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Originally from Independence, Ohio, Joe Kovacs received two puppets
from his Grandfather on his third birthday and never really put
them down. From then on no yarn, button or scrap of fabric was safe.
Unattended kitchen utensils found themselves draped in chiffon dancing
to "The Nutcracker Suite" or emoting passages from Mother
Goose. At the age of four his production of "Red Hood Riding"
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this budding career short by a digit. From there, glided castles
of macaroni-covered cardboard and overgrown forests of tissue paper
and toilet paper tubes were sprouting up monthly. Ever on the cutting
edge of theater at the Kovacs home, Joe's shows were known for there
"Non-traditional casting."
Many a plush creature made the leap from just a "stuffed animal on a bed" to the "Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come" on a stick. At the age of eight with his roots deeply imbedded in puppetry Joe branched out into the world of acting. First, as a delinquent rabbit in need of a carrot fix from the McGregor's Garden, onto far too many productions of the musical "Oliver!" Seeing that this "phase" was not going to end anytime soon, Joe was enrolled in the Cincinnati School for the Creative and Performing Arts. Since Graduation Joe has performed all over the world, as far away as the exotic island of Bahrain to the breath- taking Paris, Kentucky. You can find him doing the "Bear Cha, Cha, Cha" and sniffing toddlers on the Henson Home Video release "Bear in the Big Blue House, LIVE." Not only a performer, Joe has created puppets and costumes for, The Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts, The Actor's Theatre of Louisville, The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the Cincinnati Children's Theatre among others. Joe was introduced to the Trustee of the Wayland Flowers' Estate. It was not too long before she and some of Wayland's friends knew that Joe had the talent, and quick wit to handle Madame He now works for her and her quest in Madame's comeback |
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