Ken Moses Papers

Ken Moses (1944-2015) was a theatre director, producer, puppeteer, advocate, and educator based out of New York and Saint Croix, Minnesota. In 1965 he attended Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) for a degree in theater technology. “His career in professional theater included work on and off Broadway, at the Smithsonian Institute, in London’s West End, in community theaters”, and at the Lincoln Center (Access Press, 2015). He received the 1975 International de la Marrionnette award for collaboration with Berthelson on Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella”, and an award from the Stillwater Human Rights Commission in 2006.

Moses was especially active in disability justice work (including efforts to make theater spaces more accessible to the blind) and LGBT issues, and was a member and participant of a wide range of organizations, including the Minnesota Association of Community Theatres, the Stillwater Human Rights Commission, Out in the Valley (an LGBT community organization based in the St. Croix River Valley), Art St. Croix (a group of artists with disabilities), and various critical thinking groups. He served as president of the Puppetry Guild of Greater New York for two years.

More information about Moses’s life is contained in Access Press (2015) or in his Star Tribune obituary (2015). https://accesspress.org/history-note-a-passion-for-puppets-was-a-part-of-moses-life/ http://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/96544/