Joann McMillan's Flying Heart Theatre

Credits

Recognition & Career Highlights

  • Professional puppeteer since 1975
  • 50+ years in puppetry, performance, and arts education
  • Oklahoma Arts Council Teaching Artist since 1994
  • Oklahoma Arts Council Performing Artist Roster
  • Featured on OETA/PBS Gallery America — “The Puppet Lady”
  • Featured in The Journal Record — “A Career in Puppetry”
  • Described by Contemporary Arts of Tulsa as an “Oklahoma Treasure”
  • Flying Heart Theatre touring performances documented across Oklahoma, Georgia, Louisiana, Colorado, and Illinois

Arts, Museums & Cultural Institutions

  • Tulsa Symphony
  • Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum
  • National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
  • The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
  • Oklahoma Historical Society
  • Museum of Pioneer History
  • National Frontier Trails Museum
  • Oklahoma Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain
  • Contemporary Arts of Tulsa / Liggett Studios

Selected Productions & Programs

  • Microbes Always and Everywhere (Current work)
  • Miss Fay’s Touring Historical Marionette Theatre — Artistic Director & Puppeteer
  • The Last Land Run: Opening of Kickapoo Territory
  • Wiley Post: Oklahoma Trailblazer of the Skies
  • Oklahoma History Marionette Productions for Students & General Audiences
  • Dragons, Bats and Buried Treasure: The Great Cave Adventure
  • One World, Many Stories — Puppet Making & Performance Workshop

Community & Special Events

  • Rentiesville Dusk ’til Dawn Blues Festival (Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame Festival — Kids Village)
  • Rock House Summer Music Festival — Missouri
  • Children’s Rainbow Pageant — Eufaula, Oklahoma
  • The Gathering Place — Spring Break Programming, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Plus performances at community festivals, celebrations, nursing homes, senior communities, private parties, groundbreakings, civic events, and public programs.

Schools & Educational Programs

  • Oklahoma Arts Council Teaching Artist Roster — Teaching Artist since 1994
  • Oklahoma Arts Council Performing Artist Roster
  • Eufaula Summer Arts Program
  • Oklahoma Public Libraries — Statewide Performances & Summer Reading Programs

Plus decades of performances, residencies, and workshops in public libraries, preschools, elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and community education programs throughout Oklahoma.