I create and perform puppets for Live Theater, Film, TV and more!
Promotional Puppetry
I perform fun characters at meet and greet events, on camera and interacting with guests. Experience with promotion and marketing from major corporations to niche non-profit.
This was at the Center for Puppetry Arts annual fundraiser in Atlanta.
Puppet Wrangling
Puppet Wrangling is like wardrobe and make up for puppets. The wrangler has moments to prepare puppets for complex scenes, featured props, special rigs, costume changes and more. This show was SeeMore's Playhouse on PBS.
Television Puppetry
I can puppeteer all sorts of characters for your video production, including voices!
This is for The Pint Size Project, the character Nora goes to a new school in an unusual place.
Photo by Alyssa Mattei
Puppets by BJ Guyer. I styled the wig and costume
Wig Styling
Puppet Wigs are a specialty skill! I can create and maintain wigs on set.
For TheDaily.com, I performed and maintained puppets for this weekly news parody puppet show. Puppet design Rick Lyon.
Theme Park Mascots
I have prototyped and built several large costumes of licensed characters with NDA contracts. Images of this work available upon request. Soft Goods, Fur, and Body Understructure were my focus.
Imagine Dragons "Radioactive" 2012
Green screen puppeteer for music video (with Michael Bush and Michael Schupbach.) Multiple puppet roles- primarily right hand for purple ape and pink bear.
On The Street TV Puppet Improv
I performed "Leslie Smokinhot" the sassy news reporter for The Weekly Daily news. We interviewed random New Yorkers in Times Square on various controversial topics for comedic effect. Loose script, mostly improvised.
Puppet design Rick Lyon
Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus: The Musical!
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Mo Willems collaboration. Puppets at the KC, a national tour, and HBOMax. I designed and built the Pigeon, Duckling, puppet Bus, and Puppy. More credits for production and photo in the link below.
Marionette Building & Performance
Cabaret Style Peacock Marionette dances and flirts with the audience in this crowd favorite. Short and sweet, this number wows every time!
Special thanks to Phillip Huber
Stop-Motion Bunny Slippers
Tiny slippers for a stop-motion character on "Glenn Martin DDS," a TV show on TBS. The bunny ears can move. Puppet has posable armature and clothes backed with foil to be manipulated frame-by-frame.
Tiny Rod Puppet Costumes
Created costume for rod puppet version of Lucky Yates for Internet series called Puppenwurst. Puppet by Jason Hines
Custom Glove Puppets
These gals sang It's Raining Men at a Drag Brunch event in Atlanta
Costumes for TYA Shows
Old MacDonald's Farm at the Center for Puppetry Arts. I designed the costumes and worked on many of the puppets. Costumes designed to be easy, simple and had pockets for magic tricks.
Directed and written by Amy Sweeney.
ImaginOcean Off-Broadway
Original Off-Broadway Cast. I originated the role of Baby Jellyfish at New World Stages in NYC. Written by John Tartaglia
Beaver and HulaHoop Act!
I hula hoop and tell hilarious original jokes with my beaver puppet while in 4" heels and a sparkley outfit! Great vaudeville style comedy for any crowd
The Hoarding Show
A funny and wild one-woman show where the audience learns that hoarding is something that touches all of us. You'll leave laughing and wondering about humanity.
Photo: Richard Termine
Labyrinth Throne replica
At the Center for Puppetry Arts celebrating the work of Jim Henson. Built by Ryan Sbaratta, I did the fabric work- draping and paint details.
Lady Von Tramp marionette
Cabaret style marionette inspired by Margo & Jim Rose's puppetry.
Play the Play With Cat the Cat Bunny
Play The Play with Cat the Cat at The Alliance: Theater for the Very Young. Built durable hand puppets for an adaptation of Mo Willems's stories.
Director: Scott Warren
Photo: Alliance Theatre
Helix of Fire: Phoenix Finale
XPT at the Center for Puppetry Arts. Dome puppet stage provides the body of the phoenix. Ethereal journey following a glowing orb through mystical beasts and magical elements.
Puppeteers: Carole D'Agostino, Hamilton Young, Gregg Van Laningham
Photo by Stephanie Richardson
Chicken & Rooster Rod Puppets
At Center for Puppetry Arts, designed by Jason Hines. My team and I built these chickens for Old MacDonald's Farm. Carved foam bodies, fur and feathers, wing mech for flapping action.
Rat from Ghastly Dreadfuls
At the Center for Puppetry Arts' famous Halloween show, The Ghastly Dreadfuls delights and horrifies adult audiences. This mischievous rat steals the treasure and the hearts of everyone.
Baby Sloth Rod Puppet
Rod puppet with sculpted claws, treated burlap fur, foam head with neoprene and acrylic coating. Center for Puppetry Arts, Rainforest Adventures.
Director: Jon Ludwig
Paper Pirate Finger Puppet
Designed by Jason Hines at the Center for Puppetry Arts. A finger puppet made entirely of paper for the Georgia Board of Tourism.
Frank The Horse
I puppeteered and performed as myself in this wacky web series
Zen Parable
Large shadow puppet show about a tiger who chases a man off a cliff- but then the man savors a strawberry. Multiple performers, multiple light sources, 6' tall split scrolling shadow screens
Puppy for SeeMore's Playhouse
Green screen hand and rod character
Tiny Bowler Hat
For Macy's Holiday window display- I made several tiny hats for elves that were on display in the NYC Macy's window 2008