The Rumpelstiltskin Society
presents

PuppetFest MidWest
July 10-15, 2012

at
North Central Missouri College &
Grundy County Jewett Norris Library
Trenton, Missouri

workshop:

PUPPETS ON CAMERA!

• Participants will create a simple hand puppet
• Participants will use this puppet to learn on-camera technique, manipulation and direction
• Participants will work in small groups to write and create their own on-camera vignette to be shown as a tangible result of the workthrough.
• Emphasis will be placed on:
  a. Differences between on-stage and on-camera manipulation
  b. On-camera script writing
  c. Non-verbal character development

SUPPLIES NEEDED: Glue Gun (not lo-melt!) and a sharp pair of scissors to cut foam with.

MATERIALS FEE: $20

CLASS SIZE: minimum of 4 and maximum of 12

Note: workshops are not open to the public. You must be registered for the entire festival to attend.

Drew Allison is the founder of Grey Seal Puppets. He is involved in all phases of production including writing, building, designing and performing. For the past twenty years, Drew has performed regularly on television and stage including such venues as The Center for Puppetry Arts, The Smithsonian Institution, The Detroit Institute of Art and The Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 1994 Drew was awarded The President's Award by The Puppeteers of America for outstanding achievement in the art of puppetry and in 1997 an UNIMA Citation for the one man show Bathtub Pirates. Drew Allison co-authored the recently released, The Foam Book, an easy guide to creating Polyfoam Puppets.

Art Grueneberger
Puppet Art Theater Co.

Art Grueneberger’s first puppet performance was as lead puppeteer in the UNIMA Award winning production “A Thousand Cranes” seen at the 1993 National Puppetry Festival in San Francisco. This multi-performer puppet experience has inspired him as a performer and a director for most of his puppetry career. Examples of Grueneberger’s multi-performer puppet work include “Perspectives,” seen in different forms at the International Puppetry Festival in South Korea, the Southwest Regional Festival in San Diego and at New York City’s Here Theater.  Last Spring, Grueneberger was featured as Guest Director at University of California, Davis where he directed “Man of La Mancha,” a re-imagined production utilizing life-sized multi-performer puppets to recreate Cervantes' fantasy world inhabited by knight errant, Don Quixote de La Mancha. The production featured a cast of over a dozen life-size puppets and over 2 dozen puppeteers. He has been puppetry consultant on many theater projects including productions of “Macbeth,” “The Magic Compass,” and Mark Ravenhill’s “Nursury/School.” Grueneberger has taught puppetry workshops for children and adults and recently traveled to China where he taught Table-top puppetry to students at Shanghai Theater Academy. In addition to his puppetry work Grueneberger also teaches actors and has co-authored the book Actor's Lab Book: A Practical Supplement for the Beginning Actor .