Jean Marie Keevins

Jean Marie Keevins is a NY based puppeteer, puppet builder, producer and milliner.  As a member of The Cat’s Paw Collective, Jean Marie has puppeteered at Carnegie Hall as part of the Family Concert Series numerous times.

She Stage Managed for Nosferatu at the Cherry Lane Theater as part of the NYC Fringe Festival and went on to perform in the piece at the PofA National Festival. Jean Marie has built and refurbished puppets for Avenue Q, Disney on Ice’s "Finding Nemo", Baby Einstein, The Muppets, Johnny and the Sprites and various Broadway shows such as Mary Poppin's.  Jean Marie was Associate Producer for the Off-Broadway tribute to the late Nikki Tilroe, "A Passion for Puppetry" in which she also performed. Jean Marie completed her BA in Theater Studies at the University of Connecticut in the Puppet Arts Program.  She furthered her studies at the O'Neill Puppetry Conference. She went on to become the Conference Coordinator and Director of Participant Projects. Jean Marie proudly maintains a relationship with Steven Widerman's "The Puppet Company". Jean Marie is the Marketing Director and Coordinator at Puppet Heap. As a milliner, Jean Marie's fine headwear can be found in shops throughout NYC's downtown shopping districts (www.jeanmarieny.com).

Paul Andrejco & Puppet Heap

After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1991, Paul Andrejco began his career as a freelance puppet builder in Jim Henson’s Muppet Workshop in New York. Paul flourished as a designer and builder of unique characters not only for JHP, but for many other clients as well. He was quickly promoted to a permanent staff position within the company as an art director and character designer, which resulted in his being nominated for several Emmy awards. During Paul’s tenure at Jim Henson Productions, he designed and built characters for many award-winning productions, including "The Muppet Christmas Carol", "City Kids", "Bear in the Big Blue House", "Elmo in Grouchland", and "Muppets from Space."

In 2004, Paul’s entrepreneurial spirit led him to devote full attention to his own vision, Puppet Heap, a unique puppet studio that began as a simple idea in his Hoboken apartment in 1992. Since then, Puppet Heap has become a nationally recognized character design company, garnering such acclaimed clients as Sesame Workshop, Nickelodeon, ITV, Big Idea, Little Airplane Productions, and The Walt Disney Company. Paul lives in South Orange, New Jersey with his beautiful wife of fourteen years, three children, and a one-eyed cat.