Aaron Cromie
Ed Valentine
bio coming soon
Elizabeth Hara
bio coming soon
Eric Wright
Mister Wright has been a professional puppeteer since he graduated Sarah Lawrence College in 2003. He has since performed in productions of Peter and Wendy, La Bella Dormente, Madama Butterfly, Seemore's Playhouse, Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty, and Powerhouse. He, along with Emily DeCola and Michael Schupbach created The Puppet Kitchen, LLC, a puppet design and fabrication shop in the East Village. They have created puppets for Shakespeare in the Park, Disney theme parks, Seemore's Playhouse, Johnny and The Sprites, CollegeHumor.com., and more. www.puppetkitchen.com
Frankie Cordero
Originally from Chicago, Frankie is a producer/director/designer for his company, Frankenstudio, with Ken Berman. They have produced for clients such as A&E, PBS Kids, Collegehumor.com, Atlantic Records, Motorola, Sia, Julia Nunes, and The Gregory Brothers. Frankie also freelances as a puppeteer for TV/Theater, and will be performing in the Met Opera's Madama Butterfly, directed by The Late Anthony Minghella. For more original puppet music videos and shorts, subscribe to Frankie's YouTube channel- youtube.com/corderopuppets.
Gina Leigh
Gina Leigh (Performer) is learning hula hoop tricks. She enjoys Dr. Who, plums, and cats. She's a gypsy gal, spending time in OR, NJ, and CT. Gina makes and sells custom puppets, including puppets in the raffle tonight, at Firefly Puppets:www.fireflypuppets.etsy.com. Gina just wrapped up a summer of puppeteering as Alfreda the Cheetah at the Philadelphia Zoo, in the XTinkShun Experience by the Jim Henson Company.
Jim “Nappy “ Napolitno (host)
Jim Napolitano is a graduate of the University of Connecticut's Puppet Arts Program and is surprised to be entering his eighteenth season of Nappy's Puppets. Nappy's Puppets is dedicated to presenting quality puppet theater to audiences of all ages. The goal of each performance is to inspire and educate the audience on the range and scope of shadow puppetry as an art form ( though that may not be evident in tonight's performance).
Honey Goodenough
Honey Goodenough is a puppeteer, producer, educator, clown and magician. She has performed with Phantom Limb’s “The Fortune Teller” at HERE Theater, Theodora Skiptares’ “Lysistrata” at La Mama, Alissa Hunnicutt’s “The Kid Inside” and the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater in Central Park. You can also find her clowning around NYC Children’s Hospitals for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. And yes, that really is her name.
Ian Sweetman
bio coming soon
Jaime Hass-Powell
Jamie Haas-Powell is thrilled to be making her debut at the Tank! This is her first puppet showcase, as well as her first year at the O'Neill Puppetry Conference. She is currently enrolled as a freshman at the County College of Morris in NJ, as a Music major. A few of her passions include singing, dancing, creating music, and entertaining children and families with her puppet, Flaire!
Jaime Moore
bio coming soon
Jim “Nappy” Napolitano (host)
bio coming soon
Jon Levin
Jon Levin is a co-founder of Sinking Ship Productions. Recent directing credits with Sinking Ship include Powerhouse and There Will Come Soft Rains, both at the New York International Fringe Festival. In 2008 FringeNYC granted him an award for Outstanding Direction. Additional directing credits include The Selkie for Urban Stages touring Outreach Program and Tales from the Wind and the Sun as part of Metropolitan Playhouse’s Children’s Theater. This past summer, Jon was a participant at the Eugune O’Neill Puppetry Conference and has studied with Eric Bass at the Sandglass Summer Puppetry Intensive at the University of Connecticut. Jon is a theater curator at the Tank and is the founder of the bimonthly event, Puppet Playlist.
Jon Little
Jonathan Little is the founder of Little's Creatures puppet troupe.
