Puppetry

My interest in puppetry began in Hawai’i in high school when I performed in a bunraku-style puppet adaptation of Momotaro the Peach Boy at the University of Hawai’i, Hilo.  My work involves figurative puppetry inspired by Japanese traditional puppetry as well as the use of projection, shadows and live feed video of manipulated objects.

Sounding the Resonant Path. Photo by Richard Termine.
Shank’s Mare promo video
Sounding the Resonant Path, La MaMa Puppet Festival 2023. Photo by Richard Termine
The Poacher adapted by Kate Brehm from the story by Ursula K LeGuin. APrioriPhotography/Harvard TDM. Shadow puppetry by Linda Wingerter. Fall 2022.
Akutagawa at Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival 2023. Photo by Yvette Marie Dostatni
The Great Zodiac Animal Race, La MaMa ETC 2021. Puppetry setup.
Vancouver – a collaboration between Chicago Puppet Studio and Ma-Yi Theater Company. Production design by Jaerin Son, Puppet design by KT Shivak, Puppetry direction by Tom Lee. UNIMA Citation.
The Steadfast Tin Soldier directed by Mary Zimmerman. Design by Tom Lee with Chicago Puppet Studio
TOMTE – 2018-2021, Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, NY State Puppet Festival, La MaMa ETC
PetersenPortrait
Saggitarius Ponderosa at NAATCO. 2016
Hoplite Diary
Hoplite Diary – La MaMa – 2003
AreTheyEdible
Are They Edible by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew.
Pinocchio at House Theatre Chicago 2019
The Return – 2015 Sarah Lawrence College and Seoul Institute of the Arts _Photo Jinyoul Lim.
Scarlet Ibis by Stefan Wesiman and David Cote _ HERE Arts Center 2015