Juniper Brower, Anna Hernand, AD // Claire Tichy, CW // Romeo Cervas, James “Jimbo” Embry, CD
Written, recorded, directed, and puppeteered by RPA Associates, this social-focused musical is aimed at helping people be better allies. The RPA Pride Puppets join forces (and harmony) to sing about the importance of using pronouns, promoting allyship, and celebrating overall acceptance of everyone in the workplace. So, however you identify, get ready to sit back and sing along to a show the soon-to-be all-accepting world won’t be soon-to-forget!
These are the concept sketches for our characters. Our main character, Indigo was designed as a full sized puppet with a series of background pride pals designed as sock puppets. Each took on their own personalities, complete with pronouns and romantic preferences celebrating in song with Indigo
To Christian Brand and Alexis Johnson, for lending your voices to Indigo and Loretta.
To Emelie Claxton, Daniel Ott, Jordyn Doyel, and Spencer Sanchez, for capturing and editing this production. To Desi St. Amant, Aimee Hernandez, Easton Orlopp, Alexander Tortora, and Tanus Yoder for volunteering your puppeteering skills. To Riley O’Donnell for managing this project.
Lastly, to Kyle Baker for bringing our custom design for Indigo’s character to life and donating them to our project. Thanks to you, Free to Love was the highlight of work at RPA, and what a hoot it was to art direct!
