Steve Hansen has had a diverse and fascinating career in the entertainment industry for more than thirty years; actor, writer, designer, director, producer, puppeteer and creative resource. Steve may be best known for his unique and notorious, international award-winning one-man show The Puppet Man. Beginning as one of San Francisco’s original street performers, he has traveled the world from the jungle villages of New Guinea to the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C., performing for adult, children and family audiences in every conceivable venue.

While based in New York City in the early 1970’s, Steve worked with many puppet companies, including Jim Henson’s Muppets and the renowned Bil Baird Marionette Theatre. He has also designed and built props for a number of stage and television productions. In the latter part of that decade Steve taught university-level courses in puppetry, children’s theatre and stagecraft at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and California State University at Long Beach.