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BACK ALLEY PUPPET THEATER

Contact Person: Sara Peattie

Phone: (617) 263-2031

Email: puppetco@gis.net

Website: www.gis.net/~puppetco/

We offer giant dancing puppets, pick-up volunteer parades and instant pageants in the greater Boston area. We also run the Puppet Free Lending Library, lending puppets in the greater Boston area.

BLUE STRING MARIONETTES

Contact Person: Teresa Moler

Address: 88 Cannongate III; Nashua, NH 03063

Email: teresamoler@aol.com

Marionettes for all occassions and places. Original characters. Willing to travel. Moler has been performing for over 20 years.

FREEMAN FRIENDS PUPPET THEATRE

Contact Person: Liz Freeman

Phone: 781-246-2836

Email: LindenTree85@comcast.net

*Interactive Puppet Making Parties for ages 6 to 12+

*Birthdays, Libraries, Scouts, Youth Groups

*Puppetry in the Classroom, workshops for Teachers.

GALAPAGOS PUPPET THEATER

Contact Person: Margaret Moody

Email: mmoody9867@onebox.com

Website: http://www.galapagospuppets.com

The Chinese Monkey King flips and instantly becomes a giant crab. Teenaged Esther reads from her diary of Holocaust experiences. These are two of the theatrical experiences Galapagos includes in its repertory of folk and history tales. Galapagos offers performances and residencies for community and school groups. Fees are 500+. For small groups, we offer shows by a solo puppeteer beginning at $130.

THE GERWICK PUPPETS

Contacts: Lenny Gerwick

Phone: 508-481-6260

Website: www.gerwickpuppets.com

The Gerwick Puppets have been performing in elementary schools, libraries and Museums throughout New England for over 30 years! They are regular performers at First Night Boston and The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. Eight productions include "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp," "Inside the Haunted House," Aesop's Fables, "New England Animal Stories," Rip Van Winkle and more. Ask about puppets for fundraising!

SARAH LAMSTEIN PUPPETS

Contact person: Sarah Lamstein

Phone: 617-244-0646

Email: sarahm45@aol.com

Website: www.sarahlamstein.com

Sarah has been performing before family audiences for more than twenty-five years. Her Funny Bone Tales presents two warmly humorous children's stories, Silly Sam and Bendemolena, The Cat Who Wore A Pot On Her Head, plus a gentle version of Punch and Judy. Shabbat Shalom offers a multimedia program about the history and delights of the Sabbath. And A Glimpse of Nepal explores the exotic, far-off Himalayan kingdom through its folk literature. To learn about the children's books Sarah has written, please visit her website .

Lisa & Friends

Contact: Lisa Manning

Phone: 508-384-1442

Email: lisamusic@comcast.net

Website: www.lisamanning.com

Lisa and her troupe of large puppets sing and dance for children of all ages in fun and educational theme shows. Children become an integral part of the show. Depending on the theme they may become George Washington or Amelia Earhardt, “swim” with fish and beach balls, rock with Elvis or parade as movie stars! Lisa has performed on Broadway and on cruise ships as well as many libraries, senior centers, parks and schools.

LUNA THEATRE

Contact: Dassia Posner

Phone: (617)653-8123

Email: LunaTheatre@aol.com

Website: www.sarbek.com/luna

Since 1995, Luna Theatre has developed and performed experimental adult puppetry performances that explore diverse cultural and artistic traditions. Luna's approach to theatre is based on collaboration and communication across cultures. Luna Theatre combines the natural world with imagination, and traditional stories with new ones, using puppetry, masks, and movement as creative, expressive forms. Luna has two touring shows: The Nose, an absurd shadow play based on the Gogol story about a man who loses his nose, and Rocks, Flames, and Other Misfortunes, inspired in part by traditional Bulgarian music.

"MAGIC CARPET READING THEATER"

AND THE KEARNS READING CLINIC

Contact person: Gail Kearns

Address: 68 Mallard Drive; Concord, MA 01742

Phone: (978) 369-3090

Email: dankear@aol.com

Gail Kearns is a reading specialist-clinician who works privately with children at the Kearns Reading Clinic in Concord, MA. At other times her "Magic Carpet Reading Theater" provides occasional small school day shows for primary grades classrooms which help to connect students to reading through puppetry.

MAGPIE PUPPETS

Email: magpie1976@comcast.net

Website: www.magpiepuppets.com

Phone: (781) 391-6450

Imagine questioning a conceited Emperor at his press conference! Magpie Puppets performances involve children actively. Through structured participation, children help puppets solve problems and make decisions. Performances include a guitar sing-along or a demonstration about how puppets are made. Study Guides are provided for school performances. E-mail us for details.

