Pussypaws Puppetry is an inclusive, experimental puppet troupe of 60+ artists with and without disabilities working (and playing!) together to create puppet shows from scratch.
That Paradise Place is an original, erotic puppet musical about the love, sex, and fantasy lives of artists with disabilities. It debuted to sold out audiences in November 2024 at Abrons Arts Center.
Pussypaws Pleasure Faire, a full-bodied celebration of eroticism and its spoils, debuted at the Center for Performance Research in May 2025. The culmination of a ten-day long residency at CPR, the Faire expands Pussypaws’ years-long quest to celebrate the internal lives of artists with disabilities. The show featured tales of masquerade hookups, frogs that transform into men, and a love triangle between a water wench, a musician, and a juggler.
Erotic & Playful
Silly & Poetic
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Jimmy Tucker, Pussypaws Artist & Storyteller
“I wanted to be part of the puppet show because I wanted love to exist outside my mind.”
Leah Hennessey, Performance Artist & Director
“That Paradise Place is so much more daring and uncensored in its wild, unbound, erotic imagination than anything the edgiest downtown provocateurs of today could dream up, and it manages to be so by being utterly, shockingly, life-affirmingly wholesome. I have no idea how they pulled off that magic trick, but they did.”
Jennifer Quinones, Pussypaws Artist & Storyteller
“It was a dream come true. It was like entering another world that I’ve been through, but not in person.”
Anna Witiuk, Pussypaws Artist & Storyteller
From day one of meeting the Pussypaws team, I felt a foundational sense of support, encouragement and mutual excitability. Here were weirdo artists, just like me, who had no intention of holding back or dulling the wacky, sticky and complicated stories of desire and sensual expression of disabled people.
Kenneth Youngblood, Pussypaws Artist & Storyteller