Freak Nature at USC!
Wednesday, September 16, and Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Free Admission
RSVP for each event at the links below.
Freak Nature Puppets is an artist collective from Los Angeles, and we are delighted to bring their work and creativity to the USC campus. Their work channels dreamlike narratives through giant puppetry, leading to unexpected and playful conclusions. Join us for a DIY puppet-building workshop and fantastical performance this Fall.
Freak March: a DIY Community Parade with Freak Nature Puppets
Wednesday, September 16, 12 to 5:30 p.m.
Founders Park
INFO & RSVP
Make a parade in a day with Los Angeles–based artist collective Freak Nature Puppets! Build mini-floats, giant puppets, silly noisemakers, doodads, and anything else you can create, followed by a joyful parade across the USC campus.
Freak Nature Presents: Freak Nature
Tuesday, October 6, at 7 p.m.
Bing Theatre
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Los Angeles–based artist collective Freak Nature Puppets presents an imaginative performance that combines giant puppets, live theater, music, comedy, and visual storytelling.
About the Show:
Pack your carry-on and board your flight to Freak Nature Park, a most unique and unnatural wonder. You and your fellow tourists will encounter gentle giants, lovelorn copilots, a lonely lavatory, cursed Crankmen, and creatures of all kinds. Just don’t get too close—if you die in Freak Nature Park, you die in real life. Please exit through the gift shop.
FREAK NATURE PUPPETS
Freak Nature Puppets is a Los Angeles–based artist collective creating dreamlike worlds through giant puppetry, physical theater, music, and participatory performance. Inspired by the radical puppetry of Bread and Puppet Theater, the visual imagination of Mummenschanz, and the joyful absurdity of Pee-wee Herman, Freak Nature crafts immersive experiences that invite audiences into playful acts of creativity and wonder. Their collaborators have included Dead & Company, Childish Gambino, Bob Baker Marionette Theater, and Poncili Creación, and they developed the collective as the inaugural artists-in-residence at Los Angeles’ Elysian Theater.
Presented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by the USC School of Dramatic Arts. Co-sponsored by Freak Nature Puppets and The Elysian Theater.
