 Dr. John Bell |
Dr. John Bell (Director Of Museum) is a puppeteer and theater historian who began working in puppetry with Bread and Puppet Theater in the 1970s, and continued as a company member for over a decade. He studied theater history at Columbia University, and has since taught at New York University, Rhode Island School of Design, Emerson College and other institutions. He is a founding member of the Brooklyn-based theater company Great Small Works, and the author of many books and articles about puppetry, including Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects, Strings, Hands, Shadows: A Modern Puppet History, and American Puppet Modernism. His wife Trudi Cohen is also a puppeteer and member of Great Small Works. Their son Isaac is studying at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. | ||
 Anna Fitzgerald |
Anna Fitzgerald is an actress, clown and puppeteer from Baltimore, MD and a second year graduate student in the Puppet Arts program at the University of Connecticut. Anna is the graduate assistant at The Ballard Institute. | ||
 Dorothy White |
Dorothy (Dotty) White is a retired Fiscal Administrative Assistant from UConn’s Dramatic Arts Department. A longtime-supporter of the Ballard Institute, Dotty’s work has long been essential to its existence. A carpenter, fiscal operative, and gardener, Dotty always helps out where needed. Dotty received the 2010 Outstanding Volunteer Award from the UConn School of Fine Arts. | ||
 Michael Kim |
Michael Kim is an undergraduate junior studying biology at UConn. He has been the website designer and technician for The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry website for over a year. | ||
