Bring Wood, Wire, and Fabric to Life

Rethink everything you know about puppets and puppeteers. Our classes, workshops, camps, and touring residencies turn first-timers into confident performers — no experience required.

Small class sizes. Scholarships available for youth programs.

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OPEN WEDNESDAY–SUNDAY

The Founder's Workshop Collection

Explore forty years of hand-built marionettes, rod puppets, and shadow figures from our founding puppeteers.

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Find Your Path Into Puppetry

Whichever way you learn best, there is a StringCraft program built around it.

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In-Studio Classes

Hands-on marionette and rod puppet building with working performers as instructors, in our purpose-built teaching studio.

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Online Programs

Live virtual sessions on shadow puppetry, voice-and-movement technique, and simple build projects using household materials.

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Educator Residencies

Our touring team brings a full puppetry curriculum into classrooms and libraries, with take-home kits for every student.

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Youth Camps

Week-long immersive camps where campers design a character, build the puppet, and perform an original show for families.

Learn From Working Puppeteers

Every StringCraft instructor performs professionally — in touring productions, museum theaters, and film & television puppetry.

Marionette building instructor at StringCraft Puppetry School

Head of Marionette Studies

18 years building and performing string marionettes for regional touring companies.

Rod puppet performance instructor at StringCraft Puppetry School

Rod & Shadow Puppetry Lead

Former resident puppeteer with a children's museum theater program, specializing in shadow-screen technique.

Youth Camp Director

Runs our summer camp curriculum and educator residency program, trained in puppetry-based literacy instruction.

What Families Are Saying

“My daughter came out of the beginner session with a puppet she'd built herself and the confidence to perform with it in front of a room. The instructors made every step feel achievable.”
— Camp Family, Beginning Marionette Building

“The educator residency brought something our school library could never have offered on its own. Every student left with a puppet and a story.”
— Elementary School Librarian

“I hadn't touched a craft project since childhood. The adult intensive was challenging in the best way — and I finished with a marionette I'm genuinely proud of.”
— Adult Performance Intensive Graduate