Puppets in Progress!
Sat. Oct. 25th, 2025
3pm - 6pm
Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Space

A FREE puppet community meeting for you! Join us to see cool puppets-in-process of creation; all stages of development are invited to share a community space for experimentation. Everyone is welcome! Bring a project, prototype, sketch, or idea, no matter how rough, or just come for the conversation! No RSVP required; Wheelchair accessible space! Stick around after for House of the Exquisite Corpse V: BLOOD & PUPPETS!

What is PIPs?
PIPs is an informal gathering for testing out new puppet and object-based performances. Bring whatever you’re working on and get encouragement and feedback from other disciplines & puppet-folks!

Special Presentation:
House of the Exquisite Corpse V: BLOOD & PUPPETS
Join us for a free behind-the-scenes tour of some of the incredible boxes, artwork, and puppets showcased by dozens of Chicago's finest and scariest puppetry artists featured in Rough House's annual haunted puppet peep show anthology series.

Puppet credit: Valerie DeGroot (@valerieevedegroot)