Thursday was International Puppet Day, and I celebrated it by contributing some video to a virtual “Puppet Parade” on YouTube. We were traveling last weekend, so this was video that I put together Sunday afternoon once we were back. The requirements were to send in video of your puppet “marching” as a part of a…
Yesterday, I participated in a Puppetry Improvisation Zoom call with a group of other puppeteers hosted by Paul Greggs. Improvisation has never come easily for me either in skits or music, but things tend to go a little better for me when I am performing with a puppet. There are still challenges, as the puppet…
If I were to trace my interest in puppetry to one single moment, it might be around the time that Elijah and I recorded a couple of video skits with his Among Us plushies. “Engineer News,” as we ultimately called it, was also inspired a lot by “Villager News,” a series of YouTube videos that…
