Michael Latini

Michael Latini is a designer, fabricator, puppeteer and co-founder of Monkey Boys Productions. He began performing in musicals and working backstage as a stagehand at a young age. This continued throughout college where he studied Metals, Jewelry, and Computer Aided Design at Temple University's Tyler School of Art. In 2000 Michael heard his call to puppetry, he found a volunteer position at the O'Neill Puppetry Conference where he met and learned from the top of the puppetry profession. He spent the following summer working on multiple productions with Flock Theater. After graduating college, he toured with Bear in the Big Blue House, LIVE! as Bear. He then moved to NYC and built and/or puppeteered for Suessical the Musical, Flower Drum Song, Rugrats LIVE!, Miss Saigon, Nosferatu(2003 NYC Fringe), Carnival of the Animals (Carnegie Hall), The Plant that Ate Dirty Socks, Firebird(Carnegie Hall), and Avenue Q. Michael then ventured out as the man-eating plant, Audrey II, in the first national tour of Little Shop of Horrors. After returning he co-founded Monkey Boys Productions . Michael then performed in 2 more tours, Walking with Dinosaurs, The Arena Spectacular, where he performed for millions throughout North America and How to Train Your Dragon, Live Spectacular! Recently Michael puppeteered with the Muppets for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.