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Special Touring Show!

San Diego's Balboa Park Puppet Guild Presents

Happy Accident

with

Everything is Nothing

Adult Puppet Show

March 26

7PM Only!

Tickets are $10 General Admission, $7.00 Senior/Military w/ID

Ages 16 and Up!

Miracle cures. Rejuvenation. Youthful glow. Neutral tones.
Happy Accident returns with a new puppet dispatch from our beautiful cultural sewers. In their
new show, Everything is Nothing, your favorite Saturday morning super pals take you on
another trip through the dark alleys of modern life. Picking up where their last piece-the
acclaimed Vol. 1-left off, Everything takes us further into our fractured collective psyche and OH
MY it’s a BLAST. liz HOWLS and Drew Simpson pull inspiration from multi-level marketing,
health and wellness culture, Mad About You, relentless pharmaceutical commercials and
abhorrent technological “advancements” to create a surreal garbage world full of glitches, easy
listening and flat, functional lighting. It’s like a trip to the dentist without all of the annoying
paperwork and anesthesia.
Everything is fun. Everything is fabulous. Everything is what you want, when you want it.
If there was a pill that would make it all go away, why wouldn’t you take it?
Happy Accident is the collaborative absurdist performance work of puppeteer/visual artist liz
HOWLS and musician/lighting designer Drew Simpson. They have been building and
performing together since early 2024, so not that long. But long enough.
They find most of their inspiration digging through bins full of refuse, spending late nights
binge-watching horrible sitcoms, and trying to figure out how everything ended up this way.
While most of their performances are based around puppetry and sound, they also incorporate
mask work and elements of what is often referred to as “performance art”.
Their first full-length piece, Vol. 1, debuted at the 2025 New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival and
was toured nationally for 3 months in that same year. They have been guest performers at Outta
Hand Puppet Slam in Portland, OR; Fussy Cloud Puppet Slam in Seattle, WA; Full Moon
Puppet Show in Minneapolis, MN (which liz also runs & curates); Puppets in the House
Regional Festival in Verona, WI and are tickled pink returning to NOGPF in 2026 with a new show.

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