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The Creating Calm Network is proud to shine its light on the amazing, magical and talented Stacey Weingarten.
Stacey has many wonderful projects but today we are going to chat about her production of Rescue Rue.
Inspired by a true story, Rescue Rue is a musical fairytale with puppets that tells one dog’s journey from shelter to adoption, finding her Furever home in NYC.
Rescue Rue features Book & Lyrics by Stacey Weingarten,
Music & Lyrics by Kate Steinberg and Joshua Zecher-Ross.
Stacey has many wonderful projects but today we are going to chat about her production of Rescue Rue.
Inspired by a true story, Rescue Rue is a musical fairytale with puppets that tells one dog’s journey from shelter to adoption, finding her Furever home in NYC.
Rescue Rue features Book & Lyrics by Stacey Weingarten,
Music & Lyrics by Kate Steinberg and Joshua Zecher-Ross.
About Stacey Weingarten: Stacey graduated from Fordham University with a double major in Theatre Directing and Communications at the same time as she made her Off-Broadway debut as “Bubbles” in John Tartaglia’s ImaginOcean. She is the Executive Producer of Chinese Mother Jewish Daughter LLC. Her first libretto, Les Enfants de Paris, with music and lyrics by David Levinson and direction by Donna Drake, premiered at NYMF in 2011 (also produced by Chinese Mother LLC).
Stacey is the Lead Writer/Co-Producer/Puppet Designer of Monica’s Mixing Bowl, a cooking-themed webseries for children and families.
In term of puppetry, Stacey is an experienced puppet wrangler (including work on Sesame Street), puppet/prop builder (including work at The Puppet Kitchen), and puppeteer. Of late she can be found working at Avenue Q Off-Broadway where I’m the Puppet Wrangler/Wardrobe Head, and teaching Puppetry at Pace University.
Stacey is the Lead Writer/Co-Producer/Puppet Designer of Monica’s Mixing Bowl, a cooking-themed webseries for children and families.
In term of puppetry, Stacey is an experienced puppet wrangler (including work on Sesame Street), puppet/prop builder (including work at The Puppet Kitchen), and puppeteer. Of late she can be found working at Avenue Q Off-Broadway where I’m the Puppet Wrangler/Wardrobe Head, and teaching Puppetry at Pace University.