Making a Hand Puppet

Audra Balion

Audra Balion is an interdisciplinary artist from Saskatoon. She has a BFA in Studio Art and works in both visual and performing arts, including puppetry. She has worked as a puppeteer for Wide Open Puppet Theatre, and puppet maker/trainer for Orange Jacket Kid's series "Imagination Station" at the Saskatoon Fringe Festival. Her biggest self produced puppet show was a short play called "Duet of the Mermaid and the Mime" for the FLoYD Youth Theatre Festival. "Duet" was a wordless visual narrative, which used many kinds of puppets, sound, and lyrical movement, to guide the audience through a surreal story. Her puppet designs tend to be fantastical creatures or monsters, but they are mostly friendly.