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Freak Nature is a collective of artists based in Los Angeles.
Full past performance archive here.
Childish Gambino, Grateful Dead (Dead & Co.), Outside Lands Festival, Snōōper, Cherry Glazerr, Worn-Tin, Fake Fruit, Dublab Radio, KooKoo, Death Valley Girls, Desert Daze Festival, The Witching Hours, Leaving Records, Rabbit Hole Warriors, Austin Weber, Jonny Kosmo, Dark Meta Railroad
David Zwirner Gallery, Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Poncili Creacion, Titmouse Animation Studios, Trulee Hall, Everything is Terrible, Enormousface, David Liebe Hart, Elysian Heights Art Fest, Rogue Artists, Trepany House, LA River Arts, Tara Zorthian, Kelsey Kato, Non Plus Ultra & Sick Fisher Art Show
John C Reilly, Jack Black, Eric Andre, Gregg Turkington & Neil Hamburger, Anna Garcia, Casey Frey, Highland Park TV, Girl God, Chad Damiani, Ron Lynch, Annie Paradis, Reshma Meister, Sarah Shterm, Emily Maverick, Camirin Farmer
The Elysian Theater (2024 Residency), Puppet Slam Foundation (2025 Grant), 89.9 KCRW, Skirball Cultural Center, LA Guild of Puppetry, Indivisible, Support + Feed, Gardens of Golden Gate Park, LA Astro Fest, Culver City Pride, Citizens of the World Silver Lake, Freakscene.diy, Oblivion
"A fluid and undefinable entity, Freak Nature Puppets is building a collective where event planning meets arts & crafts, sculpture, sketch comedy, clowning, music, and experimental performance art. On these foundations, they present Los Angeles with some much-needed whimsy and community, all wrapped up in a papier-mâché giant head..."
-Currant Jam Magazine
"Freak Nature Puppets is a DIY puppet collective hawking larger-than-life creatures as a group of multi-hyphenate artist freaks."
-EverOut (recommended event of the week)
"Puppetry is booming in L.A. Meet the new generation of performers making it cool again."
-Los Angeles Times
"A phantasmagoric experience...[I] was wowed by it."
-Boise Weekly
"[An] interactive world of mischief and magic..."
-West Seattle Blog
"a renegade puppet group..."
-LA Downtown News
"It's so fun to tap into that totally uninhibited side and just go with it and it doesn't matter if it makes sense..."
-Freaky Lamps
"Right there, under the disco ball and a cardboard sun wearing sunglasses, a bar packed with adults was beaming with the realization that maybe it doesn't have to be so serious all of the time."
-Currant Jam Magazine
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