He has incorporated his own wacky sense of humor and personality into every
puppet performance he does. He has worked on T.V. pilots, web shows, and has
countless videos on his YouTube channel. Jonathan graduated from the Museum School of Fine Artsin Boston. After graduating Jonathan went on to work with Kaiju Big Battel performing at venues up and down the east coast playing a wide variety of characters from giant sandwiches to a hammer wielding vikings. He is also a skilled dancer having danced with Boston Ballet. Now he is the primary puppet builder for Little's Creatures and a skilled puppeteer with a wide range of characters. He also thinks it is very weird to write about himself in the third person.
Ken Berman
bio coming soon
Kevin Chick
El Leon Fringe Festival, Black Arts at the Guthrie, toured Argentina South America and Mexico, soon - Golem with Ego Po. Michel: puppet builder and performer. Interned with the Jim Henson Creature shop, Basil Twist and Sesame Workshop. Has recently completed designing puppets for National Geographic Education. Lorna: Center for Puppetry Arts, Mumm, McCarter Theater, Cal Shakes, soon- Herschel with Gas & Electrics and Golem with Ego Po.
Laurie Berenhaus
bio coming soon
Leila Ghaznavi
Leila Ghaznavi is an Actor Puppeteer and Playwright who currently lives in Philadelphia. She has produced and performed her original work, Silken Veils, in many cities across the US and most recently in Edinburgh, Scotland as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has a masters in acting from the California Institute of the arts and is a graduate of Dell'Arte International Physical Theater Professional Training Program. This is her first ever puppet slam!
Leslie Carrarra Rudolph
bio coming soon
Lindsey “Z” Briggs
bio coming soon
Lorna Howley
bio coming soon
Marina Tsaplina
bio coming soon
Marsian
Marsian is a Los Angeles puppet artist, chanteuse, and high-art drag personality, whose work teeters on the precipice of cute and abject, informed by breaking news, tabloid-lore and popular culture, sprinkled with a heavy dose of cyber-spirituality. www.facebook.com/hausofmarsian
Marta Mozelle MacRostie
Marta Mozelle MacRostie works as a shadow and Taiwanese glove puppeteer with NYC-based Chinese Theater Works, and has appeared around town with her hand marionette and Schmutzy the dancing chicken. Most recent design and building credit: Homer's Odyssey at the Green Room Theater at Bleecker 45 for Handcart Ensemble. When not puppeteering, she can be found fronting her quintet, Marta Mozelle & her Solid Senders, at various weddings and swing dance events.
Martina Plag
Martina Plag is creative director of studium-praxis and creates puppetry for adult audiences. Her masks, puppets and automata have been in juried exhibitions and have awarded her seven residencies. Plag designs, builds and performs with puppets, masks, automata, sets and prototypes nationally and internationally for stage and film.www.studium-praxis.org
Matthew Laird
bio coming soon
Meghann DeCristoforo
Megan DeCristoforo is a puppeteer and puppet builder. Most recently she performed in Kevin Augustine’s Bride at the Puppeteers of America Festival in Atlanta. She is also a preschool teacher. She'd really appreciate it if you do not tell any of her three year old students’ parents about what you see here tonight.
Michel Jerome Faulkner II
bio coming soon
Robert Smythe
Robert Smythe has been working with puppets for about 45 years. He is the Director of Emerging Artists for the International Puppet Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and the Director of the 2013 National Festival of the Puppeteers of America, to be held at Swarthmore College. He is the founder of Mum Puppettheatre, and isn't too bad once you get to know him.
Ryan Dillon
Ryan Dillon is a professional puppeteer and puppet builder living in Brooklyn, NY. At seventeen, Ryan began working as a puppeteer for Sesame Street, becoming one of the youngest to ever work for the company. Since then, he's played numerous chickens, monsters, and various Muppet day-players. Ryan recently ended his run atJohn Tartaglia's ImaginOcean, making his off-Broadway debut. Other puppetry credits include: Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, The O'Neill Puppetry Conference, as well as various commercials, pilots and online video projects. www.dillypuppets.com
Scott Hitz
Scott Hitz is Co-Founder of Monkey Boys Productions. Scott received a two prestigious awards for his work with Arts in Education programs in 1999 and 2001. He has also been the recipient of a Henson seed grant for his production Ursa Major.
