If you've wanted to try your hand at puppetry, start here! If you have been doing puppetry for a while, the camera gives you feedback that helps your performance. Learn the basics and keep growing!
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Learn how to puppeteer for the camera from professional puppeteers. You'll start your puppetry class going over basics like how to position your body for range of motion and comfort, puppet posture, eye focus and lip sync, followed by moving through the frame, positioning, working with a monitor, and finally jamming to a song.
You've got ideas plus the world's most watched platforms at your fingertips! Now's the time to learn how to connect with your audiences through puppetry & make it meaningful!
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Learn how to puppeteer for social media! We'll talk about techniques to connect with your audience, the equipment you need, and what goes into making videos for social media, vs. how it changes from traditional media.
Come make a paper puppet with the Puppetry Program professionals & then terrorize your friends with it! It's all free & you'll get to hear all about what we're doing for the weekend!
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Project is aimed at 10+, but kids ages 6+ can achieve it with the help of a grownup and a full tummy. Skills required: coloring, detailed cutting of paper on a curve, using tape, manipulating paper with two hands, using a stapler, following verbal and visual instructions, & using glue. And all you have to do is listen to what we have to offer like our own puppetry time share experience!
Come learn how to create voices for puppets & cartoon characters that will wow your friends and impress your enemies! Taught by Jennifer Barnhart known for Sesame Street, Helpsters, & more!
Puppetry for Television & Film with Jennifer Barnhart
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Learn TV puppetry with Jennifer Barnhart! This hands-on workshop builds on-camera performance skills and gives you the tools to grow your puppetry journey. Gain the camera skills and do the thing!
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Learn the art of television puppetry in this hands-on workshop with Jennifer Barnhart, an Emmy-nominated performer known for her work on Sesame Street, Between the Lions, The Muppet Show (2026), and Bear in the Big Blue House. Jennifer will teach you techniques for on-camera performance, improve lip sync, eye focus, and working with monitors. Whether you’re brand new to TV puppetry or looking to refine your skills, this hands-on workshop offers practical tools, insight, and real-world guidance from a veteran of children’s television and live performance.
Calling all members of the Muppet Generation! Test your knowledge of Sesame Street, The Muppets, Fraggles, all things Puppets, Henson, and beyond in this super fun hour of silliness and mayhem!
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There will be prizes for first, second and third place winners!
Riding the Wave: the Ups & Downs of a Career in Creativity
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Jennifer Barnhart takes an honest look at balancing artistic risk & personal comfort. Be inspired by how she chose when to leap or hold back, & how those choices helped her build a sustainable career.
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As creatives, it's hard to know when to take a risk and when to protect your stability. Jennifer Barnhart will share stories from her career navigating creative risks, having steady work, needing this crazy little thing called "healthcare," and how to pursue a creatively satisfying life without sacrificing the necessities of life, or your own comfort.
Jennifer's career spans many genres, including regional theater, puppetry, television, film, commercials, and voice over work. She deeply understands the ins & outs behind sustaining a long-term career as an artist. Let Jennifer inspire you with her insight on when to take a leap of faith, when to play it safe, and how to find the middle ground that puts your life in the Goldilocks Zone.
Shadow puppets tell stories and create an atmosphere that can be projected onto any surface if you have the right light source. Come see our demonstration of shadow puppet projection techniques.
Come one, come all to the Silly Science Puppet Show where we'll put forces of nature to the test & see if we can send a potato to space! Come find out this & more and beware the Ping Pong Pulverizer!
...that's what we'd like to do. Emmy-nominated puppeteer, Jennifer Barnhart has brought some of your favorite characters to life on stage and screen & you just need to read the longer description!
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As we were saying... Jennifer Barnhart is a force of nature when it comes to not only a long-lasting career on stage & television, but also when it comes to being a wonderful human being. You'll know her best from television shows like Sesame Street (Gladys the Cow, Zoe, Maggie Cadabby, and Granny Bird, among others), Between the Lions (Cleo), Julie's Greenroom, Johnny and the Sprites, & Bear in the Big Blue House. Or you might know her from the original cast of the Tony Award-winning musical, Avenue Q (Mrs. Thistletwat & Bad Idea Bear)... Or from her regional theater roles like Lady Macbeth, Goneril, and Mrs. Cratchitt (The Arden, Goodspeed, Alabama Shakespeare Festival). But... she's also lent her talents to SNL, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, The Pause with Sam Jay, and House of Cards, and Law & Order, SVU and SO MANY MORE THINGS! For real, you just need to come & hear about it!