Trained as an altar boy to respond in Latin, I was attracted to the theater a long time ago. After some twenty years working and teaching as a scenic designer, I left traditional theater, established a studio in Seattle and began making street theater -- using puppets. PUPPETSOUP THEATER OF OBJECTS, [pstoo] gave birth to its first shows on the street in 1982. Performing on the street has its drawbacks, however, and I began thinking of a show that I could do on a large tabletop; and then after the show -- serve a soup supper! So was born the SOUPTALKS -- a miniature epic that asks: "Why are here and why do we have so many weapons?" The use of video in the project led to my interest in producing a documentary, PUPPET FESTIVAL was the result, completed just as the world was switching over to DVDs! The current Wheat Project has produced: EIGHT SONGS FOR A WHEAT HARVEST And along the way, my fascination with the history of our riverside town resulted in a book of historic images published by Arcadia Publishers, "Early Snohomish."  DOWNLOAD RESUME IN A WORD DOC