Tim Lagasse
bio coming soon
Up Your Cherry (Melissa and Matt Dunphy)
Up Your Cherry is a noise-pop-rock duo. Matt Dunphy takes care of rhythm. Melissa Dunphy plays a mandocaster and sings. Previous gigs include The Undead and Girl on Gurl in this year's the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.www.upyourcherry.com
Aaron Cromie is a Philadelphia based director, performer, mask & puppet designer and writer who recently premiered A PAPER GARDEN at the American Philosophical Society. He recently won a Barrymore Award for his contributions to the design/movement of Theatre Exile's THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE. Aaron will direct and design TITUS ANDRONICUS this spring for the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre. He is a graduate of the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre. O'Neill Alum. www.aaroncromie.com
Aaron Lathrop
As head of a super PAC intent on convincing Optimus Prime to run for president, Aaron’s come a long way. From humble beginnings as a student at Eastern Connecticut State University, to many years participating at the Eugene O’Neill Puppetry Conference and finally emerging as an artist in 2010. Aaron’s come a long way, seriously, he toured with Tears of Joy Theatre in Portland, for three years. That’s like, thousands and thousands of miles Traveled! In a VAN!
Aaron Lathrop
As head of a super PAC intent on convincing Optimus Prime to run for president, Aaron’s come a long way. From humble beginnings as a student at Eastern Connecticut State University, to many years participating at the Eugene O’Neill Puppetry Conference and finally emerging as an artist in 2010. Aaron’s come a long way, seriously, he toured with Tears of Joy Theatre in Portland, for three years. That’s like, thousands and thousands of miles Traveled! In a VAN!
Alissa Hunnicutt
bio coming soon
bio coming soon
Bonnie Berkowitz
bio coming soon
Bradely Kemp (musician)
bio coming soon
Broderick Jones
Jones has lived the sort of life where he is routinely asked to write a brief biography for insertion into programs or websites. He has yet to feel successful at crafting one worth reading. Jones can be pestered at jigsawfanclub.com.
Carole D’Agostino
Carole is a puppet performer and builder for television, film, and stage. Television: SeeMore’s Playhouse, Crank Yankers, IFC’s Greg the Bunny, Upside Down Show. Theater: ImaginOcean, Avenue Q, Shrek! the Musical, Thomas the Tank Engine Live2, and Arias with a Twist. Web: Weekly Daily News, Funny or Die: Frank the Horse. Youtube Channel: hellocarole. Carole's newest production The Hoarding Show is available for booking athoardingshow@gmail.com. Look for The Hoarding Show on Facebook!
Colette Nickola
bio coming soon
bio coming soon
Bradely Kemp (musician)
bio coming soon
Broderick Jones
Jones has lived the sort of life where he is routinely asked to write a brief biography for insertion into programs or websites. He has yet to feel successful at crafting one worth reading. Jones can be pestered at jigsawfanclub.com.
Carole D’Agostino
Carole is a puppet performer and builder for television, film, and stage. Television: SeeMore’s Playhouse, Crank Yankers, IFC’s Greg the Bunny, Upside Down Show. Theater: ImaginOcean, Avenue Q, Shrek! the Musical, Thomas the Tank Engine Live2, and Arias with a Twist. Web: Weekly Daily News, Funny or Die: Frank the Horse. Youtube Channel: hellocarole. Carole's newest production The Hoarding Show is available for booking athoardingshow@gmail.com. Look for The Hoarding Show on Facebook!
