Some very funny puppets show us the delightfully macabre and often forgotten true stories of real people living and dying throughout history in US cities and around the world.

Cathy is a Voice Over Artist who has voiced commercial campaigns for dozens of clients across all media platforms.  As a lead vocalist with the band, ECHOecho she has performed at various New York City institutions. ECHOecho's album, Hats & Heads & Coats was released on iTunes and has been placed in programming for Viacom, Discovery and Sirus XM Satellite Radio. 

She is passionate about the environment and put that passion to work with The United Nations Development Programme's Equator Initiative, and Rainforest Alliance. She holds a Master's Degree in International Environment Policy from The Monterey Institute of International Studies. 

Wendy is an award-winning filmmaker, director, writer, choreographer, and producer. She has worked with top companies including NBC Universal, Amazon Studios, Disney, HBO, The Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and The Sacramento Ballet.  

Over the past 10 years she has worked with Grammy, Emmy, and Tony award-winning artists such as Sting, Oscar Isaac, Christopher Lloyd, James Taylor, Harry Connick, Jr., Bon Jovi’s David Bryan, and Peter Scolari. 

She has also worked on Broadway (The Pee-wee Herman show) Off-Broadway, and on both National and International tours. 

In 2016 -18, her first short film screened at 20 film festivals around the world, winning nine awards. 

Photo by: Donald Bowers

Monkey Boys Productions is a multi-medium production company that create puppets, props, creatures, costumes, practical effects, and entertainment for film, television, and stage. Co-Founders Michael Latini and Marc Petrosino combine their forty-plus years of experience as designers, fabricators, and performers, along with their unique sense of fun, to create exciting and inspiring work, for both children and adults. Their work has been seen on the stages of Broadway, The Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall. 

They have been recently nominated for a Daytime Emmy for their work on Helpsters on Apple TV+. Their work has also been seen on television, on such shows as: Saturday Night Live!, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Last Week  Tonight with John Oliver, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Today Show, and Sesame Street. 

Casey has a Bachelor’s in Natural Resources and a Masters in Library and Information Science, with a focus on archives.

In her current position at Raytheon, she consults with several NASA/JPL earth science mission projects in long term preservation of technical documents. In addition, she is continuing her professional education in family history research, completing a focused genealogy studies program through the National Genealogical Society. 

Past research topics include Victorian mourning rituals and cemetery symbolism of gravestones, true accounts of unfortunate deaths and disasters in England and early America, arsenic cults, and unusual and unique museums of Los Angeles. 

Photo by: David W. Bradford

Jeremy is an internationally renowned children’s book illustrator whose work has received numerous awards and starred reviews from critics. 

His books include There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,  Poem-mobiles, The Templeton Twins, The Secrets of the Dragon Tomb, The Emperor of Mars, What We Found in the Sofa and How It Saved the World, and The Eye That Never Sleeps. He won the prestigious Bologna Razzi’s Opera Prima Award (2010) for his debut book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. 

Recently, Jeremy designed two of the four head puppets for Sesame Workshop and Apple’s Emmy-nominated TV show Helpsters.