Tickets

Tues Sept 20 | 6:30 - 8:30 pm

$5/person suggested donation

The Hatchery is Puppet Showplace Theater's monthly gathering for artists with works-in-progress.

Connect with fellow puppeteers and puppet-curious artists in a low-stress, encouraging environment. Participants can share project ideas and works-in-progress, but also ask questions, bring building problems, seek suggestions, and find inspiration with our one and only resident artist, Sarah Nolen, hosting.

Recommended for adults and teens! Professional, amateur, and aspiring artists welcome.

About the Host

Sarah Nolen is a puppeteer and filmmaker originally from Austin, Texas. As Puppet Showplace Theater’s resident artist, she performs regularly for youth and family audiences and teaches puppetry in camps, workshops, residencies, and adult classes. Her original productions, The Fairy Tailor, Judy Saves the Day, and Lisa the Wise have toured widely throughout New England and beyond. Sarah recently designed puppets for Little Uprisings' My Night in the Planetarium, Metropolitan Chorale's The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore and for Suffolk University's Loss of Breath: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe. She also directed a production for the World Puppetry Festival featuring puppeteers from across the Americas. In addition to her work in puppetry, Sarah is an experienced filmmaker. In 2015, she received the Mister Rogers Memorial Scholarship in support of her television pilot Treeples, which screened at film festivals across the U.S. Sarah earned her BFA in film from Southern Methodist University, and an MFA in Puppet Arts from the University of Connecticut.

About the Hatchery

The Hatchery is Puppet Showplace's drop-in night for professional, amateur, and aspiring artists. Join fellow puppeteers, crafters, and interdisciplinary theater makers to share works-in-progress, brainstorm ideas, rehearse scenes, or build characters somewhere other than your bedroom floor or kitchen table. A great spot for puppet class alumni, aspiring slam performers, or anyone who is puppet-curious.