Sessions
Session 1: Mon Aug 21 - Fri Aug 25 WAITLIST
Session 2: Mon Aug 28 - Fri Sept 1 WAITLIST
Both sessions run from 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Ages 9 - 14
Limited to 9 participants
Registration
$550 per student
$500 for members Become a member →
If registration must be cancelled, 80% of the fee will be refunded if arrangements are made before June 1st. Registration cannot be refunded beyond this date.
About the Program
Puppetry is exercise for your imagination! Join Puppet Showplace Theater's Resident Artist, Sarah Nolen, for one week of fun puppet building and performance activities. Kids will learn how to design, construct, and perform puppetry, using a variety of different styles of puppetry arts.
This full-day program includes mini-performances by the instructor, group games, outdoor activities, courtyard lunch and snack breaks, and daily creative challenges. Kids will chart their discoveries as a group throughout the week.
This program is a great way to end the summer in a fun, friendly, creative, and supportive environment!
Child information forms and complete on-site procedures will be sent out in June.
Health and Safety: Your child’s health and safety are our highest priority. We will follow health and safety procedures as recommended by the CDC.
If you have any questions regarding program policies, please contact Artistic Director Leslie Burton at artistic@puppetshowplace.org
About the Instructor
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 evening adult classes. Her three original productions, The Fairy Tailor, Judy Saves the Day, and Lisa the Wise, are all available to tour. Sarah recently designed puppets for Wee the People's 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 is currently directing a production for UNIMA-USA featuring puppeteers from across the North American continent that will be performed in Bali this spring at the World Puppetry Festival.
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, a show geared towards empowering girls, 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.
