Liz Oakley
Puppet artist
Vancouver, BC
Liz Oakley (she/they) is a puppeteer, deviser, designer, and teaching artist. Originally from New York City, she is currently in Vancouver pursuing an MFA at SFU.
Liz creates collaborative and solo multidisciplinary object-based performances, installations, and processions. Various iterations of their in-process solo performance Bodywhere, in which the body becomes performance site and landscape, have appeared in NYC at the Performance Mix Festival, Puppet BloK at Dixon Place, Puppet Spread at The Tank and the Object Movement Festival. Their project The Anywhere Festival of Everywhere Stages, a collection of miniature site-specific street corner puppet shows, appeared at the Art in Odd Places Festival and was the recipient of the May 2021 NYC Awesome Grant. Parades for All Occasions, a participatory DIY procession co-created with Ali Goss, has appeared at the New York State Puppet Festival, the Philadelphia Honk Festival, and the Wassaic Project. She also works as a freelance puppet designer and puppeteer. Liz has been a teaching artist with Puppetry In Practice in NYC and with Spiral Q in Philadelphia.
She is also ⅓ of the Out of Work Puppeteers, a collective that manages the Misfit Puppet Troupe.
About Us
UNIMA West is the Western Canadian Centre of UNIMA Canada, which is itself a National Centre of UNIMA International.
UNIMA West is supported in part by fiscal agent Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry (CAMP).
