Puppets, Politics and All The Rest

Morgan Fitzpatrick Andrews uses his body -- and his audience -- to send a message.

By Mariel Waloff
Add Comment Add Comment | Comments: 0 | Posted Nov. 19, 2009

Meet Morgan Fitzpatrick Andrews: artist, activist, yogi and puppeteer—to name just a few of the hats he wears. On a rainy Friday afternoon he must leave the puppets he’s been repairing in the basement of the Arden Theater in Old City to hurry back to West Philadelphia, where he’s teaching a yoga class at Studio 34 on Baltimore Avenue.

Though many people might recognize Andrews as the co-founder of Puppet Uprising, a company that brings puppeteers from around the world to Philadelphia, he’s been busy doing other things as well. Most recently, Morgan traveled to India to study with the son of Augusto Boal, the Brazilian theater director and founder of the radical popular education movement, "Theater of the Oppressed." He also studied yoga.

These days Morgan uses all of these interests as tools to create the positive social change he wants to see in his community. Click on the video to learn more.

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