Puppetry

I made my first puppet in 2003 as a way to bring visual impact to a weekly peace vigil in Los Angeles. I’m still bringing puppets to protests and also creating parades and pageants that celebrate nature. I am a founder of the Street Creature Puppet Collective and help manage the Puppet Clubhouse, a community art space in Asheville, NC. I love making giant puppets, shadow puppets, lantern parades, crankies and more. I also teach puppetry to kids and community groups.

*Distant Songs*
A shadow puppet video made for the Tiny Paper Theater Festival, 2020.

*Gestrisni*
A document camera cantastoria style travelogue about my trip to Iceland, 2023

*Poet Cows*
A crankie collaboration with poet Allan Wolf, performed in 2016 at the Puppet Clubhouse

There is One Question, a sing along crankie without a box, 2017

The Earth is Alive! was a puppet show I wrote and directed, based on songs about Appalachian plants, a collaboration with Street Creature Puppet Collective and Josh Fox and friends, 2022