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Four 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 online 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. 

Every week, the audience votes which Trash Puppet design is the top of the heap and which gets tossed on the pile.

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

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

Director: Joe Sabatino

This show is intended for all audiences.

DAVID DRITSAS - Coming Soon

EMILY DAVIS - Since 2008, she has studied improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade, The People’s Improv Theater, and The Magnet Theater in New York and at IO and The Annoyance in Chicago. She also interned at the Canal Café Theatre in London with their long-running sketch show, Newsrevue. She has performed with five long-form house teams in Philadelphia, an ensemble team and the Untitled Holiday Puppet Show at Figment Theater, the Philly Fringe Festival, the Philly Improv Festival, and other festivals across the country. She currently performs with her independent teams Swag Bag, I Like You, and Pepper Potts. She has also written improv curriculum, taught many levels and types of improv classes, coached house and independent teams, and edited the Aerodynamics of Yes, Christian Capozzoli’s book about improv.

KELSEY HÉBERT - is an actor/improviser who moved to Philadelphia from New Orleans after graduating with her BFA in Performance from The University of Southern Mississippi in 2018. She began teaching improv in 2017 at That’s A Wrap Studio in Hattiesburg, MS where she designed improv for film classes for children and adults. Since moving to Philly, Kelsey has taught improv at ComedySportz Philadelphia, The Lab, and Princeton Day School. Kelsey also works with the Phoenix Theatre in West Chester bringing classical work to contemporary audiences and has been a company member of ComedySportz since 2019.

ALEXIS HOWLAND - Alexis Howland is a Philadelphia-based comedian, clown, and puppeteer. She has been writing and performing sketch comedy as well as improvising for over 5 years. As a puppeteer, she performs in the ComedySportz puppet improv show Puppets Here & There and has worked on the web series Welcome to Anhedonia and performed in their live show. She was a company member at Philly Improv Theater on several house improv and sketch teams. She has performed at Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, Montreal Sketchfest, Charm City Comedy Festival, the Del Close Marathon, and Venice Island Short Theatre Festival. She has trained at ComedySportz, Philly Improv Theater, Upright Citizens Brigade, and The Clown Farm.

JOE SABATINO - Coming Soon

DAVE JADICO - Dave Jadico has been improvising and acting in Philadelphia for almost thirty years. As an actor, he has appeared in the Barrymore Award-winning ensembles of Batboy and Suburban Love Songs (1812 Productions), Comedy of Errors (Lantern Theater), and has also appeared at Arden Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company, EgoPo Classis Theater, and the fondly-remembered Mum Puppettheatre in The Fantasticks where he won the Barrymore Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical. For the past fifteen years he has also co-written and acted in the annual, smash-hit, political comedy, This Is The Week That Is with 1812. He can be seen most Saturday nights improvising in ComedySportz, the longest running show in Philly, having performed over 1,300 shows with them since 1994.