The only graduate program of its kind housed within a school of the arts — three years, small cohorts, and one rule that shapes everything else: technology serves the story, never the other way around.
Housed in UNCSA's School of Design and Production, the program runs three years, with cohorts kept deliberately small — two to eight students — so every student gets real hands-on time, not a lecture hall.
Students build broad fabrication literacy — wood, metal, plastics, mechanics, electronics, and programming — alongside the history and theory of puppetry and character performance. The goal isn't a technician who happens to work in entertainment. It's an artist who happens to build with motors.
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