Shannon Reagan
Producer
Shannon Reagan is a professional puppet artist, producer, and creator whose work blends large-scale puppetry, immersive storytelling, and education grounded in ecology and the natural world. With decades of experience designing and building realistic animal puppets, Shannon creates performances and educational programs that invite audiences into direct, meaningful encounters with living systems and the stories they tell.
As the founder of Wyndwolf Puppets, Shannon develops original puppet productions and interactive learning experiences that emphasize movement, behavior, and emotional presence over spectacle. Their work spans intimate hand-and-rod puppets to large, two-person animal forms, each designed to foster curiosity, empathy, and deeper understanding of how animals survive and interact within shared ecosystems.
Shannon is the creator of Wild Encounters, an immersive animal puppet program developed for schools, libraries, museums, and community spaces, as well as Wilds of Land and Sea, an ongoing series of life-sized puppet productions exploring global ecosystems and mythic relationships between humans and the natural world. Their work prioritizes age-appropriate science, conservation awareness, and story-driven engagement rather than traditional scripted children’s theater.
In addition to performing and building, Shannon produces original works from concept through execution, integrating design, fabrication, education, and live presentation. Their practice reflects a long-standing commitment to accessible arts education, environmental literacy, and the power of puppetry as a living, relational art form.