Puppetry

Brandshaft Marionettes
Makes personalized puppets. Photo gallery of works, including celebrities, family members and imaginary figures.
http://www.shunammite.com/puppets.html

Dynamic New Animation
A performance company that uses puppetry to creates shows for children and adults, and teaches puppetry. Information about shows, education, history, and contact details.
http://www.dynamicnewanimation.co.uk

The Great Shadow Play Nang Yai
An introduction to the classical Thai shadow play and the Nang Yai Conservation Project.
http://www.mahidol.ac.th/thailand/shadow.html

Greek Marionette Theater
All about marionettes in Greece and world wide. Videos, photos, links, and the marionette history.
http://www.marionette.gr

Internationaal Poppentheater Festival
An annual puppet theatre festival held each summer in Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Includes program information and photos from previous years' events.
http://www.poppentheaterfestival.nl/index.php?page=static&id=5

International Marionnette Institute
The International Puppet Institute of Charleville-Mézières was founded in 1981. Together with its National School of Puppetry (ESNAM), both with a world-wide concern, it represents an unparalleled set of means and activities dedicated to puppetry and its promotion. The Institute deals with many fields: education, vocational and continuous training, courses, meetings, publishing, research and documentation, exhibitions. Site in French and English.
http://www.marionnette.com/

The Jim Henson Foundation
Founded in 1982 by Jim Henson to promote and develop the art of puppet theater in the United States, the Foundation awards grants to American puppet artists to develop new works of contemporary puppet theater.
http://www.hensonfoundation.org/

Merrynettes
Hand crafted professional quality theater marionettes. Also creates one-of-a-kind caricature marionettes of celebrities, family, and friends.
http://www.merrynettes.com

Pat Brymer Creations
Creating professional hand puppets and costume characters for over seventeen years. Biography of Pat Brymer and the company, and photo gallery of creations.
http://www.pbcreations.com/

Pelham Puppets Online
Puppet collectors, dedicated to puppets made by the Pelham Company from 1947 to 1992. History, care, range and classifieds.
http://www.ppo.co.uk/

Punch and Judy
A nice history of Punch and Judy.
http://www.desktop.demon.co.uk/punch/punch.html

The Punch and Judy College of Professors
UK organisation of leading professional Punch and Judy performers.
http://www.punchandjudy.org

Puppet Resources
Archive of free puppet skits, scripts and other resources.
http://www.puppetresources.com

The Puppeteers' Cooperative
Contains information on how to make giant puppets, parades, and pageants.
http://www.gis.net/~puppetco/

Puppeteers of America
National Association of Puppetry. Festivals, membership information.
http://www.puppeteers.org/

PuppetFest Midwest
Annual event in Missouri presented by the Rumpelstiltskin Society. The purposeis to promote, encourage and illustrate the traditional skills of good puppet theatre. Includes photographs and details of each year's events.
http://www.puppetfestival.org/

The Puppetry Homepage
A puppet information resource including classifieds, events, workshops, techniques and construction.
http://www.puppetry.info/puppetry/

Puppetry Tech Notes
Short articles on various technical subjects about making and performing puppetry.
http://masterwill.blogspot.com/

Puppets2000
An award winning, unique and highly interactive entertainment puppet site, containing "Behind-the-Scenes" and "How To" activities, as well as strong visual components with easy-to-use navigation.
http://www.puppets2000.com

Puppets and Stuff
Virtual community for puppeteers or puppet enthusiasts from around the world. Free home pages.
http://puppetsandstuff.com

Push Puppets
An on-line gallery of both old and modern push puppets.
http://website.lineone.net/~honeywood/

Renaissance Artist
Puppet builders and performers. Custom built puppets, mascot costumes, masks, and soft sculpture. Artist-in-Residence packages for schools.
http://www.renaissanceartist.com

Scott Radke
Produces marionettes, drawings, and sand sculptures.
http://www.scottradke.com/

Teia Moner. Theatre and puppets
Actress and puppeteer from Barcelona. Provides history, projects,images from puppets, shows, workshops and exhibitions.
http://www.teiamoner.com

Uwe Sörensen
Maker of character marionettes, portrait puppets based on photographs, and string puppets, located in Hamburg, Germany.
http://www.marionettenbau.de/

Wel Ya Wel
Information about a puppet troupe, their characters and repertoire. Includes their history and mission statement.
http://www.welyawel.com/

World Wide Puppets
Photos and brief descriptions of works created for puppet theatre. See page two for information about "Reocurring Dreams", and how to participate in this new work for puppet theatre.
http://members.aol.com/cappy1pup/index.html

WWWF Grudge Match: Lamb Chop vs. Pets.com
Pet Sematary III: A sock puppet battle from beyond the grave. [Humor]
http://www.grudge-match.com/History/lambchop-petscom.shtml