Professor Peter Puppet Presents
Pete's Puppet Resume
2006 - Present Red Herring Puppets Asheville, North Carolina
* Performer
Puppeteer and puppet builder.
2005 Wood and Strings Puppet Theater Nashville, Tenn.
* Performer, Technical Manager
Performer, Puppeteer, puppet builder, tour technical director, lecturer, workshop leader.
2001 - 2005 Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio
* Guest Instructor in Theater Arts
Teaching an undergraduate lecture and lab based course in puppetry arts, "An Exploration of Puppetry through Characterization and Construction". Lectures based on a cultural, historical overview spanning Eastern and Western puppetry styles with emphasis on the restraints placed by religion and social class. Lab instruction covering everything from latex casting and animatronics to stage construction. Puppets constructed include marionettes, hand puppets, shadow puppets, mouth puppets (Muppet style), articulated heads, and "larger then life" parade puppets.
2003 - 2004 Allen Memorial Art Museum Oberlin, Ohio
* Artistic Director for "Puppet Summer"
Artistic director for summer program administered by Allen Memorial Art Museum and funded by grants from The Freeman Foundation and The National Endowments For The Arts. Intensive summer workshops for local area high school students culminating with a live performance. Duties include writing, directing, and performing in performance. Community outreach duties include conducting numerous classes in area high schools to promote puppetry as an educational medium. Classes were taught in conjunction with teacher curriculum and Ohio Educational Standards.
2003 - 2005 Natural Bridges Cleveland, Ohio
* Puppeteer
Natural Bridges is a puppet company that places emphasis on educating and entertaining children who are facing the natural bridges leading from childhood to adolescence. Performing both live and on video, Natural Bridges is currently promoting itself to various television networks in the United States and Great Britain with a pilot filmed largely in Northeast Ohio.
2002 Puppet Meets Theater Cleveland, Ohio
* Technical Director, Puppeteer
Founding member of adult puppet theater company. PMT presents original works in a repertory manner, seeking to foster a greater appreciation of puppetry as a mature theatrical art form.
1998 - 2005 Oberlin High School Oberlin, Ohio
* Technical Director
Technical Director for academic theater classes and active extra curricular drama club. Teaching responsibilities include set design and construction, scene painting, lighting design, sound design, stage management, and special effects. Involved in budgeting productions, equipment purchase, installation and maintenance.
1996 - 1999 Black River Theater Company Oberlin, Ohio
* Puppet Designer, Puppeteer, Technical Director, Lighting Designer
Designer and Technical Director for a unique theater company performing works of Shakespeare and original material utilizing a cast of Equity actors, community talent, and college students. All performances are free to the public.
1982 - 1993 Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio
*Technical Coordinator
Production Manager, Lighting Designer with under graduate Theater and Dance program. Ancillary duties included teaching Lighting Design, Technical Direction, and Stage Management, employment and supervision of 35 students in financial aid jobs, residency and guest artist coordination, equipment purchase, installation and maintenance, as well as design of architectural interior and exterior lighting.
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