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Puppet Theatre Friendly Faculty & Staff
The following faculty and staff welcome students doing work with Puppet Theatre to their classes. Some of th faculty below are in the performing arts and some are outside the area. Faculty often divide their time between interdisciplinary programs and single discipline programs. If you are interested in puppets and also in other fields, you might be able to combine your interests easily at Evergreen! (This page's content will change regularly)
| Faculty /Staff Name | Interests/Field | What this faculty will support |
| Ariel Goldberger | Faculty - Experimental Puppet Theatre & Performance | Facilitates whole programs dedicated to Experimental Puppet Theatre and Theatre d'Objets, and ILC's for students with advanced background in the field. |
| Dr. Walter E. Grodzik | Faculty - Theatre, Directing, Acting, Queer Studies | Facilitates whole programs dedicated to Experimental and Avant-Garde Theatre. Has co-taught the program Puppet and Object Theatre, and has supported ILC's for students with advanced background in the field. Dr. Grodzik makes extensive use of Shadow theatre in his classes and has been a staunch supporter of Puppet Theatre on campus. |
Ruth Hayes | Faculty - Animation, Media | Quote: "I'm especially interested in multi-media crossovers between puppet theater and animation, and other media." |
| Leonard Schwartz | Faculty - Poetry and Poetics | Will let students do assignments using puppet theatre as a way to respond to program themes, and to also combine Puppet Theatre with Poetics and Poetry. Co-taught Puppetry and Poetics: Arts of Distraction in 2007. Interested in the connections of the poetics of the stage and the arts of poetry. |
| Hirsch Diamant | Faculty - Arts and the Child, Education, Puppetry, ect. | Will let students do assignments using puppet theatre as a way to respond to program themes, and to also combine Puppet Theatre with the study of Education and Chinese culture. has facilitated many programs with Puppet Theatre projects. Is currently developing trips to China for students to study the culture and the arts, including Puppetry. |
| Lara Evans | Faculty - Art History, Performance Art | Will let students do assignments using puppet theatre as a way to respond to program themes, and to also combine Puppet Theatre with Performance Art and Art History. |
| Donna Simon | Early Childhood Program Specialist/Assistant Director | Quote:"We are willing to explore and support what ever part of your puppet theatre vision that may be related to children and the culture of childhood" |
| Dr. Sean WIlliams | Faculty - Ethnomusicology, Music, Indonesian Music and Culture, Celtic Music and Culture | Willing to let students do assignments using puppet theatre as a way to respond to program themes, "because arts are always going to be a major disciplinary area when I am teaching. Very interested in having students combine Puppet Theatre with musicology and music." Dr, Williams says: "Almost every year I have students doing some kind of three-dimensional, shadow, or sock puppet adaptation of a program theme or story. We had several puppet shows in the Ireland program this past year, and of course puppetry as part of the Asian Culture and Arts program the year before last. In 08-09 I'm doing a program called PerformanceWorks: Telling Stories, and I'm hoping to have guest lectures about the adaptation of stories to puppetry. My expectation is to help students work with music and movement -- to apply principles of Indonesian puppetry music, and to help our students learn how Indonesians use music to facilitate the forward movement of the story in a puppetry context." |
| Bob Woods | Faculty - Sculpture, Metal working, Casting | Will let students do assignments using puppet theatre as a way to respond to program themes, and to also combine Puppet Theatre with Metal working and sculpture. Quote: "Of course any and all projects Puppet related have and continue to be welcome in metalworking, and other 3d courses that I may offer." |
| Matt Lawrence | Staff - Master Electrician COM Building | Matt is the Master Electrician for the Experimental Theatre and COM building, and a lighting designer. He will encourage student work in puppet theatre especially since he believes that lighting explorations are often made clearer with smaller scale labs, such as a puppet stage. He is excited by the integration of LED lights into puppet pieces and working with students exploring lighting in the puppet stage. Has supported students in several puppet theatre programs and is excited about future projects. Quote: "Not enough... I want more exploring!" |
| Beatriz Flores- Gutierrez | Faculty - Media, Installation, . Cultural Studies | Thinks she would be very interested in a combination of media and pupppe theatre. Can see puppets and Jungian psychology working together too. |
| Lori Blewett | Faculty - Conflict Resolution, Communication, Peace Studies, Art and Activism | Quote: "I am always open to theater or any art as a response to program assignments. In 2008-2009 I will be teaching a program on Art and Activism that has theater as one element in the course and lots of flexibility in the major assignments (including working with a community organization and producing art that reflects the social/political objectives of the group). I also periodically teach communication courses that might be of interest to puppet theater students. I can imagine that someone might apply Gender and Communication studies or Public Speaking or Social Movement Rhetoric to puppet theater in interesting ways--perhaps by experimenting with communication dynamics on stage, or by researching puppet theater history through the lens of communication, gender, or social movement theory. Although adjunct faculty are not supposed to take contracts during the year, in the summers I would be available to work with advanced students on exploratory research or composition that links puppetry with almost any area of Communication Studies or Sociology, and some areas of U.S. History and Political Economy." |
| Frederica Bowcutt | Faculty - Botanist | Indicates she will support students willing to incorporate Puppet Theatre to respond to porgram themes. Quote:" I am all for giant plant puppets for street theater like Procession of the Species." |
| Mark Harrison | Faculty (Weekend and Evening Studies) - Theatre, Directing, Acting | "Almost every program I teach has the flexibility to incorporate puppets." |
| Ellen Shortt Sanchez | Director, Evergreen Center for Community Based Learning and Action | I am interested in how to connect this with community work/issues. I am real familiar with Bread and Puppet Theater. There may be high interest from community groups to use student Puppet Theater. |
| Raul Nakasone | Faculty - | Quote:"In our 2007-08 Family program, learners construct their own curriculum and faculty facilitate their learning. We are sending them your suggestion of using puppet tehatre to respodn to porgram themes because each one of them will make their own decision about this. We think that there will be participants interested in this excellent idea." |
| Brett Weinstein | Faculty - Biology | Quote;" I am willing to support students interested in evolution and puppet theatre. Seems like a great idea. There is actually a lot of potential for exploring evolutionary themes this way, both with respect to morphological issues and Puppets can be very simple and yet trick the mind into accepting them as living creatures. That is possible (I'm pretty sure) because, in nature animate and inanimate objects are so utterly distinct that perceptual rules of thumb are sufficient guide for our evolved perceptual apparatus. The puppet maker and puppeteer (is that the right distinction?) exploit the rules of thumb in our mental and visual processing in order to elevate inanimate objects to animate status in our minds. The things that make for a successful puppet and a compelling performance should therefore be able to tell us a great deal about the sensitivities and insensitivities of our perceptual centers and about the way we process the behavior of other creatures. |
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