Puppetry
- Ventriloquist Tom Crowl - Tom and his zany cast of characters create custom programs that fit into your curriculum and provide students with a fresh look at important topics.
- School assemblies don’t have to be either educational OR fun -- they can be BOTH...which is why Joe Gandelman & Friends visit some schools year after year after year.
- Motivational Speaker Richard Paul has spoken to thousands of business professionals, association leaders, students and educators throughout the world, implementing his ventriloquist skills and props, to paint a humorous yet practical down to earth picture of how we can empower others and ourselves.
- Hey Kids, the Kamp Kreatures are funny puppet friends who live at a magical place in the forest. They love to put on special shows for all their friends and you can see them too!
- Barefoot Puppets: a puppet company based in Richmond, Virginia which tours throughout the Mid-Atlantic area. "We do shows for libraries, schools and other venues that cater to children and family audiences. Our shows feature original scripts based on folktales from around the world, one-of-a-kind puppets, original music and fun."
- The Jubilee Puppet Theatre is a company of varied and unique puppets, designed and constructed by Ron Comeau. Ron and his puppets move freely about the audience, encouraging participation and conversation with each puppet personality, a style that allows for much improvisation.
- Danny Quinn is also known as "Uncle Danny" to young children as he is quickly becoming one of the areas most popular children's performers. He has played at hundreds of schools, concerts, and festivals in the Northeast and is currently producing a television show called, "The Uncle Danny Show" featuring the popular Jim Jones Family Puppets.
- Have Mrs. McPuppet bring a bundle of new ideas and energy into your school. The programs come in all shapes and sizes. They can focus on learning about puppets from around the world, learning how to move puppets, learning how to make puppets, and learning how to translate a folk tale, a legend, a famous person's life, or a even biology lesson.
- Madcap Puppets offers exciting and innovative residencies designed to help focus on the arts in curriculum based learning. While each residency is created from details that are specific to the needs of that school or community, several new Prepackaged Residency Formats are now available:
- Conrad Hartz is a former clown with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. All puppets in the Hartz Marionette Circus are hand carved from wood by Conrad Hartz. The circus puppets perform a dazzling variety of delightful tricks to amuse "children of all ages."
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