Puppetry Resources
Professional Organizations
Puppeteers of America www.puppeteers.org
West Michigan Puppetry Guild (member of WMPG Dragoncillo Puppet Troupe) workshops. Monthly Zoom meeting. $10/year
UNIMA Canada
Professional Development, Residencies and Grants
Puppet Therapy Certificate, Barcelona
Festivals
Festival de Casteliers in Montréal, OUF, Festival Off de Casteliers
(La MIAM, Maison Internationale des Arts de la Marionnette, Montréal)
Chicago International Puppetry Festival & year round workshops
Springworks Festival in Stratford
Calgary Festival of Animated Objects
Le Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes (Charleville-Mézières, France)
New York State Puppet Festival
International Shadow Puppetry Festival Schwäbisch Gmünd (Germany)
Pesta Boneka, International Puppet Biennale Indonesia
Puppetry Intensives
Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry, Calgary & Banff
New England Puppetry Intensive
Favorite Puppet Companies
Les Sages Fous in Trois-Rivières, QC
The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Calgary (Famous Puppet Death Scenes
Contemporary Shadow Puppetry
Manual Cinema, Chicago
Lichtbende, Netherlands (Overhead Projectors)
Moquette Productions (Overhead Projectors)
Automata
Crankies
Toy Theater
Object Theatre
Cie Gare Centrale (Agnès Limbos)
Examples: Ressacs, The Object and The Actor
Ariel Doron: Romantic Date with a Puppet (excerpt from Soldiers and Sluts)
Tabletop Shakespeare: Tim Etchells, Be Stone No More
Christian Carrignon Theatre de Cuisine performs a piece by Molnar from the 3 Little Suicides
Article with video: How to use object theatre, by Christian Carrignon
Teatro Lambe Lambe-Theatre for One
Suitcase/Box Theatre form from Brazil Online Course
Making
Academy of the Wooden Puppet with Bernd Ogrodnik, Iceland
Puppets in Prague, with Mirek Treijtnar (online and in-person)
Puppetry Literature (free)
Puppetry International Research: PIR Journal
World Encyclopedia of Puppetry
Dolls and Puppets
3 volumes from 2014 puppetry conference in Bialystok, Poland. Free access. I have an article in the 3rd volume: