Puppetry Resources

Professional Organizations

Puppeteers of America www.puppeteers.org

UNIMA-USA

UNIMA International

West Michigan Puppetry Guild (member of WMPG Dragoncillo Puppet Troupe) workshops. Monthly Zoom meeting. $10/year

UNIMA Canada

Professional Development, Residencies and Grants

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 City Puppet Fringe

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

Sandglass Theater Vermont

Favorite Puppet Companies

Les Sages Fous in Trois-Rivières, QC

The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Calgary (Famous Puppet Death Scenes

Contemporary Shadow Puppetry

Norbert Goetz tutorials

Manual Cinema, Chicago

Lichtbende, Netherlands (Overhead Projectors)

Unterwasser

Moquette Productions (Overhead Projectors)

Automata

Eduardo Salzane

Crankies

The Crankie Factory

Toy Theater

Great Small Works

Object Theatre 

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:

  1. Dolls and Puppets as Artistic and Cultural Phenomena (19th -21st Centuries)

  2. Dolls, Puppets, Sculptures and Living Images. From the Middle Ages to the End of the 18th Century

  3. Dolls and Puppets: Contemporaneity and Tradition