Wishing Chair Productions
I've been working at Nashville Public Library's Wishing Chair Productions and The Puppet Truck since 2023. It is absolutely my DREAM job! Not only do I get to perform, but I also fabricate new puppets and repair old ones. In addition to live puppetry work, I've also been able to create some digital shorts for Wishing Chair's WCP-TV channel on YouTube!
For Wishing Chair Productions "String City" 10th Anniversary "Tin Man" Marionette, chest opens and heart lights up. Puppet Designer, Sculptor, Fabrication Lead. Concept Design Brian Hull.
For Wishing Chair Productions "String City" 10th Anniversary "Chris Stapleton" Marionette. Puppet Design, Fabrication/Paint Lead. I also did his hair and made his hat. Head Sculpt by Mary Tanner, Costume by Evelyn O'Neal. Concept Design Brian Hull.
For Wishing Chair Productions "String City" 10th Anniversary
"Kane Brown and Dancers" 2-D rod and string puppets. Puppet Design and Fabrication/Paint Lead. Costume by Evelyn O'Neal. Concept Design Brian Hull.
"Brian Hull" marionette puppet in celebration of his 25 years of service to Nashville Public Library's Wishing Chair Productions. Design and Sculpt/Fabrication/Paint Lead. Costume by Evelyn O'Neal.
"Tom Tichenor" marionette puppet in celebration of his legacy of puppetry at the Nashville Public Library, which has continued the puppetry work he began there in 1938.
Design/Sculpt/Paint/Fabrication Lead. Costume by Evelyn O'Neal. "Wishing Chair" chair by Bret Wilson.
Digital Puppetry Content
I've enjoyed writing and producing and performing in Wishing Chair Productions WCP-TV Episodes. The latest series I worked in collaboration with Evelyn O'Neal of Wishing Chair to create a talk show called "Behind the Strings " that interviews puppets! You can enjoy my original story of "The Magic Stick Girl" and meet Lolly the Library Book in "Journey of a Book" and "Lolly goes to Limitless Libraries."
"Lolly Goes to Limitless Libraries"
Join Lolly the Library Book who shows us all about NPL's Limitless Libraries as well as how books become library books on WCP-TV Episodes 3 and 4.
Spooky Tennessee
As part of Wishing Chair Productions "Spooky Tennessee" series on ghost stories of Tennessee, I created "The Ghost of the Palace Theatre" about Gallatin, TN's haunted Palace Theatre using paper puppets and sets.