An audio story of Linda’s Stringpullers family and the synchronistic events that returned her to puppetry.
Puppet Films
Trailer for Robin & Wriggler, a short film made in the Video Anarchy workshop at the O’Neill National Puppetry Conference with Tim Lagasse and Martin Robinson. New release coming soon, see the ROBIN & WRIGGLER page.
Trailer for Misophonia, a short paper and shadow puppet film commissioned by Handmade Puppet Dreams released in 2022. See more about the film and its film festival screening schedule on the MISOPHONIA page.
Sheep Dip, a one minute film exercise made with Handmade Puppet Dreams with music by Steve Asetta.
Steel Wool, a film version of a suitcase puppet slam piece with Czech style marionette and paper puppetry inspired by Tony Horton’s P90X.
Trailer for Quilt of Stars, a short shadow film made for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2021 with music by Travis Knapp and Annie Sumi.
More films can be found on the Shadow page of this website.
Puppet Shows
An aquatic puppet, dance and black light adventure coming to the American Museum of Natural History, NYC, May 12 & 13, 2012. http://www.lunassea.com
Trailer for Luna's Sea, an aquatic feature stage show at the Mystic Aquarium and the American Museum of Natural History.
Luna's Sea after-show included time for audiences to see the recycled material sea creature puppets up close and meet our cast and crew.
An enthusiastic audience meets the puppets and puppeteers of Luna's Sea at Cornerstone Playhouse in Mystic, Connecticut.
Collaborations
Jennie B. Powers: The Woman Who Dares, a short documentary with Stringpullers’ shadows for SALT Project and the Historical Society of Cheshire County which aired on Vermont Public Television in 2022.
Performance artist Andrew Dawson ends the night with the story of a roller derby player who shattered her middle finger in a fall. What followed was months of recovery, which included the insertion of bone from a cadaver to replace her shattered finger, and the retrospectively amusing social dilemma of having one's middle finger constantly extended.
Andrew Dawson's interpretation of Linda's hand injury in The Articulate Hand.
Puppetsweat with Le Trane Bleu 2012
Linda performing with Puppetsweat and Le Train Bleu in Der Signal at Galapagos, NYC.
First workshop performance of The Grace of Things at The National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center 2013. Puppeteers: Taylor Bibat, Alex Griffin, Jane Martineau, Gavin Cummins, Jenelle Weidlich, and Linda Wingerter. Music by ellen cherry. Directed by Anna Fitzgerald Story by Anna FItzgerald, Judy Finelli and the ensemble.
Linda performing in Anna Fitzgerald's Reverse Cascade at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, CT.
Excerpts of a Puppetsweat Theater production in conjunction with Wesleyan University. Puppets designed by Leslie Weinberg, set desighned by Marcela Oteiza, direcred by Robert Bresnick.
Linda performing Don Quixote with Puppetsweat in Master Peter's Puppet Show at the Kennedy Center, DC.
More videos of experimentations in the Archive.