Puppet Builder
I consider each new puppet as an opportunity to try something different. Making mistakes is okay, its how we learn. Each puppet teaches us new techniques and how to make the next puppet even better.
The following is a small gallery of some of the puppets that I have built.
Unintentional Significance: A Puppet Show About Everything and Nothing
In 2021, I began construction on over two dozen puppets for my show “Unintentional Significance: A Puppet Show About Everything and Nothing.” The majority of the puppets were made out of materials that one could find in the trash, home or thrift store.
To learn more about Unintentional Significance and see the puppets, please click here.
Puppet Portrait of the “Rain Dragon” from Unintentional Significance.
Wizard Security Guard Puppets
The Know Theatre of Cincinnati contacted me and asked if I would make a few Wizard Security Guard Puppets for the 2019 production of Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic by Matt Cox. Three were made for the production.
Production Photo by Mikki Schaffner. More pictures of the puppets below.
Shadow Puppet Show from Hot Damn! It's The Loveland Frog!
In 2014, I was asked by Hugo West Theatricals to be the Puppet Director for their new musical, Hot Damn! It's The Loveland Frog! A Bluegrass Musical. I created the shadow puppets and directed the actors for that portion of the show.
Production Photo by Mikki Shaffner.
Wizard Security Guard - Number One for the Know Theatre of Cincinnati's Production of Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic by Matt Cox
Wizard Security Guard - Number Two for the Know Theatre of Cincinnati's Production of Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic by Matt Cox
Wizard Security Guard - Number Three for the Know Theatre of Cincinnati's Production of Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic by Matt Cox
Billy/Theodore Roosevelt Puppet from Billy: The Haunting of William Howard Taft (Autumn Kaleidoscope)/ Production Photo by Diana Cardenas
Miranda McGee operating Billy/Theodore Roosevelt Puppet from Billy: The Haunting of William Howard Taft (Autumn Kaleidoscope)/ Production Photo by Diana Cardenas
Deanna the Dilophosaurus Puppet from Autumn Kaleidoscope's production of My Darling Dilophosaurus.
Shadow Puppets from Hot Damn! It's The Loveland Frog! A Bluegrass Musical
Shadow Puppets from Hot Damn! It's The Loveland Frog! A Bluegrass Musical, Production Photo by Mikki Schaffner
Death/Skull Puppet from Hugo West Theatrical's Don't Cross the Streams: The Cease and Desist Musical (Photo by Mikki Schaffner)
Ghost Puppets from Hugo West Theatrical's Don't Cross the Streams: The Cease and Desist Musical (Photo by Mikki Schaffner)