Puppetry

Just Me and My Girl is a two-minute lambe-lambe show inspired by the work of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston. Set in the early 1900’s in Washington DC, it features the gender-bending that Johnston expressed through her photography as a celebration of queerness in history. It was created in 2023 and premiered as part of Shoebox Puppet Fest at Rhizome DC, as seen in the video below.

Heartspace is part of the devised theater work the earth, that is sufficient, which was produced over the course of 2019 by The Welders. The performance included a marionette and hand puppet of Lucy the Australopithecus, constructed by Cecilia Cackley and Genna Beth Davidson and performed by Cecilia Cackley.

Viva Frida is a two-minute teatro lambe-lambe show, inspired by the picture book Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales. After premiering in Washington DC at the American Library Association Annual conference, Viva Frida was performed in Barcelona in November 2019 as part of a celebration of 30 years of lambe-lambe puppetry produced by La Pupila Produccions, as seen in the video below.

Saudade is a puppet play by Cecilia Cackley that uses shadows and light to explore the experience of being an immigrant in Washington, DC. Saudade was designed by Katherine Fahey and built and produced by Wit's End Puppets. It premiered at the Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival 2015 and has been seen at the Winnipeg International Storytelling Festival, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, President Lincoln's Cottage and Open Eye Figure Theatre.

DRIFT is a teatro lambe-lambe show created by Cecilia Cackley as part of the show I thought the earth remembered me, and produced by banished? productions for the 2015 Capital Fringe Festival. 

Cecilia Cackley is a co-founder of Wit’s End Puppets. An experimental puppet company based in Washington DC from 2012-2019,  Wit's End Puppets created puppets for shows by GALA Hispanic Theatre and Arts on the Horizon and presented shows at the Page to Stage Festival at the Kennedy Center, the Winnipeg International Storytelling Festival, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and Open Eye Figure Theater in Minneapolis. For more information, please visit www.witsendpuppets.com. 

Adjusting the Volume is a multimedia show with puppets by Cecilia Cackley, music by Haskell Small and conceptual art by Lee Gainer produced at the 2011 Source Theater Festival as part of the Artistic Blind Date program.