, and hand-in-mouth puppets.

We focus on the framework of puppet animation: teaching how to create capturing moments and believable movements. Other topics include adapting animation to staging, performance with sets, strategies for prop usage, character levels, dialogue between characters and creating opportunities for audience interaction.