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Workshops 2019

National Puppetry Festival Workshops

The 2019 Festival will offer workshops from 9 am-12:15 pm, Wednesday, July 17th thru Saturday, July 20th. Each day will be comprised of two 90-minute sessions, with a 15-minute break between workshop slots 9:00-10:30 am and 10:45-12:15 pm. Some workshop will run double sessions and will run from 9:00 am – 12:15 pm. Workshops are included with the Full Festival Registration.

  • Click here for a printable list of 2019 Workshops (PDF)
  • Click here for the 2019 Workshop Manual (PDF)

SCHEDULE

Wednesday July 17, 9:00-10:30 AM

Monica Leo Pop-up Book Stages
Art Gruenberger Secrets of Running a Successful Business
Joseph Emory DMX Lighting Control Made Easy
Judith O’Hare Jabberwacky to Puppets
Katy Williams Viewpoints Movement in Puppetry
Pam Corcoran Needle Felting: Using a Natural, Renewable Resource to Construct Puppets
Panacea Theriac ANTHROPOMORPHIZER: Making flat things that can talk
Tom McLaughlin Intro to Silicone and Polyfoam for Puppets
Scott & James Silson The Show is in Your Hands
Kathy Foley & I Nyoman Sedana Playing with Wayang: Indonesian Puppetry & its Transformations
Hamid Rahmanian The making of the Feathers of Fire: A Persian Epic – the UNIMA awarding winning shadow theater

Wednesday, July 17, 10:45-12:15 PM

Monica Leo Pop-up Book Stages
Art Gruenberger Secrets of Running a Successful Business
Joseph Emory DMX Lighting Control Made Easy
Pam Corcoran Needle Felting: Using a Natural, Renewable Resource to Construct Puppets
Panacea Theriac ANTHROPOMORPHIZER: Making flat things that can talk
John Jennings Puppet Improvisation
Aretta Baumgartner Theatre Games
Ayhan Hulagu Karagoz
Hobey Ford Control Mechanisms for Rod Puppets
Kathryn O’Shea Songwriting from Scratch

Thursday, July 18, 9:00-10:30 AM

Andrew Periale & Steve Abrams The Thick Blue Line – A session with the Editors
Lex Rudd Gourmet Sock Puppets
Michael Lamason Lesson Planning
Monica Leo Pop-up Book Stages
Wendy Morris & Red Herring Puppets Performance & Advancing Creative Work Through Purposeful Feedback
Valerie Smalkin Green Screen 101
Scott & James Silson The Show is in Your Hands
Kathy Foley & I Nyoman Sedana Playing with Wayang: Indonesian Puppetry & its Transformations

Thursday, July 18, 10:45-12:15 PM

Lex Rudd Gourmet Sock Puppets
Monica Leo Pop-up Book Stages
Wendy Morris & Red Herring Puppets Performance & Advancing Creative Work Through Purposeful Feedback
Valerie Smalkin Green Screen 101
Annett Mateo Introduction to Arduino for Puppetry
Bob Nathanson How to Write Humorously for the Puppet Stage
Cheryl Capezzuti Dancing Parade Puppets
Jamie Donmeyer Understanding Movement
Lyssa Troemel Conductive Thread
Rob D’Arc Thumbs Up! – Pop-up Puppets

Friday, July 19, 9:00-10:30 AM

Aubrey Clinedinst Pain-free Puppeteering: EBAS Techniques
Benjamin Entner The Basic Fettig Mechanism
David Stephens Creating a One-Person Puppet Show
Kat Pleviak It’s Electric
Katherine Fahey Cigar Box Crankies
Kurt Hunter Exploring Marionette Movement
Matthew McGee The Marvelous Medium of Masking Tape
Michael Vetere & Samantha Maggio Puppetry & the Art of Education: Where the Process Begins
Sandy Spieler Work for the Water
Wendy Morton Shadow Puppet Mechanisms

Friday, July 19, 10:45-12:15 PM

Aubrey Clinedinst Pain-free Puppeteering: EBAS Techniques
Benjamin Entner The Basic Fettig Mechanism
David Stephens Creating a One-Person Puppet Show
Kat Pleviak It’s Electric
Katherine Fahey Cigar Box Crankies
Kurt Hunter Exploring Marionette Movement
Wendy Morton Shadow Puppet Mechanisms
Donald Devet Conceive, Create, Disseminate: Producing Puppet Videos on a Shoestring Budget
Erik Kuska Sketch Writing for Slams, Youtube & Beyond
Julie Scarborough Ensemble Puppetry – The Basics of Team Performance
Matthew McGee Patterns, Paper Mache & Paper Clay

Saturday, July 20, 9:00-10:30 AM

Sarah Frechette & Jason Thibodeaux MINI MASKS: Roser’s Paper-Sculpture Technique
Carole D’Agostino Ready, Set, Puppetshow!
Erik Kuska Designing Characters for Practicality & Performance
Grant Baciocco Create Your Own Puppet Show on the Internet!
Brian Hull Directing for Puppet Theatre
Mary Nagler Foam for Brains, Demystifying the Building of Foam Based Puppets
Paul Spirito Plastics in Puppetry
Stephen Kaplin & Trudi Cohen Toy Theatre – Spectacle in a Box
Katy Williams Viewpoints Movement in Puppetry
Scott & James Silson The Show is in Your Hands
Kathy Foley & I Nyoman Sedana Playing with Wayang: Indonesian Puppetry & its Transformations
Kevin Kammeraad & Bean&Bear Make Things out of STUFF

Saturday, July 20, 10:45-12:15 PM

Carole D’Agostino Ready, Set, Puppetshow!
Grant Baciocco Create Your Own Puppet Show on the Internet!
Mary Nagler Foam for Brains, Demystifying the Building of Foam Based Puppets
Stephen Kaplin & Trudi Cohen Toy Theatre – Spectacle in a Box
Tom Tucker How Did You Do That? Construction Tips & Techniques
Kris Woolen Archetypal Voices
Sarah Frechette & Jason Thibodeaux MINI MASKS: Roser’s Paper-Sculpture Technique
Scott & James Silson The Show is in Your Hands
Kevin Kammeraad & Bean&Bear Make Things out of STUFF
Brian Hull Using Multimedia in Production

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