MARIONETTES AND CO.

Contact person: Lorelei Rose Ruben

Phone: (978) 546-2995

These shows are filled with kindness, charm, humor, and the finest music. The large stage offers a true theatrical experience complete with lights, scenery, and special effects, for both marionettes and other types of puppets. The small stage is ideal for birthday parties; no marionettes are used due to size constraints. The birthday parties are written with an understanding of the interests and needs of the birthday child. Large shows are $280 plus travel. Small shows are $100 plus travel.

POOBLEY GREEGY PUPPET THEATER

Contacts: Janice & Stephen Babcock

Address: 106 Kittredge Street; Roslindale, MA 02131

Phone: (617) 325-5620

Email: poobleygreegy@aol.com

The Poobley Greegy Puppet Theater tours New England's elementary schools and libraries performing for 30,000 people a year, using hand, rod, shadow and string puppets in a unique multi-opening stage.

Their carefully researched, creative shows feature dinosaurs, whales, elephants, Egypt, "Gulliver's Travels," and "The Shoemaker and the Elves."

POPPIN' PUPPETS, "Puppets at Your Service!"

Contact: Donna Blain

Phone: 860-928-0627

Email: PoppinPuppets@aol.com

Website: www.PoppinPuppets.com

Our "Beyond Words" hand-puppet performance enriches imaginations of all ages! Audiences of any language (or any hearing loss) will enjoy unique non-verbal skits develop where little to no words are used, but plenty is happening. Lots of music and laughs. Full lesson plan included for schools. 

Alternately, our human-sized puppet can stroll your grounds, do magic, perform skits, and do educational dances with the younger children.

PUPPET DIVAS / Puppet Opera-Tunity / LISTENINGspeaking UNLIMITED

Contact Person: Suzanne Pemsler

Address: 6 Castle Road; Lexington, MA. 02420-3527

Phone: 781-861-1274 • FAX: 781-861-0054

Email: ppemsler@mit.edu

Suzanne Pemsler sings Opera and Art Songs live while manipulating people-sized puppets in her popular PUPPET DIVAS shows for children, adults and multi-generational audiences. These one-woman shows, plus artist-residencies in Puppet Opera-tunity , (developing comic puppet operas with children,) and workshops in puppetry and music have been featured nationally and internationally. She also presents THIS IS YOUR LIFE: Memoir Writing lectures for adults, featuring song and puppets

PUPPETS:EDUCATION MAGIC

Contact: Artistic Director Judith O'Hare/YOU AND ME PUPPETS

Address: 74 Hillcrest Road; Reading, MA 01967

Phone: 781-944-0965

Email: jaohare@gmail.com

Websites with PEM information: www.youandmepuppets.com and www.puppetshowplace.org

Puppets: Education Magic is a conference for educators held each summer in the New England area. There are workshops, performances, an exhibit, a store, and teacher sharing. Graduate credit option is offered by The Northeast Consortium/Salem State College. Artistic partners are members of BAGOP.

PUPPETKABOB

Contact Person: Sarah Frechette

Phone: 802-598-1070

Email: puppetkabob@hotmail.com

Website: www.puppetkabob.com

As an educator of puppetry Sarah is imaginative, humourous and fun for all ages! All community and school programs conbine the Classroom Framework Standards to unique puppetry art introducing history, literatre and music in new creative ways.

Let your imagination travel with Puppetkabob's "Under Night Sky" as a Grandmother's true stories of the Underground Railroad, an Irish Memory Quilt and an Old School House come to life through cinematic shadows. Show length ~ 45 minutes. Perfect for ages 4 and up!

THE PUPPET SHOWPLACE THEATRE

32 Station Street

Brookline, Massachusetts 02445

(617) 731-6400

During the school year, there are weekend shows every Sat. and Sun. at 1 and 3 pm, as well as a special TOT show at 10:30 on Thursday morning, recommended for pre-schoolers, ages three to five. Weekend shows are recommended for audiences five years old and older. During school vacations there are shows everyday; consult the schedule for details. During the summer months, there are usually shows on Wednesday and Thursday.

Website: http://www.puppetshowplace.org

Email: shopuppet@bigplanet.com

THE PUPPETEERS' COOPERATIVE

Contact Person: Sara Peattie

Phone: (617) 628-2499

Email: 2136581@mcimail.com

Website: www.gis.net/~puppetco

We offer giant puppets, pageants, and parades. We travel nationally, working with communities, helping them to create their own giant puppets and productions.

