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
- Utah library performances 2019
- 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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