Faye Dupras & Max Weigert, Cozy Arts
Faye Dupras & Max Weigert are the original team behind I Spy Butterfly. Faye is a theater artist who began her puppet journey over twenty years ago when she met and apprenticed under her childhood hero, puppeteer Noreen Young. Since then she has performed around the world and has worked as a director, designer and educator throughout Eastern Canada and the USA.
Max is a singer/songwriter and children’s performer who has appeared in venues throughout New England and abroad. Since completing his degree from Berklee College of Music, Max has been teaching music across the Boston area.
Faye & Max are two founding members of Cozy Arts. Founded in Boston in 2018, Cozy Arts is an organization dedicated to creating original puppet productions and resources that invite children, and their adults, to develop the qualities, attitudes and skills needed to cultivate trusting relationships, welcoming communities, and a healthy planet.
To learn, grow, & transform with Faye & Max, reserve your tickets to I Spy Butterfly, April 30 & May 1.
Brad Shur, Paper Heart Puppets
Puppeteer, puppet builder, and arts educator Brad Shur is the founder and lead artist of Paper Heart Puppets. Brad began performing as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design. From there, Brad went on to tour nationally with Wood and String Puppet Theatre and Vermont Puppetree. As a freelance puppet builder he has created puppets for American Idol, Dollywood, and more!
In 2009, he became the Resident Artist here at Puppet Showplace Theater where he served as the lead teaching artist and touring puppeteer for eight years. During that time, Brad developed six original shows and revived several classic shows created by Resident Artist Emeritus Paul Vincent Davis. In 2017, Brad left Puppet Showplace for Poughkeepsie, NY and founded Paper Heart Puppets, dedicated to sharing and expanding the art of puppetry.
To be the first to see Brad’s brand-new show, reserve your tickets to I Love Tacos, May 7-8.
And don’t miss the chance to make your very own taco puppet in our I Love Tacos workshop, Saturday, May 7 at 2:00 pm.
