Puppetry is a Love Language

Photo: Storm Thomas

Storm (they/them) thinks puppetry is a tool, no more, no less. Storm Thomas is a playwright/drummer-pastor/maker and has written and composed musicals: Notes on the Past, Ancient Future, and Be Like Bone. Storm has been everything from a Joker with Theater of the Oppressed NYC to a performer at the 2017 Obie Awards. In classes like Black Musical Theater, Music for Performance, and New Musical Theater Lab Storm's teaching focus is on generating new material (UArts and Playwrights/NYU). Storm has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence and is currently pursuing a degree in engineering at City Tech. Performances include Skin of our Teeth (TFANA), Futurity (Soho Rep/ Ars Nova) and Lexus Verses and Flow Season 3 Episode 1, feat. Jill Scott.