In this workshop, you’ll create a marionette of your own design and imbue it with personality. Beginning with basic wooden forms, Jason Hines of the Center for Puppetry Arts will teach you how to carve the face, hands and feet to express the character of your marionette. In the meantime, you’ll explore marionettes as performance objects. Using practice puppets, you’ll learn manipulation through the ball and string exercises and begin to develop a vocabulary of expressive movements for your new marionette.
Workshop Marionette Making
Instructor Jason Hines
Fee $1825-$2075 (These prices include lodging and meals. Special pricing is available for our Local Community members.)
Materials Fee $75 - This provides you with marionette-making materials: Head, body, hands, arms & legs, controller, joints, screw eyes, wood glue, toothpicks, Cortland line
Experience Level Intermediate & Advanced. Ages 21 & over only. Experience using power tools such as saws and drills is needed. Any woodcarving experience will also be helpful.
About the Instructor
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Jason Hines joined the Center for Puppetry Arts as the Resident Puppet Builder in 2002. Since joining the team, Jason has designed and built puppets for many productions, including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat, Stellaluna, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Pete the Cat, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, Charlotte’s Web, Peter Pan, Anne Frank: Within and Without, Ruth and the Green Book, Duke Ellington’s Cat, The Little Pirate Mermaid, Cinderella Della Circus, Old MacDonald’s Farm, The Tortoise and the Hare, and The Ugly Duckling. Jason is also the co-developer and a performer in the Center’s acclaimed productions The Ghastly Dreadfuls and Avanti, Da Vinci! The Secret Adventures of Leonardo da Vinci. Most recently, Jason wrote, designed, and directed the award-winning show Tesla vs. Edison.
In addition to his work at the Center, Jason has worked on several TV shows and films. He was a puppet captain on the BBC's puppet TV series, Moon and Me. He was a robot puppeteer in the motion picture Escape Plan 2: Hades. He designed and built puppets for Alton Brown’s Good Eats Reloaded and The Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.
Jason has also designed and built puppets for The Atlanta Opera’s production of The Three Penny Opera; several Alliance Theatre productions, including The Wizard of Oz, Cinderella and Fella, Shrek the Musical, Tuck Everlasting, James and the Giant Peach, and Knuffle Bunny, a Cautionary Tale; and Kentucky’s Actors Theater production of Louisville Shipwrecked!. Jason directed Clash Titan Clash, Scarlet’s Web and created the Super Villain Monologues in conjunction with Dad’s Garage theatre company in Atlanta. In his spare time Jason is an avid puppet slam performer.