Equipping educators with the tools to lead puppetry and visual theatre units within a school context is a core part of the Dead Puppet Society Education program. We have developed a deeply practical approach to scaffolding the learning and skills development of students while also offering a clear pedagogy for teachers to apply within their own classrooms.

Dead Puppet Society offers teachers the chance to be guided through our methodology of visual theatre and design-led practice, and offers a crash course in the skills needed to support school students in the areas of puppetry, contemporary performance, visual theatre, and ensemble performance.

A professional development session will give teachers a hands-on practical learning opportunity to cover the following areas:

• Introduction to Puppetry and Manipulation
• Introduction to Abstract and Object Puppetry
• Devising for Visual Theatre
• Storyboarding and Stagecraft
• Puppet Construction
• Shadow Play
• Visual Theatre Conventions and how to approach them
• Directing for Visual Theatre and Ensemble Performance