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PUPPET RAMPAGE

About Me

HI, I'M JIM, a freelance puppet designer half the year on the road with the National Broadway Tour of The Lion King. I recently completed a 2 year project producing the sold out Puppeteers of America National Festival entitled PUPPET RAMPAGE. Go to www.puppetrampage2007.org for more info. NOW THAT the recovery from the PUPPET RAMPAGE is complete, my puppet design and production studio will be reopening in South Florida soon. All builds will occur during my time away from The Lion King - currently about half the year. ALREADY WE HAVE performances being designed for Broward Center for the Performing Arts, and 2 independent Producers from New York and Atlanta. Contact us to add puppets into your creations.

My Interests

Burning puppets in the streets - but usually working on really commercial product

I'd like to meet:

All Creatives looking to add puppets into their theatre and video work--The SOUTH FLORIDA PUPPET STUDIO will open in 2009

Music:

The Bran Flakes, Mr. Bungle, David Byrne, Bowie, Blondie, Tiki, Surf, really bad covers, experimental and various unknown 60's styled lounge weirdness --- PRI, NPR, CBC and Air America Radio podcasts too

Movies:

To Kill a Mockingbird, Bob Roberts, The Great Dictator, The Secretary, Memento, Syriana, Young Frankenstein, Spinal Tap, most Cohen Brother's and Spike flicks, and surreal shorts

Television:

Dexter, Six Feet Under, The Office, Colbert Report, Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Adult Swim, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Simpsons

Books:

David Sedaris, Barbara Ehrenreich, James Loewen, Randi Rhodes, Joseph Campbell, Gore Vidal (When I'm feeling smart), International Travel Guides (When I'm not feeling quite as smart), and of course Alice in Wonderland

Heroes:

Cockroaches