Description: Flexitoon™ is an award-winning puppet production company established in 1979 by puppet artists Craig Marin & Olga Felgemacher. Millions of children have grown up watching their puppets on the 10-year hit PBS series Shining Time Station, starring George Carlin and Ringo Starr. (Newsday raved: “the best American part of the show was a group of zany puppets known as Flexitoons.”) Other Flexitoon credits include designing, building, and performing puppets for 260 one-hour episodes of Nickelodeon’s inaugural ser
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FLEXITOON creates and performs magical live presentations around the world in venues ranging from theaters, colleges, libraries, elementary schools, hospitals, art festivals, theme parks, cultural centers, Off-Broadway and Lincoln Center. Flexitoon opened the Global Festival of Puppet Arts in Taiwan, and represented America at the International Theatre Festival for Young People in Romania. In 2010 Flexitoon was contracted by the World Wildlife Federation to create a site-specific production for the Bronx Zo
The not-for-profit arm of Flexitoon is the Flexitoon Puppet Theatre (FPT), whose goal is to establish a permanent, professional, repertory puppet theater in New York City. FPT’s Board of Directors is comprised of theatrical and professional luminaries including Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tom Schumacher, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, and Ron Suskind.
The Flexitoon Puppets perform to delighted family audiences at the Bronx Zoo for it's annual 'Boo at the Zoo' fesitval.