Bio

Bio: Finn Campman studied printmaking and literature at Sarah Lawrence College, and began working with puppets in 1991 when he joined Sandglass Theater. Since then, he has worked with Roman Paska at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, taught puppet construction and design at Helsinki College of Art and Design and in residence at Hamilton College. He taught puppet and object manipulation for six summers at Sandglass Theater’s Summer Theater Institute. Finn is Co-Artistic director of Company of Strangers, whose production Moth and Moonwon an UNIMA Citation of Excellence. He has toured Scandinavia, Portugal, Hungary, Germany, France, Spain, Turkey and Israel. Finn Co-directed and Designed Touchstone Theatre’s production of The Little Prince, and was guest video artist and composer in a collaboration with Contemporary Dance Wyoming. For four years he was an Artist in Residence at The Hall Farm Center for the Arts and Education. Finn created the video component for the Brattleboro Music Center’s production of Devine Chemistry, and has presented his work in threePuppetry In The Green Mountain Festivals. Finn worked as a guest puppeteer in Patrick Keppel and Brad Kemp’s production of Triangle, and developed and produced in conjunction with Winged Productions the miracle play, Three in the Wilderness. He is currently performing his production Of Bread and Paper, as well as developing a new piece for puppets and mask based on W.B. Yeats’ play At The Hawks Well.

 He has taught English and Art at Hilltop Montessori School for 18 years. Son of local artists and educators Barbara and Ric Campman, painting has always been part of his life. He has shown work in a number of local galleries, and most recently had a show at Next Stage Gallery of his portraits of transformative authors.