Colette Nickola
bio coming soon
Ed Valentine
bio coming soon
Elizabeth Hara
bio coming soon
Eric Wright
Mister Wright has been a professional puppeteer since he graduated Sarah Lawrence College in 2003. He has since performed in productions of Peter and Wendy, La Bella Dormente, Madama Butterfly, Seemore's Playhouse, Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty, and Powerhouse. He, along with Emily DeCola and Michael Schupbach created The Puppet Kitchen, LLC, a puppet design and fabrication shop in the East Village. They have created puppets for Shakespeare in the Park, Disney theme parks, Seemore's Playhouse, Johnny and The Sprites, CollegeHumor.com., and more. www.puppetkitchen.com
Frankie Cordero
Originally from Chicago, Frankie is a producer/director/designer for his company, Frankenstudio, with Ken Berman. They have produced for clients such as A&E, PBS Kids, Collegehumor.com, Atlantic Records, Motorola, Sia, Julia Nunes, and The Gregory Brothers. Frankie also freelances as a puppeteer for TV/Theater, and will be performing in the Met Opera's Madama Butterfly, directed by The Late Anthony Minghella. For more original puppet music videos and shorts, subscribe to Frankie's YouTube channel- youtube.com/corderopuppets.
Gina Leigh
Gina Leigh (Performer) is learning hula hoop tricks. She enjoys Dr. Who, plums, and cats. She's a gypsy gal, spending time in OR, NJ, and CT. Gina makes and sells custom puppets, including puppets in the raffle tonight, at Firefly Puppets:www.fireflypuppets.etsy.com. Gina just wrapped up a summer of puppeteering as Alfreda the Cheetah at the Philadelphia Zoo, in the XTinkShun Experience by the Jim Henson Company.
Jim “Nappy “ Napolitno (host)
Jim Napolitano is a graduate of the University of Connecticut's Puppet Arts Program and is surprised to be entering his eighteenth season of Nappy's Puppets. Nappy's Puppets is dedicated to presenting quality puppet theater to audiences of all ages. The goal of each performance is to inspire and educate the audience on the range and scope of shadow puppetry as an art form ( though that may not be evident in tonight's performance).
Honey Goodenough
Honey Goodenough is a puppeteer, producer, educator, clown and magician. She has performed with Phantom Limb’s “The Fortune Teller” at HERE Theater, Theodora Skiptares’ “Lysistrata” at La Mama, Alissa Hunnicutt’s “The Kid Inside” and the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater in Central Park. You can also find her clowning around NYC Children’s Hospitals for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. And yes, that really is her name.
Ian Sweetman
bio coming soon
Jaime Hass-Powell
Jamie Haas-Powell is thrilled to be making her debut at the Tank! This is her first puppet showcase, as well as her first year at the O'Neill Puppetry Conference. She is currently enrolled as a freshman at the County College of Morris in NJ, as a Music major. A few of her passions include singing, dancing, creating music, and entertaining children and families with her puppet, Flaire!
Jaime Moore
bio coming soon
Jim “Nappy” Napolitano (host)
bio coming soon
Jon Levin
Jon Levin is a co-founder of Sinking Ship Productions. Recent directing credits with Sinking Ship include Powerhouse and There Will Come Soft Rains, both at the New York International Fringe Festival. In 2008 FringeNYC granted him an award for Outstanding Direction. Additional directing credits include The Selkie for Urban Stages touring Outreach Program and Tales from the Wind and the Sun as part of Metropolitan Playhouse’s Children’s Theater. This past summer, Jon was a participant at the Eugune O’Neill Puppetry Conference and has studied with Eric Bass at the Sandglass Summer Puppetry Intensive at the University of Connecticut. Jon is a theater curator at the Tank and is the founder of the bimonthly event, Puppet Playlist.
Jon Little
Jonathan Little is the founder of Little's Creatures puppet troupe.
He has incorporated his own wacky sense of humor and personality into every
puppet performance he does. He has worked on T.V. pilots, web shows, and has
countless videos on his YouTube channel. Jonathan graduated from the Museum School of Fine Artsin Boston. After graduating Jonathan went on to work with Kaiju Big Battel performing at venues up and down the east coast playing a wide variety of characters from giant sandwiches to a hammer wielding vikings. He is also a skilled dancer having danced with Boston Ballet. Now he is the primary puppet builder for Little's Creatures and a skilled puppeteer with a wide range of characters. He also thinks it is very weird to write about himself in the third person.
