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Linda
Roberts earned her B.A. in English, with a concentration
in dramatic literature, from Indiana University. She
holds a Masters in Education from the University
of Chicago, where she taught Remedial Reading
at the Laboratory School. She began her career as
a professional puppeteer in 1970 when she began touring
the Midwest with Cole Marionettes. In 1982 Linda founded
Roberts Marionettes and, as its Artistic Director,
adapts and produces folktales. She has presented
nearly 12,000 performances to well over three million
students. Linda has taught drama to seventh-graders,
toured the state of Michigan as a circus aerialist,
and works in theatre as an actress, designer, and
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Sauers has an MBA from
the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
and is retired from a career in data processing which
began when a computer was almost as large as a room.
He has been interested in theatre, especially acting
and set construction, since he was in sixth grade--and
that was more than sixty years ago. He is skilled
as an artist in ceramics, sculpting, wood-working, casting,
and mold-making. When Roberts Marionettes was founded
in 1982, Fred became the company's puppet-maker
and Technical Director. He has created almost
100 puppets and has co-produced eight productions
for Roberts Marionettes. Fred hand-carves the puppets
from wood to 1/4 to nearly 1/2 human scale. It takes
forty hours to carve, cast, joint, paint, wig, costume,
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Kay
Capasso grew up under the heavy influence of Sesame Street. She spent five
years as an ASL interpreter at an elementary school, then got a theatre scholarship to Alma
College in Michigan. She graduated in 2006 with her BA
in Theatre. Since then, she has made Chicago her home and acting her life. She has been seen on various stages around the city and has
toured children's shows around the country. Her venture into professional puppeteering is recent, but long-awaited, as she has wanted to be a puppeteer since she realized there were people(!) behind those Muppets. She is currently working on the pilot DVD of Mr. Furry Fur Fur and his Friendly Earth Friends with
a very silly girl squirrel.
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