John Tartaglia (2004 Tony Award nominee) gave a 5 week Master Class intensive in Theatre and Children's Television style puppetry beginning in May. The weekly three-hour course focused on the kinds of puppetry currently featured on Broadway and on Children's television shows. BroadwayWorld.com was there at "graduation" to bring you these photos!
About John: John Tartaglia is a 2004 Tony Award nominee and recipient of the Theatreworld Award, The Clarence Derwent Award and Playbill Online's Leading Man Award for his breakthrough performance as Princeton and Rod in Avenue Q. He's worked for more than 11 years as a puppeteer on Sesame Street and other shows such as Bear in the Big Blue House, Book of Pooh, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, Animal Jam and internationally on Sesame English. His concert performances at Joe's Pub, John Tartaglia AD-LIBerty, have received glowing reviews and several awards and has been playing to sold out crowds.Photos by Kerry Long
John gives some last minute advice to his students Then it was their turn to perform with John John holding up a poster a student made for him Class Photo!