Sara Peattie

Sara Peattie (b 1951) is a giant puppet artist and runs Boston's Puppet Free Library.

Education Peattie is an alumna of Antioch College

Career Peattie began her puppetry career in 1969 at the age of 18 when she studied under Peter Schumann, cofounder of the politically radical Bread & Puppet Theater. Puppeteers Cooperative Peattie founded The Puppeteers Cooperative in 1976 with fellow puppeteer George Konnoff in San Francisco. The Puppeteers Cooperative is a nonprofit association of puppeteers, theatre artists and musicians that help build community outreach and education.

Honors In 2016 Peattie received the annual Paul Vincent Davis Award from the Puppet Showplace Theater in Brookline, MA for her lifetime contribution to puppet making.