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The Jim Henson Company has remained an established leader in family entertainment for over 70 years and is recognized as an innovator in puppetry, animatronics, and digital animation. The Company’s most recent credits include the hit holiday special for Apple TVThe First Snow of Fraggle Rock,as well as the Emmy-nominatedAlexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Tripfor Disney+, the Oscar®-winningGuillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchiofor Netflix, and the Emmy®-winningFraggle Rock: Back to the Rockfor Apple TV. Other television credits includeSlumberkinsandHarriet the Spyfor Apple TV;Dinosaur Train,Splash and Bubbles, andSid the Science Kidall for PBS;Earth to Nedfor Disney+; andthe Netflix seriesWord Partyand the Emmy-winningThe Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Iconic catalogue titles includeFraggle Rock,The Storyteller,Farscape, and the ground-breaking fantasy classicsThe Dark CrystalandLabyrinth. Headquartered in Los Angeles with additional locations in New York and London, the Company is also home to Jim Henson’s Creature Shop™, a pre-eminent puppet and creature-building group and industry leader in puppeteered digital animation, with international film, television, theme park, and advertising clients.

Since 2000 Punchdrunk has pioneered a game-changing form of theatre in which roaming audiences experience epic storytelling inside unique sensory worlds. Blending classic texts, physical performance, award-winning design installation and unexpected sites, the company’s infectious format rejects the passive obedience usually expected of audiences. Punchdrunk has developed a worldwide reputation for transformative productions that focus as much on the audience and the performance space as on the performers and narrative. Inspired designers occupy deserted buildings and apply a cinematic level of detail to immerse the audience in the world of the show. Punchdrunk productions are unique theatrical experiences, where the lines between space, performer and spectator are constantly shifting. Audiences are invited to rediscover the childlike excitement and anticipation of exploring the unknown and experience a real sense of adventure. Free to encounter the installed environment in an individual imaginative journey, the choice of what to watch and where to go is yours alone. Led by Felix Barrett, the Chief Executive and the Punchdrunk creative team, the company produces a selection of its groundbreaking commercial projects internationally, forging partnerships with selected organisations. Sleep No More in New York has been playing to sell out audiences since 2011, and in Shanghai the show has been running since 2016 having become the longest running show in the city's history. In 2020 Punchdrunk and writer Dennis Kelly created The Third Day, a TV series co-produced with HBO and Sky Studios in partnership with Plan B Entertainment. Designed to be the world’s first immersive TV series, the first transmission included an episode called The Third Day: Autumn recorded as-live in one continuous, 12-hour take. This innovative theatrical event received an RTS Award for Best Live Event, and was also nominated for a BAFTA in the Live Event category.

Puppet Showplace Theater is New England’s only professional year-round theater dedicated to presenting live puppetry. Each year, we present over 300 performances by professional puppet companies to audiences in our Brookline Village theater. Our touring shows travel to schools, libraries, and cultural centers throughout the Northeast region. We offer workshops, classes, summer camps, and training opportunities to both children and adults, and we partner with emerging artists to develop new work. We share our passion for puppetry as a vital, living art form and strive to engage audiences of all ages abilities and backgrounds. We support the use of puppetry for entertainment, in education, and as a means of creative self-expression. After 40 years of operations, the theater has become a treasured cultural institution. Puppet Showplace is run by an experienced staff and volunteer board of trustees. We are supported by contributions from individual donors, local businesses and foundation and government grants. From children’s birthday party performances to provocative Puppets at Night performances, our programming is designed to reach a large and diverse audience.