For over 25 years, Will Cabell has been a performer, director and workshop leader with Starbird Puppet Theatre, bringing classic and traditional folk and fairy tales to vibrant life through that most interdisciplinary art, puppetry. Weaving the sculpted figure, design, color, movement, voice, music, sound effects, lighting and costume, puppetry offers a world of opportunity for creative collaboration. By using simple designs from easily accessible materials for rod or shadow puppets and providing illustrated manuals, residency time is spent on movement, acting and staging skits or plays. Developing a live music component can be a powerful way to integrate even more students as performers. Residency special emphases have included: local histories, fairy tales, undersea characters, found objects, homemade sound effects, masks, and giant puppets (parades/pageants). Performance is available of the Eskimo creation tale "Raven and the Village without Daylight".

Specialty:

• Puppeteer/Musician

Programs Offered:

• Residences
• Rod Puppets
• Shadow Puppets
• Shadows & Music (with Deborah Stuart)
• Found Object Puppets
• Parade Puppets
• Teacher Workshops
• Lecture-demonstrations
• performances

Populations Served:

• K-6
• family
• audiences
• special populations

Availability:

• Statewide including North Country
• during the school year