ROMPER RHYTHM and PUPPETS

Contact Person: Diane Kordas

Phone: 603-529-7623

Address: 516 Barnard Hill Rd., Weare, NH 03281

Email: diane@romperrhythm.com

Website: www.romperrhythm.com

Romper Rhythm and Puppets brings stories to life with music and creative puppetry for family, pre-K and school age audiences. Diane uses hand and rod puppets for stories such as "Sir George and the Dragon", "Friendly Forest Animal Tales", "The Frog Prince", and a Dinosaur adventure, "The Magic Rock" and more; performing in libraries, schools, preschools, daycare centers, and family events. Concerts include storytelling with puppets - Diane as solo artist or with the Romper Rhythm Band! Selected artist for NH Summer Reading Program since 1999, entertaining as musician and puppeteer for over 10 years. CD, "Dinosaur Stomp", now available, check out sound bites and her puppets on the website!

Be enchanted by ROSALITA'S PUPPETS

Contact Person: Charlotte Dore

Phone: 617-666-1026 or 617-633-2832

Website: www.Rosalitaspuppets.com

Enjoy, interactive, marionette tales of Dragons, Kings and Princesses who sing, dance and delight the child in everyone. Puppeteer Charlotte Dore has performed for Somerville Arts council, medieval fairs, libraries, daycare centers and birthday parties. To find out more info,request a brochure or book, call 617-633-2832 or 617-666-1026.

DEBORAH COSTINE, PUPPETEER!

Contact person: Deborah Costine

Address: 6 Wood Street; Southborough MA 01772

Phone: 508-481-6837

Email: deborahcostine@verizon.net

Website: www.gerwickpuppets.com (go to 'preschool")

Deborah Costine has been a professional puppeteer for over twenty-five years performing for hundreds of New England elementary and nursery schools, libraries, museums, and is a favorite at The Puppet Showplace Theater in Brookline, MA. Deborah has also taught classes and seminars in puppetry and its uses at Northeastern University, Wheaton College, Plymouth State University and Worcester State College. She is also co-founder of Gerwick Puppets, the well-known New England based puppet company.

SPARKY'S PUPPETS

Contact person: Sparky Davis

Address: 28 Ferncrest Ave., Cranston, RI 02905

Phone: (401) 467-0159

E-mail: Popcorn700@aol.com

Website: www.sparkyspuppets.com

Categories: Schools, Libraries, Festivals, Preschools/daycares

Sparky's Puppets dramatize favorite children's stories with colorful hand puppets, lively humor, and plenty of audience participation. They have delighted children throughout New England for over 25 years. Programs include Aesop's Fables; The Book Detective; Tales of Sea & Shore, Stories from Snowy Lands; Animal Tales; Old Favorites; Trickster Tales AND MANY MORE!

TANGLEWOOD MARIONETTES

Contacts: Peter and Anne Schaefer

Address: 108 Church St., Ware, MA 01082

Phone: 1-866-6PUPPET

E-mail: info@tanglewoodmarionettes.com

Website: www.tanglewoodmarionettes.com

Founded in 1993, Tanglewood Marionettes is a nationally touring marionette theater based in New England. Our repertoire consists primarily of classic tales performed by skilled puppeteers who have spent many years perfecting their art.

THE WAYNE MARTIN PUPPETS

Contact person: Wayne Martin

Address: 134 Beach Street; Boston, MA 02111

Phone: (617) 423-3663

Website: www.waynemartinpuppets.com

Email: wayne.martin@WayneMartinPuppets.com

Presenting sophisticated variety marionette and hand puppet vignettes of human emotion and fantasy, full of comedy and pathos. Set against a background of lively music and special theatrical effects, productions have no age or language barriers! Performing at theatres, symphonies, schools, television, trade shows, private parties, and malls. Call for rates and availability.

YOU AND ME PUPPETS/ JUDITH O'HARE

Education Consultant for the Puppeteers of America

Address: 74 Hillcrest Road; Reading, MA 01867

Phone: 781-944-0965

Email: jaohare@gmail.com

Website: www.youandmepuppets.com

Judith O’Hare is well known for her participatory puppet theater, but she recently developed a delightful style of small table top theater in the style of Victorian Toy Theater and Pop Up Books. Her stories include: Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood or the Tale of Jacques Lup the French Wolf, The Three Bears or a Bed and Breakfast in the Woods, The Three Pigs or it Takes a Woman, and her newest, The Boy the Crocodile and the Good Deed, a story from Africa. Judith teaches several graduate courses each year through the Northeast Consortium/Salem State College and Lesley University. She is available for teacher training on site and school residencies. Judith has edited a book title: Puppetry in Education and Therapy:Unlocking Doors to the Mind and Heart. Go to www.authorhouse.com