Monitor Puppetry at the Carriage House

Join puppeteer Sebastiano Ricci for an introduction to monitor puppetry or come practice your skills with friends.

FREE / Pay-What-You-Can

Bring Your Own Puppet (We'll have a limited stash available)

Sebastiano Ricci was born and raised in Staten Island, NY, and moved out to Long Island in 2011, and then moved to Manhattan in 2021. As a child he was always fascinated with how things worked, which always had him thinking, how to puppets work? Someone must be controlling them, and someone must be building them. This began his obsession with anything that was touched by the name Jim Henson.

Fast forward a while, and Sebastiano was selected into an advanced puppeteer workshop run by Sesame Workshop, graduated with a Bachelor's in Puppet Arts, and began his journey to making his childhood obsession into a career.   Since then he has worked with The Jim Henson Company, Spiffy Pictures, and Sesame Workshop. Most recently I played Tigger Off-Broadway in Disney's Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Stage Adaptation. Learn more at www.sebastianoricci.com