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Freak Nature is a collective of artists based in Los Angeles.
Childish Gambino, Grateful Dead (Dead & Company), Outside Lands Festival, Snōōper, Matt & Kim, Cherry Glazerr, Worn-Tin, Fake Fruit, Grateful Shred, Hemlocke Springs, Dublab Radio, KooKoo, Death Valley Girls, Desert Daze Festival, Chapman Radio, The Witching Hours, Leaving Records, Tayla Parx, Austin Weber, Jonny Kosmo, Rabbit Hole Warriors, Frogluv, Spring Breeding, Teal Pop
David Zwirner Gallery, Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Poncili Creacion, Titmouse Animation Studios, Trulee Hall, Everything is Terrible, Enormousface, Volta Collective, LA Guild of Puppetry, David Liebe Hart, Elysian Heights Art Fest, Trepany House, LA River Arts, Tara Zorthian, Kelsey Kato, Non Plus Ultra
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, Silent Partners
The Elysian Theater (2024 Artists-in-Residence), Puppet Slam Foundation (2025 Grant), Skirball Cultural Center, Community Engagement Organization (2026 Grant w/Volta Collective), Oracle Egg (2026 Residency), 89.9 KCRW, Indivisible, Support + Feed, Gardens of Golden Gate Park, LA Astro Fest, Culver City Pride, Freakscene.diy
"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
"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
"Mesmerized by the combination of large-scale DIY puppets, bizarre sketch comedy, and unbridled joy unfolding on stage in front of me, I left the space enchanted and inspired."
-KooKoo
"The bad kids of the alt-puppet scene..."
-Hollywood Entertainment
"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."
-Current Jam Magazine
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