20,000 Leagues Deep

My most recent project included designing and building a giant "Trash Kraken" puppet for our interactive children's show based on the novel, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The show was designed to teach kids about Climate change and renewable sources of energy in Hawaii

Puppets Against Bullying

Puppets Against Bullying is an interactive forum theater-stye puppet performance aimed at 2nd-4th graders. I designed and built four unique hand puppets to act out scenarios of bullying for Hawaiian elementary school classrooms. Student's were invited to watch the scenarios and interrupt to change the outcomes themselves.

Eddie Wen' Go

I was brought on to this project to update and restore five giant sea creature puppets. I added structural support and paint detailing. I was also responsible for building an additional monk seal puppet that matched the designs of the other sea creatures.

The Joymobile Jumblies

The Joymobile Jumblies brought lessons of P4C (Philosophy with Children) in a mobile performance vehicle around Oahu. As a puppeteer and voice actor I was also able to design and build my own puppet for the show