Paul Zaloom

Called “one of the most original and talented political satirists working in the theater” by the New York Times, performance artist and puppeteer PAUL ZALOOM has written, designed and performed 12 solo spectacles, including Fruit of Zaloom, Velvetville, and his latest spectacle, The Mother of All Enemies. A recipient of an OBIE, a BESSIE, an American Theater Wing design award, an L.A. Weekly Theater Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Zaloom is also know for his role on TV's science education cult classic, Beakman's World, as Beakman, the wacked-out, weirdo scientist who answers viewers’ questions about science, nature, and various bodily functions. Zaloom has co-written, performed in, and co-produced a toy theater, hi def, puppet film version of Dante’s Inferno, starring the voices of Dermot Mulroney and James Cromwell; the film premiered at Slamdance in January, 2007, and is currently touring film fests all over North America.

Lynn Jeffries

Lynn Jeffries is a set, costume and puppet designer and puppeteer.  Her specialty is shadow puppets, and she has become known for the short solo pieces she performs with the band, The Ditty Bops, as well as for incorporating shadow puppets into many theater productions for Cornerstone Theater Company, including As Vishnu Dreams and Body of Faith, and for other theaters around the country.  She has also created bunraku-style puppets for Farewell to Manzanar and Mary Shelley's Santa Claus at Cornerstone, and rod and hand puppets for Lily Plants a Garden, a Mark Taper Forum P.L.A.Y. production that toured Los Angeles schools.  Lynn was a lead puppeteer for the feature length toy theater film, Dante's Inferno, for which she also did much puppet rigging and some puppet design and dramaturgy.  Her collaborations with Paul Zaloom, in addition to this film, include his shadow puppet show The Mother of All Enemies, and the recent Cornerstone production, Beyond the Beyond: The Gay FutureWorld, a satirical comedy developed through improvisation with a group of gay youth and gay seniors.  In her non-puppet career, Lynn has designed sets and costumes for Cornerstone, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, The Guthrie, Long Wharf Theatre, Arena Stage, and others.  Her designs have won a Drama-Logue Award and two Garland Awards, and been nominated for an Ovation award (twice), an NAACP Theater Award, and the Lester Horton Dance Award.  She is a founding member of Cornerstone Theater Company.

Performance Times 10:30, 12:30, 2:30, 4:30
Program appropriate for ages 6 and up.
Program running time is 20 minutes.