Ken Berman
bio coming soon
Kevin Chick
El Leon Fringe Festival, Black Arts at the Guthrie, toured Argentina South America and Mexico, soon - Golem with Ego Po. Michel: puppet builder and performer. Interned with the Jim Henson Creature shop, Basil Twist and Sesame Workshop. Has recently completed designing puppets for National Geographic Education. Lorna: Center for Puppetry Arts, Mumm, McCarter Theater, Cal Shakes, soon- Herschel with Gas & Electrics and Golem with Ego Po.
Laurie Berenhaus
bio coming soon
Leila Ghaznavi
Leila Ghaznavi is an Actor Puppeteer and Playwright who currently lives in Philadelphia. She has produced and performed her original work, Silken Veils, in many cities across the US and most recently in Edinburgh, Scotland as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has a masters in acting from the California Institute of the arts and is a graduate of Dell'Arte International Physical Theater Professional Training Program. This is her first ever puppet slam!
Leslie Carrarra Rudolph
bio coming soon
Lindsey “Z” Briggs
bio coming soon
Lorna Howley
bio coming soon
Marina Tsaplina
bio coming soon
Marsian
Marsian is a Los Angeles puppet artist, chanteuse, and high-art drag personality, whose work teeters on the precipice of cute and abject, informed by breaking news, tabloid-lore and popular culture, sprinkled with a heavy dose of cyber-spirituality. www.facebook.com/hausofmarsian
Marta Mozelle MacRostie
Marta Mozelle MacRostie works as a shadow and Taiwanese glove puppeteer with NYC-based Chinese Theater Works, and has appeared around town with her hand marionette and Schmutzy the dancing chicken. Most recent design and building credit: Homer's Odyssey at the Green Room Theater at Bleecker 45 for Handcart Ensemble. When not puppeteering, she can be found fronting her quintet, Marta Mozelle & her Solid Senders, at various weddings and swing dance events.
Martina Plag
Martina Plag is creative director of studium-praxis and creates puppetry for adult audiences. Her masks, puppets and automata have been in juried exhibitions and have awarded her seven residencies. Plag designs, builds and performs with puppets, masks, automata, sets and prototypes nationally and internationally for stage and film.www.studium-praxis.org
Matthew Laird
bio coming soon
Meghann DeCristoforo
Megan DeCristoforo is a puppeteer and puppet builder. Most recently she performed in Kevin Augustine’s Bride at the Puppeteers of America Festival in Atlanta. She is also a preschool teacher. She'd really appreciate it if you do not tell any of her three year old students’ parents about what you see here tonight.
Michel Jerome Faulkner II
bio coming soon
Robert Smythe
Robert Smythe has been working with puppets for about 45 years. He is the Director of Emerging Artists for the International Puppet Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and the Director of the 2013 National Festival of the Puppeteers of America, to be held at Swarthmore College. He is the founder of Mum Puppettheatre, and isn't too bad once you get to know him.
Ryan Dillon
Ryan Dillon is a professional puppeteer and puppet builder living in Brooklyn, NY. At seventeen, Ryan began working as a puppeteer for Sesame Street, becoming one of the youngest to ever work for the company. Since then, he's played numerous chickens, monsters, and various Muppet day-players. Ryan recently ended his run atJohn Tartaglia's ImaginOcean, making his off-Broadway debut. Other puppetry credits include: Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, The O'Neill Puppetry Conference, as well as various commercials, pilots and online video projects. www.dillypuppets.com
Scott Hitz
Scott Hitz is Co-Founder of Monkey Boys Productions. Scott received a two prestigious awards for his work with Arts in Education programs in 1999 and 2001. He has also been the recipient of a Henson seed grant for his production Ursa Major.
Tim Lagasse
bio coming soon
Up Your Cherry (Melissa and Matt Dunphy)
Up Your Cherry is a noise-pop-rock duo. Matt Dunphy takes care of rhythm. Melissa Dunphy plays a mandocaster and sings. Previous gigs include The Undead and Girl on Gurl in this year's the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.www.upyourcherry.com
Wonderspark Puppets
bio coming soon
bio coming soon
Yoko Myoi
bio coming soon
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