Puppetry for Teachers, Caregivers, and Parents

Join puppeteer Liz Joyce to make your own hand puppet. Create your own character and learn techniques to bring it to life.

Liz Joyce has spent her career in puppetry, writing, creating, and performing works for young audiences and their adults. Trained as a fine artist and certified in K-12 art education, she has also been influenced by European puppetry traditions and New York’s downtown performance artists. Her puppet operetta “Sing a Song of Sixpence” received a UNIMA Citation, the highest award in American puppetry. In 2001, Liz founded Goat on a Boat Puppet Theater, a nonprofit organization now based in the Puppet Truck. She has served on the boards of the Jim Henson Foundation, the Puppetry Guild of Greater New York, and Puppeteers of America.