Puppets and storytelling
Projects
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Eclipse Glasses
Based on my lived experience working at a science museum during the 2017 Great North American Solar Eclipse, this recounts what it’s like to have all the glasses when everyone wants them. This is the first and only animation I have made.
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Thanks I Guess
A pandemic era shadow puppet show about the role of pigeons in human history as a domesticated bird. This was presented through Nasty Brutish and Short (a Chicago Based Puppet Cabaret) in February 2021.
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Past Presence
I wrote this show to explore the relationships between extinct animals from the Pleistocene and the things that coevolved with and then outlived them. This puppet show combines crankie, shadow puppetry using an overhead projector, and other stage puppets (which happen to all be made of cardboard). Presented in August 2024 at the Center on Halsted through Puppetqueers
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Sturgeon Puppet
I made this puppet from all recycled materials for a show to take place in and on Lake Michigan.
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Puppet Zoo
This is a collaboration with Emilie Wingate and other amazing puppeteers and puppet builders. We strive to inspire a connection to animals with our charming and sustainably built puppets.