Misophonia is part of the new Handmade Puppet Dreams Frights and Delights collection screening at the 2023 International Puppet Fringe Festival NYC on Thursday, August 4 at 4pm, and again on Sunday August 13 at 11am. I’ll be there for the artist talk back right after the Thursday 4pm screening along with filmmakers and HPD producers Alex Griffin and Jessica Simon, fellow cohort Jaime Sunwoo, and HPD founder Heather Henson. The Festival is an avalanche of workshops and performances by puppetry artists from all over the world and runs from Aug 9-18 at Teatro SEA at 107 Suffolk Street in NYC.

We’ll be attending the Puppeteers of America’s 2023 National Puppetry Festival from July 18-22 at the University of Maryland. I’ll be leading two 1.25 hour workshops there: Multiplane Puppetry and Flat Mechanics. Registration is open on the Festival website.

I’m returning to the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut to take part in the National Puppetry Conference. I’ll be working on toy theater with Carlo Adinolfi and shadow theater with Fabrizio Montecchi of Teatro Gioco Vita. Public performances are held on the final Friday and Saturday night of the conference, June 9 & 10. Tickets will be available on the O’Neill Center’s website.

I’m leading the 6th session of this online workshop, Shadow Puppetry II, for the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival workshop series. This time we’re trying a new schedule format. Instead of 5 sessions in one week, we’re spreading the same sessions out over three weeks on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, 8-10pm ET: April 5, 6, 12, 13, and 19. For inquiries, scholarship options, and registration go to the Chicago Puppet Fest website.