Stories You Can Touch.
Memories You Can Play With.

Get Puppetty is an interactive storytelling experience where personal memories and imagination come to life through puppetry, collaboration, and play.
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Who Is Get Puppetty For?

  • Conferences and events

  • Community gatherings

  • Schools and educational programs

  • Senior communities

  • Creative workshops

  • Anyone who believes stories bring people closer

No performance experience required. Just curiosity.

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What Is Get Puppetty?

Get Puppetty is a live, participatory, storytelling format, that blends puppetry, personal narrative, and collective storytelling. Each experience is shaped by the people in the room, their memories, imagination, and willingness to play.

The big payoff is the collective improvisational experience of the audience and the realization that everyone has more in common than they thought. No two Get Puppetty experiences are ever the same. 

The Get Puppetty Experience

Get Puppetty has evolved over years of connecting with audiences and inspiring participants to share their stories. Once you’re holding a puppet of yourself, the buy in is almost immediate. There is a connective disconnect in that you can retell any of your most horrible or hilarious stories and remain safe and supported. The result is relatable, empathetic and often hilarious.

Step 1 - Introduction

We begin with an introduction to the Get Puppetty approach — how puppets, memory, and story come together to create something unexpected.

Step 2 - Demonstration

David shares a short performance using puppets and personal storytelling to show what’s possible.

Step 3 - Invitation

We choose a story from the audience using memory prompts or imaginative story challenges

Step 4 – Creation

The stories chosen are sharpened into focus through conversation, collaboration and playful improvisation and brought to life using the materials provided.

Step 5 – Performance & Connection

We work together, we get to know each other better, we laugh and have a lot of fun.

Call or email David for a free consultation and personal recommendations on the performance or workshop to fit your needs.

Get Puppetty Experiences

Here are examples of the programs we have run and had great success with. We are happy to adapt experiences to the needs of your organization and the people you serve.

Interactive Storytelling Performance

Description
Join us for an engaging performance that blends demonstration, personal narrative, and collaborative creation.

The experience begins with an introduction to the Get Puppetty approach, followed by curated personal stories brought to life through performance. The heart of the show unfolds when we turn to the audience, using memory prompts or story challenges to draw out participants’ memories or spark new imaginative stories.

Together, we shape, perform, and play back these moments, creating a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience drawn from the people in the room.

Details

  • Duration: 45–60 minutes
  • Capacity: Open to all attendees
  • Investment: Depends on group size
  • Each performance becomes its own unrepeatable event.

Six-Session Package

Description
An extended workshop experience over several days.

Includes

  • Introductory Get Puppetty show to establish the format and participant stories
  • Four dedicated creation workshops
  • Final session featuring a performance or screening of the produced films
  • Personal attention throughout ensures a meaningful and memorable experience for the entire group.

Details

  • Duration: Six sessions, 60–90 minutes each
  • Capacity: Up to 30 participants

Get Puppetty Mixer: Collaborative Story Workshop

Description
An interactive gathering where participants work in intimate groups of two to five people. Each group creates their own puppets while exploring story prompts designed to surface personal memories.

Through guided conversation, participants share memories within their small group and select one story to develop together. The session culminates in a “Film Festival” style presentation, where each group performs or presents their piece for the full gathering.

One-on-One Story Sessions

Description
Work individually with David to capture and craft your personal narrative.

Each session includes a recorded interview, collaborative story development, selection of photos and audio, and creation of hand-drawn backgrounds to bring your story to life. The process concludes with delivery of a completed film, ready to share.

Details

By appointment only

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Stories Brought to Life

GP Seniors: The One That Got Away

GP : The Whale Race

The Get Puppetty Stage…

What is it you ask? It’s my Grandma’s make up kit from the 50’s crammed with all the gear we need to turn you and your friends into puppets and recreate and film your favorite stories, or just make stuff up and see where it goes.

Once you are made into a puppet…

…it’s time to get to know each other! We play different games designed to help you remember funny events in your life or just create a narrative out of your imagination and work together to make a short film that can be shared with friends and family.

About David Winstein

David Winstein is a storyteller, performer, and puppeteer who helps people rediscover their stories through play. His work blends humor, vulnerability, and imagination, creating spaces where people feel safe to remember, invent, and connect.

Get Puppetty grew out of a lifelong love of storytelling and a belief that everyone carries stories worth sharing — sometimes they just need a puppet to help tell them.

The reason I do these workshops and performances 

I have been revising and evolving these experiences over many years and many different materials. The real breakthrough came when I was able to quickly turn somebody into a puppet and hand them a representation of themselves. Every time I do, people buy in immediately. They understand what’s going on and are very open to what is being offered. Every time I do a workshop, I come away with amazing stories, not only the ones that are retold, but also the collective experience that we share together. 

Let's Get Puppetty

Interested in booking a performance, workshop, or one-on-one session? Reach out and let’s talk.

Call: (831) 884-4128

Email: getpuppetty@gmail.com

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David Winstein is registered and vetted through Home Care Aid Registry of California. Performers insurance coverage is held through KNK Performers Insurance. Details provided upon request.