Join puppeteer Liz Joyce to make your own hand puppet. Participants will create their own characters and learn techniques to bring their creations to life.
Liz Joyce has spent her career in puppetry. She writes, creates, and performs a growing repertoire of works for young audiences and their adults. Liz believes that puppetry is the gateway to theater and that this art form breathes beauty and life into storytelling. She was trained as a fine artist and was certified in Art Education K-12. Her artistic approach to puppetry has also been influenced by European puppetry traditons and the eccentric energy of New York's downtown performance artists. Liz's puppet operetta 'Sing a Song of Sixpence' was awarded an UNIMA Citation, the highest award in American puppetry. In 2001, Liz founded the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theater, a non-profit organization which currently makes its home in the Puppet Truck. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Jim Henson Foundation, the Puppetry Guild of Greater New York, and the Puppeteers of America.