Juniper Tree

Sean Devare is a NY­-based designer and performer. He was a resident actor at The Flea where he appeared in The Cutthroat Series as an actor and puppeteer (dir Austin Regan; Stebos). Other NY credits: The Saltmakers (Dixon Place/HERE); Artaud Artaud (Signature/Columbia Stages); The Tutors (The Kraine). He studied theatre at Brown where he created a solo play, Into the West, featuring original masks and projections. Training includes: Movement Theatre Studio, Dell’Arte International Abroad (Bali), and Per Brahe. BFA in Illustration, RISD.

Monica Lerch is a performer, puppeteer and thing-­maker from Chicago, now based in Brooklyn. Her puppetry work has been seen at St. Ann’s Warehouse, La Mama ETC, Dixon Place, Incubator Arts, New York Fringe Festival, in an AMC commercial, and accompanying The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in the Lincoln Center. Recently performed in Erdos Discrepancy, presented in PuppetLab at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Monica is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.

Andrew Murdock is a puppet artist and educator based in the NYC area. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design where he received at BFA in Sculpture and Film/Animation/Video. He was the assistant puppet director of Yermadea Raw by Eric Ehn (dir Kym Moore; La Mama). He performed puppets and kites with Heather Henson in The Celebration of Flight (RISD). Assistant design credits include: Basil Twist’s Seafoam Sleepwalk (La Jolla Playhouse) and Phantom Limb’s 69º S (BAM) and Composer is Dead (Berkeley Repertory Theater).

Sarah Plotkin is a puppeteer, teaching artist, and artistic director of Electric Eye Ensemble, a collaborative theatre company. Sarah is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, and a recipient of the Dorothy Stickney Scholarship for Women in Theatre. Recent credits include: Erdos Discrepancy (Dixon Place and St. Ann’s Warehouse), Gravity Cannot be Held Responsible (La Mama Puppet Slam), Home in Motion: A Road Trip Play (WOW Café Theatre), and Dubliners (Sarah Lawrence College).

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Leigh Walter is a freelance director and stage manager.  NYC: Boy at the Edge of Everything at Lincoln Center (Asst. Director), Begochiddy at Under St. Marks (Director), Praise Songs for Our Days and Nights at Castillo Theatre (Director), How to Get Into Buildings at The Brick (Asst. Director), Power of Emotion at Under the Radar (Asst. Director).  UPCOMING: Blossom at Dixon Place (Asst. Director). She has worked at Lincoln Center, The Park Avenue Armory, Goodspeed Musicals, La MaMa, and New York Theatre Workshop.  2015-2016 member SDCF Directing Observership Class.  Company member Trusty Sidekick Theater Company.  B.F.A. Directing, Nebraska Wesleyan University. leighwalter.com

Charlotte Moroz is a singer-songwriter, actor, writer, puppet-maker and puppeteer, having studied with The Studio/New York (Jayd McCarty, director; Lucid Body with Fay Simpson of Yale School of Drama; and Clown and devised theater with Bryce Pinkham and Lucas Caleb Rooney of NYU’s Tisch School of Drama). Charlotte is the originator, playwright, composer of and performer in Civil War Pigeons as part of a year-long endeavor to create four new puppet musicals in 2016 and the creator of the one-woman puppet musical, Begochiddy, which debuted at Under St. Marks Theater in 2015. She first apprenticed with The Puppet Kitchen and now serves as a Puppet Kitchen teaching artist.

Dan Kelly is a professional stage manager hailing from Omaha, NE.  He holds his BFA in Acting and Directing from Nebraska Wesleyan University.  Regionally, Dan has worked with Opera Omaha, Brigit St Brigit and the Omaha Theater Company.  Since moving to New York, Dan has worked as a stage manager on Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More as well as with Trusty Sidekick at Lincoln Center and with Lincoln Center Education. He has previously worked with Charlotte and Leigh on Begochiddy and Civil War Pigeons.

Puppet BloK! is made possible in part with funds from The Jim Henson Foundation.