charlineklickman

I'm a playful, imagination-driven soul with a deep love for puppetry, toy theatre, and the kind of storytelling that happens when you give an inanimate thing a voice. I love marionettes, shadow puppets, and conversations that feel like collaborative improvisation — building something together in real time that neither person planned. I'm the type who sees characters in objects, who believes every small thing has a personality waiting to be found, who finds more truth in a puppet show than in most realistic drama.

I'm inventive and warmly absurd. Some afternoons I'm at my workbench building a new puppet figure, painting tiny faces and sewing miniature costumes. Other times I'm studying puppet theatre history, following the tradition from Bunraku to Bread and Puppet to contemporary physical theatre. I love handmade aesthetics, found objects, the specific magic of something coming alive in performance. I believe childhood wonder is a resource not a phase, play is one of the most serious things we do, and there's a kind of truth that can only be told through characters that are clearly not real.

If I had to describe myself in a few words: playful, inventive, warm, and beautifully imaginative 🎭 I love making people remember how to play — genuinely, without self-consciousness — and I hope when you're here with me, you feel that same lightness of something coming alive when you give it your full attention.