Carole D'Agostino
Performance Experience
A versatile performer across various styles, I’ve performed with tiny miniatures, towering parade pieces, and almost everything in between.
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Marionettes
Tabletop & Miniatures
Hand/Rod
Black Light & Green Screen
Shadow
Object Theater
Film, TV & Web
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Bunker School, The Pint Sized Project/Tiff Gravel: Hand/rod puppeteer – Nora (2024)
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Cherry Berry Chiller commercial, McDonald’s: Hand puppeteer, voice over (2012)
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Escape Plan 2: Hades, Lionsgate: Rod puppeteer – Robot (2018)
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RadioActive music video, Imagine Dragons: Hand/rod puppeteer (2012)
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Weekly Daily News, NewsCorp/Rick Lyon: Hand/rod puppeteer – Leslie SmokinHot (2012)
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SeeMore’s Playhouse, S4Kids/Hearst Entertainment: Wrangler; puppeteer – Barb Porcupine (2006-2008)
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Altabax sales enablement video, GlaxoSmithKline: Hand/rod puppeteer, voice over (2007)
Live Puppet Theater
Original shows include:
The Hoarding Show: A three-part show including shadow puppets, tabletop puppets and object theater, developed in part at the National Puppetry Conference in 2008 & 2009 and Flock Theatre 2010.
Select appearances:
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Featured performer at the National Puppetry Festival, Minneapolis MN 2019
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Nashville International Puppet Festival 2016
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Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta GA 2014
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SeaBeast Puppetry Oddities Festival, Chicago 2014
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Puppet Showplace Theater, Brookline MA 2012
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Perishable Theater, Providence RI, 2012
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ClockWorks Puppet Theater, Brooklyn NY 2011
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Helix of Fire: Rod puppets developed at the Center for Puppetry Arts 2017 XPT Program with support from a project grant.
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Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta GA 2017
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Lake Eden Arts Festival 2016-17
Other performances
Under Night Sky by PuppetKabob/Sarah Frechette: Shadow puppeteer (2013)
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Toured various venues in VT, NH, MA, CT, and NY
Tucker John’s Best Birthday Ever by Liz Hara: Puppeteer (tabletop) – Birthday Fairy & Pimp
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National Puppetry Festival 2011
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Edinburgh Comedy Festival 2011
ImaginOcean! Off Broadway, John Tartaglia: Rod puppeteer – Jellyfish (2010)
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Originated the role of Baby JellyFish - show was Drama Desk nominated
Nosferatu by Deborah Hertzberg: Hand puppet
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National Puppet Festival St Paul, MN 2005
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O’Neill Puppetry Conference 2002
El Californio by Larry Reed, O’Neill Puppetry Conference 2001: Shadow puppeteer
74th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Jamaican Tourist Board: Rod puppeteer – Anansi (2000)
73rd Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Jamaican Tourist Board: Rod puppeteer – Water (1999)