Sharing methods and techniques for making puppets and masks.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Stories
of the
Season
Stories of the Season is an interactive evening of storytelling using masks and puppets to tell tales with themes suited to the winter season.
IN THE VALLEY OF MIST
By Rob Harrison and Bob Beuth
Commissioned by and Produced through The Virginia Avenue Project, Spring of 2003 in Santa Monica
Based on Rob's original children’s story, this is the story of Raj, a young boy alienated by his village, who wanders out into the desert and is adopted by a heard of camels.
I created 55 puppets and masks for this project, including a 15-foot high giant demon, who rose out of the sands of the desert when summoned by the evil sorceress Dagril.
The Soldier'S Tale
Based on a classic Russian folktale, this new version, adapted and narrated by David Bridel, has all the other characters in the story played by life-size puppets.
Having made its debut with the Louisville Symphony Orchestra in March 2020, it is slated to be performed at other theaters and symphony halls in the future.
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LUCKY STIFF
Produced at the Harvard-Westlake School in 2018. I was hired to make 26 dog masks of various breeds from Frenchies to Dobermans. Because they appeared in a nightmare sequence using blacklight, they were painted in neon colors with fluorescent fur.
NOAH
Presented by Wallis-Annenberg Beach House in Santa Monica
Summer 2014
These puppets were made for the original play NOAH, a comic recreation of Noah and his Ark. They were designed to replicate the hand puppets of artist Paul Klee. They needed to look strange, other-worldly and quasi-human. I also created several accompanying animal puppets to be loaded on to the Ark, of course, two by two.
EMPIRE BURLESQUE
The Broad Stage, Santa Monica, 2015
I designed these flat puppets for a show written by Dan Castellaneta that was produced at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica in the Summer of 2015. The show took place at the turn of the century, so it was designed to look like the early 1900s. They needed talking heads and talking warships and boats…all on flat luan panels. The show also was produced in Chicago in 2018.
