Puppet Pants + River Ratz + MK Lebeaux

Founded in Atlanta in 2024, Puppet Pants is committed to providing top quality marionette entertainment for audiences of all ages, and has performed at the Puppeteers of America 2024 South East Festival, DragonCON, Asheville and Atlanta Fringe, all your favorite Atlanta neighborhood festivals, as well as music festivals, private events and independent tours of the South East United States.

Specializing in wordless marionette movement, Puppet Pants offers a variety show style performance with a rotating cast of clowns, monsters, and mysteries on strings to life before your very eyes.

MK Lebeaux is a clown and multi-disciplined circus performer from Columbus, Ohio. Caught between the seams of bittersweet, MK isn't sure if you're laughing with them or at them! A silent, eccentric variety act with a 5-star rated show, “Goes Without Saying,” that speaks for itself!

Described as "MESMERIZING,"and "SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH," MK's unique physical comedy blends whimsical magic with unusual circus skills that aren't always so obvious—or as they appear!

MK Lebeaux flouts convention with a genre-bending, modern vaudeville combination of clowning, physical comedy, and magic that has been featured everywhere from magazines, to television, on the street, and in 1,000-seat theaters! MK's hilarious and multi-faceted comedy circus show has recently appeared on tour with 20th Century Circus, Curtis Eller, Charming Disaster, We Wiggle Dolls, and is appearing this summer at the 2025 ESL Rochester Fringe Festival. Their resume also includes performances with Wizbang Circus Theatre, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, Opera Columbus, Fashion Week Columbus, BorderLight International Theatre Festival, Pittsburgh Fringe, and Queen Bee Cabaret.

Lebeaux was named one of 2023’s Top 10 Artistic Performer’s in Columbus (Columbus Underground). MK's act was awarded grants in both 2024 and 2025 from the Greater Columbus Arts Council for their artistic work within the city and for their contributions to the community. MK has been a featured speaking and performing artist at Columbus' Priscilla R. Tyson Cultural Arts Center for their Conversations & Coffee series. MK also produces a monthly variety show in Columbus called Two Dollar Soup: Variety Show Mishmash (8pm every last Thursday of the month) and it has been hosted at independent book publisher Two Dollar Radio since July 2022. This popular monthly event showcases the best and upcoming variety artists in the area, and also doubles as a food drive which donates non-perishable items to the Mid-Ohio Food Collective, as well as other initiatives such as Red Nose Day. To date they have helped donate over 600lbs of non-perishable items that's to the community.

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