2025 Full Moon Puppet Show Lead Artists

  • Two performers, one in the foreground wearing a moon shaped hat and the other in the background wearing a star shaped hat

    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!

  • A portrait of a person with medium length brown hair with blonde highlights in a v-neck orange top

    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.

  • One person with glasses and a live long and prosper t-shirts holds another person in a red sweater on their shoulders

    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!

  • A portrait of a person with short black hair with blond highlights wearing a blue top, colorful earrings, and a necklace that says Queer AF

    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?

  • A selfie of a person with brown pigtail hair, clear glasses, smiling at the camera with a colorful puppet behind them

    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.

  • A performer on stage wearing all black manipulates a marionette puppet that is wearing a floor length dress

    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.

  • 3 musicians playing instruments including the accordion and clarinet

    Di Bayke Klezmer Band

    Musical performances between shows by @baykeband