White Whale
Autumn Kaleidoscope & Mette Puppets
Cincinnati, OH
Discover the Forgotten History of Cincinnati’s Living White Whales!
In 1877, local businessman Albert Akeny Stewart endeavored to do the impossible: display living whales in Cincinnati, OH. Was he successful? Through puppetry and storytelling, discover the forgotten story of Stewart and his beluga whales from the Queen City’s Gilded Age.
Category: Puppetry
Tags: Puppet Theatre, Local History, Forgotten Lore
Rating: PG-13 (13+)
Artist Bio
Since 2016, puppeteer and founder of Autumn Kaleidoscope, Sean P. Mette, has been honored to have his art performed at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. From a unique burlesque club to William Howard Taft to the tragic story of the final passenger pigeon, Autumn Kaleidoscope creates theatrical performances that are high in quality, well researched, and feature award winning puppetry and elements of both the familiar and the absurd.
Past Fringe Credits
- (2016) Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Furlesque
- (2017) Cincinnati Fringe Festival, My Darling Dilophosaurus
- (2018) Cincinnati Fringe Festival, The Haunting of William Howard Taft
- (2019) Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Martha
- (2020) Cincinnati Fringe Festival, The Bassoonist
- (2021) Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Unintentional Significance
- (2021) Rochester Fringe Festival, Unintentional Significance
- (2022) Pittsburgh Fringe Festival, Unintentional Significance
- (2022) Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Banned from Heaven, Barred from Hell
- (2023) Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Trolls! Trolls! Trolls!
- (2024) Cincinnati Fringe Festival, The Emu that Ate Cincinnati
There is no late seating for any shows.
