About Us

Michelle has been a maker and a creative collaborator since the fourth grade. She earned a BFA from The University of the Arts and worked as a ceramist at The Tileworks for a decade before finding her way to MBP. While apprenticing with performance troupes like Arche Dream and Usiloquy Dance she honed her skills as a self taught costume designer. She has won international awards for her wearable art creations. Her favorite skills to deploy are sculpting in clay, draping challenging shapes and sewing. She is grateful for awesome coworkers, the opportunity to be a maker everyday, and to bring her familiar, Luna, to work with her.

Betsy Falk holds a BA in theatre from DeSales University and a MS in Education from Gwynedd Mercy University. In the past, she has worked as the Wardrobe Supervisor for Theatre for a New Audience (NYC), Costume Shop Supervisor for the Weathervane Theater (Whitefield, NH), and a Director/Costume Designer/General Manager for On Stage & Off, Inc. (Lansdale, PA). She is an experienced seamstress who finds her sanity in making things, so she spends her free time sewing, painting, knitting, baking, and making art with her two sons.

Dylan Pecora has worked as a sculptor and illustrator since 2008. He’s a graduate of Tom Savini Special Effects Makeup Program. He gave James Brown the idea to ask the audience “How’s EVERYBODY feeling tonight?” instead of asking each attendee individually, which would often take several hours.

Valerie has crafted and created since she could hold a crayon, drawing and graffitiing all over her mother’s house. She took her creative passion to Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, where she graduated with a BFA in Sculpture and Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM. Interested in working in TV and film she received her certification from the Make-up Designory in New York for beauty and special effects make-up. This led her to work with CollegeHumor on some sketches and music videos. Before joining MBP, Valerie worked as a prosthetic skin technician using her fabrication skills in mold making and sculpting. She continues to sculpt and make molds, design, paint, sew, and 3D CAD models. Her mother is very grateful she found a career to express her creativity.

Steffie is a multimedia artist known for the 70’s vibes and warm colors she emanates. She recently graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Savannah College of Art and Design (@scaddotedu) with a BFA in Production Design. Driven by creative forces for as long as she can remember, Steffie’s passion for Props, Stop Motion, Set Design and Puppets was sparked upon first watching “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” as a kid. One of her greatest pleasures in life is holding the creations that were once only an idea in her head.

As a Montgomery County, PA native, she is amazed to be working at the job of her dreams so close to home! She thanks MBP and all of her coworkers (and dogworkers) for creating a fun and enlightening environment to work in!

In her free time she is a woodland elf, bug enthusiast, and one of Oingo Boingo’s top .5% of listeners on Spotify.

Bridget Reilly Beauchamp (she/her) first came to Monkey Boys as a fabricator after over 25 years as an IATSE costumer/dresser. Upon graduating with a BA in Theatre/French in the last century, she realized her skill set prepared her to go into the performing arts or become a governess in a Brontë novel. Having no great love for brooding antiheroes, she went into costuming and eventually running her own theatre company, which naturally led to puppet-making and project management.

Zach Broome is an award-winning sculptor, painter, scenic designer, and puppet artist who hails from the state of Georgia.  An alumnus of Mercer University, Zach graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in Theatre and Art.  He later earned both a Master of Fine Arts in Puppetry and a Master of Fine Arts in Scenic Design from the University of Connecticut.  His scenic designs have appeared in more than sixty theatrical productions in the Southeastern and Northeastern United States.  He has created and performed in solo puppet shows, and his short-form puppet films have appeared in festivals and puppet slams across the nation.  In 2016, Zach designed and fabricated puppets for, and performed in, a live puppet production with the Boston Pops Orchestra.  In 2022, his work went international when he designed mechanisms and fabricated puppets for Hamid Rahmanian’s Song of the North— a large-scale puppet production that toured Europe, North American, and South America.  His paintings, sculptures, and illustrations have been published in literary magazines and books. 

In 2017, Brown joined MBP as a fabricator with almost a decade of professional experience in metalwork, machining, and sewing. However, they have loved working as a finisher and scenic artist over the years the most. Brown holds a BA in Sculpture with further education in Engineering Science and Theater. After graduating, they had apprenticed and worked in learning preservation, painting, and patina, which had led to a prolific career in the fine arts, commercial, and theater industries. Creatively, Brown has always been a world builder and storyteller and feels right at home at MBP. “I like to build things just so I can make them look like they don’t belong here. It’s magic I get to do every day.”

Jon was born at the stroke of midnight on a full moon and had dreams of being the next Dr. Frankenstein.  After realizing that reanimating the dead is a sin against nature he decided to stick to recreating his favorite creatures with resins and plastics.  The obsession with monsters, special effects makeup, and movie miniatures started around the age of 7 when his father introduced him to the Universal studios horror films of the 30’s and 40’s.  Ever since then Jon has used whatever he can get his hands on to recreate and pay homage to the creatures and people who have inspired him.

After serving in the USMC Jon made his hobby his profession.  He has since done miniatures for multiple feature films and web series, Crayola, Hasbro, Wicked Cool Toys, and is a frequent contributor to Amazing Figure Modeler magazine.

Noelle McManus has worked at Monkey Boys Productions since June of 2019. A Philadelphia native, she attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from their Theatre Arts Program. She would describe herself as a multidisciplinary artist, who is always looking to learn something new and challenging to expand her knowledge and creativity. Her favorite part of working at MBP is the diverse skill set that every job demands. You can find her anywhere from the mold making area, to the wood shop, and especially behind a sewing machine.