You may participate as either a Project Participant or as a Project Initiator. The deadline for applications is January 31st, 2025.
Project Participant. If you wish to participate on a project, working on someone else’s production, please download and complete a Project Participant Application (Please ignore the page for the Project Initiator).
Project Initiator. If you wish to initiate a project (with a project in mind) please download and complete a Project Initiator Application. (Please ignore the page for the Project Participants).
Proposed pieces must be under 15 minutes long, and may incorporate any of the myriad styles and approaches to puppetry: shadow, mask, automaton, object theatre, sock puppets, body puppets, stop-motion and live puppet film, Bunraku style, marionettes or something never thought of before.
Remounts of pre-existing pieces will not be considered. All projects selected will be considered as works-in-progress.
As part of the selection process, the Project Initiators may be asked to an interview with the Puppetmongers.
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Watch this page for announcements of deadlines
- Applicants will be notified of their application status within 2 weeks following deadline
- Participation fees are due on acceptance.
- Materials are the responsibility of the Project Group
- At the first scheduled gathering, the Project Initiators will present their project ideas, and the Project Participants will choose which project to join.
- Then, over the next few months, the Project Initiators, with their Project Participants, meet (at their own mutual scheduling), to build and rehearse the pieces with Puppetmongers’ mentorship.
- The program runs typically between mid February and late May/early June depending on the date of the Fresh Ideas in Puppetry Day
For all inquiries please email us at school@puppetmongers.com
or call 416-469-3555