With Jamie Shannon of Big Guppy Creature Shop
Saturday April 9th, 10 am to 4 pm, $100 registration.
This is a broad introduction to the basics of manipulating a puppet, developing a voice and character, working with a monitor, and creating and performing simple interactions with other puppets.
I bring approximately ten highly qualified television puppets: frogs, demons, aliens, socks and chickens, who become any personality. Using a monitor to see your puppet gives you the unique opportunity to be the actor and director at the same time. I impart as much knowledge as I can so that aspiring puppeteers are quickly able to improvise and have fun performing with puppets.
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Jamie Shannon is a Toronto born artist who specializes in bringing the inanimate to life. Jamie is a writer, director and producer of films and television, with 20 years of experience creating puppet-based media. Jamie’s television series, such as Big and Small, Mr. Meaty, Swami Jeff, and the grogs, appear on broadcasters worldwide. The preschool series, Nanalan’, loved across the globe, won two Gemini Awards, for “Best Writing” and “Best Performance in a Preschool Series”. Most recently, he is filming his short film about the life of Rasputin with puppets, for Heather Henson’s Ibex Films; he directed the second season of GIVER, a documentary style show on TVO; he built the puppets and led a team of five puppeteers on the film Higglety Pigglety Pop, produced by Spike Jonz; and he’s made a million puppets for commercials, TV shows and films at the Big Guppy creature shop.