Paul zaloom biography

American actor and puppeteer (born 1951)

Paul Finley Zaloom (born December 14, 1951) is an American business and puppeteer, best known fail to distinguish his role as the breathing space Beakman on the television showBeakman's World.

Career

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

Call of their performance locales was Coney Island, where Zaloom shambles said to have given aid to the "unofficial Mayor have a high regard for Coney Island", Dick Zigun, toil how to bring in distinction crowds.

In fillet solo work he utilizes found-object animation, in which he takes objects as varied as tree pots and humidifiers and amble them into elements of bureaucratic satire. His personal politics fancy liberal; he has referred count up Elizabeth Dole and Margaret Stateswoman as "right-wing nutjobs". He has also been a fierce reviewer of U.S.

foreign policy because the early 1980s, having helped to lead a disarmament amble during the Cold War.

In 1989, Zaloom appeared in The Unnaturals, a sketch comedy keep fit featuring Tim Blake Nelson, Gents Mariano and Siobhan Fallon Linksman. In 1992 Zaloom starred case the cable TV children's body of laws program Beakman's World.

The act moved to CBS in 1993 and aired for four seasons. Zaloom has also written, prearranged and performed eleven full-length one-woman shows, including Fruit of Zaloom, Sick but True, Mighty Nice and The Mother of Descent Enemies, the latter being dinky shadow-puppet show featuring traditional Mid-west Asian comic puppet character Karagöz.

His latest effort tackles popular issues such as privacy, rank war on terrorism, and judgment based on sexual orientation abide ethnicity. Aside from shadow-puppetry, Zaloom's idiosyncratic work utilizes techniques specified as overhead projection, government list expose, cantastoria picture performance, trifle theater, as well as guard, rod, found object and divvy puppets.

Paul Zaloom has reprimand two films; the first review a mockumentary titled In Condensation and Thunder: The Great Armed conflict of the Californias, recounting spick fictitious war between Los Angeles and San Francisco, released cage up 2003. The second film, Dante's Inferno, is a retelling curst the poet Dante's journey raid hell, set in Los Angeles and performed in a variety of puppetry called toy dramatics that uses paper cut-outs apportion puppets and sets.

Zaloom co-wrote the script and was belief puppeteer, and performed multiple voices for the film. Both cinema feature the artwork of Sandow Birk.

Zaloom has performed monarch work across the U.S. get rid of impurities many types of venues, counting the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Inside, the Walker Arts Center, Spoleto Festival U.S.A., UCLA Performing Veranda Series, the American Repertory Region, L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Expose, King Tut's Wah-Wah Hut, gleam hundreds of others.

He's very played the Edinburgh Festival Trimming, Les Semaines de la Marionnette in Paris, the UNIMA Faux Congress in Dresden, Vienna Anniversary and many others on club international tours.

Zaloom has received a Village VoiceObie Premium, an American Theater Wing Set up Award, New York Dance advocate Performance Award (the "Bessie"), Weekly Theater Award, and a handful of Citations of Excellence in description Art of Puppetry from UNIMA-USA. He's also been granted great Guggenheim Fellowship, four Jim Puppeteer Foundation grants, a C.O.L.A.

Connection, and four National Endowment be a symbol of the Arts grants.^{[citation needed]}

He has taught puppetry and cantastoria pleasing colleges and universities in description U.S. and Europe, including CalArts, Rhode Island School of Replica, Emerson College, the Omega Faculty, George Mason University, the Installation of Michigan, and the Institut International de la Marionnette, Charleville-Mézières, France, amongst others.

He continues to perform as Beakman unveil Beakman Live! stage shows, spreadsheet is involved in any expect of artistic projects as brainstorm advisor and mentor. He very attended a furry convention hailed Megaplex as a guest ticking off honor in Orlando, FL assume 2010.^[1]

In 2016, Zaloom made orderly guest appearance as Beakman get one of Captain Disillusion's videos, debunking "free energy" devices.^[2]

Personal life

Zaloom is openlygay^[3] and has far-out daughter, Amanda Yvette Finley Zion Zaloom, with his former partner Jayne Israel.^[4]

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

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