About Ann Legunn
Ann Legunn has over 40-years of experience in professional theater and puppetry.
During that time, she has developed a wide range of educational and instructional skills. These include:
• Facilitating group activities and projects—using a working knowledge of group dynamics—to help people to make their own artistic discoveries
• Conducting workshops for teachers and students in a variety of crafts and skills:
– Visual arts—painting, drawing, woodworking, puppet making
– Sculpture—molds and casting
– Costuming—designing, sewing, pattern making, needle crafts
– Creative Dramatics—playwriting, improvisation, movement, music, dance, mime.
Ann’s theater skills comes from extensive and varied performance experiences:
CURRENT
• Artistic Director of the Puppetree, Inc.:
– Created and directed a shadow puppet play of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
– Artist-in-Residence at a variety of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine public schools, parks and recreation departments, and community theaters
• Performer in Carol Langstaff’s Flock Dance Company, Star Mountain VT
• Performer at RiverFest and other local cultural events
SUMMER CAMP THEATER PROGRAMS
• Camp Manaqua, Wisconsin ‘99
• Camp Aloha Hive, Fairlee VT ’97 and `98
• Camp Chateaugay , Merrill NY ’96
PUPPETRY, CHILDREN’S THEATER PROGRAMS, TEACHING
• Integrated Arts programs at:
– Bradford Elementary School . Bradford , VT (2003)
– Cornish Elementary School , Cornish, NH
• The Flatbush Family Network Puppetry Workshops ( Brooklyn , NY )—’98 BACA Grant
• P. S. 217’s New Community Theatre ( Brooklyn , NY )—’97 BACA Grant & One City Awards
• P.S. 107/Park Slope Geriatric Day Center ( Brooklyn , NY ) Intergenerational Program—’96 BACA Grant
• Hempstead , NY Parks and Recreation Department
• Madison , Wisconsin Department of Parks and Recreation
• North Carolina Council for the Arts at Clemson University
THEATER AND TELEVISION:
• Captain Kangaroo for CBS Television Guest Star
• Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular
• Industrial Film “His Master’s Voice” for RCA Records
• Scott Newman Foundation, with Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman,
Drug Abuse Film (directed by Julie Taymar)
• Bill Baird Marionettes
• Asolo State Theater, Sarasota , Florida
• The Grove Street Theater, New York , New York
• Golden Apple Dinner Theater, Sarasota , Florida
• The Ohio Valley Summer Theater