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The Puppet Pod!

by The New York State Puppet Festival

Puppetry is hard. So let’s make it harder by using a primarily auditory medium (the podcast) to explore a primarily visual one (puppetry)! The Puppet Pod! is an hour (-ish) long podcast about the niche world of puppetry, particularly the world of contemporary puppetry for adults. Puppetry has been around in various forms for thousands of years, and yet, when someone asks a puppetry artist what they do, the answer is not so straightforward. What is puppetry? Why puppetry? What does it even mean to be a Puppeteer/Puppet Artist? So, you work with kids??? Host/puppeteer/human Josh Rice, and co-host Sara Stabley, take a deep dive into this weird and wild world of puppet theatre, and through interviews with incredible multidisciplinary artists, attempt to unpack these answers and discover why puppetry is so hard.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 20: Josh Rice

    The Puppet Pod! Season 1 Finale

  2. Episode 19: Spencer Lott

    Spencer thinks puppetry is object manipulation for communication

  3. Episode 18: Storm Thomas

    Storm (they/them) thinks puppetry is a tool, no more, no less.

  4. Episode 17: Koryu Nishikawa V

    Nishikawa-Sensei (he/him) thinks puppetry is life

  5. Episode 16: Emma Wiseman & Emily Zemba

    Emma thinks puppetry is goofy. Emily thinks puppetry is very uncanny valley.

  6. Episode 15: Janie Geiser

    Janie thinks puppetry is confusing

  7. Episode 14: Robin Frohardt

    Robin thinks puppetry is intuitive

  8. Episode 13: Shayna Strype

    Shayna thinks puppetry is innovation of materials

  9. Episode 12: Jeghetto

    Jeghetto thinks puppetry is magic

  10. Episode 11: Dorothy James & Andy Manjuck

    Dorothy thinks puppetry is excellent for shy actors, and Andy thinks puppetry is WHAT THE?!

  11. Episode 10: Takemi Kitamura

    Takemi things puppetry is a bridge between reality and a dream

  12. Episode 9: Leah Ogawa

    Leah thinks puppetry is about connecting what you see, and what you think inside

  13. Episode 8: Rowan Magee

    Rowan thinks puppetry is….natural???

  14. Episode 7: Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew

    Jeanette thinks puppetry is a tool for community building, and to explore really abstract landscape storytelling

  15. Episode 6: Sifiso Mabena

    Sifiso thinks puppetry is…..challenging

  16. Episode 5: Dan Hurlin

    Dan thinks puppetry should be outlawed

  17. Episode 4: Ashley Winkfield

    Ashley thinks puppetry is an expression of movement and humanity through things. And community

  18. Episode 3: Lake Simons

    Lake things puppetry is about playing with things as if you are a kid

  19. Episode 2: Nehprii Amenii

    Nephrii Amenii things puppetry is a spiritual artform

  20. Episode 1: Tom Lee

    Tom Lee thinks puppetry is not as easy as it looks

  21. Trailer: The Puppet Pod!

    Get ready for something GREAT

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Puppetry is hard. So let’s make it harder by using a primarily auditory medium (the podcast) to explore a primarily visual one (puppetry)! The Puppet Pod! is an hour (-ish) long podcast about the niche world of puppetry, particularly the world of contemporary puppetry for adults. Puppetry has been around in various forms for thousands of years, and yet, when someone asks a puppetry artist what they do, the answer is not so straightforward. What is puppetry? Why puppetry? What does it even mean to be a Puppeteer/Puppet Artist? So, you work with kids??? Host/puppeteer/human Josh Rice, and co-host Sara Stabley, take a deep dive into this weird and wild world of puppet theatre, and through interviews with incredible multidisciplinary artists, attempt to unpack these answers and discover why puppetry is so hard.

HOSTED BY

The New York State Puppet Festival

Produced by Josh Rice

CATEGORIES

arts performing

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Puppetry is hard. So let’s make it harder by using a primarily auditory medium (the podcast) to explore a primarily visual one (puppetry)! The Puppet Pod! is an hour (-ish) long podcast about the niche world of puppetry, particularly the world of contemporary puppetry for adults. Puppetry has been...

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