#puppetymadness

For the last 20 years I have tried to color outside the lines of what people expect when they think of puppets and puppeteers. In that time I have produced live puppetry performances, such as the life-size puppetry fantasy adventure “Dr. Mecurio's Mythical Marvels,the adult drama “the Dr. is out... the last 48 hours in the life of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson”, and my wild Puppet Burlesque show "A night at Miss Mimi's" funded by a performance art grant from the amazing folks at the Creative Capital Foundation in 2007.

Through it all I have endeavored to pass my art on to the next generation, instructing workshops to both children and adults on puppet design construction and performance, created a award winning workshop on designing puppets from recyclable and found items, along with summer internship programs for under-served teens. These programs taught kids a different way of solving problems by working together, and at the end, seeing with their own eye’s what incredible things that could be made from a pile of parts and their combined imaginations.