Puppetry

Vera The Beholder

She Kills Monsters, 2025

Produced by Central Piedmont Community College.

Designed and Built by Maxwell Martin

Show Props Budget of $1000 Total

Foam Carving, Painting, and various materials including panty hose coated in wood glue for the 'eye stalks'

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Production Team

Director: Carly McMinn

Scenic/Projection Designer: James Duke

Properties Designer: Maxwell Martin

Lighting Designer: Jeff Childs

Costume Designer: Freddie Haward

Sound Designer: Montavious

Spray foam sphere before sanding/shaping

In progress shaping

Adding the eye and teeth

Scultping around the eye and teeth to blend together

Assembling the eye stalks with cut up panty hose. newspaper and glue.

Painting the eye stalks

in progress body painting

Attaching the eyestalks

Toto Puppet,

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 2025

Produced by Peach State Summer Theatre

Designed and Built by Maxwell Martin

Bunraku inspired toto puppet, with a working mouth and tail.

Preformer operated with a stick from his neck, and from his back.

Production Team

Director: Tim Goins

Choreographer: Sarah Arnett

Scenic/Projection Designer: Jason Lee Courson

Properties Supervisor: Maxwell Martin

Lighting Designer: John Hemphill

Costume Designer: Clara Jean "CJ" Kelly

Sound Designer: Zachary Cramer

Shaping of the body

Head skeleton

Head Adding fur to the head

Adding the ears and eyes

Self Shadow Puppet

Shadow Puppetry Class, Fall 2025

Designed and Built by Maxwell Martin

Assignment was to create a working shadow puppet, with an eye reveal and working mouth mechanism.

Pete the Butcher/Baker Puppet Puppetry Class, 2023

Designed and Built by Maxwell Martin

Assignment was to create any type of puppet in order to present for our final project.