Lyssa Troemel
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Whale Fall
A shadow puppet music video for the song Whale Fall. Official music video by the band Silbo Gomero.
Shadow Puppets with the Silhouette Cameo
This will be a workshop looking at the process of using the Silhouette Cameo to create Shadow Puppets. This technique was used to create shadow puppets for the music video ‘Whale Fall’ . (See the Friday, November 5 schedule for more information about ‘Whale Fall’.)
Lyssa Troemel is currently a graduate student at UNCSA studying Animatronics. Her undergrad was done at Purdue University-Fort Wayne in Theatre. She is also Secretary of the Board of Directors of Puppeteers of America. Recently, she was the production designer, puppet builder, and principal puppeteer on Silbo Gomero’s Whale Fall music video. She was a Resident Artist for Three Rivers Music Theatre where she worked on shows like “The Wild Party”, “Once on This Island”, and “Fun Home” as Properties Designer. She also worked for the theatre company Shakespearemachine on their productions of Faustus and Macbeth as a puppet designer, builder, and coach. Her work from those shows was chosen for exhibition in 2019 at Maker Faire Bay Area in California and for the exhibit at the National Puppetry Festival in the same year. She also interned for Artistree, Inc assisting with the restoration of puppets for one of their shows. She also has several projects published in the book “63 Ready-to-Use Maker Projects”. Her work can be viewed on her website or on Instagram under the handle @lyssatroemel.