You can make puppets out of almost anything.
— Jim Henson
 

Description

Three puppeteers challenge each other to create the best and funniest puppet using a box of junk and their imagination.

If you grew up watching Sesame Street or The Muppet Show you experienced how silly, fun, and engaging puppets can be.

If you are a fan of reality competition shows like Making It or the Great British Baking Show, then you know how exhilarating and tense the creative process can be under pressure. 

Trash Puppets combines the best creative and competitive elements from these shows into a one of a kind comedy experience.

The cast and puppeteers of the hit show, Puppets: Here & There return to challenge one another with a simple task: take a box of hand-selected “junk” and use it to build a puppet. 

Trash Puppets is the only puppet building competition and improv comedy show that is also perfect family entertainment. Don’t miss it!

Cast: David Dritsas, Emily Davis, Kelsey Hébert, Alexis Howland, and Dave Jadico

 
 
RATED PG | IMPROV & PUPPETRY

Schedule

📅 Show Times
Friday, January 10 @ 7 PM
Friday, January 17 @ 7 PM
Sunday, January 19 @ 2 PM
Friday, January 24 @ 7 PM

📍Where
CSz Philadelphia | 2030 Sansom Street

Running Time
1 hour

🥤 Concessions
Snacks and soft drinks are available for purchase. We are BYOB.

Tickets


Cast

DAVID DRITSAS - David has been performing improv and sketch professionally for 23 years, working at ComedySportz in Philadelphia and Chicago. He also worked for The Second City Theatricals department, performing in various shows and aboard cruise ships. He has performed at the Annoyance Theater in Chicago in the long-running hit show, Hitch-Cocktails. He's back in Philly and regularly performs with popular improv shows such as Murder Manor, Roll Play, Off the Record, Puppets Here and There, and Trash Puppets. He also teaches for the Philadelphia School of Improv and facilitates corporate workshops for the CSz Applied Improv Program.

EMILY DAVIS - Emily Davis has been performing in Philly since 2008 and has been a member of ComedySportz since 2015. She has been involved in puppeteering projects like the Untitled Holiday Puppet Show, CSz Philly's Puppets Here and There, and the original run of Trash Puppets, and she’s excited to do it again! Other projects include This Week Sucked at The Lab, Roll Play at SideQuest Theater, and ComedySportz.

KELSEY HÉBERT - Kelsey Hébert is a Philadelphia-based theatre artist with a BFA in Performance from the University of Southern Mississippi. Kelsey has worked with multiple regional theaters including Act II Playhouse, The Arden Theatre, and Delaware Theatre Company. She is currently a company member at ComedySportz Philadelphia and performs with multiple improv ensembles including Roll Play: An Improvised Adventure, Off The Record, and KDM. Kelsey is also a co-founder of SideQuest Theater, and is forever grateful to be part of the Philadelphia Improv Community.

ALEXIS HOWLAND - Alexis Howland is a Philadelphia-based physical theater artist. Her work spans clown, improv, puppetry, and sketch comedy. Her ensemble collaborations include Poor Judge (Pig Iron Theatre Company), Ghost Ride (Agile Rascal Theatre), Puppets Here & There (CSz), Trash Puppets (CSz), Ranchland (Shoe Box Theatre Company), WILD: A Clown Western (Shoe Box Theatre Company), and Welcome to Anhedonia live show (Big Howl Productions). She was a company member at the Philly Improv Theater on several house improv and sketch teams. She has performed at Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, Montreal Sketchfest, Weirdo Odd Fest, Charm City Comedy Festival, the Del Close Marathon, Dragon Con, and Venice Island Short Theatre Festival. She is a graduate of the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training.

DAVE JADICO - Dave Jadico has been performing in Philadelphia for over thirty years. He appeared in the Barrymore Award-winning ensembles of Batboy and Suburban Love Songs (1812 Productions), Comedy of Errors (Lantern Theater), and has also appeared in shows at The Arden, The Walnut, DTC, InterAct, EgoPo, and the fondly-remembered Mum Puppettheatre in The Fantasticks where he won the Barrymore Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical simultaneously performing Henry, Mortimer, and The Mute. He appeared in and wrote for 1812’s This Is The Week That Is for sixteen years and can be seen on stage most Saturday nights improvising in ComedySportz, where he has appeared in over 1,300 shows since 1994.


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