Chad Ethan Shohet is an actor, writer and puppeteer as well as the Artistic Director of HomeGrown Theatre. He is a fan of poking the proverbial bear, of chasing the impossible, the stupid, and the impossibly stupid with hopes of reaching greater communication and understanding. Mostly, he is a dreamer who has terrible nightmares. He is a two-time grantee, whose Alexa Rose funding has gone directly to cultivating the style and craft of his shadow puppetry.

 

Written plays include: Ragnarok!!, Camp Ghoul, Every Man Shift For All the Rest, and The Jabberwocky (with Dakotah Brown and Noah Moody). Puppet plays include: The Man of Felt Flesh, an Accident; the Harvest, The Infinitarium of Everything and the Fallacy of Limitlessness, Beyond the Farm, A Bedtime Story, The Woodwitches, The Big Rip, Special, For Old Times, For Old Times, Floating Thru Space, and Alligator.

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In 2018 Chad was awarded funding towards tuition and travel to the national puppetry conference, and again in 2019 for development of a new theatrical puppetry piece titled “Oppy”, which premiered at the 8th Annual Horrific Puppet Affair in October 2019.