After a COVID-induced hiatus, Magic Pearl is back, baybee! We’re so excited to have received a 2022 family grant from The Jim Henson Foundation… …and a Live Arts Boston grant…
The Project: Puppetry Design and Fabrication for This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing by Finegan Kruckemeyer, directed by Pascale Florestal for Emerson Stage at Emerson College.…
My digital short, “Fox” was nominated at the 87th Annual Drama League Awards for “Outstanding Digital Theater, Collection, or Festival”, as part of All For One Theater’s AFO Shorts.
We made a record! Sound Shadows, the album, is now available for preorder and releases in March 2021. 💫🎙✨💃🏼🎚🎶🎛🎆✨ With collaborators Julia Friend and Rebecca McGowan, I spent the summer and fall…
My new digital short, “Fox,” will be shown as part of the Puppet Showplace Slam: Virtual Holiday Edition on Saturday, December 5 at 8pm. RSVP via Facebook and register here!…
I designed and built this fox puppet early in the pandemic, but wasn’t sure what to do with him until NYC’s All For One Theater accepted my proposal for development…
Rachel Wiese and I presented a little set of window performance études—visible to an outdoor audience gathered on the sidewalk, and streamed live via YouTube to a virtual audience—as part…
The Northeast Region of Puppeteers of America (PoA) hosted their first ever Virtual Puppet Con in October, welcoming artists from the U.S., Canada, and beyond! I was delighted to participate…
Chris Vu and I made a 2-minute puppet film from scratch in under 48 hours (wheee making art at 3am is the best!) and here ’tis! It debuted as part of…
August found me teaching two online courses via the Puppet Showplace Theater. Both classes to be offered again—join my TinyLetter to find out more! Puppet Shorts Make and perform short-form…
When Puppet Showplace, one of my artistic homes, announced their first online puppet slam, I found myself asking: “If we can’t have the special and important experience of gathering in…
I spent January on tour with Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall to Osaka and Tokyo, Japan! Such a pleasure to puppeteer this show, while also taking in bunraku, butoh, and…
Friday, December 6th I’ll be playing a set of mostly music plus a little puppetry (debuting some new songs!) at a strange-and-beautiful venue that is part artist haven, part magic attic,…
To my delight, my object-theater-meets-clowning workshop was sold out (and SO much fun!) Hoping to offer it again this spring…stay tuned! Monday, November 11 (Veterans Day) | 3-6pm Funny Stuff!…
A shadow puppet puppet fable of transformation, based on Chinese folklore, with new music composed by Christopher Vu.
All Together NowThe Burren, Somerville6pm doors // 7pm show$12 in advance // $16 at the door I’m delighted to be part of Anna Rae’s diversely curated series All Together Now,…
Video/projection artist and dancer/choreographer Callie Chapman runs a fantastic space over at Studio550. I was tickled to be invited for an evening of improvisation—performers were drawn out of jars, so…
Join me at Central Square Theater, where I’ve been invited to present as part of the Nora Theater’s new works series! Rachel Wiese joins me to perform our piece Be…
I’m delighted to share that I’ve been awarded a month-long creative research residency and cross-cultural exchange! I’ll spend the month of March in Montréal, hosted by the Casteliers puppetry festival…
Veronica Barron 