The Puppeteers' Cooperative is also involved with a number of interrelated groups: Hi-Art videos, which makes videos of giant puppet pageants and miniature tabletop productions; News of the Week, for mini street shows; the Back Alley Puppet Theater, which creates parades and parade puppets in the Boston area; the Puppet Free Library, which lends puppets, banners, and masks to people and institutions in the Boston area; and the Construction Section, puppet makers.
The Puppeteers Cooperative was formed in San Francisco in 1976 by George Konnoff and Sara Peattie, two puppeteers formerly with the Bread and Puppet Theater. It was incorporated as a non-profit in Massachusetts1994. In 1993, Theresa Linnihan, then the director of the Newburyport Children's Theater at Maudslay State Park, met Konnoff, and joined in about 1997. George Konnoff died in 2001.
Various Groups and Participants:
The Roving Workshop Group:
George Konnoff, Jon Levine, Jackie Smith, Jo Swanson, Laura McPherson, Sara Peattie, Mark Pellatier, Dassia Posner, Brian Posner, Joel Rubin, Richard Szablinsky
The Back Alley Faction, First Night Boston and other Boston events:
Angela Aiello, Junie Ariene, Johnathon Brant, Lynn Buckson, Sari Burkhart, Glen Collins, David Dusenbery, Tom Fusco, Mario Faustin, Jason Freedme, Carrie Gestad, Poppy Gregory, Angela Hartt, Joe Kalb, Ed Klebe. George Konnoff, Carol Korty, Sarah Lafferty, Karen Larson, Jon Levine, Theresa Linnihan, Devi Lockwood, Sara Peattie, Mark Pelletier, Dassia Posner, Sarah Poduck, Jeff Reinhart, Joel Rubin, Jackie Smith, Jo Swanson, Richard Szablinsky, Sherlee Valeus, Ed Williams
The Minnesota Outpost: Theresa Linnihan
The New York Puppet Library:Theresa Linnihan
The Puppet Free Library (Boston): Sara Peattie
Various small and street theaters and videos:
Malgosia Askanas, Deborah Beshaw, Michelle Beshaw, Kwame Brandt-Pierce, Mary Curtin, Karen Doczi, Theresa Linnihan, Sara Peattie, Mark Pelletier, Jackie Smith, Shelley Valfer
The Lincoln Center and Rights of Spring pageants, Halloween Parade, and other New York events:
Scripts, plots: Sara Peattie
Directors: George Konnoff, Theresa Linnihan, Sara Peattie, Roberto Rossi, Joanne Schultz
Music: Chuck Meese, Kenny Wollesen and the Hymalayas, Kid Lucky, Rosemary Seiders, John Hyde, Chris Cortier and various bands, Sarah Wilson, Judith Barnes
Choreography:
Darryl Quinton, Melanie Cortier, Stephen Lin Bai An, Snakehips Johnson
Performers:
Pat Abelarde, Elise Baker, Deberah Beshaw, Michelle Beshaw, Syd Bloomfield, Stuart Bramen, Janet Castel, Martha Christie, Yi-Chen Chu, Sheree Colucelli, Greg Corbino, Valarie Cortier, Danielle Cortier, Bea Cura, Amy-Simone Erard, Hope Fishburn, Thomas Foster, Stephen Franco, Tara Hereich, Sarah Huling, Chia-Ling Hsu, Peter Johnson, Ron Jones, Sayma Karim, Alexis Konnoff, Nhan Le, Toya Lillard, Theresa Linnihan, Arny Lippin, Sue Lippin, Leland Malkus, Diane Malviner, Roxy McCarroll, Will McCurtain, Washington Navarrete, Dony Osman, Lisa Peattie, Stephanie Pinder, Lily Pink, Dassia Posner,Roberto Rossi, Charlotte Rew, Steven Ryan, Jerry Sagotsky, Margo Sherman, Harold Thomas, Nicole Thurmond, Shelley Valfer, Pablo Vela, Ed Williams, Sarah Yorra, Paul Zaloom, Peter Zuzel
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