Links to the Puppet World

The Puppetry Home Page
The Puppetry Home Page is a free resource for
the puppetry community and is dedicated to
helping people connect with the world of puppetry.

UNIMA-USA
The Big Cheese of International Puppetry
Best source of puppet info in many countries around the world.

Tears of Joy Theatre
The biggest and oldest of the Portland-based puppet companies.
They perform a yearly series of productions in the big theatre
downtown and tour widely with school performances. They've
been a true joy to work with over the years.

Dragon Theater Puppets
Operated by Jason Ropp. the former President and now
Treasurer of the Columbia Association of Puppeteers.
Performs original stories like The Clueless Detective and
The Wacky Adventures of Lewis and Clark for libraries
and birthday parties up and down the west coast.

Tendrak Theatre
Tendrak, the Dragon, and Moudry, the Wise, are your
storytelling hosts. They have created a series of audio
CDs including Fun with Czech Fairytales and Five
Christmas Stories.
DVD versions with Czech Marionettes are rumored to
be coming in the future.

Northwest Puppet Center
If you happen to be headed to Seattle, check out the
Northwest Puppet Center. Chris and Stephen Carter
are especially known for their mastery and preservation
of the traditional Sicilian marionette theater known as
Opera dei Pupi. Stephen is an amazing wood carver as well.

il Teatro Calimari
Once headquartered in Portland, OR, now based in the San
Francisco Bay Area. Tim Giuni has an interesting take on
life, which is reflected in his madcap approach to puppetry.
Tim performed multiple times during our Wonderful World
of Puppets at OMSI.

Center for Pupperty Arts
Think of it as Puppet Heaven. Based in Atlanta,
Georgia, CfPA also offers performances and classes.

Phil Huber Marionettes
Phil is a genius at the manipultion of marionettes. If you ever
get a chance to see his work, sit back and enjoy. He builds
some pretty neat ones as well. He built Ping Pong, the Panda,
the only puppet in our company that we didn't build ourselves.

Scottish Mask & Puppet Centre
They were real nice to Steve & Marty when they visited
Scotland a few years back so of course they're listed here.
As they say on their website: "Please come to visit us if
you are coming to Scotland. Be assured of a warm welcome
and 'Freedom Come All Ye.'"

Maritime Marionettes
This company out of Truro, Nova Scotia Canada has really
nice puppets, nicely manipulated.

Takey
This is the work of a "crazy" guy in France. He's catalogued
over 2,600 puppet sites (Yes! that's two thousand, six
hundred) from around the world. Surely you can find any
puppet site that would interest you here. They're listed by
country for easy retrieval.

Michael & Lynn Attwood
Michael runs a recording studio here in Portland.
He and Lynn are both members of Rite of Spring,
a local bluegrass group.

Nutz & Boltz Theatre
Local Portland (Boring)-based theater group that uses
humans to portray the puppet roles.

Gresham Little Theatre
Another local Portland (Gresham)-based theater
group that uses humans to portray the puppet roles.

When it comes to Puppetry, we've been around the
block a few times. Listed below are some of the
Puppet Companies that we've met on our travels that
attracted our interest. Sometimes the reasons are
listed, sometimes not. But, all are worth a visit.

Columbia Association of Puppeteers (CAP)
The Puppeteers of America chartered guild for Northern
Oregon and Southern Washington. Steve Overton &
Marty Richmond, your hosts here at puppetmuseum.com,
ran CAP directly or indirectly for almost 10 years before
recently relinquishing the reins to a new generation of
local puppeteers.

Lindau Marionette Opera
Steve & Marty love the opera Carmen. So of course we had
to list a company that performed it with nine puppeteers and
45 marionettes. Until the Lindau Marionette Opera first
staged "Carmen", the opera was thought impossible for a
marionette theatre to perform. But the challenge was
successfully overcome. "Carmen" is by far the most
elaborate production at the Marionette Opera.

Puppeteers of America
The oldest group of American puppeteers. Membership brings
a quarterly magazine, puppet consultants and a video lending
library. Also holds biennial puppetry festivals.

Oregon Shadow Theatre
The Oregon Shadow Theatre is a Portland Oregon based
company specializing in the art of shadow puppetry. OST
productions are noted for exquisite, colorful puppets, live
music and sound effects, and lively good humor. Among
other honors, OST has twice received the UNIMA Citation
for Excellence in the Art of Puppetry.