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Bio Mr. Paasch has been responsible for dozens of unique and highly praised puppet performances at SCT, from the 25-foot-tall Giant in Jack and the Beanstalk, a mechanical puppet brought to life by 5 operators with the assistance of hydraulics and live video, to the 12-inch-long clam in A Day at the Beach, a simple hand puppet that was the co-star of a two character play. By the end of the 2006-2007 season, he will have worked on his 47th production with puppets for SCT. While at Seattle Children’s Theatre, Mr. Paasch has worked with a variety of well-respected regional theatre directors. He has also been involved in a number of SCT collaborations with international companies such as Speeltheater Holland and the Novosibirsk State Children’s Theater. In addition to his long-standing association with SCT, Mr. Paasch has worked with a variety of local and regional professional theatre companies: Seattle Repertory Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Civic Light Opera, Book-It Repertory Theatre (all in Seattle), South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, CA), and Childsplay Theatre Company (Tempe, Arizona). He has designed and built puppets for a variety of local fringe theatre groups, youth theatre productions, and several local television stations. International projects have included Playing with Klee, a collaboration with the Ming Ri Theatre, which was built, rehearsed and performed in Hong Kong, and This, the Next and then the Peach Orchard, which performed at the Pierrott 2003 International Adult Puppetry Festival in Bulgaria and Serbia. Douglas recently puppeted many characters and objects in a new movie scheduled for release in 2006: Dantes’ Inferno, with puppet direction by Paul Zaloom. Douglas has performed and participated in workshops at the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Connecticut, and he was invited back as an “emerging artist” under a special grant to develop his own work. This experience created the foundation for his first self-produced production, Infinite Noir, which will be performed in Seattle in the summer of 2006. Beyond the world of puppetry, Mr. Paasch has also worked extensively as a theatre technician, with special expertise in theatrical effects. He has also, in previous lives, been a singer and an audio technician. Mr. Paasch has been a guest artist/instructor at CalArts, the University of Washington, University of Puget Sound, Seattle University, Cornish College of the Arts, and SCT Drama School, and has been a faculty member at the Art Institute of Seattle for 16 years. |
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