Tabletop Puppetry

Workshop Presenter:

Mary Hildebrand Nagler


Description:

Tabletop puppetry is a unique style of Puppetry performed on a surface with the Puppeteers in full view of the audience. It can be very expressive and elegant. To be done successfully it requires the use of techniques and a special practiced skill to bring the puppet to life. They are also freeing and a lot of fun! Come play!

Materials fee: None
Time/Date: Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Max. # Participants: 30


Bio of Workshop Presenter:

Mary Hildebrand Nagler, has been a solo performer for 37 years, been a Puppet builder for Emmy award winning, Images in Motion - Sonoma, CA., and is currently working as a builder at the Puppet Heap in Hoboken NJ! A recent graduate of the University Puppet arts MFA program, she also loves to teach!

Photo Credit: Janis Franklin

 

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presented by The Puppeteers of America
Atlanta, GA. July 14-16, 2009