Selected Puppets and Sets
A Potion for Emotion
Rachel Lloyd, Noella Murphy and I wrote this puppet play in the winter of 2023 and the spring of 2026. I created Lowry, a fuzzy tabletop puppet, the Boss, an articulated bunraku monster, and Sternest, an ant-eater like body puppet and assisted Ian McFarlane with the set. Photo credit: Stoo Metz
A Gorgon’s Tale
A pigeon, a butterfly, a gorgon, a snake, a spider, the sun and a king featured in this flipped myth tragedy by North Barn Theatre (workshoped in 2022, remounted in 2026. The puppets were constructed out of cardboard, fabric, bamboo, wool, wire, tape and wood. They were made in 2 to 3 different sizes for close action and faraway journeys. Photo credit: Jon Wolfe. Stay tuned for more photos!
Sappyfest Flashmob
North Barn Theatre 2026. The two headed Swamp Monster was a collaboration with Ian McFarlane. Photo credit: Jonathan Wolfe
Ifrit
This work in progress Solo Chicken Project written by Jean-Michel Cliche and directed by Lisa Ross features a hardcarved bunraku style infant Ifrit Jinn with mechanized eyes/mouth/ears, a jerboa and many shadow puppets. Photo Credit: Kelly Baker
While We Wait
This design encompassed the set, mouse, hare and baby bunny puppets as well as shadow puppetry scenes to represent the seasons, the weather and the passage of time. While We Wait is a production of Gale Force Theatre created by Lily Falk and Franziska Glen.
Photo credit: Lauren Garbutt
From Field to Flight
The main additional puppet builds and designs for the 2025 River Clyde Pageant were the Coyote and the Fireflies.
Things
A 2023 North Barn Theatre production. I designed and built the set and the human puppet. Diego Cavedon created the rest of the puppets.
Photo credit: James Mclean @jamesarthurmaclean.
River Clyde Arts Solstice Walk Lanterns
2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 (more photos to come)
The Hobbit, Ship’s Company Theatre 2025
Giant lantern Smaug, Eagle Masks and three troll puppets - assisted by Ian McFarlane for the trolls.
Pricked (2025) / Crones (2024)
These Highland Arts Theatre productions featured a pink pony body puppet and a large crow with extendable wings. Photo credit Corey Katz.
Jack and the Beanstalk
I had the pleasure of making Milky White, the cow, and Glen, the giant, for Highland Arts Theatre’s 2023 pantomime production.
Photo Credit Corey Katz.
The Devil’s Store
This short film accompanies Callum Gaudet’s song of the same name. North Barn Theatre collaborated with Callum to dream up the visuals. I made the set, with Ian McFarlane consulting, and the puppet. Diego Cavedon made the puppet costumes. Photo credit: Charlie Benoit.
Windfall in the Hollow
A giant human formed lantern, fungal bodies fruiting from tangles of roots, a flight of swallows, a cloud of bats and plant amphibian hybrids and stilted trees all emerged from a hurricane Fiona ravaged landscape during the 2023 River Clyde Pageant. Puppets and masks created by me! Photo credit Robert van Waarden.
Ghosts
These puppets were designed to embody the mythical ghosts that inhabit landscape. They were made to accompany Callum Gaudet’s Ghosts in a music video made in the Winter of 2023.
The Hobbit
Design and construction of three trolls, fifteen goblin masks, eight giant spiders, two versions of Smaug and a thrush for Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre’s production, summer 2022. Photo credit James Maclean @jamesarthurmaclean.
Troubling Joy: a bicycle puppet circus
This group of puppets were hand carved out of basswood for North Barn Theatre in 2021 and featured neck, mouth and eye mechanisms.
Shakespeare’s Time Machine
These three puppets were commissioned by Villian’s Theatre for the above show in 2022.
Hares and Butterflies for Robin Hood
Alongside making puppets for this 2021 Festival Antigonish Production, I also designed and constructed the set and props.
Late Night Radio
These puppets and masks were featured in a drive in puppet spectacle by North Barn Theatre in 2020.
Fox Hatch
Puppets created for street performances with A Road Less Traveled in 2018.
Bunraku Style Puppet
This puppet was constructed during a three week workshop with Thomas Lundqvist at Compagnie Arketal in Cannes, Frane, 2019.
Shear Ingenuity
A production of A Road Less Gravelled, created by Julia Walker, Noella Murphy and me in 2017.
