You are in the archive of the 2019 Festival, which took place January 17-27 and was the 3rd edition.

Here you will find scholarship, resources, documentation, and further reading about the performances, which took place at the 3rd Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.

Program Brochure

Note: some presentation changes happened after printing

Promo Video

Table of Contents

2019 Events

IBEX Puppetry, Ajijaak on Turtle Island 

Mariano Pensotti, Arde Brillante en los Bosques de la Noche

Compagnie Gare Centrale & Une Compagnie, Axis: The Importance of Human Sacrifice in the 21st Century

Plexus Polaire, Chambre Noire

Free Neighborhood Tour with Poncili Creación & Gaspare Nasuto

Jesse Mooney-Bullock, Moonbull Studio, How to Build a Flying Machine

Immaculate, Poignant & Medium Length

Robin Frohardt, The Pigeoning

Jeghetto, Just Another Lynching

Compagnie Non Nova, L’Apres-Midi D’un Foehn Version 1

Pedro Reyes/The Tank, Manufacturing Mischief

Nasty, Brutish & Short

Yael Rasooly, Paper Cut and Glamour in the Dark

Silencio Blanco, Pescador

The Huber Marionettes, Suspended Animation

Andy Gaukel, Schweinehund

Tom Lee and Koryu Nishikawa V, Shank’s Mare

Rough House, The Stranger and the Shadow

Cabinet of Curiosity, Tabletop Tragedies

The Neo- Futurists with Mocrep and Theater Oobleck, Tedium and Other Sensations

Compagnie La Pendue, Tria Fata

Ellen Van Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium

Leslie Danzig & Jessica Thebus, Work-in-Development – Atalanta

2019 Festival Partners