2025 Full Moon Puppet Show Lead Artists
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Michael Grace and Lizz Windnagel
Show Title: Planet of Star and Moon
Description: Moon and Star try to decide what to do today. Will they eat Pizza? Will they call another planet? Who knows!
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Dominique Herskind
Show Title: 1969
Description: My show is about three real letters my grandma saved from a male suitor of hers. And these letters. Are. HORNY.
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Talia Smigielski
In collaboration with: performers Allison Holiday and Kristin Tyborski musician Emily Kastrul, designer and maker Caitlin Hargarten, and textile artist and idea gal, Sarah Baeverstad
Show Title: Portal-Trench: A Puppet Play
Description: PORTAL-TRENCH: A PUPPET PLAY highlights one mother’s exploration of her ‘mothering-time’ as a durable, deep- pocketed and cosmically-connected coat. Portal-Trench presents our protagonist with an unexpected respite that appears at just the right moment, scattering her throughout the space-time continuum while offering her the healing- chance to chat with a few fellow travelers from her past. Expect staged- puppet time travel vis-a-vis fragments of the artist’s memory resurrected as textile, shadow, object, sound, movement, and music!
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Kris Moua
Show Title: Where Flowers Bloom
Description: Devout Christian parents refuse to honor their child's chosen name. After falling into an illness-induced coma, a shaman is summoned to search for their child's soul. Will it be enough to heal her and bring her back?
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Mary Jo Nikolai, Eva Cone Adderley, Josh Conway, Zarra, Willis Bowman, Kurt Hunter, Lelis Brito
Show Title: Toilet Rat
Description: Finding a live rat in the toilet turns from an urban nightmare to a viral event.
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Sarah Frechette
cantastoria by Ceili Clemens | outside eye Madison J. Cripps | music by Camille Charlier
Show Title: Carnival Spirit
Description: Welcome to the CARNIVAL SPIRIT hosted by the Zeit Geist a Spirit with the ability to freeze a moment or someone's essence in TIME. Does she keep them for her amusement or devour them? Only Time will tell who is really pulling the strings.
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Di Bayke Klezmer Band
Musical performances between shows by @baykeband