| Hi! Here are some details about myself: |
| My name is: |
Mike Competillo |
| I have a home page at: |
www.ithacavideo.com
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| My occupation (when I'm not doing puppets!) is: |
Bus driver & video producer |
| My approximate age is: |
45 - 60 |
| I live in the state of: |
NY |
| ... in the country of: |
USA |
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| Here's some information about my church or puppetry organisation: |
| My organisation's name is: |
Praisin' Puppets |
| My organisation's website is at: |
www.grotonag.org/puppets.htm
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| Some of My Puppetry Background |
| Q: Why do you write puppet scripts? What motivates you? |
| I love Jesus. I hope to start a video clip ministry soon where people can simply send evangelistic video clip links to their non-Christian friends to help them understand what Christianity is all about. For more information see http://videoministry.blog-city.com |
| Q: Tell us about your church or puppet organisation. |
http://grotonag.org is my church site.
We have a puppet team there and do puppets once a month for the children and maybe once a year or so for the adults in church. |
| Q: How did you get started in puppets and what attracted you to this area? |
| I starting watching puppets on tv back in the 1960's before muppets were around. |
| Q: Where does your inspiration come from to write puppet scripts? |
| conflicts, seasons, actual experiences, stories |
| Q: What advice would you give to someone just starting out in puppetry? |
| Open the puppet mouth when you open yours to talk and not the other way around. Also, have your puppet move around as if it's looking here and there, responding to the other puppets to make it more lifelike. Don't just prop it up there to stare into space. Puppets have more than just a mouth, they have a body... or part of one anyway. |
| Q: Who are your favourite puppet characters and what do you like about them? |
| Ernie and Bert & their interaction with 'live' looking set |
| Q: What are the most important qualities in great puppet scripts? |
| conflicts, solutions, character traits |
| Q: What would you do if you were a puppet? |
| Hope my dad's name was Gheppetto |
