Austin Puppet Incident presents Handmade Puppet Dreams (Short Puppet Films)

The Austin Puppet Incident, (a co-creation of Trouble Puppet Theater Co. & Glass Half Full Theatre) presents Heather Henson’s Handmade Puppet Dreams, a film series featuring short films from national puppet artists. 

The Austin Puppet Incident is celebrating its 15th year of presenting short works of puppetry for adults with an evening of puppet films, a live auction of puppets crafted by the artists of Trouble Puppet and Glass Half Full Theatre, and surprise guest artists and revelry.

The Austin Puppet Incident is an annual event of puppetry for adult audiences, featuring short pieces for adult audiences using a variety of puppetry techniques including shadow, hand and rod, tabletop, object and physical theater. This year’s Incident is a showcase of PUPPET FILMS featuring naughty, heartbreaking, harrowing, hilarious and always original stories through the medium of animated objects, from the catalog of Handmade Puppet Dreams from Heather Henson’s Green Feather Foundation. 

The Austin Puppet Incident is a joint creation of Glass Half Full Theatre and Trouble Puppet Theater Company.

WHEN: December 7, 2024 at 7:00PM 

WHERE: Dougherty Arts Center
1110 Barton Springs Road
Austin, Texas 78701 

Tickets Sliding Scale $10 - $20 

More info: Website: www.glasshalffulltheatre.com or call 512-761-8266 

About Handmade Puppet Dreams

Handmade Puppet Dreams Trailer

This project is funded in part by a cultural contract from the City of Austin Cultural Arts department. 

About Glass Half Full Theatre: 

Glass Half Full Theatre (Puppetry & Physical Theatre of Objects & Ideas) creates original performance using the precise physical language of both humans and puppets to confront global issues of environmental and social justice. Our productions are designed to travel across linguistic and cultural boundaries to the heart of the imagination, where together with our audience we strive to devise a sustainable, equitable, multilingual and multicultural future. The company has created work in Austin since 2012 and won dozens of B Iden Payne and Critics’ Table awards and several mentions on “Chronicle Best Of Austin” lists. Their works have toured

to 25+ states and received critical acclaim for visual storytelling through innovative puppetry forms, detailed physical theater narratives, and focus on pertinent issues. The company is a collaborative effort shepherded by Co-Artistic Directors Gricelda Silva, Caroline Reck, and Khristián Mendez Aguirre. www.GlassHalfFullTheatre.com

About Trouble Puppet Theater:

Trouble Puppet Theater Company, recipient of B. Iden Payne Awards as Outstanding Director of a Drama, Best Production of a Drama, Outstanding Original Script, and Outstanding Puppetry, is dedicated to the creation of exceptional works of puppet theater, to the promotion of the art of puppetry, and to the support of its practitioners. Our work is inspired by our artistic passion and our social, political, and human convictions: that there can be no end to the struggle for knowledge and compassion, against injustice and intolerance. Trouble Puppet is a sponsored project of Austin Creative Alliance and is supported in part by the City of Austin, the Jim Henson Foundation, and individual donors. www.troublepuppet.com