Eric Weiss is a teacher, puppet builder, & sole proprietor of Homeslice Puppetry. He specializes in building custom puppets and teaching puppetry classes and workshops. Eric is an award winner in professional puppet building from BJ Guyer and the Stan Winston School of Character Arts. He was also a Teacher and Program Coordinator with Nature’s Classroom for 15 years. Although primarily self-taught in the field of puppetry, he has been building and teaching puppetry for around 18 years. He teaches his classes in schools, maker spaces, camps, and art studios throughout most of New England. Eric is an active member in the Connecticut Guild of Puppetry & the National Capitol Puppetry Guild, President & founding member of the Western Massachusetts Puppetry Guild, and is the Northeast Regional Director for the Puppeteers of America.