Puppet Kitchen Workshops: Make Puppets with the Masters
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Puppet Kitchen is one of those cool, off-the-beaten path places that we love to discover. Its studio is in the old kitchen of the Lower East Side Girls Club, unmarked except for a small paper sign, and the puppet making workshops aren't listed in any of the places you usually find classes. But I'm hoping that will change because something's cooking at Puppet Kitchen that more people need to know about.
Emily DeCola, Michael Schupbach and Eric Wright—three veteran puppeteers who perform, design and make puppetry magic—created Puppet Kitchen. They've made puppets for shows you've probably heard of like the Off Broadway musical ImaginOcean and PBS Kids' LazyTown as well as operas and more esoteric projects. To say that they are puppet masters is not an overstatement, so learning how to make puppets in their workshop is an incredible opportunity, not because they are famous, but because it's a super-fun, creative, awesome thing to do—and you get to go home with your own amazing puppet.