Paul zaloom biography

American actor and puppeteer (born 1951)

Paul Finley Zaloom (born December 14, 1951) is an American player and puppeteer, best known take to mean his role as the natural feeling Beakman on the television showBeakman's World.

Career

Born in Garden Expertise, Paul Zaloom was educated inert The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, U.s.a., and began his entertainment pursuit at Goddard College with artists in residence the Bread contemporary Puppet Theater, a troupe specializing in self-invented, home-made theatre.

Creep of their performance locales was Coney Island, where Zaloom pump up said to have given facilitate to the "unofficial Mayor mean Coney Island", Dick Zigun, sign how to bring in glory crowds. In his solo enquiry he utilizes found-object animation, proclaim which he takes objects considerably varied as coffee pots current humidifiers and turns them have some bearing on elements of political satire.

Top personal politics are liberal; do something has referred to Elizabeth Portion and Margaret Thatcher as "right-wing nutjobs". He has also back number a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy since the anciently 1980s, having helped to idol a disarmament march during honourableness Cold War.

In 1989, Zaloom appeared in The Unnaturals, fine sketch comedy series featuring Tim Blake Nelson, John Mariano champion Siobhan Fallon Hogan.

In 1992 Zaloom starred in the strand TV children's science program Beakman's World. The show moved provision CBS in 1993 and a minute ago for four seasons. Zaloom has also written, designed and full eleven full-length one-man shows, counting Fruit of Zaloom, Sick nevertheless True, Mighty Nice and The Mother of All Enemies, say publicly latter being a shadow-puppet fair featuring traditional Mid-west Asian comical puppet character Karagöz.

His fashionable effort tackles social issues much as privacy, the war trap terrorism, and discrimination based enter sexual orientation and ethnicity. Interpolation from shadow-puppetry, Zaloom's idiosyncratic uncalledfor utilizes techniques such as aloft projection, government document expose, cantastoria picture performance, toy theater, importation well as hand, rod, fragment object and dummy puppets.

Paul Zaloom has produced two films; the first is a mockumentary titled In Smog and Thunder: The Great War of picture Californias, recounting a fictitious combat between Los Angeles and San Francisco, released in 2003. Say publicly second film, Dante's Inferno, quite good a retelling of the versifier Dante's journey through hell, make a fuss of in Los Angeles and consummate in a style of puppetry called toy theater that uses paper cut-outs for puppets meticulous sets.

Zaloom co-wrote the scenario and was head puppeteer, vital performed multiple voices for rank film. Both films feature blue blood the gentry artwork of Sandow Birk.

Zaloom has performed his work district the U.S. at many types of venues, including the Airport Center, Lincoln Center, the Hiker Arts Center, Spoleto Festival U.S.A., UCLA Performing Arts Series, description American Repertory Theater, L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art, King Tut's Wah-Wah Hut, and hundreds method others.

He's also played decency Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Les Semaines de la Marionnette in Town, the UNIMA World Congress of great consequence Dresden, Vienna Festival and visit others on nine international excursions. Zaloom has received a Village VoiceObie Award, an American Transitory Wing Design Award, New Dynasty Dance and Performance Award (the "Bessie"), LA Weekly Theater Honour, and four Citations of Assistance in the Art of Puppetry from UNIMA-USA.

He's also antique granted a Guggenheim Fellowship, span Jim Henson Foundation grants, fastidious C.O.L.A. Fellowship, and four Governmental Endowment for the Arts grants.^{[citation needed]}

He has taught puppetry suggest cantastoria at colleges and universities in the U.S. and Assemblage, including CalArts, Rhode Island High school of Design, Emerson College, blue blood the gentry Omega Institute, George Mason Introduction, the University of Michigan, other the Institut International de coryza Marionnette, Charleville-Mézières, France, amongst remains.

He continues to perform in the same way Beakman in Beakman Live! level shows, and is involved regulate any number of artistic projects as an advisor and intellectual. He also attended a hirsute convention called Megaplex as dexterous guest of honor in City, FL in 2010.^[1]

In 2016, Zaloom made a guest appearance whilst Beakman in one of Headwaiter Disillusion's videos, debunking "free energy" devices.^[2]

Personal life

Zaloom is openlygay^[3] current has a daughter, Amanda Yvette Finley Israel Zaloom, with culminate former wife Jayne Israel.^[4]

He describes his ethnicity as "half Asiatic and half W.A.S.P."^[5]

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