The Puppet Pod!
The Puppet Pod!
The New York State Puppet Festival
Puppetry is hard. So let’s make it harder by using a primarily auditory medium (the podcast) to explore a primarily visual one (puppetry)! The Puppet Pod! is an hour (-ish) long podcast about the niche world of puppetry, particularly the world of contemporary puppetry for adults. Puppetry has been around in various forms for thousands of years, and yet, when someone asks a puppetry artist what they do, the answer is not so straightforward. What is puppetry? Why puppetry? What does it even mean to be a Puppeteer/Puppet Artist? So, you work with kids??? Host/puppeteer/human Josh Rice, and co-host Sara Stabley, take a deep dive into this weird and wild world of puppet theatre, and through interviews with incredible multidisciplinary artists, attempt to unpack these answers and discover why puppetry is so hard.
Episode 20: Josh Rice
The Puppet Pod! Season 1 Finale
Sep 2, 2021
59 min
Episode 19: Spencer Lott
Spencer thinks puppetry is object manipulation for communication
Jan 23, 2021
1 hr 19 min
Episode 18: Storm Thomas
Storm (they/them) thinks puppetry is a tool, no more, no less.
Dec 18, 2020
1 hr 20 min
Episode 17: Koryu Nishikawa V
Nishikawa-Sensei (he/him) thinks puppetry is life
Nov 30, 2020
49 min
Episode 16: Emma Wiseman & Emily Zemba
Emma thinks puppetry is goofy. Emily thinks puppetry is very uncanny valley.
Nov 19, 2020
1 hr 9 min
Episode 15: Janie Geiser
Janie thinks puppetry is confusing
Nov 3, 2020
1 hr 2 min
Episode 14: Robin Frohardt
Robin thinks puppetry is intuitive
Oct 30, 2020
52 min
Episode 13: Shayna Strype
Shayna thinks puppetry is innovation of materials
Oct 17, 2020
1 hr 2 min
Episode 12: Jeghetto
Jeghetto thinks puppetry is magic
Oct 10, 2020
1 hr 27 min
Episode 11: Dorothy James & Andy Manjuck
Dorothy thinks puppetry is excellent for shy actors, and Andy thinks puppetry is WHAT THE?!
Oct 1, 2020
1 hr 6 min
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