Sessions
February: Tues Feb 21 - Fri Feb 24
April: Tues Apr 18 - Fri Apr 21
Both sessions run from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm.
Registration
$500 per student
$450 for members Become a member →
Open to grades 1-4
About the Program
Puppetry is exercise for your imagination! Join Puppet Showplace Theater's Resident Artist, Sarah Nolen, for four days of puppet building and performance activities. Kids will learn how to design, construct, and perform puppetry, focusing on a variety of different styles of puppetry arts.
February's Puppet Recess will focus on simple marionette construction and performance.
April's Puppet Recess will explore and build the life cycle of butterflies: a different stage each day!
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 spend vacation week in a fun, friendly, creative, and supportive environment!
Open to grades 1-4
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.
