In-person performance at Puppet Showplace Theater, 32 Station St. Brookline, MA

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for grades 1-4

Instructed by:

Sarah Nolen

Description:

Puppetry is exercise for your imagination! Join Puppet Showplace Theater's Resident Artist, Sarah Nolen, for four days of fun building and performance activities. Kids will learn how to design, construct, and perform puppetry, focusing on a variety of different styles of puppetry arts.

During April's Puppet Recess, we will build and explore 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 throughout the week and keep a creative journal. This program is a great way to spend vacation week in a fun, friendly, creative, and supportive environment!

Artist Bio:

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. http://www.sarahnolen.com/