GUEST:
Lisa Aimee Sturz, Artistic Director/ Owner
Red Herring Puppets
4500 North Oracle Road, Suite 421
Tucson, AZ 85705
828-273-1488
lisa@redherringpuppets.com
www.redherringpuppets.com
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Lisa Sturz has 40 years’ experience working in film, television, theatre, and educational settings. She has worked with Lucasfilm, Walt Disney Imagineering, Jim Henson Productions, NBC, PBS, the Ice Capades, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Silver Dollar City, Asheville Symphony, and many more.
She is the Artistic Director of Red Herring Puppets, a national touring company specializing in curriculum-based performances. She has an MFA in Puppetry from UCLA and has taught at CalPoly, Grinnell, & Warren Wilson colleges and led hundreds of in-school residencies.
Red Herring Puppets have been featured at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, the Puppet Showplace in Brookline, Ma., and the 1st International Puppet Fringe Festival in NYC. They have earned a California Emmy and a UNIMA citation, the highest honor in American puppetry.
Their adult production of “My Grandfather’s Prayers” has been tapped to air internationally on JLTV. Other films and TV credits include Murphy Brown, Puzzle Place, Elmo in Grouchland, Muppets from Space, Howard the Duck, the Flintstones, Ninja Turtles III, Roger Rabbit, Gremlins II, RoboCop 2 and Batman Returns.
