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 |