MINDY ESCOBAR LEANSE
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​My stage puppetry credits include Little Red Fish (NY Children’s Theater & Puppet Kitchen), Carnival of the Animals with the Little Orchestra Society, and multiple roles with the Puppet Shakespeare Players—including in Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, and Titus Andronicus. I have also worked as Lead Puppeteer in Reusable the Musical (dir. John Tartaglia) and toured nationally with Dinosaur Train Live! as "Tiny" with the Jim Henson Company. In addition to puppet performance, I have contributed to puppet design, build, and ensemble work for original productions such as Spring Awakening (Access Theatre), The Egg Layers, and Lucy and This Guy (One Blue Cat Productions). I'm happily known for my collaborative approach and my passion for sustainable puppet-making—often using recycled and found materials to give new life to the discarded.
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A dedicated and multidisciplinary puppeteer (hand & rod, glove, tabletop, large-scale, Bunraku), I have been creating and performing with puppets across the U.S. and internationally for over a decade. I am a proud alumna of the prestigious National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (2012–2014) and a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City (2007–2009). My work spans performance, design, building, animation, and wrangling for stage and screen.
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Recent puppetry performance credits include What Once Was (2025, Lead Puppeteer) at The Plaza Theatre in Texas, and Brundibar (2023–24, Video Puppet Animator) at The Philanthropy Theatre. I've led puppetry and wrangling efforts in The Last Rat of Theresienstadt at the El Paso Holocaust Museum and toured internationally with the same production for the International Festival of Puppet and Film Animation in Poland, for which we received the Teatr Lalka Puppet Festival's “Outstanding Moment of Puppetry” award.

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