The festival committee is actively monitoring the effect of COVID-19 on the event season. We will continue to provide updates on a regular basis.
Puppet Homecoming 2012: Martin Robinson, Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, Artie Poore, Bernice Silver & Pam Arciero
Status Change:
Southeast Region:
Puppet Paradise – Postponed TBD, Asheville, North Carolina
Festival Director: Keith Shubert
Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Regions:
Puppet Homecoming – Cancelled, Brattleboro, Vermont
Festival Director: Joshua Holden
puppethomecoming.org
Great Plains Region:
Great Plains Puppet Train – Cancelled, West Liberty, Iowa
Tentative plans: a workshop day and an evening puppet slam on Friday, Sept. 12 and a virtual Puppeteers’ Check-In (live stream event)
Festival Director: Monica Leo
greatplainspuppettrain.com
Upcoming Festivals:
Pacific Northwest Region:
Left Coast Puppet Love Fest – August 6-9, 2020, Portland, Oregon
Festival Directors: Mary Nagler & Dustin Curtis
Registration Now Open: www.puppetlovefest.com
Deposit allowed, full payment due by 7/27.
Southwest Region:
Houston Puppetry Festival / SW Regional Pepper Puppet Festival – September 17-19, 2020, Houston, Texas
Festival Director: Joanne Schroeder
Registration is OPEN: puppetfest.org
PLUS…plans are underway for the next Puppeteers of America National Puppetry Festival to be held on the East Coast in summer 2021! See you there!