MATTHEW WINDHAM is the Producing Artistic Director of The Giddy Round Theatre Collective. He was the Founding Director of the Parker Theatre’s Shakespeare Festival (UT), and a winner of the Utah Best of State Award for playwriting for Breakfast with Shakespeare. He has directed traditional Shakespeare plays for audiences young and old, ensemble-based devised works, new short works, multimedia history plays, an onstage baseball game, a play about the history of flight, an adaptation of Tolkien, and much in between, for companies across the United States.
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ESSIE WINDHAM is a multimedia artist and performer. They puppeteered on season 44 of Saturday Night Live and their solo Object Theatre production, Touched, debuted at La MaMa Experimental Theatre during the 2018 Puppetry Festival. As a puppet artist with Monkey Boys Productions they have worked on many exciting projects, including Charlie & the Chocolate Factory on Broadway, Pip’s Island in Times Square, the TV shows Helpsters and SNL, and parade and show characters for Disney World and Disney Cruises. They were the lead puppet builder for the Off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors. Windham was honored to create original puppet designs for the Enchantment Theatre Company’s U.S. Tour of The Phantom Tollbooth, and Resident Ensemble Players’ production of Inherit the Wind. Their fine-art and design work has graced galleries, billboards, and the Sundance Film Festival.
OWEN COREY is an actor, puppeteer and educator based in Philadelphia, and has performed with Philadelphia Young Playwrights (Candles), Commonwealth Classic Shakespeare Company (Measure for Measure), Cliveden House (The Liberty to Go to See), and the Hedgerow Theatre (Three Musketeers, Moby Dick, Three Sisters, and others). He is a member of the improv ensemble Bright Invention and the immersive performance company Cirque du Nuit. He also directs, teaches, and runs workshops for students ranging from middle school to college.