About Jana

Jana grew up in a family of international puppeteers and started working for Sandglass Theater in her teens. As a set painter and designer she has worked for the theater, opera, TV, and the movies, and has designed and built a wide range of puppets.

In 2001 she founded her own puppet company, Spybird Theater and has performed her original works in the US, Canada, Mexico, Germany and India. For the past three years she has been touring with Shoshana Bass, presenting a cherished children’s puppet show that the two sisters inherited from their mother.

Jana is currently working on Puppet Crimes, a raucous adult hand puppet piece about survival.

Jana Zeller website

About Kalob

Kalob Martinez is an actor who combined his professional interests in stage combat and voice acting and found puppetry. El Beto stands as the culmination of his theatrical endeavors in puppet arts. He is currently an ensemble member of Sandglass Theater’s, Babylon. He voiced and served as the puppeteer for Arthur Fiedler twice with the Boston Pops as narrator for Peter and the Wolf and A Visit from St. Nick.

For five seasons he was the associate artist at the Classical Theatre Company in Houston, TX. Since 2016 he has performed as the mascot, Buster Brackets for the Tournament Marathon Challenge on ESPN. He also assisted in the puppet build for The Fanstasy Show hosted by Matt Berry on the ESPN app. Martinez is also a seasoned voice over actor for the English dub versions of Anime. The most popular titles include: No 6, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, Halo Legends, Bodacious Space Pirates, and Starship Troopers: Invasion. BA Acting, University of Houston. MFA Puppet Arts, University of Connecticut. Advanced Actor/Combatant, Society of American Fight Directors.

Kalob Martinez website