The puppeteer supplies "soul" and "heart" to a puppet with his charactarization & performance. It is the very quality I look for in good puppetry.

The puppet is indeed a prop or even more specific - a tool. It is created with a certain look & abitlity to achieve movement. Those two qualities, by themselves, don't mean much. A beautifully made puppet can still be manipulated with simple mechanical moves & complete a performance. Such a performance does little to capture or…

For the last 5 months of 2011 I was busy performing a marionette of China Girl for the new Disney film of "OZ; The Great & Powerful" that is due in USA theaters March 2013.

With the help of special effects studio,  K.N.B. Effects Group, I built 2 marionettes of the character. They were identical except for variations in stringing that allowed them to do different specialized movements. As I have found in several instances of marionettes made from the same patterns, they each had…

Saturday is the 14th Annual National Day of Puppetry.  The Asheville Puppetry Alliance will present our celebration at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway from 12 noon till 4 PM.  

I am performing The Frog Prince.

Lisa Sturz from Red Herring Puppets put together a video.  Check it out at…

Dear Puppethubbers,

Looking for books on script-writing for Puppet-theatre. Are there any? Do you have some in your Puppet library. If you have please let me know name of book, Auther and publishers as well as date of publishing?  -  Thanking you  -  TOBY