The Puppeteers

                                               Linda and Jonathan Sisson bring to their puppetry a lifetime of experience in education and the arts.

They have been selected for the Maine Arts Commission Directory of Artist Educators.

  Linda, a lifelong puppet enthusiast, is certified as an early childhood educator. She has been a preschool teacher, a high-school teacher, and an after-school program director. She enjoys the opportunity to use visual arts, fabric crafts, and singing in her puppetry. Linda also offers puppetry workshops for students and teachers.

Jonathan, a former professor of English literature and a widely published playwright, poet, fictionist, essayist, and literary translator, has long been fascinated by the communicative power of puppets. Dr. Sisson’s first play was produced at the Loeb Drama Center when he was a student at Harvard, and he now writes the scripts for the Peregrine Puppets.

Houdini is the only fully animated pup in the Sisson house. He enjoys traveling with the troupe sometimes.

Linda and Jonathan are founding members of the Eastport Puppetry Collective and members of Puppeteers of America and UNIMA.