Sarah Ashford Hart

I offer academic classes and practical workshops on puppets and masks for students and practitioners of diverse ages and backgrounds. Whether training future facilitators or engaging first-time participants, in one-off or ongoing sessions, I tailor creative activities to the given social context.

The imagination is unleashed through scenographic techniques, such as papier-mache mask-work, shadow puppetry, and stop-motion animation, propelling participants to make their own worlds of poetic imagery, where the objects take on an enchanting life of their own.

For more information, please email me: sarahashfordhart@gmail.com / sahart@wm.edu

Above: Newsprint puppet workshop in my Intro to Theatre class with university students at William & Mary, Virginia, 2025.

Above: Shadow Puppetry Workshop with Arts students from Universidad de Los Andes and incarcerated librarians in the Bogotá District Jail, Colombia, 2024

Above: papier-mache masks made in a workshop I facilitated with young men between 13 and 17 years old from Central America who were detained by the Office of Refugee Resettlement in a Juvenile Justice Center in Woodland, California, 2018.

       

 Above: final showing of Mask Theater workshop with Municipal Cultural Center of Talca, Chile 2014

      

 Above: Shadow puppet workshop in the window of Espacio a Escala arts collective, Talca, Chile 2014

Above: papier-mache masks and puppets for Art House Productions’ Camino Real, Jersey City, USA 2007

Above: shadow puppetry of The Golden Reed Pipe at Stoke Fleming Primary School, Devon, England 2009

 

Above: stop-motion animation demo to the song ‘La Glondrina’ 2008