PAUL ZALOOM
Beakman in BEAKMAN'S WORLD

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Since 1978, Paul Zaloom, an internationally known performance artist, puppeteer, and political satirist, has written, designed, directed, and performed nine one-man shows utilizing offbeat techniques from found-object puppet animation to overhead projections. He has performed at numerous events and festivals throughout the world in locations such as Lincoln Center in New York, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, the Mayfest in Scotland, Les Semaines de la Marionette in Paris, and the Union Internationale de la Marionette (UNIMA) Congress in Dresden, Germany. He has also made numerous regional appearances in character as Beakman.

Zaloom is the recipient of three Citations of Excellence in the Art of Puppetry from UNIMA-USA and an L.A. Weekly Critics Award. His comic film, Eating in America, appeared as part of Bette Midler's HBO special, Mondo Beyondo in 1988. In 1989, his solo performances in House of Horror and My Civilization won him, respectively, an Obie Award and a New York Dance and Performance Award ["Bessie"]. The latter was also awarded an American Theater Wing Design Award.

Zaloom has received several National Endowment for the Arts Performance Art fellowships and Inter-Arts grants. In 1991, he was the recipient of a coveted Guggenheim Fellowship to support his work.

As an advocate of children's educational television, Zaloom has testified before the House Telecommunications and Finance subcommittee.

Zaloom is also a supporter of Food for All, a program of the Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger (FICAH).

He was born December 14, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, and raised on Long Island, New York. He is a graduate of Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.

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