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Freak Nature is a collective of artists based in Los Angeles.
Full past performance archive here.
Childish Gambino, Fake Fruit, Worn-Tin, Cherry Glazerr, Dublab Radio, KooKoo, Death Valley Girls, Desert Daze Festival, The Witching Hours, Rabbit Hole Warriors, Austin Weber, Jonny Kosmo, Michael Mortilla, Dark Meta Railroad, Ben Kai, Scribbled Scores Club
Titmouse Animation Studios, Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Poncili Creacion, Everything is Terrible, Enormousface, David Liebe Hart, Elysian Heights Art Fest, Rogue Artists, Trepany House, Kelsey Kato, Non Plus Ultra, Sick Fisher, Not A Bad Spaces
John C Reilly, Jack Black, Eric Andre, Gregg Turkington & Neil Hamburger, Casey Frey, Girl God, Chad Damiani, iL FUNGO, Ron Lynch, Annie Paradis, Dani Colucci, Reshma, Sarah Shterm, Emily Maverick, Ify Nwadiwe, Paul Elia, Camirin Farmer
The Elysian Theater (2024 Residency), Puppet Slam Foundation (2025 Grant Recipient), LA Guild of Puppetry, Learning + Liberation, Skirball Cultural Center, LA Astro Fest, Highland Park TV, Culver City Pride, Citizens of the World Silver Lake
"A fluid and undefinable entity, Freak Nature Puppets is building a collective where event planning meets arts & crafts, sculpture, sketch comedy, clowning, music, and experimental performance art. On these foundations, they present Los Angeles with some much-needed whimsy and community, all wrapped up in a papier-mache giant head..."
-Currant Jam Magazine
"Freak Nature Puppets is a DIY puppet collective hawking larger-than-life creatures as a group of multi-hyphenate artist freaks."
-EverOut (recommended event of the week)
"Puppetry is booming in L.A. Meet the new generation of performers making it cool again."
-Los Angeles Times
"A phantasmagoric experience...[I] was wowed by it."
-Boise Weekly
"[An] interactive world of mischief and magic..."
-West Seattle Blog
"a renegade puppet group..."
-LA Downtown News
"It's so fun to tap into that totally uninhibited side and just go with it and it doesnt matter if it makes sense..."
-Freaky Lamps
"Right there, under the disco ball and a cardboard sun wearing sunglasses, a bar packed with adults was beaming with the realization that maybe it doesn't have to be so serious all of the time."
-Currant Jam Magazine
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