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Updated 7/14/2023

Sandglass Theater

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    VT

Institution/Business Type: Performing Group

Sandglass Theater is a renowned theater company specializing in combining puppets with music, actors, and visual imagery. Since 1982, the company’s productions have toured internationally in nearly 30 countries, performing in theaters, festivals and cultural institutions and winning numerous international prizes.

Sandglass Theater produces works for both adult audiences and young audiences—two repertoires that tour separately and together. Sandglass also performs and teaches in its own 60-seat renovated barn theater in Putney, Vermont. Sandglass Theater is available for workshops and residencies and teaches a 2-week intensive training program each summer.

Sandglass is dedicated to the arts of theater and puppetry as a means of exploring contemporary issues, inspiring dialogue, and sparking wonder. We create original ensemble performances and collaborations, present diverse theater artists, produce events that serve our communities, and teach our art.

Find Me

Shoshana Bass (She/Her)
Job Title: Artistic Director
Phone: 802-387-4051
Fax: 802-387-4051
Address:
17 Kimball Hill Road
Putney, VT 05346

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Independent

Year Founded:

1982

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Independent

Year Founded:

1982

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Theater - Puppet

Additional Disciplines:

  • Theater - Storytelling

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Residency - Other
  • Venue Rental
  • Residency - In School
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
  • Residency - Production / Development
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Residency - Community
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 30

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Elders
  • Families
  • General Public
  • Immigrant Populations
  • LGBTQ Populations
  • Native American Tribes
  • People with Disabilities
  • School Groups
  • Nonprofits
  • Teens

Languages Available:

  • American Sign Language
  • French
  • German
  • English

Geographic Reach:

  • Town / City
  • Multi-County Region
  • National
  • International

Accessibility of Services

Accessibility of Services:

  • Access accommodations for people who use a wheelchair and have limited mobility
  • Access accommodations for people who are Deaf and hard-of-hearing

Sandglass Theater is a wheelchair accessible facility and offers sign language interpretation on request. We welcome people of all abilities and strive to provide programs that are inclusive and accessible to all.

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I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Network of Ensemble Theaters
  • National Performance Network

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Network of Ensemble Theaters
  • National Performance Network

Awards

Awards:

  • Sandglass Theater has won numerous awards over the years,
  • Including 6 citations of Excellence from UNIMA
  • Best Direction, for D-Generation at the 2013 Puppeteers of America festiaval
  • Eric Bass and Ines Zeller Bass received the 2010 Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts from the state of Vermont.

Special Designations

Special Designations:

  • NEFA Grant Recipient

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Communications
  • Theater
  • Visual/Crafts

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Communications
  • Theater
  • Visual/Crafts

State Arts Agency Roster Artist

  • Vermont Teaching Artist Roster

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • Requirements vary, depending on show

Accessibility Accommodations Needed:

Touring and Performance generally need accommodations for people who have spinal concerns and cannot lift heavy objects.

Fee Range:

$500 - $15,000

State of Residence:

Vermont

Minimum Number of Performers:

1

Maximum Number of Performers:

5

Venues for Rent/Use

Sandglass Thetaer
Venue Address: 17 Kimball Hill Putney, VT 05346
Venue Phone: (802)387-4051
Venue Type: Theater
Venue Fee Range Minimum: $100
Venue Fee Range Maximum: $2000
Venue Capacity: 60
Stage Details: Black Box
Venue Seasons: Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall
Venue Features: Climate Control, Dressing Room(s), Exhibition Walls, Fly Space, Green Room, Light System / Track Lighting, Sound System
Trained Crew Available: Yes
Union Crew Available: No
Additional Comments: Sandglass Theater rents to a variety of groups, including musical acts, small theater companies, and spoken word performers. We also make our facilities available for one and two week long residencies to performers or companies wishing to develop work.