Spring 2026 Puppetry Workshop:
Toy Theater 2 – Developing your Toy Theater (Level 2)

Spring 2026 Workshop: Toy Theater 2 – Developing your Toy Theater (Level 2) with Roberto Rossi

In this advanced two-week workshop, participants will develop their designs using durable materials. We will start by building simple wooden Toy Theater stages that are collapsible and portable, then test different lighting technologies and gadgets for how they can create effects and moods and, of course, try new ways of mounting and articulating figures. We will also look closely at the dramaturgy of the miniature spectacle – at the interaction of image, sound and text – as we prepare projects for an informal (yet always exciting) showing on the last day.

Though the focus of the instruction will be on working with durable materials, the workshop is designed to be flexible, and participants will be welcome to work with whatever resources are available to them. Participants working with wood should anticipate an added materials cost of about $60.