Former Disney artist to present Biblically inspired puppet shows

Tuxedo Park — Sean Keohane, artist-in-residence at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Tuxedo Park, will present a series of Biblically-inspired original puppet shows for children at 10 a.m. on Sundays, June 18 and 25, and July 2, 9 and 16. The shows will include “The Merchant of Menace,” a hand-puppet play inspired by the story of Cain and Abel. Successive weeks will offer different forms of puppetry in the “Widow’s Mite and the Prodigal Son,” “Noah and the Flood,” “Adam and Eve and the Serpent,” and several others. Keohane was trained in acting, playwriting, and stage direction at Boston College, as well as the British American Drama Academy in London and Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. Successively an actor, manager, writer, and stage director at Walt Disney World’s Epcot Center, then park show director of Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Keohane left Disney and founded Orlando Furioso around the talents of the puppeteers in Central Florida’s theme park community. The free-of-charge shows are scheduled to take place outside on the lawn at 10 Fox Hill Road in Tuxedo. In the event of rain, the show will be held indoors. For questions or directions, call 351-5122.