About Damon

“Mr. Damon does an exemplary job of performing. His use of audience participation is very engaging for our mixed age audience, and he is well loved by both parents and children.”
- Gretchen Schweers, Toco Hill Library

Mr. Damon's Shadow Puppet Theater creates dynamic, interactive puppetry experiences and puppetry workshops for theaters, schools, libraries and special events across the southeast.  He created and performed shadow puppet sequences for Marvel’s Hawkeye (a miniseries shown on Disney+) and a TV spot for the Great Wolf Lodge.

Damon Young, TAP's founder, is the Lead Teaching Artist at the Center for Puppetry Arts,  a member of the Georgia Council for the Arts Teaching Artist Registry, and a touring artist for the Fulton County School's Teaching Museum and a puppetry integration specialist for the Decatur City Schools' Animal Crackers.  He has been working with kids and theater for 20 years, including participation in the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing  Arts. Damon designs and directs puppetry performances, and has performed as a musician across the USA and Canada. He has recorded albums and soundtracks as a musician, director and sound designer.

As a teaching artist Damon mentors kids to design and perform theatrical works by accessing their natural state of creativity, kindness, self-actualization and cooperation. Students achieve educational objectives through discovery learning, learn art and theater skills, and grow while exploring positive, enriching characters and stories relevant to their peers, family and community.

Contact : nomad3@bellsouth.net   678-575-0993