About Me

Lisa Buckley

Professional Experience:
Member of SAG/AFTRA

Direct Path Institute – @Play – Teacher / Puppetry and Play
Lead trainer in the art of mindfulness, building of puppets and puppeteering techniques.

No Strings InternationalHumanitarian Aid Work / Workshops:
Subject matter included; WASH, DRR, Peacebuilding, Trauma, Malaria Prevention & Education, and HIV-Aids Awareness.
Iraq, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Egypt, Haiti, Kenya, Cambodia, Turkey, Philippines, South Sudan, Tanzania, Bangladesh and Madagascar.

Workshop Coordinator / Puppeteer

• Lead trainer in the building of puppets and puppeteering techniques.

• Principle puppet performer on No Strings International film productions.

Television Puppet Production Work
Design, Building, Performing Puppetry Experience

• Sesame Street – Performed Betty Lou and various characters

• ALF- NBC – Assistant puppeteer

• Men in Black- Columbia Pictures – Assistant puppeteer

• Snuggle Bear Fabric Softner Commercial – Assistant puppeteer

• GE Science- General Electric – Puppet designer, builder and performer

• Dog City- FOX/Jim Henson Productions – Puppeteer

• Adventures of Timmy the Tooth- MCA/Universal – Puppet designer and builder

• eebe- Sony Wonder – Designed, built and performed

• Blues Room- Nick Jr. – Puppet builder and performer

• Charlie and Chops- Scholastic – Puppeteer

• Johnny and the Sprites – Playhouse Disney– Assistant puppeteer

• Between the Lions- PBS – Puppeteer

• Noodle and Doodle- Sprout – Puppet designer and performer

• Lazy Town- Iceland – Puppeteer

• Oobi- Noggin– Puppeteer

• It’s a Magic Al World– Playwrights New Horizons- Built and performed puppet, Off Broadway Play

Education:

* ColumbiaX (Verified Certificate) – MGC: Menstruation in a Global Context

* Southern Connecticut State University, CT – Ongoing studies in Theater and Arts

* 200 Hour Yoga Certification

* 30 Hour Trauma Yoga Certification

* 30 Hour Children’s Yoga Certification

* 33 Hour – First Moon Circle Facilitator (Menstrual Education)

* Member of Yoga Alliance

I enjoy teaching yoga to both adults and children. I incorporate yoga techniques in all my puppet workshops. I find that it allows the participants to relax and focus, so the creative juices can flow! When I teach yoga to children, I use a puppet as a way to keep the yoga classes fun.

Sattva Creative Arts - Lisa Buckley