Presented by Kat Pleviak, Erin Krause, & Maggie Krause
- Workshop Fee: $15 for materials
- Workshop Length: 90 minutes
Can’t find the words to describe the true terror of Cthulhu? Make him a shadow puppet & then you won’t have to. Learn all the professional tricks of the trade for shadow puppet construction focusing specifically on cutting skills from the talented staff of Sea Beast Puppet Company.. Students will be provided all the materials necessary to complete the project and get to leave with their puppet.
In this class students will learn how to make a professional quality shadow puppet with an emphasis on techniques in precision hand cutting. Using the art of Cthulhu to learn advanced hand cutting will be so fun you won’t even notice you’re going mad.
Materials- covered by $15 fee: Black Rail board, 2 bamboo skewers, brads (paper fasteners), glue stick or spray glue or stapler, xacto knife/blades, cutting mat, masking tape or scotch tape or clear packing tape, transparency sheets, red sharpie, hole puncher, scissors.
Kat Pleviak is the Artistic Director and founder of Sea Beast Puppet Company in Glen Ellyn, IL. She has an BFA in Directing from the University of Illinois (2002) and an MFA in Youth Theatre and Puppetry from the University of Hawaii Manoa (2009).
Under Kat’s direction Sea Beast has initiated a number of exciting puppetry projects including a series of original projects and productions including the Puppet Meltdown Puppet Slam, “The Shadow Puppet Conspiracy”, “The History of Light” and “Méfiez-Vous de la Vache-Garou”, which won best in show at the Chicago Fringe 2013. She has taught countless workshops all over the country and currently serves the Membership Officer for the Puppeteers of America. Kat was a featured artist in Puppetry International’s issue of “40 under 40.
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Erin Krause is the best Box Office Manager a group could want and is also a committed puppet enthusiast. She also worked for years as a High School teacher and is one Sea Beast’s go to and favorite workshop presenters. When not at Sea Beast she works as a legal secretary and rocks some of the best original cosplay around.
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Maggie Krause may be young but is a long time Sea Beast alumni. She has been helping Sea Beast present at conferences for years and when they are not teaching puppetry on land, they teach swim lessons in the water. They are also enjoy creative writing and is absolutely crushing driving!
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