I recently found out that we will be traveling to Crete for a week to see a performance of our show Bull: A Puppet Musical. We’ll be taking off this weekend. Alex and I are excited to see how the show is being received and to see how the puppets are holding up–and to just spend some time at Sensatori. I’ll be sure to post some photos from the trip when we get back.
Yes. We have begun work on a Christmas puppet musical (no title yet). The completely original script and songs are being written by the talented Alex Lucas. I’ve been extremely impressed with the songs so far. Today, I’m beginning the preliminary design work for the set and the puppets. It promises to be a funny and heart-warming show and I hope to share more about it in the coming weeks and months, so stay tuned…
This puppet was built for a friend down in South Carolina. He is the Creative Director for a Christian retreat center called Look Up Lodge in Traveler’s Rest. They offer Summer Camp programs for kids, which is where Mr. T-Rex will be used in live presentations about dinosaurs.
He is covered in a vinyl “snakeskin” fabric for a more realistic feel.
The claws were made out of polymer clay,…
…the eyes were made from glass taxidermy eyes,…
…and the teeth were carved directly out of foam for a nice soft bite–because experience has taught me that kids love to stick their hands directly into puppets’ mouths!
I recently finished two more puppets for the great guys at Sweetgum Corner in Alabama. Here are some pics:
This is Cyrus the Badger…
…and this is Kevin the Squirrel.
I previously built Junior the Purple Raccoon and Harlan the Rabbit for them. I hope they enjoy performing these characters as much as I enjoyed building them.
Just in time for the new Star Trek movie, we’ve decided to put up some t-shirts in our Zazzle store celebrating our Space Trip! puppet video. Here is the first. If you like letting everyone else do all of the work then you probably need this t-shirt.
The puppets are now complete for the first international run of Bull: A Puppet Musical. They head off to the UK in the morning, and then they will be heading to Crete sometime later. I took the opportunity to tweak the designs a bit internally and made them much more performer-friendly. I’m very pleased with them and excited to see them in action!
Work is well under way for the second batch of Bull puppets. These will be used in the performance of Bull: A Puppet Musical at Sensatori in Crete.
When I’m as busy as I am right now, it’s great to get visitors to the workshop. My nephew came over a few days ago and got to play with the puppets. His favorite was the little Toby puppet from Puppet Heap.
