Gallery: The Free Columbia Puppet Troupe

Nathaniel Williams has helped create seven puppet theater projects since the intensive art-and-anthroposophy program Free Columbia began. These projects included all the elements of puppet-theater, from conception and design to touring and performance. “Momo, the Time Titan” was the most recent, in summer 2016. These four pages present images from several of the Troupe’s productions.

Sarah Parrilli and puppets from the Ramapo Salamander production

Above, Sarah Parrilli and puppets from the Ramapo Salamander production.

from the Ramapo Salamander production

Nathaniel Williams, director of the Free Columbia Puppet Troupe (in 2016)

Clay sketches

Emma Wade stringing up Guido

Mattie Barber-Bockelman and Gabriel Rodriguez in Momo

Michael Balin with Figaro from Momo

Guido and Momo hanging out...

Emma Wade and Nao Kobashi in Momo

The Peacemaker Project at the Henry Hudson Riverfront Park in Hudson, NY (photo: Fumie Ishi)

The Peacemaker Project at the Henry Hudson Riverfront Park in Hudson, NY (photo: Fumie Ishi)

The 2014 Free Columbia Puppet Troupe and the puppets for the Peacemaker Project (photo: Fumie Ishi)

2011 Performance of Ludwig Tieck’s Booted Tomcat at the Basilica, Hudson NY

Michael Balin of the Free Columbia Puppet Troupe, prepares for production of the “Ramapo Salamander” (from the cover of being human magazine)