Paul Zaloom

Puppeteer / Political Satirist / Performance Artist

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We're working on Episode 5 about Santa's new theme park which includes me jumping out of an airplane with my golden parachute. I explain how we did a Loony Tunes type gag with my hat.

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Operating my dummy Butch Manly backstage at the Beckman Auditorium, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, while collaborator and artistic partner Lynn Jeffries casts her eyes heavenward. 2011

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UH-OH, SPAGHETTIOS!

Lynn Jeffries + Paul Zaloom present their latest 5 minute comedy/satire short, UH-OH, SPAGHETTIOS! just in time for the Xmas Season.

Santa has an accident that results in a charming visit to the hospital!

Please like, share, and slobber over this brief epic! 

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Welcome to SANTA’S OFF-SEASON ADVENTURES! Episode 0: “Santa Stays Safe.”

Using kitsch Santa Clauses, snowmen, elves, nutcrackers, and gingerbread men from the 50s and 60s, this comedic puppet and found object series by Paul Zaloom and Lynn Jeffries addresses the Covid 19 epidemic, rampant consumerism, constant surveillance, the “War on Christmas,” stand-your-ground shootings, and plenty of other jolly subjects! 

It turns out Santa controls the world and everything in it! (“He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake…”)

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Coming to Philly!

Now’s the time to check out WHITE LIKE ME this week - Wed and Thurs - in Philly.

http://ticketing.artsphilly.org/tickets/eventDetails.aspx?id=44876&org=fp

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Fall tour!

White Like Me: A Honky Dory Puppet Show touring schedule Fall tour 2016

Paul Zaloom's puppet extravaganza is coming to a sector near yours, you lucky freaks! White Like Me: A Honky Dory Puppet Show is a hectic toy theater/ventriloquism exploration of the trials and tribulations of being a white male. Oh, golly, get the hankies out! See White-Man leave Planet Caucazoid to colonize the watery planet and set all those exotic natives right! Touring schedule Fall tour 2016

October 14th:Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

October 15: Mayo Street Arts, Portland, Maine

October 21st and 22nd: MassArt, Boston

October 25th: Temple Stream Theater, Temple, Maine

November 3rd, 4th, and 5th: Casteliers, Montreal

November 9, 10, 11, and 12: Festival Internacional de Teatro de Papel de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City

November 16 and 17: First Person Arts, Philadelphia

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Jok Church in SF Chronicle

Jok Church, creator of U Can with Beakman and Jax and Beakman's World, had his obituary published in the SF Chronicle this week. Jok was not only a wonderful, loving man but a super interesting and accomplished guy as well.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Jok-Church-Beakman-and-Jax-cartoon-strip-for-7396400.php

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Jok Church

I learned this morning that my beloved and dear friend Jok Church died on Friday of a heart attack in his home city of San Francisco. Jok was the creator of Beakman, the scientist from Jok's syndicated comic, U Can with Beakman and Jax, which was later made into the TV show Beakman's World. As the show’s title character, I got to know Jok well as we worked together over the years. He was a kind, loving, supportive, generous, salty! sweet! great buddy and pal. Jok, millions of people all over the world - especially in Latin America - loved what you created, and you changed so many of their lives, including mine. I love you, Jok.

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Target advice

In the “Better for You” aisle....YAY! I THOUGHT SO!

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Story on NPR this Saturday

Saturday morning, September 26th, on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition: Jon Kalish’s story about the surprising popularity across Latin America of the 90s science TV show Beakman’s World. I’ll post a link once the show has aired.

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Hanging with the brilliant genius Brazilian mamulengo puppeteer Chico Simoes at the Nat'l Puppetry Fest last month at UConn. His show was funny as hell, beautifully manipulated, and performed by a true master. One of the best hand puppet shows I've ever seen!

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My bad

John McCain’s recent report on government waste, AMERICA’S MOST WANTED, says: “Sandglass plans to use a portion of this [NEA] grant to partially fund a 10-day international “Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival,” which will showcase “puppetry and unusual theater.” One of the many “adult” themed puppet shows on the festival calendar is Paul Zaloom’s “White Like Me: A Honky Dory Puppet Show.” According to the Sandglass Center, the show will “tackl[e] the gnarly subject of the upcoming de-honky-ization of the United States when white people in America will be…‘just another other.’”

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I’m pretty much in awe of the enthusiasm of folks in Latin America for Beakman. That’s awe-face on me right there...

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Behind me: Filip Auchere, one of the two amazing puppeteers (Emma Utgès is the other). 

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Guignol!

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Mid Atlantic link

Check this out for more info on their great work on behalf of artists and audiences: www.midatlanticarts.org