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Penelope on the Irawaddy River, Myanmar

 

please see interview videos below

 

Penelope Torribio is a master puppeteer. Torribio includes in her extensive puppet collection of over 600 puppets all kinds of puppets: shadow, rod, marionette, found puppets and vent figures. She teaches puppet making, puppet manipulation and writing for puppets. She has traveled around the world performing for thousands of people and learning from  puppeteers from other countries. Recently she has developed relationships with many puppeteers in Burma (Myanmar) where many of S. E. Asian puppets originated.  Please visit the Myanmar page for delightful videos of her trip.

Penelope is an educator with  B.A.s and credentials in English, Communication Arts, and special education.  She has an M.A. in Behavior Transformation.  It was during her years of teaching teens and children in danger to themselves or others that she discovered the magic of puppets to transform behavior and to educate, especially to improve writing and oral communications. Upon discovery of the effectiveness of puppets in behavior transformation she researched puppets and the brain and has presented several times at the Brain Expo in San Diego.  The other tool for transformation was to increase knowledge and caring for our earth.  All of her puppet scripts have something to do with ecology.  If you can teach really troubled kids and teens to care for the earth-it is easier to get them to care for themselves and others is her creed.

Penelope is a singer-songwriter with numerous albums, many coming directly from her ecological musical puppet shows.

 

 

Penelope Torribio. 2019-2020 Resume

 

Education.  Author.  Singer-songwriter.  Photographer.  Videographer.  Master Puppet

 

Education

B.A. Teacher Credentials-English, Communication Arts

M.A.-Teacher Credentials, Education, Behavior Transformation

 

Author

ArtSmart, Superior Learning in the Inclusive Classroom. Golden Leaves Award

Future in Our Hands, What Everyone Should Know About Education, Golden Leaves Award

Directive Drawing, for diagnosis, intervention and development

Never Get Too Close to a Fish, allows kids to think about the death of a pet

Einstein in My Garden, photos and reflections on Bugs

 

Interactive Musical Puppet Shows

The Rain is Coming, rainforest musical, illustrated lyric coloring book

Under the Blue Blue Sea, illustrated lyric coloring book

Dinosaur Dance, illustrated lyric coloring book

Sing the Calendar Songs, illustrated lyric coloring book

Out in Outer Space, illustrated lyric coloring book coming

 

Take Ten, 10 Minutes in Nature

Bugs and Those Who Love Them

Oceans and Those Who Love Them

Birds and Those Who Love Them

Water Birds and Those Who Love Them

Flowers and Those Who Love Them

Reptiles and Those Who Love Them

Bugs and Those Who Love Them. 2

Oceans and Those Who Love Them 2

 

Awards and Honors

The Red Carpet Awards from Hollywood, Ca, Woman in Theater- art and community work

The Hope , Los Angeles, CA music and community work

 AHA, Art and work with community

International Puppetry Award, Myanmar’s 1st International Puppet Festival

Gold Leaves Award, California Polytechnic University, author award

California Country Music Vocalist of the Year

Times Country Performer Award

Speaker at the Brain Expo, Art and Music and its effect on the brain

 

CDs by singer-songwriter, Penelope Torribio

The Rain is Coming

Under the Blue Blue Sea

Out in Outer Space

Sing the Calendar Song

Dinosaur Dance

The Grass is Green

Guardians of the Earth, songs for young children
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 Country, Folk and Blues Albums 

Headed for a Good Time

Family Man

Penelope and a Little Bit of Gold, Live at the Crazy Horse

Otis Roy and Penelope, Live at Bucky’s

Watch Out I’m Singing the Blues

 

 

Sample Performances
Long Beach, CA  Author’s Festival—five years

Ramayana Festival, UCLA

Skirbal Museum, Los Angeles

Pacific Asian Museum, Pasadena, CA

Santa Barbara Art Museum

Pomona Art Museum

Cal Poly’s Art Museum

Library and school programs in the Los Angeles area

Vashon Island Art For A Better World Festival, Washngton

Three month tour India teaching teachers how to teach with minimum supplies and

     performing at street and tribal schools

Mandalay University of Arts and Culture

Myanmar’s 1st International Puppet Festival

  1. Utah library performances 2019
  2. Utah Literacy Festival, 2019

 

Teaching Experience
L.A. County of Education, CA
Hacienda-La Puente School Distric
Charter Hospital Education Director, Charter Oak, CA, 4 years

Sycamore  Residential, Pasadena, CA Behavior Transformation using art and music, 4 years

  

Penelope Torribio
1675 Hummingbird Drive
St George, Utah 84770

(909)239-7973

 

Penelope Torribio 909.239.7973

penelope1world@mac.com

1675 Hummingbird Dr.
St. George, Utah 84770 

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