Greenwoods Puppet Festival: Party Animals by Sarah Nolen

Party Animals follows four furry friends as they navigate the biggest social hurdle of their young lives — throwing their first party! Meet a bunny with boundless energy, a sloth with social anxiety, a hedgehog wrestling with wrapping, and a skunk who’s trying to keep everything cool and under control. Through song, dance, and original rock ‘n’ roll music by Boston local Phil Berman (of Puppet Playtime & The Holiday Sing-Along), these little stars discover that music can be an exuberant and healthy way to express their inner selves.

This show is for all ages, but children 5-10 will especially enjoy this story. Please register below.

Sarah Nolen is a puppeteer & filmmaker from Austin, Texas. She has a Masters of Fine Arts in Puppetry from the University of Connecticut; and a bachelor’s degree in Cinema-Television from Southern Methodist University, with a minor in Children’s Media. After jumping from Texas to Connecticut, Sarah worked a yearlong stint of puppet gigs in New York before moving to Boston in 2017 to become Puppet Showplace Theater’s third-ever Resident Artist. She is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Known for her versatile, witty, and innovative work across multiple puppetry styles, Sarah works as a puppeteer for both stage and screen. She has performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the off-Broadway immersive theater production of “Pip’s Island,” and toured internationally as part of the ensemble for Red Ball Theater’s Reverse Cascade. As a director, her kids’ TV project, TREEPLES (2016) was selected to screen at film festivals around the country, including the Slamdance Film Festival in Utah, the Atlanta Film Festival, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Puppet Shorts Block. She was a 2015 recipient of The Mister Rogers Memorial Scholarship in support of the project.

Through her company Puppet Motion, Sarah is able to provide consulting, puppet building & media work for all types of productions. Puppet Motion works with the emotional development curriculum for “Insights Intervention, LLC,” building puppets and promotional content. Over the years, Sarah has collaborated with clients such as Wee the People, The Boston Pops Orchestra, Suffolk University Theater Department, and Boston’s own Metropolitan Opera Chorale.