2. Planned Puppethood.
After graduate school, I happened upon another puppetry design training opportunity via the newly arisen internet. David Pannabecker, of Armslength Productions, and a former pupil of Kermit Love (The creator of Big Bird) had, on his site a kit that show a person, via videotape instruction, how to build a studio-quality puppet. It was with this new knowledge, plus some design tips from Pannabecker himself, that gave me the confidence to partner with my best friend to do a few independent projects.
The first was a project with the Flint Michigan chapter of planned parenthood, who’s Teen Scenes performance troupe was starting a puppet troupe, and commissioned my best friend and I to build a number of puppets for them.
The group from the Flint MI Planned Parenthood 'Teen Scenes' puppetry troupe. My best friend and I built the puppets for the group.
The following are the puppets I built for the group. Two hand and rod puppets, one ‘live hands’ dog puppet, and one puppet with interchangeable features.
The hand-and-rod puppet named Brad, built for the 'Teen Scenes' puppetry troupe of the Flint, MI chapter of Planned Parenthood.
The puppet named Skippy, built for the 'Teen Scenes' puppetry troupe of the Flint chapter of Planned Parenthood.
The 'live hands' puppet named Sparks, built for the 'Teen Scenes' puppetry troupe for the Flint MI chapter of Planned Parenthood.
The 'whatnot' puppet built for multiple characters for the 'Teen Scenes' puppetry troupe for the Flint, MI chapter of Planned Parenthood.
Click here to view another of my creations for the musical play Nunsense.
