Pussypaws Puppetry — Pussypaws Pleasure Faire
Soap Library is (once again!) tickled pink to release the original soundtrack to Pussypaws Pleasure Faire, a Renaissance-era fever dream celebrating the sex, love, and fantasy lives of artists with disabilities. The full-bodied romp — conceived, directed, and performed by Pussypaws Puppetry — premiered to sold-out audiences at Center for Performance Research (CPR) on May 29-30, 2025.
Following the delightfully unbridled 2024 release of That Paradise Place — an erotic puppet featuring 12 original songs — Pussypaws Pleasure Faire expands upon the troupe's yearslong quest to celebrate the sex, love, and fantasy lives of artists with disabilities.
Brought to life by a spirited community of artists with and without disabilities under the auspices of sisters Priscilla Frank and Alana Hauser, Pussypaws Pleasure Faire was incubated during an eight-day technical residency at CPR in Brooklyn. Days began with puppet building, afternoons were spent blocking, and nights descended into raucous rehearsals. Over 50 artists passed through the process, conjuring a ribald Renaissance world brimming with turkey legs, masquerade masks, slippery pickles, and medieval mischief.
The final production featured five artists with disabilities — Ellie Sondock, Ky Wyman, Ariella Kadosh, Anton Spivack, and Kenneth Youngblood Jr. — performing live retellings of their erotic adventures and desires, with monologues interlaced with group musical numbers, medieval jokes, and puppet pageantry. Tales of masquerade hookups, frogs that transform into men, and a love triangle between a water wench, a musician, and a juggler unfolded to a live soundtrack by Jonny Campolo and saxophonist Chase Ceglie — dubbed the “Lude Lewts.” In a culture that so often sidelines the erotic lives of disabled people, Pussypaws Pleasure Faire creates an unabashed, shame-free space where bawdiness and creativity converge — inviting audiences to get weird, feel good, and share in the joyful experience of being alive.
The soundtrack to Pussypaws Pleasure Faire is available in cassette and digital formats on Friday, October 31, 2025 alongside a hand-knit miniature pickle (😊). Shop generously — proceeds support Pussypaws Puppetry in achieving its next big puppet dream!
Priscilla Frank is an artist and art facilitator guided by spirit, silliness, and sensuality. She is the Studio Supervisor at Summertime, a nonprofit studio, gallery, residency, and meeting place celebrating artists with and without disabilities. Priscilla co-founded Pussypaws Puppetry, an inclusive troupe of 60+ artists with and without disabilities who work together to create experimental, freewheeling puppet shows from scratch. She is the director and choreographer of the erotic puppet musicals That Paradise Place (Abrons Art Center, 2024) and Pussypaws Pleasure Faire (Center for Performance Research, 2025), both about the love, sex, and fantasy lives of artists with disabilities. She has published two books of e(a)rotic corn cartoons called Corn Smut (2021) and Corn Smut: Cornucopia (2022) with Sunroom Press and Desert Island. She is currently teaching a course entitled Progressive Art Studios, Neurodiversity, and Living Creatively at New York University.
Alana Hauser is a documentary producer based in New York who loves to help artists realize their boldest dreams. Most recently, she acted as co-producer of documentary features and series at The New York Times, where she worked on Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-shortlisted films. Previously, she spent five years at Sundance Institute managing Catalyst, which connects work-in-progress films with financiers, and Women at Sundance, which forges gender parity in media. She also produces puppet musicals about the love, sex and fantasy lives of artists with disabilities with the neuro-inclusive troupe, Pussypaws Puppetry.
Pussypaws Puppetry is an inclusive puppet troupe of visual artists, musicians, and performers with and without disabilities. Pussypaws offers a freewheeling, experimental, accessible creative space where artists of all persuasions, backgrounds, and abilities can make puppet shows and have fun. Founded in 2023 by sisters Priscilla Frank and Alana Hauser, the troupe is named after the Pussypaws flower, whose magical properties open us to the healing powers of physical touch. Meet the troupe here!
