2025 UConn Spring Puppet Slam

The 2025 UConn Spring Puppet Slam will feature new and experimental short works by professional puppeteers and performers, including acclaimed Brooklyn-based artists Tau Bennett and Charlotte Lily Gaspard. Bennett will perform Herbert’s Lament, which explores how life isn’t easy when you’re not only broke, but also narcoleptic. Shadow puppet artist, educator, entertainer, and “bona fide fairy princess” Charlotte Lily Gaspard will perform her crankie production A Mermaid’s Life Story and Strange Bird, a shadow-puppet show played with an umbrella screen. The UConn Spring Puppet Slam also features new works by graduate and undergraduate students from the UConn Puppet Arts Program. Mansfield’s Waldron’s Studios 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/2025/03/21/2025-pring-slam/.

The UConn Spring Puppet Slam is free and open to the public; donations are greatly appreciated. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. The event will take place in UConn’s Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre, located at 2132 Hillside Road, Storrs, Conn. 06269, on the lower level (use rear entrance). For directions to the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre, visit crt.uconn.edu.