Alex and Olmsted is an internationally acclaimed puppet theater and filmmaking company based in Baltimore, Maryland.
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"The duo Alex & Olmsted — Alex Vernon and Sarah Olmsted Thomas — invented [Milo's] world, which includes other puppets made of cleverly repurposed materials. Milo... aspires to be an illusionist, and while his tricks and experiments rarely work out as planned, children will still find them magical."
- Laurel Graeber, The New York Times |
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"In a world where cruelty can flourish, maybe we need more puppets. 'They're a "Trojan horse for empathy,' says Alex Vernon, half of the Baltimore-based puppet and filmmaking company Alex and Olmsted. 'To watch a puppet is to feel for it,' says Sarah Olmsted Thomas, the troupe's other mastermind. 'You're viewing something that is otherwise an object, and it's no longer objectified. You're giving it Context and meaning. And when you train yourself to do that, you're training yourself to do that more in other realms of life perhaps even with other people.'"
- Celia Wren, The Washington Post |
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“Weird and wonderful… an innovative romp through the nature and paradoxes of puppetry itself. It is clear why Alex and Olmsted have the Henson Foundation’s support — their work is a delight that pushes the boundaries of the art.”
- Jennifer Georgia, DC Theater Arts |
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...amusing, charming, delightful and, at times, utterly and completely astonishing...and I can say, with confidence, that they are out of this world."
- Lorraine Treanor, DC Theater Scene |
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“...equal parts awkwardness and side-splitting laughter... You might expect sappy. It's not sappy. You might expect sentimental. It's not sentimental. You might expect predictable. It's not predictable. ...This team has an amazing mastery of their craft... each movement of each performer is so precisely choreographed that it resembles dance even when it isn't.”
- Cybele Pomeroy, Broadway World |
lead photo by DJ Corey Photography
