Michael Haverty is the director, designer, and puppeteer behind Haverty Marionettes. Michael has performed and directed extensively at the Center for Puppetry Arts in both the Family and New Directions (adult) series, puppeteering in over fifteen shows and touring internationally. Since 2004 he has served as the program director of ‘Xperimental Puppetry Theater’. Haverty Marionettes has received grants from the Jim Henson Foundation, Puppeteers of America, and the Meet the Composer Foundation, and performed at the 2009 National Puppetry Festival.

   

    Haverty Marionettes creates bold, dynamically sensorial theater. With innovative adaptations and original work, we seek to expand and explore the vocabulary of puppetry and the language of theater.