2025 UConn Fall Puppet Slam
In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the UConn Puppet Arts Program, the 2025 UConn Fall Puppet Slam will welcome back three Puppet Arts alumni: Mark Blashford, Sarah Frechette, and Anatar Marmol Gagné. Mark Blashford will perform Home, in which a string puppet paints, from his heart, the place he longs to be. In Out of the Darkness, Sarah Frechette embeds deep emotion into a hand-carved figure and sorrowful silhouettes in a moving portrait of sensitivity, grief and grace. Anatar M. Gagné’s Widow Bunny started as a photographic documentation of her grieving process after the unexpected loss of her husband last year. She has now transformed it into a puppet production and will premiere an excerpt at the slam. The UConn Fall Puppet Slam also features new works by graduate and undergraduate students from the UConn Puppet Arts Program. Mansfield’s Waldron’s Studio 88 will return once more as the Puppet Slam house band.
Funding for the slam is made possible, in part, by the Puppet Slam Network. These performances are recommended for mature audiences. Learn more at bimp.uconn.edu/2025/10/08/2025-fall-slam/.
The UConn Fall Puppet Slam is free and open to the public; donations are greatly appreciated. Seating is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. The event will take place in UConn’s Nafe Katter Theatre, located at 820 Bolton Rd, Storrs, Conn. 06269 (directions here).
