Risa Lenore

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Risa Lenore Anderson Dye is known for her creative energy in teaching and for her engaging puppet shows for family audiences She is the founder and artistic director of Possibly Puppets (www.possiblypuppets.com), a handmade visual theater company. Risa dances, acts, clowns, and creates costumes, drawings, stories, sculptures and puppets. For over 20 years, she has been teaching theater, storytelling, creative movement, puppetry and visual arts at elementary schools, preschools and beyond in the San Francisco Bay Area. She plans to bring many more stories to life.

Risa attended Jacques LeCoq’s school of international Theatre in Paris, France; the physical theater school and the laboratory of movement studies. She is an award-winning costume designer with Theater of Yugen in San Francisco and continues to use costumery in her work.  Presently, working mostly with found paper, fabric and wood, she playfully combines colors and textures into visually rich puppet theatre. Risa explores the themes of greed, loss, and environmental stewardship in her tales. Her students inspire and shape her work and she loves sharing her passions with learners of all ages.