HISTORY
Puppet Junction
was founded in 2005 by puppeteer/costume, prop & puppet builder
Serra Hirsch. With over ten years in the industry and a background in performing, education and
puppetry arts, Serra has cultivated a wide resource of artists,
educators and collaborators that she brings on board to help tackle the
scope of Puppet Junction's projects.
BIOS
SERRA
HIRSCH (Founder, Artistic Director) is a graduate of Emerson
College's Theater Arts Program (BFA) and
received a Master's in Educational Theater from New York University.
She has studied
puppet building and performance at the Eugene O'Neill
Puppetry Conference and the Institut
International de la Marionnette in
Charleville-Mézières, France. As a puppet builder/performer,
Serra's
work has been featured
in the Great Small Works'
Toy Theater Festival, Manhattan Children's
Theater, Off-Broadway at 59E59
Theater, HERE, Theater for the New City,
PS122, One Arm Red, Chashama, Dixon Place, St. Ann's Warehouse, in both National and
International puppetry festivals as well as numerous film and TV
projects. She has performed with companies such as Blind Summit, Cosmic
Bicycle Theater, Drama of Works,
David Michael Friend,
Amanda Maddock, Jane
Catherine Shaw, imnotlost and
Exploding Puppet
Productions, to name a
few. When Serra is not immersed in puppet pursuits, she leads
workshops, works in Voice
Overs for TV/Radio/Animation and dabbles in
interior design consulting. You can contact Serra at
Serra@PuppetJunction.com.
SOPHIA REMOLDE (Associate Director) is a
theater, film, dance, and puppetry artist based in New York City. Sophia
wears
many hats, including writing, directing, performing, designing, and all
that is
needed to collaborate and create. Sophia started working with puppets at
a young
age, creating hand puppet shows and performing them around the local
community.
She has since returned to her love of puppetry and is interested in
exploring
the diversity of puppetry and the strong impact that it has in art.
As a performer, Sophia has appeared in numerous
productions
at the HB Playwrights Foundation and collaborated with such artists as
George
Bartenieff, Aya Ogawa, Jane Catherine Shaw, imnotlost, SHUA Group, and
members
of SITI Company. Her puppet building and performance has been featured
at La
Mama, Dixon Place, Chashama, Theater for the New City, and St. Ann’s
Warehouse.
Sophia’s work stems from her vast movement
background. She
consistently trains in the Suzuki Method with The South Wing and SITI
Company
(in addition to Viewpoints with the latter), and choreographs as a fight
director. Sophia is thrilled to be co-creating The Dalí Project through Puppet Junction. You can contact
Sophia at sophia@puppetjunction.com.
