Bio

Born in America at the outbreak of Word War II, then trained as an altar boy to respond in Latin, I was attracted to the theater a long time ago.

After some twenty years working and teaching as a scenic designer, I left traditional theater, established a studio in Seattle and began making street theater — using puppets.

PUPPETSOUP THEATER OF OBJECTS, [pstoo] gave birth to its first shows on the street in 1982. Performing on the street has its drawbacks, however, and I began thinking of a show that I could do on a large tabletop; and then after the show — serve a soup supper! So was born the SOUPTALKS TRILOGY — a miniature epic that asks:

“Why are we here and why do we have so many weapons?”

The use of video in the project led to my interest in making a documentary, and PUPPET FESTIVAL was the result — published on VHS just as the world was switching to DVDs! Enough of that nonsense. Two recent movies were released online: LETTERHOME and EIGHT SONGS FOR A WHEAT HARVEST.

Upon renovating, then moving to the former St. Michael’s Catholic Church of Snohomish, my fascination with the history of our riverside town resulted in a book of historic images released by Arcadia Publishers in 2007, “Early Snohomish.”