The Mudlark Puppeteers are the resident company of New Orleans Mudlark Public Theatre. As a company, the Mudlark Puppeteers specialize in puppet theatre that is innovative and unconventional, presenting original and little-told stories of heroic misfits and wayward love. The Mudlarks have a developing repertory of object-based works in a variety of scales. Our work explores history and human experience through a lens of fable, waging a playful but determined battle for alternative modes of being. The Mudlarks perform regularly in New Orleans and have toured in Texas and throughout New England. They host regular workshops on the fundamentals of puppetry in New Orleans schools and in collaboration with The Marigny Opera House.
The Mudlark Public Theatre is a black box performance space, located in New Orleans' 9th Ward. The Mudlark is an active, low-cost venue and community space, that centralizes the preservation of public discourse. Serving as laboratory for local and touring artists and lecturers, The Mudlark is a space where emerging narratives hold congress with history.