Emma Wiseman

Emma Wiseman is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in puppetry and object theater. As a performer, puppet designer, and/or puppetry director, she has collaborated with renowned artists and organizations including Signature Theatre, Dan Hurlin, Jeanette Yew, Robin Frohardt, Sachiyo Takahashi, Nick Lehane, Derek Fourdjour, Emily Zemba, Josh Rice, Alex Da Corte, Swoon, CO/LAB Theater Group, Geva Theatre, and the Kennedy Center. Emma has toured nationally and internationally with The Pigeoning (dir. Robin Frohardt) and Chimpanzee (dir. Nick Lehane) and premiered the live version of Frohardt’s The Plastic Bag Store in NYC, which has since been presented around the world as a hybrid film/installation. She also served as lead puppeteer for Animated Life, an Emmy-nominated New York Times Op-Doc series. As a creator, Emma’s work explores human relationships with spaces and objects, often finding wonder in the mundane. She adapted (with playwright Emily Zemba) their office supply puppet piece Out of Office into a short film, an official selection of the Chattanooga Film Festival. Follow her documentation of melancholic greenery in the built environment on Instagram (@sad._.plants) emmawiseman.me.