Find A Puppet Show Or Puppeteer From the United States

Find puppet shows, puppeteers and puppet builders to book in the USA including New York State and New York City. Find someone you like? Contact us to arrange a booking.

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Chris Palmieri, Lucky Duck Puppets – New York City, New York

Puppet Show - Workshops - Builder - New York City

Chris is a puppeteer, actor, and entertainer working in the New York City area with an impressive resume as a puppeteer including starring at Tigger in Disney’s Winnie the Pooh and puppeteering Snug in the Emmy-nominated preschool series Snug’s House on NBC plus much more!

But the most amazing thing about all of this is that you can also book Chris for:

  • Puppet Shows: Fun-filled, interactive stories and singalongs featuring Mr Chris, Lucky Duck and their puppet friends.
  • Roving Puppets: Chris will bring a variety of puppet characters to roam around and interact with your event guests – great for New York festival entertainment.
  • Puppet Building: Chris will build you a custom puppet for your own show, film or puppetry project
  • Puppet Making Activity: Chris will run a puppet building workshop for your birthday, school or community event

Book Chris now to perform a puppet show or workshop for your daycare, school, festival, camp or birthday party in the New York City area and beyond. He takes commissions for puppet building projects from across the world.

Puppet Show - Puppetry Workshop - New York City

Up In Arms – Hudson Valley, New York

Puppet Show - Puppet Builder - Hudson Valley - New York

Up In Arms is a New York based pupppetry arts company that makes education entertaining and engaging for kindergarten and elementary school aged students, helping to convey difficult messages and themes – a wonderful discussion launch pad for teachers and parents to extend upon in class and at home.

Perfect for assemblies, libraries and family theatres, the company has 10 different puppet shows that feature a range of strong curriculum connections including listening, kindness, anti-bullying, reading, health, and communication, as well as visual and performing arts.

Whether for schools, a theater presentation, a library show, events or festivals, an Up In Arms story is one audiences will never forget. Performed by a talented cast of puppeteers and available to book across New York and beyond, Up In Arms theatre stage shows feature scripts and music written by industry professionals – all set to be enjoyed and appreciated by children and families alike.

Up In Arms principal puppeteer David ‘Dov’ Manley is a New York based puppeteer and puppet builder who specialises in puppetry in the style of Sesame Street and The Muppets. In fact, he was trained by Sesame Workshop puppeteers Marty Robinson and Noel MacNeal.

You can also book Dov to perform a solo puppet show or puppetry performance workshop for your kindergarten, elementary school, library or special event in the Hudson Valley region and beyond. Or you can commission Dov to build a puppet for your next puppetry project no matter where you’re located in the world.

While based in the Hudson Valley region of New York, Up In Arms travels nationally and has performed all over New York State, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts as well as tours in Maryland, Michigan, North Dakota and Las Vegas.

Puppet Show - Hudson Valley - New York